Michah Bournes: Acts 17 and Turning the World Upside Down (Video)
The massively talented, poetry slammin’ Micah Bournes hits on a glaring discrepancy: “If the Gospel of Jesus is so revolutionary…why aren’t we turning the places where we live upside down like the early Christians in Acts 17?”
The Prayer Movement and the Renewal of All Things
Today the decentralized prayer movement, with it’s many points of origin, is a global phenomena. Houses of prayer with a vision for laus perennis or continual prayer have sprung up all over the world…
Paul Sparks: Salvation In The Neighborhood and the Great Reversal (Videos)
In these videos Alter Video Magazine and The Work of the People interviews Paul Sparks as he talks about how local living and learning to do life together is intimately related to spreading the Gospel of GOD’s upside down kingdom…
Shalom: An Invitation to Whole-Life Christian Faith
In the book Tom and Christine Sine say: “At the center of GOD’s purpose for a people and a world is the word shalom…A Jewish friend explained that originally this greeting meant, “May you live in anticipation of the day when GOD makes all things whole again.”
A Spring Sermon on the Resurrection
We would listen to his sermon on the resurrection of Jesus and sing hymns in the cold, subtle light of early morning. Today…though I’ve begun listening to a different kind of sermon.
Place Matters: The Parish Collective on Churches, Places, and Spaces (video)
I recently had the privilege of meeting Paul Sparks of the Parish Collective when he was visiting the East Coast….I looked up and saw Jeremiah 29:7, inscribed on the building, which says: “Seek the peace of the city where I have sent you, for in it’s welfare, you will find your welfare”…
The Way (Movie Review)
The Way was a profound and entertaining film – touching on topics of spirituality and religion (or the lack of), pilgrimage and personal redemption, death, life, loss and and in turn healing, renewed hope and our need for community…
Health For Godly Generations (Book Excerpt)
In her book Health for Godly Generations, the author Renee DeGroot has compiled a deeply thoughtful and provoking conversation…I consider this book to be a solid entry into the growing Christian conversation on health, food and the multi-faceted issues that surround this element of our lives.
Seeking shalom: Renewing the Regional Foodshed
I’m not sure the exact moment that this happen but at some point over the past five years I became passionate about food and agriculture…This long journey in exploring issues of food, health and agriculture (and how they all relate) has also coincided with a deeper spiritual journey…
Reclaiming the Temple: Looking on to What’s Next
Food is so much more than fuel. Food is connection. It is meant to connect us to the land from which it comes, to the people with whom we share it, the atmosphere in which it is shared, the memories it produces, and mostly with Him who blesses us with it all.
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