Click this link to check it out:
Exodus 14
- Darren
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Exodus 14
Hi everyone, I posted an episode to my podcast, Conduit Bible Study- Darren Tyler.
Click this link to check it out:
Exodus 14
- Darren
Click this link to check it out:
Exodus 14
- Darren
Monday, February 23, 2009
Conduit Oregonian Style
I’m reporting to you live from Eugene, Oregon. Tomorrow night will be another night of no gathering for Conduit. I miss you guys and can’t wait to be back live and in person next week.
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of sharing the study live from the Four Bears Lodge and Casino in not scenic New Town, ND. It was a great outreach time for a tour that doesn’t normally get into places like that. We had an amazing response with dozens of first time decisions to follow Jesus. Special thanks to our friends Matt Best and Nick Hall with Pulse Ministries.
The tour is going amazing. Lots of sold out concerts at a time when I had lots of anxiety wondering if the economy could support something like this.
My conduit brothers and sisters will be especially happy to know that over the past 5 shows we've seen over 150 children sponsored through Compassion International. Long after this tour is over there will be hundreds of children who will fed, educated, given health care and taught about the Love of Jesus Christ.
If you missed last week, we were in Exodus 13. Its’ the infamous chapter where God declares that He will lead the People of Israel with a cloud by day and a fire by night. I was struck by the fact that God took Israel the long way. The route that God had chosen for them was a year long journey for a trip that should have taken only 10 days. It’s been said that God chose that because it was easy to get them out of Egypt but it was going to take some time to get Egypt out of them.
It’s such an amazing picture of how God leads us. Sometimes He takes us a long way, the scenic route, it’s not because He’s a cosmic buzz kill. It’s just that He sees things we can’t see and knows things we can’t know. When I’m wondering why I’m not where I want to be, or haven’t achieved the goals I know He has led me to, that He is still there and taking me the long way for my own benefit.
We saw that in Psalm 105:39 that the cloud that was there for Israel was a cloud that was actually covering them, floating over them and not just hanging around out in front of them. When He was ready for them to move, He moved the cloud. They were in the desert where temperatures can reach 125 degrees. Once that cloud moved, they would’ve been roasting. Staying under the cloud where it’s cool and peaceful. That’s a picture of how God leads us today. If it’s peaceful, if it’s “cool” then it’s God.
And then there’s the picture of the fire. Fire is always a picture of trials in the scriptures. When Shadrach et all were in the furnace it’s interesting to note that the fire did NOT burn their clothing but did burn the ropes off. The fiery trial that they went through did not hurt them, but rather freed them of the thing that was binding them.
Tomorrow we go into Exodus 14. Pharaoh was the leader of a nation that was not following the Lord. Israel was a nation that must have been confused by the way things were turning out. It seemed bleak and hopeless. And yet God was right there and had a plan all along.
If you’re looking at our nation and feeling like our leader isn’t necessarily following the Lord or that maybe our nation is in confusion and things look bleak, then join us tomorrow night.
I’ll be broadcasting from Medford, Oregon in beautiful southern Oregon. We’ll be at www.mogulus.com/conduit. I hope you can join us. Let’s hope and pray that our chat room doesn’t crash this week.
so... tomorrow night. 7:30pm Central time. hope you can join us.
Blessings,
Darren
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of sharing the study live from the Four Bears Lodge and Casino in not scenic New Town, ND. It was a great outreach time for a tour that doesn’t normally get into places like that. We had an amazing response with dozens of first time decisions to follow Jesus. Special thanks to our friends Matt Best and Nick Hall with Pulse Ministries.
The tour is going amazing. Lots of sold out concerts at a time when I had lots of anxiety wondering if the economy could support something like this.
My conduit brothers and sisters will be especially happy to know that over the past 5 shows we've seen over 150 children sponsored through Compassion International. Long after this tour is over there will be hundreds of children who will fed, educated, given health care and taught about the Love of Jesus Christ.
