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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13
August
2009
This week, we experiment with a new format (a ‘polyhomily’) where three speakers share their thoughts on the first six verses of John 14.
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4
August
2009
Human beings were created by God to eat food. We consider the implications of this fact for our spirituality.
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4
August
2009
Sometimes we can be more caught up in the idea of being a follower of Jesus than in the actual business of following him. Peter’s story of denying Jesus sheds light on this distinction and shows how Jesus makes up whatever might be lacking in our discipleship, as long as we stay in the light of his presence.
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4
August
2009
1 Peter 2:5 tells us that we are “like living stones…being built into a spiritual house” in which God himself dwells. (See also Ephesians 2:22.)
At our gathering this week, we watched a segment of the documentary ‘Rivers and Tides’ as a kind of audiovisual parable of this scriptural metaphor.
(The film is available on DVD, but a low quality version can be viewed online at http://bit.ly/Iwg3u. The segment we watched was from about 17 minutes in to about 32 minutes. It shows Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy constructing a cone-shaped sculpture out of rocks on a tidal foreshore.)
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22
June
2009
Despite the astounding signs that Jesus performed during his public life - signs that were intended to point to the truth of who Jesus is (John 20:30-31) - many people who witnessed those signs simply refused to believe in him. This week we explore to some extent the nature of belief and how it is belief that enables us to see the glory of God revealed in Christ.
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19
June
2009
The parable of the ‘lost son’ in Luke 15 could perhaps more accurately be referred to as the parable of the ‘lost sons’. Simon Riches opens up this story and invites us to consider the extent to which each of the main characters speaks to our own lives.
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10
June
2009
At our Sunday gathering this week, we watched a presentation by Brian McLaren at Willow Creek Community Church to a group of youth leaders in which he talks about four major crises the world is facing today and the relevance of the gospel to those crises.
The attached audio file contains some brief introductory and concluding remarks from Mick Martin.
The video can be found at http://www.viddler.com/explore/xjm716/videos/12
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