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Alter Video Magazine: NT Wright on mending furniture and the new creation (click image for source)

N.T. Wright: Mending Furniture and The New Creation [Video]

By Jason Fowler on 04/19/2012

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”

Posted in Videos | Tagged Community and Ecclesia, GOD, Jesus, ministry, mission, Missional Church, N.T. Wright, Theology, video | Leave a response

And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new."  -Revelation 21:5

Shalom: An Invitation to Whole-Life Christian Faith

By Jason Fowler on 04/17/2012

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.”

Posted in Excerpts, Voice of One Calling | Tagged american dream, book excerpt, books, christian faith, culture, future, GOD's kingdom, history, Jesus, kingdom living, mission, missional, missional living, new earth, shalom, Whole-life Christian faith, whole-life discipleship | Leave a response

Can we recover an apostolic, missional Christianity here in America?

Alan Hirsch: DNA of Gospel Movements [VERGE Videos]

By Jason Fowler on 01/16/2011

This is a powerful series of short videos featuring Alan Hirsch, missiologist, a key figure in the missional church movement and author of Untamed: Reactivating A Missional Form of Discipleship, The Forgotten Ways and other books. Be warned- you may start asking dangerous questions after watching these…

Posted in Theology, Videos | Tagged Alan Hirsch, church, communitas, Community and Ecclesia, contextual missions, culture, ecclesiology, Jesus, leadership, Misseo Dei, mission, missional, movements, Theology, VERGE, video | 2 Responses

No empire can stop humble servants empowered by GOD's love

Empire vs. Love

By Bill Guerrant on 08/27/2010

In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”

Posted in Church & World History, Features, Justice | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, Christians, Church History, embodying our faith, history, Jesus followers, Julian the Apostate, Justice, love, margins of empire, mercy, mission, Poverty, Roman empire | 1 Response

For Church Leaders In Denial [video]

For Church Leaders In Denial [video]

By Jason Fowler on 07/19/2010

Sally Morgenthaler speaks candidly about the need for Church leaders to abandon the addictions of constructing self-absorbed communities of faith. Are we more devoted to maintaining our comfort levels and the stability of the Spirit-less status quo or are we willing to deconstruct our glorious religious machinery…

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Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Videos | Tagged addiction, church, church renewal, dead churches, ecclesiology, emergent, Gospel, Jesus, ministry, missiology, mission, missional, pastoral ministry, Sally Morgenthaler, Theology, video, worship | 3 Responses

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