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…
N.T. Wright: Mending Furniture and The New Creation [Video]
Another brilliant video from The Work of the People’s Alter Video Magazine, featuring N.T. Wright talking about mending furniture and how it relates to “ministry, justice, justification and new creation”
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.
An Eternal Revolution and A Crucified King
Jesus had indeed come to unleash GOD’s kingdom but it was an upside-down kingdom…The greatest irony is that Jesus didn’t come to overthrow Rome but to disarm the empire that is rooted in our human hearts…
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”…
Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing
In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head…
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: Ponderings
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…
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