Earl Creps' Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A workshop presented at the 2006 National Youth Workers Conference deals with the role of Pentecostalism in youth ministry.

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

A reading of the Introduction to Off-Road Disciplines by the author.

A podcast with Matt Green of Ministry Today recorded in October of 2006 discusses reverse mentoring as an off-road spiritual discipline.

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. 

This illlustrated talk was give at the Lift 05 Youth Pastors Conference hosted by The Oaks Fellowship in Red Oak, TX. Napoleon forever.

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").

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.

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?"

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.

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.