If you missed last week, we were in Exodus 13. Its’ the infamous chapter where God declares that He will lead the People of Israel with a cloud by day and a fire by night. I was struck by the fact that God took Israel the long way. The route that God had chosen for them was a year long journey for a trip that should have taken only 10 days. It’s been said that God chose that because it was easy to get them out of Egypt but it was going to take some time to get Egypt out of them.
It’s such an amazing picture of how God leads us. Sometimes He takes us a long way, the scenic route, it’s not because He’s a cosmic buzz kill. It’s just that He sees things we can’t see and knows things we can’t know. When I’m wondering why I’m not where I want to be, or haven’t achieved the goals I know He has led me to, that He is still there and taking me the long way for my own benefit.
We saw that in Psalm 105:39 that the cloud that was there for Israel was a cloud that was actually covering them, floating over them and not just hanging around out in front of them. When He was ready for them to move, He moved the cloud. They were in the desert where temperatures can reach 125 degrees. Once that cloud moved, they would’ve been roasting. Staying under the cloud where it’s cool and peaceful. That’s a picture of how God leads us today. If it’s peaceful, if it’s “cool” then it’s God.
And then there’s the picture of the fire. Fire is always a picture of trials in the scriptures. When Shadrach et all were in the furnace it’s interesting to note that the fire did NOT burn their clothing but did burn the ropes off. The fiery trial that they went through did not hurt them, but rather freed them of the thing that was binding them.
Tomorrow we go into Exodus 14. Pharaoh was the leader of a nation that was not following the Lord. Israel was a nation that must have been confused by the way things were turning out. It seemed bleak and hopeless. And yet God was right there and had a plan all along.
If you’re looking at our nation and feeling like our leader isn’t necessarily following the Lord or that maybe our nation is in confusion and things look bleak, then join us tomorrow night.
I’ll be broadcasting from Medford, Oregon in beautiful southern Oregon. We’ll be at www.mogulus.com/conduit. I hope you can join us. Let’s hope and pray that our chat room doesn’t crash this week.
so... tomorrow night. 7:30pm Central time. hope you can join us.
Blessings,
Darren
Monday, February 16, 2009
Conduit Feb 17- Exodus 13
I’m writing this from lovely and apparently historic Duluth, MN located squarely on the shores of the grand Lake Superior. Tonight marks the first of a 24 city tour that will last the next 30 days and span 8,000 miles. I am relieved that the temperature was 30 degrees today. It is a full 60 degrees warmer than it was last month. Let that set in for a minute.
I am so fortunate to work with the bands that I do. As a manager I’m not just looking for someone who is talented but someone who has something to say. Fame and Christianity can be strange bedfellows but at it’s simplest, at it’s best, fame is nothing more than a platform to speak from. If you’re famous, actually having something to say from that platform comes in kind of handy.
When I was younger I had these plans to become famous so I could reach a bunch of folks. I had these plans that if I were on a stage that I could accomplish so much for the kingdom. Those were my plans. They were not Gods.
God’s plans were better than mine. If I were the guy on stage then I could only accomplish what I accomplished on one stage at a time. Where he has me now I am involved in the process of putting multiple bands on multiple stages. On any given night there are multiple bands in multiple cities reaching exponentially more folks than I could’ve on just my own.
God’s plans, God leading us, that’s what we’re going to talk about tomorrow night at Conduit. In Exodus 13, we see that God led the people of Israel by a cloud by day and a fire by night. I was reading in Psalms 105 the account that David wrote of this and something jumped out at me that I had never seen before. If you’re looking for God’s leading in a situation, please join us tomorrow night at Conduit.
Tomorrow is different though. We are NOT meeting at Journey. In fact, we’re not “meeting” at all. I’m going to be webcasting from the North Dakota stop on the Kutless, Disciple and Stellar Kart tour. I’m hoping to drag some of the artists into the study.
7:30pm at www.mogulus.com/conduit.
Hope you can make it.
