20
October
2009
This week’s text is John 15 in which Jesus juxtaposes the love that flows from God to the world with the “hate” that the world has for God. What does it mean for those of us who live in the tension of being in the space where these two opposing forces collide?
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14
October
2009
At our gathering this week, coinciding with the start of Anti-Poverty Week, Meredith Downey reflects on her personal journey of engagement with the issue of extreme poverty. Her story begins with her experiences living in Manilla for a number of years as a young child to her current role as a program manager with the microfinance organisation Opportunity International.
Listen to this message and let your heart and mind be challenged by the call of Jesus to be involved in bringing good news to the poor of our world.
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7
October
2009
In the first part of John 15, Jesus takes us to the very essence of what it means to call ourselves his disciples.
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28
September
2009
Unfortunately, the recording of this week’s gathering failed so we are unable to post the report made by Mick Martin and Julian Martin on their recent trip to West Timor with Opportunity International Australia. We apologise to those who were hoping to listen to this podcast.
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24
September
2009
This week we launch our first album of home grown worship songs entitled This Is Our Call and Mick Martin discusses music, corporate worship, songwriting and the album with the Upper Room music team (Chris Bradley, Julia Schmidt, Pete Downey, Dominique Maurice and Dee Teal).
The album can be downloaded via iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=331392059&s=143460
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13
September
2009
Picking up where we left off last week, we look at how the six conversation types discussed in Peter Block’s book Community: The Structure of Belonging relate to the development of a church community.
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8
September
2009
What if, instead of reading the utterances of God in Genesis chapter 1 as declarations of a divine singularity into a pre-cosmic void, we read them as conversations among the persons of the triune God?
This week we consider the creative power of “Let there be…” conversations.
LINKS
Video - ‘A Small Group’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGB0ZFceebw
Booklet - ‘Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community: Changing the Nature of the Conversation’ by Peter Block
http://www.asmallgroup.net/pages/images/pages/CES_jan2007.pdf
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2
September
2009
Continuing with our discussion of John 14, this week we look at verses 12-14.
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27
August
2009
What do you do when crisis or tragedy comes your way and God is nowhere to be found?
(The video clip played at the start of this message can be seen on YouTube: http://bit.ly/Wl5FO )
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