Earl Creps' Podcast
A podcast presentation from the speaking ministry of Earl Creps, Team Leader of the Berkeley Church Planting Project

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Given at 360church on 1.22.12, this talk is drawn from Acts 8 and Luke 24 and deals with the threat that Scripture reading poses to mediocrity, stale piety, and selfishness.

Direct download: Dont_Read_the_Bible.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:06 AM

This talk by Dr. Janet Creps drawn from the book of Genesis reveals the power of God's presence to transform us as illustated in Jacob's dream encounter at Bethel.

Direct download: Jacobs_Ladder.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:12 PM

Drawn from Matthew's account of Jesus' birth, this talk given at 360church on 1.1.12 deals with the role of dreams in moving God's plan forward.

Direct download: A_Season_of_Dreams.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:52 PM

Drawn from Matthew 1, this talk by Earl Creps given on 12.18.11 draws the distinction between the Retail and Disciplinary versions of Jesus promoted by culture and Immanuel--God with Us.

Direct download: Just_Jesus.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:27 PM

This talk given by Jeff Sandstrom at 360church on 11.27.11 places the book of Leviticus in the context of God's plan to extend mercy and forgiveness to all people in Jesus.

Direct download: Leviticus_and_Lamb_Chops.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:58 PM

This talk, given at 360church on 11.20.11, uses the life of Israel's most famous king as portrayed in 1 and 2 Samuel to spell out one of life's most crucial questions: do I want  to live as a servant or as a king?

Direct download: King_Dave.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:11 PM

Drawn from Ecclesiastes 12, this talk by Janet Creps given at 360church on 11.13.11, focuses on the power of the choices we make now to form the person we become later.

Direct download: The_Light_at_the_Beginning_of_the_Tunnel.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:11 PM

Is faith really possible in a world filled with skepticism where even the best known scientific researchers sometimes turn out to be frauds? This talk given at 360church on 11.6.11 uses the metaphor of "3 cups" to unpack the potential for faith found in 2 Peter 1.

Direct download: Three_Cups.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:29 PM

Drawn from Jesus' enconter with a rich young man in Mark 10, this talk given at 360church on 10.30.11 deals with Jesus' unconditional love in a world that demands conditions.

Direct download: The_99_Percent.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:09 PM

Sean Smith delivered this powerful talk on Revival in Berkeley on Sunday Oct 23, 2011 at 360church during our first "Overflow" service.

Direct download: Overflow.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:25 AM

Based on John 1, this talk given at 360church reflects on the ways in which a Christ follower's invitation to others must resemble God's invitation to us.

Direct download: The_Art_of_Invitation.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:20 AM

A talk from John 5 given at 360church on 10.9.11 dealing with the relationship of the Old Testament to the New and how the two parts function together to point to Christ.

Direct download: How_Does_the_Bible_Work.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:59 AM

This talk from Acts 1 by Earl Creps at 360church deals with the difference between living the Kingdom vs. doing a church.

Direct download: Meet_the_Owner.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:13 PM

This talk was given at 360church in Berkeley, CA and deals with the temptation to judge others because we are confident in our own righteousness.

Direct download: Dont_Judge_Me.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:24 PM

This talk by Earl Creps at 360church in Berkeley, CA on 9/4/11 is from Jesus' words "It is finished" in John 19. The talk focuses on the power of Jesus' death both to complete us and to change us.

Direct download: Same_Difference.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:04 PM

This talk on "The Curse of Creativity" from Luke 14 was given by Earl Creps on 8/28/11 at the Grand Opening of 360church in Berkeley, California.

Direct download: Grand_Opening.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:39 AM

Based on the story of the Macedonian man in Acts 16, this talk deals with how God strips us of our defenses until we can respond to a vision rather than just developing a strategy. Our church planting adventure is seen through this lens. The talk was presented at The House, the young adult ministry of 1st AoG, North Little Rock, AR in June of 2008. The House is led by my friend Randy Jumper.
Direct download: Earl_Creps_podcast.mp4
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:22 AM

Paul's sermon on Mars Hill is unique. But what prepares a person to engage culture this way? Drawing from Acts 17, this talk deals with several things we need to believe about ourselves in order to cultivate the Missionary Self-Image needed to reach out to others in our context. The video that accompanies this talk can be found at: http://www.earlcreps.com/article/berkeley-video-premiere
Direct download: Missionary_Self-Image-EarlCreps-Central_AoG_6-22-08.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:56 AM

