Extra Episodes (Scraps)

Leftovers - Why Check Your Baggage?

We've been digging in to huge issues that affect our life and relationships lately. Why do we do stuff like that? Here's a little bit of a taste of our approach to digging in to big things like this as a community. If you are trying to figure out how to broach those difficult conversations within your own community, it's worth it! Share comments on this episode or reach out to us through our website!

Why Listening is So Hard

An excerpt from "Everybody Loves A Baby: A Special Gift" by Greg Meyer. You are called to make a difference. What you may not be aware of is that listening deeply and openly to others may be the way you can make the biggest difference. Greg Meyer explores two of the obstacles that keeps us from truly hearing others so that understanding can happen. Listen in.
Hear the entire message from Dec 10, 2017 HERE.
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'Tis the Season to Change Men's Behavior Towards Women

Listen to this excerpt of the message from Dec. 10, 2017 ("Everyone Loves a Baby: A Special Child"). Greg Meyer deals with an issue that we need to talk about; the wave of accusation and truth telling around sexual misconduct and assault that is sweeping up so many men today. Believe it or not, this reflects the Christmas season in which we welcome God breaking into our world to change things, not leave them the same. We all need to own the role we play in condoning and promoting this behavior that has victimized women for centuries and needs to change.
Hear the entire message HERE.
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If our work supports you in your life, please subscribe to this channel and share what is helpful to you with others. You can also support us with a financial gift at www.jacobs-well.net/give
 

Humanize Leftovers: Commentary on Mark 6.30-44 Feeding the 5000

This excerpt from Sunday's message (9/24/2017) doesn't pretend to give us any answers for how to have compassion when the needs are too many, too far away, and too demanding, but it does show us a rhythm of compassion Jesus had that made him someone the world has never forgotten. Greg Meyer gives us some insights into one way to hear this story from Mark 6.30-44 of Jesus "feeding the 5000." 
The entire podcast is available HERE.
You can find the Completed Outline to the message on page 2 of this pdf. LINK
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Humanize Leftovers: Cardboard Signs

Melissa, Chris, & Paul pick up the conversation from Sunday as we think about how compassion moves us toward action. We start this conversation with what our community does when we see people holding cardboard signs on the side of the road. 

Well-Lopsided Leftovers

Melissa, Greg, Chris, and our new pastor intern, Paul Rosenwinkel dig into this pull toward balance and what it might mean to be well-lopsided for us as individuals.

Leftovers - Charlottesville

True confessions this week: We're still finding our way in how we address conversations about race and justice and we think we missed something big by letting Charlottesville get squeezed out of our conversation as a community. It's too important to not address together, so we're taking another crack at it in hopes of returning to conversations that we've had many times and finding new places that need addressing within the Jacob's Well community and well beyond it. Thanks for being the kind of community that can have these sustained conversations that are transforming how we see the world. 

What Else Can You Do?

In this Leftovers Podcast, we talk about competence and what it may look like to step out from beneath its shadow and grow in the places where we lack it! Melissa Lock, Greg Meyer, and Chris Tripolino dive right in to this conversation inspired by this week's conversation with our friend Eddie Hamilton. 
For more on Eddie, check out his website here: EddieHamiltonArt.com