If you've been enjoying the "Life's Too Short" Podcasts, you might want to share it with those around you or maybe take some time to dig a little deeper. Be sure to check out the newly released Life's Too Short Study Guide. For a limited time, you can pick up this study guide or any of our other popular Small Group Study Guides for 20% off! Now is the time to prepare for Fall small groups, so don't miss out on this special!
In the current series "Lesser Known Personalities of the Bible" at Fellowship Church, Ed has challenged us to 30 Days of Journaling, and we want to extend that challenge to you personally. Should you accept this challenge you will discover a HNL ('Hole 'Nutha Level) during your quiet times. Journaling each day will provide a disciplined focus enabling you to listen to God.
Not sure what to write? Ed has written a journal/devotional called "Snapshots of the Savior," a perfect place to record your prayers, thoughts, and questions. Use what Ed provides in the Savior Journal as a way to get started. Write down what God is teaching you and what you learn as to dive into his word. For a limited time, The "Snapshots of the Savior" Journal" has been reduced from $25 to $12, so it's a perfect time to add a new element to your quiet time.
Get off to a healthy start in 2009! The Body for God lifestyle, developed by Ed and Lisa Young, gives us the opportunity to address how our spiritual and physical health intersects to reflect a true body for God. It's about value, not vanity. These resources can help you adopt a healthy approach that will fuel you for the marathon of ministry.
Body for God Cookbook - 20% OFF
The beauty of the Body for God Cookbook, by Lisa Young, lies in its simplicity. For years, we have taken the pure foods that God has provided and made their existence in our daily diets complex but less valuable. This assortment of recipes and hints provided will assist you in preparing foods which fuel your body for God.
Weight Training Workout DVD
The Body for God Weight Training Workout consists of three interval training segments. The uniqueness of this program is found in its flexibility - you determine the level of intensity.
Walking with Weights CD/DVD set
Lisa Young's Walking with Weights is a creative and exciting alternative for cardiovascular development. Over the past several years, Lisa has developed a walking program that can help you lose weight, tone up and increase energy. More importantly, it will help you incorporate worship into your daily workout.
If you haven't signed up already, you won't want to miss this unprecedented global movement! Join Fellowship Church and LifeChurch.tv for an incredible move of God in the church. During the month of June, grow closer to God and become a part of something bigger than any of us as we join together with hundreds of thousands of people to pray for and serve our communities, our cities and our world with One Prayer.
Each weekend during the month of June, we will be challenged by some of our country's greatest communicators to pray one prayer, and then take steps to put this prayer into action. And as the Church stands together during the One Prayer series, we will each discover the power, significance and potential that one prayer has to change the world.
Elevate, a ministry of Fellowship Church, will be providing a 4-week children's curriculum free of charge to churches participating in this program. To download lessons or for more information on how to be a part of this event, go to oneprayer.com/kids.
Are you feeling it? Preparations for Christmas are hitting a fever pitch in churches across the country! We've been getting lots of calls and emails as you work on putting together your services, so we thought we'd feature some tips to help you out. Stop by our site for criteria to keep in mind as you plan for Christmas at your church. And while you're there, be sure to check out our Christmas specials - all holiday resources are 15% off!
In a society built around experiences, it's not just enough to attend church. People clamor for authentic worship—they want to feel it, to be a part of it.
What's one of the richest worship experiences we can offer them? Serving.
As Ed Young illustrates in The Table, our worship can't consist solely of what we take in. We have to move beyond diet, pushing away from the table and exercising our faith. When our members get passionate about volunteering, they will experience a whole new level of intimacy with God. Their energy and enthusiasm becomes contagious and spills over into every area of the church. And while their lives are being transformed, more resources become available to our churches for reaching the lost.
At Fellowship Church, we've deliberately chosen to keep our staff small so that our members have plenty of opportunities to serve. With nearly 1,500 volunteers serving across our four campuses each weekend, we've learned a lot about recruiting, training, leading, retaining and appreciating our volunteers. We want to share all that with you through our Volunteer Kit—available this month on CreativePastors at a $50 savings. Stop by the site and check it out!
We're rolling out our group discount offer for Ed's latest release, You! The Journey to the Center of Your Worth. With fall approaching, it's the perfect time to plan a small group study, and this book makes it easy with a dynamic 8-session study guide which reinforces key concepts from each chapter.
Here's how the bulk rate works—buy 10 or more books and the price drops to $9.95 per book (retail price: $14.99, 160-page hardcover). Just enter the promotion code: youbook during checkout!
People who listen to a speaker normally retain 10% of what is discussed. But when you add visuals, that number goes up to 50% (a whopping 400% increase in effectiveness). These stats, revealed in a study by the Wharton Research Center, offer compelling reasons to use media in your church—not just because it's cool, but because it works.
CreativePastors is where you can come for memorable media. Grab a countdown clock, add an opener, and throw in an illustration video—where you want them, when you want them. Programs like Media Shout give you the flexibility to pull your service together easily and make changes on the fly (because sometimes the greatest ideas come at the last minute).
This month, we're going to give you a crack at a Sweet Media Suite when we give away 2 copies of MediaShout 3.0 along with accompanying libraries of our most popular CreativePastors Media. With each purchase you make during July, you'll automatically be entered into our drawing. (View the site for complete details.) Here's what you'll find in the libraries—and also on sale this month. Enjoy a 15% discount on the following favorites (or be a winner and pay zip!):
• Who's Kidding Who? Media Kit
• Countdown Clock
• Just Lust Media Kit
• Apostle's Creed Video
• The Table Media Kit
• Ignite Media Kit
To get a taste of CreativePastors media, click here. And to try MediaShout, take a test drive here for free. Stop by the site and get rolling with some killer media for your next service!
Gotta get away? Whether you’re sticking around or heading out of town, summer is the perfect time to take a break. While you’re unplugged from the day-to-day, take time to recharge your creative batteries by downloading some one-of-a-kind MP3s from CreativePastors.com.
No iPod? No worries. We’re giving away two iPod minis during the month of June! And just so the rest of you don’t feel left out, each day this month we’ll be giving away one Leisure Suits You MP3 from Ed Young’s recent Retro series. How do you win? Easy—each time you make a purchase on CreativePastors during June, your name will be entered into a random drawing. (Or you can send an email to info@creativepastors.com with “iPod Giveaway” in the subject line and your CreativePastors username in the email.) No fancy algorithms here, just some slips of paper and a big jar. We’ll pull out the MP3 winner on a daily basis and will draw the two lucky iPod winners at the end of the month. Visit the site for full contest details.
We’re even going to provide a killer accessory for the iPods—a library of our favorite sermon MP3s. View the library.
CreativePastors is where you'll find Ed Young resources. Ed is the founding and senior pastor of Fellowship Church, with four locations in the Dallas area and one in Miami, Florida.
Doing church should be an adventure—tossing aside the tame and tired to pursue God-sized dreams with boldness and creativity. We want to supply you with the best of what we've learned and created in our 17 years of ministry. Think of us as part of your creative team.
