The very activity that gets a leader’s blood pumping when a ministry starts can actually block the flow as the ministry grows.
By nature, leaders are addicted to activity. I’m no exception. In the early days of Elevation,
I was all up in every detail, all the time. And I loved it. The endless buzz of activity [...]
Today I spent a moment reflecting on the resilience of the staff and volunteers at Elevation Church.
The things they accomplish week in, week out, in 2 portable facilities, are remarkable-borderline miraculous.
They don’t make excuses. Ever. Whether it’s using grinders for the Easter service opener without making the fire alarm go off or packing out a [...]
The best thing we could think of to make the audio blog better this week was to add more people. So instead of the usual 2 or 3 people, we brought in a crew of 6 for this one. Pastor Steven leads the audio blog, Vision Flows from the Top Down, and we all share [...]
… Over 4800 people attended worship experiences at Elevation this Easter Sunday.
Most importantly, over 500 people accepted Christ as Savior on this landmark day.
All glory to Jesus!
Notable: We were nervous kicking off our new 1 pm service today at our Providence campus… would at least 200 people would show up to achieve critical mass? Over [...]
It’s a few days late, but I want to catch the out of towners up on our once in a lifetime experience at Elevation this past Sunday. Cliff Barrows traveled the globe leading music for Dr. Billy Graham for over 50 years. Mr. Barrows was our special and honored guest on Palm Sunday at Elevation. [...]
I get a lot of great sermon fodder and draw a lot of spiritual parallels from the Rocky movies. Rocky I is the Old Testament, Rocky II is the Gospels, Rocky III is Paul’s Epistles and Rocky IV is the book of Revelation. (Rocky V and VI are like the Left Behind books, if you [...]
For a word of encouragement to be valid and helpful, it has to be honest. The word encourage can be broken down to mean: put courage into. That’s the essence of what encouragement is. Good encouragement builds a person up, giving him a new sense of boldness and confidence.
However, there’s a vast difference between building [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The Life You've Always Wanted |
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On Writing |
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Spurgeon: A New Biography |
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The Houdini Solution |
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Execution |
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Mavericks at Work |
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The Very Large Church |
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