2019-03

Living Room: Safe Space

One big reason you need to find your own living room is to help others find theirs. When we focus on protecting rather than creating space others get pushed out with nowhere to go. This isn’t just figurative, folks. People who haven’t had a seat at the tables of power are cut off from the stuff of life. If God is about anything, it’s about including, loving, making space for everyone. And you don’t have to lose your space to give it to others. In fact, you will only truly find yours when you share it.
In this episode, Chris Lillehei shares his thoughts, stories, and experience to help us make living room for others.
Find the outline and related resources at https://www.fabricmpls.com/scraps. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Living Room: Always On

There are fewer and fewer places you can’t be reached. Fewer and fewer experiences, events, happenings not being reported to the world via social media. And that’s just because of your smartphone! There is also your job, school, friends and family who all expect they can reach you whenever, wherever. Psychologists and therapists are telling us this inescapable availability is creating the most anxious generations ever. Let’s talk about your living room.
Find the outline and related resources at https://www.fabricmpls.com/scraps. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Practices to Make Living Room

"Lent" has been used as a tool for beating up on ourselves, but is there something helpful to glean from practices of self-denial, discipline, and space-making? Greg, Chris, and Melissa dig in to the ways that they're using this season to build practices, capacity and focus. 

Living Room: Welcome to Your Living Room

Why be welcomed to your own living room? Maybe because you haven’t found it yet. Seriously, something about the world these days gets us so wrapped up in great stuff that our room to live is squeezed out. So much so that Greg Meyer is willing to start this conversation rolled in in a box. It's so easy for life to become all about keeping up, packing it in, making the most of, and not being left out. What gives way for all that to happen? You!
Find the outline and related resources at https://www.fabricmpls.com/scraps. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

A Morning with Terry Esau

Terry, a longtime friend of Fabric, has been turning people's thinking upside down his whole life. His books “Blue Collar God / White Collar God” and “Surprise Me, God” did it. He then turned generosity on its head starting Free Bikes 4 Kidz in 8 cities giving away 5-6000 bikes a year. Just this month Terry stood us all on our heads publishing “Jesus asks America to kindly ‘cease & desist’ in using his name” in City Pages. In this episode, we get to relish the challenge and do a little paradigm adjustment with stories and wisdom from Terry Esau.
Find related resources at https://www.fabricmpls.com/scraps. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!