This most recent update of our Berkeley adventure was hosted and recorded by my friend Tim Hohm in April of 2008 and included Curt Harlow (West Coast Chi Alpha), my wife Janet, and me.
Direct download: rtp-121-2008-04-29.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:30 PM

"Ministry to Cultural Creatives" is my title for the first session at the NorCal-Nevada District's 2007 Lay Leadership Summit. About 40 million C-Creatives basically invent the future. They are somewhat less interested in church.
Direct download: 01_Ministry_to_the_Cultural_Creative.m4a
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:03 AM

Tim Hohm (RevTim.com) interviewed me on November 3, 2007 via Skype for the second chapter of "The Berkeley Church Planting Journey," a podcast series that chronicles our journey to the East Bay for the purpose of starting a campus church near Cal.
Direct download: rtp-120-2007-11-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:49 PM

Joel Triska describes the journey that brought he and his wife Rachel to AGTS and the results of the chance they took on seminary education.
Direct download: Joelagts.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:48 PM

In September of 2007, my friend Ken Horn, Managing Editor of Today's Pentecostal Evangel (the AoG national magazine) interviewed me for a podcast updating our church planting project in Berkeley.
Direct download: 006EarlCrepsinterview9-16-07a.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:48 PM

"Walk with Me" is talk based on Luke's account of the Emmaus road. Given at The Bridge in Mustang, OK, the theme of the talk is reaching out to others by walking beside them in life.
Direct download: Walk_with_Me-E_Creps-The_Bridge-4-15-07_PM.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:42 AM

Tim Hohm, an early and influential Christian podcaster, and pastor Central Assembly (AoG) in El Sobrante, CA recorded this podcast with me over Skype in August 2007. It is the first of several installments that will tell the story of the church that my wife Janet and I will start in Berkeley, CA.
Direct download: rtp-118-2007-08-15.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:05 AM

A talk dealing with the sacrifices involved in missional ministry; drawn from the Acts account of the circumcision of Timothy and based on chapter 11 in my book, Off-Road Disciplines. The talk was given at our "other church home," The Oaks Fellowship in Red Oak, Texas on June 10, 2007.
Direct download: Thats_Gotta_Hurt-E_Creps-Oaks_Fellowship-6-10-07.wma
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:59 PM

Three types of "churches gone wrong" that I have witnessed around the country are described in this talk given at the Oklahoma (AoG) District Church Ministries Conference

A talk from the Target 07 Youth Pastors Conference (Rockford 1st AoG) dealing with the challenge of doing incarnational student ministry. FX: I take live questions delivered by texting.
Direct download: Four_Faces_of_Youth_Ministry-Earl_Creps-Target_07.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:36 PM

This brief manuscript talk was given as a response to the 2007 AGTS D.Min. Project Symposium. It reflects on the thirteen projects written, and offers a formal statement on one very important part of my ministry philosophy: the discipline of being incarnational.
Direct download: Incarnational_Ministry-E_Creps-2007_DMin_Project_Symposium.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:08 PM

A talk from the 2007 Big Sky SALT conference deals with Jesus' proclamation of the Kingdom of God as the "real" world vs. the "movie set" world to which we so easily attach ourselves.

This teaching on Reverse Mentoring was presented to a group of AoG ministers in Ohio and features an interview with our friends (and R-mentors) Eric and Leila Ojala, AoG church planters in Summit County, Colorado.
Direct download: 4M.General_Session-Reverse_Mentoring-Ojala_interview.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:22 PM

Based on a term suggested to me by a pastor in Ohio ("Sentacostals") this talk for a group of  AoG ministers describes the meaning of Pentecostal experience as rooted only in the mission of Jesus.
Direct download: 4M.General_Session_4-Sentacostals.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:16 PM

Presented at the 2006 Ohio District Ministers Retreat, this is one version of a talk I've presented a lot on three generational subcultures within the American church and how they just might be able to get along.
Direct download: 4M.General_Session_3-Three_Chairs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:13 PM

A workshop presented at the 2006 National Youth Workers Conference deals with the role of Pentecostalism in youth ministry.
Direct download: Saturday-EarlCreps-Pent_Exp_and_Pomo_Students.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:04 PM

