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Reclaim the Temple: Does food have a proper place in our hearts or is it an idol?

Reclaiming the Temple: Ponderings

By Pam Fowler on 01/09/2012

So, I have many things floating around in my mind. Many things I need to sort through. Sweet food is my way to de-stress. So I wonder; is that wrong to use food in this way? I don’t think it is. I believe that God created food to be much more than fuel…

Posted in Health and Body, Learning As We Go | Tagged body as temple, christian faith, faith, family life, food, food and faith, GOD, Intentional Living, Jesus, natural health, reclaim the temple, spiritual practices, worship | Leave a response

May we behold Jesus our king this Christmas

Behold Your King: A Christmas Greeting

By Jason Fowler on 12/24/2011

Let us remember that GOD’s purposes can be birthed in us as we too go low, go small, and labor as He leads us – we need only to be willing vessels. Peace to you this Christmas from our family to yours…

Posted in Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Christianity, christmas, faith, GOD, GOD's kingdom, incarnation, Jesus | 1 Response

We can live beyond a culture of fear

Living Beyond A Culture of Fear

By Jason Fowler on 09/12/2011

Jaques Ellul said: “The more security and guarantees we want against things, the less free we are. Tyrants are not to be feared today, but our own frantic need of security is…Helen Keller observed, “Security is mostly a superstition…”

Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged culture, discipleship, faith, fear, GOD, Jesus, Media | 1 Response

Are our lives built on Jesus? Will we be anchors in the storm?

Anchors In The Storm

By Jason Fowler on 08/27/2011

The mythology of an economic recovery has only served to blind us – to deceive us into maintaining business as usual. But we can no longer live with a blind eye toward the horizon…Will we be people of love and peace and mercy- will we be anchors in the storm?- or will we be swept away in fear and self-seeking because we find our hearts did not truly trust the LORD?…

Posted in Features, Money & Economics, Voice of One Calling | Tagged economic crash, economics, faith, fear, God's Economy, storm | 10 Responses

The Colors of Hope by Richard Dahlstrom

The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice and Love (book excerpt)

By Jason Fowler on 07/22/2011

The new book by Seattle pastor Richard Dahlstrom just recently hit the shelves. Check out this excerpt from the chapter titled ‘Art in the Garden-So Sow…’ from this new book ‘The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice and Love’…

Posted in Excerpts, Features | Tagged Bible, book, book excerpt, christian living, faith, farming, Gardening, GOD, Jesus, justice, love, mercy, parable, seeds, Simple Living, soil | Leave a response

Jenny & Tyler: Faint Not (Video)

Jenny & Tyler: Faint Not (Video)

By Jason Fowler on 04/11/2011

Out of this struggle to continually choose sacrificial love we are reminded that it is not idealism or politically-inspired activism but humble submission to the Holy Spirit through whom we can say, like the ancient Hebrew psalmist-king David, “o my soul, faint not, no faint not | o my soul, keep up, up in love”…

Posted in Videos | Tagged activism, christian faith, courage, faint not, faith, Holy Spirit, Justice, justice, love, music, Poverty, Prayer, St. Francis, worship | 1 Response

Food and faith converge in Christian ethics of eating (screen capture: PBS)

Norman Wirzba: Food, Faith and Ethical Eating [PBS Video]

By Jason Fowler on 07/29/2010

I found this great video today from PBS featuring Norman Wirzba, Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life Duke Divinity School…This excellent video gives a brief snapshot into the growing confluence between the sustainable agriculture movement and the American Church at large…

Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, Anathoth Community Garden, christian ethics, christian faith, church farms, church gardens, community gardening, ethics of eating, faith, food, food and faith, Gardening, Norman Wirzba, Sustainable Agriculture, video | 6 Responses

Even in trials we must trust Him

Dear GOD

By Jason Fowler on 06/25/2010

Jesus taught us to call GOD ‘poppa’- a blasphemous intimacy for the religious people of his day- but when Poppa seems to have withdrawn how do you maintain your trust in Him?…

Posted in Theology, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, Dear GOD, doubt, faith, Father GOD, GOD, Jesus, Monsters of Folk, Poppa GOD, Prayer, trust | Leave a response

Jesus said: I have overcome the world [montage J Fowler]

A World of Trouble

By Jason Fowler on 05/10/2010

Job said it best: ‘For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.” JESUS understood this it seems and told his disciples: “In this world you will have trouble but take courage; I have overcome the world!”

Posted in Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged abundant life, faith, Jesus, refining faith, trials, tribulation, trouble, world events | 9 Responses

Do we trust GOD for our practical needs?

Can You Backpack With Boxes?

By Pam Fowler on 12/27/2009

Security does not come in a full fridge, money in the bank, a paycheck each week, knowing that you can get it if you need it, eating organically (this is the newest thing on the chopping block)…

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