The Upper Room

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The Upper Room 22 November 09 - Dying to be born (Mick Martin)

In John 16:16-22, Jesus anticipates his death and resurrection and compares it to a woman giving birth, a rather unexpected analogy to say the least…

The Upper Room 15 November 09 - Pointillism, Fractals & the Gospel of John (Mick Martin)

This week as we move into chapter 16 of John’s gospel, we bring together a number of themes we have been considering in recent weeks and ask the question, what might it look like to bear witness to the truth of who Jesus is as we anticipate celebrating the Incarnation during the Christmas season.

The Upper Room 8 November 09 - Experiencing God (Mick Martin)

Perhaps the major overarching theme of the whole narrative of Scripture, from Eden to the new Jerusalem, is that of “God with us”. God’s ‘here-ness’ is not merely a theological concept to which we choose to give mental assent. God wants us actually to experience him in our day-to-day lives.

“For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom … And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image” (2 Cor 3:17-18 NLT)

The Upper Room 25 October 09 - Holy Spirit (Mick Martin)

What does it mean to be ‘baptised with the Holy Spirit’?

Related link NOOMA Breathe | 014 Rob Bell

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The Upper Room 18 October 09 - When Worlds Collide (Mick Martin)

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?

The Upper Room 11 October 09 - On Poverty (Meredith Downey)

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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The Upper Room 20 September 09 - This Is Our Call (TUR band)

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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The Upper Room 13 September 09 - Conversation: Part 2 (Mick Martin)

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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The Upper Room 6 September 09 - Conversation: Part 1 (Mick Martin)

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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