Darren
I am so fortunate to work with the bands that I do. As a manager I’m not just looking for someone who is talented but someone who has something to say. Fame and Christianity can be strange bedfellows but at it’s simplest, at it’s best, fame is nothing more than a platform to speak from. If you’re famous, actually having something to say from that platform comes in kind of handy.
When I was younger I had these plans to become famous so I could reach a bunch of folks. I had these plans that if I were on a stage that I could accomplish so much for the kingdom. Those were my plans. They were not Gods.
God’s plans were better than mine. If I were the guy on stage then I could only accomplish what I accomplished on one stage at a time. Where he has me now I am involved in the process of putting multiple bands on multiple stages. On any given night there are multiple bands in multiple cities reaching exponentially more folks than I could’ve on just my own.
God’s plans, God leading us, that’s what we’re going to talk about tomorrow night at Conduit. In Exodus 13, we see that God led the people of Israel by a cloud by day and a fire by night. I was reading in Psalms 105 the account that David wrote of this and something jumped out at me that I had never seen before. If you’re looking for God’s leading in a situation, please join us tomorrow night at Conduit.
Tomorrow is different though. We are NOT meeting at Journey. In fact, we’re not “meeting” at all. I’m going to be webcasting from the North Dakota stop on the Kutless, Disciple and Stellar Kart tour. I’m hoping to drag some of the artists into the study.
7:30pm at www.mogulus.com/conduit.
Hope you can make it.
Darren
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Conduit February 9- The Enemy Has Been Defeated- Exodus 11
It’s been six months since my mom died from cancer.
We will forever be able to remember events from that summer based on the fact that “oh yeah, that was the year we lost mom”. It’s kind of like an experiential bookmark in time that creates an easy to access memory. It’s the kind of thing that forever splits time into before and after.
They say that time heals and I think that is true. Although I wonder if it’s God that is healing and time is the technique that He uses. It is God after all who created time. It would certainly be intriguing to consider that a God who exists in a place that knows no time would use something He doesn’t need to aid a healing process.
Like others who have been affected by cancer, I have suddenly become more aware of it. I’ve realized that almost everyone I know has dealt with or are currently dealing this disease on some level or another. I was always aware of it, but in a purely cerebral academic kind of way. I have since come to be aware of it in a quite personal way. I can say with certainty that I hate cancer. It is evil.
As best I can explain it, cells in the human body are constantly dividing and multiplying as the body needs them. When the body makes too many of these cells that it doesn’t need, it can result in forming a mass or tumor. Sometimes the mass is benign, and sometimes it’s malignant and with that it’s medical bingo: cancer. The cells in the cancerous mass begin to steal the nutrients from the body in order to support its rapid growth. This is why sudden dramatic weight loss is often a symptom of an advanced cancer.
As it is stealing the nutrients and growing, it begins to break off and invade other parts of the body destroying the areas as it grows and invades. The mass can release substances that destroy the surrounding tissue. As it grows it can begin to cut off and destroy the surrounding organs
The ultimate result without treatment is that it kills the host that it has been stealing from and destroying, aka your body. It sounds kind of scary, but Jesus said in Matthew to not be afraid of what can kill the body and not the soul.
It’s not lost on me that stealing, killing and destroying is the job description that Jesus gave to Satan, whom He called “the thief” in John 10. Is it any wonder that this is such an evil disease? Is it any wonder that 25% of the population will contract it, or that it is the leading cause of death for people under 85. In the fallen world we live in, the fact that a disease emulates the very entity that brought about the fall is very apropos.
SIDEBAR: I don’t believe that there is such a thing as a “spirit of cancer”. The Bible makes no distinction that demons were transformed into a spirit of anything. They are assigned as principalities and powers with authority in specific areas, but no special agent of disease. Now back to your regularly scheduled blog.
Right after Jesus said that the thief came to steal, kill and destroy He followed it with the statement that “but I have come that you might have life, and have it more abundantly”. I’d be lying if I told you that I wanted that to mean life in my mom’s physical body. I’d be lying to say that I was disappointed that it didn’t work out like I wanted. I’d be lying to you if I didn’t admit that I misunderstood Jesus’ point.