This talk was given at the Target 07 conference hosted by Rockford 1st AoG. It deals with emerging student subcultures and how missional youth minsitry can respond.
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:12 PM

An interview with DJ Chuang, Leadership Network's Director of Digital Initiatives on the reaction to Off-Road Disciplines four months after publication. This audio first appeared on LN's Book of the Month blog at:  http://books.leadnet.org/2007/01/interview_with_.html
Direct download: earl-creps-ord-4-months-later.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:18 PM

A reading of the Introduction to Off-Road Disciplines by the author.
Direct download: Introduction_-_Off-Road_Disciplines.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:07 PM

A podcast with Matt Green of Ministry Today recorded in October of 2006 discusses reverse mentoring as an off-road spiritual discipline.
Direct download: Reverse_Mentoring_Podcast-Ministry_Today-Oct_06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:32 PM

A sermon from Matthew 8 preached at the Oct. 4, 2006 AGTS Chapel service dealing with the need to priortize Christ above models of ministry. 
Direct download: What_Kind_of_Man_Is_This--Earl_Creps-AGTS_Chapel-10-4-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:56 PM

This illlustrated talk was give at the Lift 05 Youth Pastors Conference hosted by The Oaks Fellowship in Red Oak, TX. Napoleon forever.
Direct download: Pastor_Dynamite_-_Youth_Pastoring_in_the_21st_C_-_Lift_05.m4a
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:13 PM

This seminar was presented at the National Women in Ministry Conference on 3/11/04. I am attempting to provide an overview of postmodernism's influence on the cultural context in which Christian ministry occurs in the US.
Direct download: Postmodernism_101_-_Women_in_Ministry_Conf_3-11-04.wma
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:29 PM

A sermon preached at the 3/18/03 AGTS Chapel service. I was pretty worked up that day about what it takes for leaders to speak for lost people within Christian ministries--because no one else will.
Direct download: Finding_Your_Prophetic_Voice_-_AGTS_Chapel_3-18-03.wma
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:20 PM

This talk was presented at the 1/12/06 AGTS evening Chapel service. It deals with the predictable phases that believers walk through as they try to reconcile their local experience of the church (little "c") with the global claims of the universal Church (capital "C").
Direct download: Loving_the_Church_-_AGTS_Chapel_1-12-06.m4a
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:15 PM

This 9-minute interview about my book, Off-Road Disciplines, was recorded on 88.3 the WIND-FM (http://88.3thewind.com/) here in Springfield, Missouri on 9-18-06. Thanks to Station Manager Ben Birdsong for making the arrangements.
Direct download: O-RD_radio_interview_9-18-06_WIND.m4a
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:20 PM

S D of the ML is a sermon preached at Charlottesville (VA) First Assembly in September of 2005. This talk deals with the kinds of personal spiritual practices that form a missional heart within a believer.

A sermon given at Hope Community Church in December of 2005 about the ways in which God converts our original purposes to conform  to his ultimate plan.

Home Field Disadvantage is talk I did at Hope Community Church in June 2006. It visits with the early Church in Jerusalem, and questions why, with Jesus' teaching + the power of the Spirit they never left town until persecution hit? Could it be that we are at our best away from our "home field?"
Direct download: Home_Field_Disadvantage-Hope_Community-6-25-06.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:13 PM

A North Central University chapel service in February 2006 was the location for this talk on three visions of the Pentecostal future and some ways to shift from competing for market share to advancing the Kingdom.

I spoke at Northwest University chapel in November 2005 and talked about how God forms us outside the "official" list of spiritual disciplines, like prayer and Bible reading. I'm bothered by meeting people who are pious and discipline proficient, but aren't good.
Direct download: The_Other_Discipline-NWU-Nov_05_Chapel_copy_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:54 PM

This talk was presented at The Oaks Fellowship in November of 2005 and deals with the relationship between Paul and Timothy as a model for passing the baton of leadership from older to younger generations.
Direct download: Baton_Passers-Earl_Creps-The_Oaks-_11-6-05_copy_1.wma
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:40 PM

A sermon preached at Rockpointe Community Church in August, 2006 that eavesdrops on Jesus' conversation with the woman at the well in John 4, exploring the difference between "grace" as an oppressive force that jams us into a religious box, and "grace" as the love of God filling our lives.
Direct download: Grace-Earl_Creps-Rockpointe_Community_Church_8-13-06_copy_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:16 PM