On the surface it might seem that Cancer actually won, that Satan actually “one upped” Jesus. But beneath the surface, in the deep places that God often inhabits, I have learned something very poignant. Jesus, in fact, “one upped” cancer. Death is not defeated by not dying. It is defeated but resurrecting.
My mom at some point will come up out of that creepy little cemetery in a long forgotten town called Bostwick, Nebraska and will live in a real literal body right alongside all those who call on the name of the Lord. Just like you and I, she will have life and have it “more abundantly”. Can you think of any life more abundant than one that where cancer or any other disease cannot steal, destroy or kill?
And as for Cancer; John writes in Revelation that death, Hades, and Satan himself will be thrown into the lake of fire forever. For those of us who have been and will be affected by cancer or any other disease, on that day we’ll be able to look back with perfect clarity and tell the stories of how we made it through and celebrate perfectly the perfect work done at the cross.
John also records that the saints were gathered around the throne saying “righteous and true are your judgments oh God”. Or in other words, “right on God, every judgment you made, every circumstance I went through, you were right on”. I envision it to be much like the war stories that soldiers tell with a sense of reminiscence and dignity, with a sense of pride that comes from a battle that was won.
For now we exist in the part of the story where it looks like the chips are down for the hero, like all hope is lost, but the part of the story where the hero rides in and saves the day is just around the corner. This is the tense part of the movie where you’re on the edge of your seat not even sure if you want to look at the screen.
It might serve you and I well to read the end of the book from time to time. It really does turn out fantastic. Jesus is going to return with ten thousands of the saints. I’m not sure if my mom has ridden a horse in a long time, but that is one thing I can not wait to see.
Speaking of an intense part of the story, we’re in Exodus 11 this Monday. The first born of all Egypt are killed. Wow. What meanest these things? We’ll talk about that in depth on Monday night, 7:30pm at Journey Church in the Factory in Franklin.
Blessings,
Darren
www.darrentyler.podomatic.com stop podcastinating.. subscribe to the Conduit podcast.
www.conduitmission.org
WE’RE WEBCASTING LIVE: if you can’t make it, tune in on the web at www.mogulus.com/conduit it’s also available at www.conduitmission.org
THE HAITI BENEFIT: Raised an amazing $5400 that we are putting to immediate use for our brothers and sisters in Jacmel Haiti. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard and so passionately to make this event a success.
We will forever be able to remember events from that summer based on the fact that “oh yeah, that was the year we lost mom”. It’s kind of like an experiential bookmark in time that creates an easy to access memory. It’s the kind of thing that forever splits time into before and after.
They say that time heals and I think that is true. Although I wonder if it’s God that is healing and time is the technique that He uses. It is God after all who created time. It would certainly be intriguing to consider that a God who exists in a place that knows no time would use something He doesn’t need to aid a healing process.
Like others who have been affected by cancer, I have suddenly become more aware of it. I’ve realized that almost everyone I know has dealt with or are currently dealing this disease on some level or another. I was always aware of it, but in a purely cerebral academic kind of way. I have since come to be aware of it in a quite personal way. I can say with certainty that I hate cancer. It is evil.
As best I can explain it, cells in the human body are constantly dividing and multiplying as the body needs them. When the body makes too many of these cells that it doesn’t need, it can result in forming a mass or tumor. Sometimes the mass is benign, and sometimes it’s malignant and with that it’s medical bingo: cancer. The cells in the cancerous mass begin to steal the nutrients from the body in order to support its rapid growth. This is why sudden dramatic weight loss is often a symptom of an advanced cancer.
As it is stealing the nutrients and growing, it begins to break off and invade other parts of the body destroying the areas as it grows and invades. The mass can release substances that destroy the surrounding tissue. As it grows it can begin to cut off and destroy the surrounding organs
The ultimate result without treatment is that it kills the host that it has been stealing from and destroying, aka your body. It sounds kind of scary, but Jesus said in Matthew to not be afraid of what can kill the body and not the soul.
It’s not lost on me that stealing, killing and destroying is the job description that Jesus gave to Satan, whom He called “the thief” in John 10. Is it any wonder that this is such an evil disease? Is it any wonder that 25% of the population will contract it, or that it is the leading cause of death for people under 85. In the fallen world we live in, the fact that a disease emulates the very entity that brought about the fall is very apropos.
SIDEBAR: I don’t believe that there is such a thing as a “spirit of cancer”. The Bible makes no distinction that demons were transformed into a spirit of anything. They are assigned as principalities and powers with authority in specific areas, but no special agent of disease. Now back to your regularly scheduled blog.
Right after Jesus said that the thief came to steal, kill and destroy He followed it with the statement that “but I have come that you might have life, and have it more abundantly”. I’d be lying if I told you that I wanted that to mean life in my mom’s physical body. I’d be lying to say that I was disappointed that it didn’t work out like I wanted. I’d be lying to you if I didn’t admit that I misunderstood Jesus’ point.
On the surface it might seem that Cancer actually won, that Satan actually “one upped” Jesus. But beneath the surface, in the deep places that God often inhabits, I have learned something very poignant. Jesus, in fact, “one upped” cancer. Death is not defeated by not dying. It is defeated but resurrecting.
My mom at some point will come up out of that creepy little cemetery in a long forgotten town called Bostwick, Nebraska and will live in a real literal body right alongside all those who call on the name of the Lord. Just like you and I, she will have life and have it “more abundantly”. Can you think of any life more abundant than one that where cancer or any other disease cannot steal, destroy or kill?
And as for Cancer; John writes in Revelation that death, Hades, and Satan himself will be thrown into the lake of fire forever. For those of us who have been and will be affected by cancer or any other disease, on that day we’ll be able to look back with perfect clarity and tell the stories of how we made it through and celebrate perfectly the perfect work done at the cross.
John also records that the saints were gathered around the throne saying “righteous and true are your judgments oh God”. Or in other words, “right on God, every judgment you made, every circumstance I went through, you were right on”. I envision it to be much like the war stories that soldiers tell with a sense of reminiscence and dignity, with a sense of pride that comes from a battle that was won.
For now we exist in the part of the story where it looks like the chips are down for the hero, like all hope is lost, but the part of the story where the hero rides in and saves the day is just around the corner. This is the tense part of the movie where you’re on the edge of your seat not even sure if you want to look at the screen.
It might serve you and I well to read the end of the book from time to time. It really does turn out fantastic. Jesus is going to return with ten thousands of the saints. I’m not sure if my mom has ridden a horse in a long time, but that is one thing I can not wait to see.
Speaking of an intense part of the story, we’re in Exodus 11 this Monday. The first born of all Egypt are killed. Wow. What meanest these things? We’ll talk about that in depth on Monday night, 7:30pm at Journey Church in the Factory in Franklin.
Blessings,
Darren
www.darrentyler.podomatic.com stop podcastinating.. subscribe to the Conduit podcast.
www.conduitmission.org
WE’RE WEBCASTING LIVE: if you can’t make it, tune in on the web at www.mogulus.com/conduit it’s also available at www.conduitmission.org
THE HAITI BENEFIT: Raised an amazing $5400 that we are putting to immediate use for our brothers and sisters in Jacmel Haiti. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard and so passionately to make this event a success.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Exodus 10- Leave No Hoofs Behind
Hi everyone, I posted an episode to my podcast, Conduit Bible Study- Darren Tyler.
Click this link to check it out:
Exodus 10- Leave No Hoofs Behind
- Darren
Click this link to check it out:
Exodus 10- Leave No Hoofs Behind
- Darren
Sunday, February 1, 2009
scenes from the Haiti Benefit
We're not a ball, we just act like one. On this night of January 31, we came together and raised several thousand dollars for our brothers and sisters in Jacmel Haiit. We had fun doing it.
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