Fabric Podcast

Not One Stone: When the Last Stone Falls

As human beings we can’t live off ideas. We need food to eat, houses for shelter, hands to hold and something tangible to believe in and belong to. It seems we have to build some sort of church, but just rebuilding a little better than what didn’t work before isn’t the answer. What can we do to meet our needs for something, but not lose the precious thing living within? 
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. 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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Not One Stone: Knocking Over the Behavior Stone

The many fortresses that religion builds to keep people in line always separate us from God, but when they enforce ‘right behavior’ they actively harm people at the same time. Creating codes of behavior that say who is worthy of God’s love and who isn’t breeds shame and self-denial in the hearts of people. This is a time to talk straight about a stone that cannot be left standing.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. 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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Not One Stone: Wrestle With God...Until You Lose

Victories come in all sorts of forms. Sometimes they come in defeat. There are, in fact, some wrestling matches you need to have, and you need to lose. A wrestling match we all have with life is our attempt to whip it into the shape that is best for us. When we do that, we get a version of ourselves, relationships, and even our churches that is no longer worthy of our devotion.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. 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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Not One Stone: What's Urgent for Fabric?

Greg Meyer, Melissa Lock, and Chris Tripolino dig into what's urgent for "church" in this post-church era specifically for the Fabric community, but true for other communities and individuals trying to find/ create spiritual community.

Not One Stone: If it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense

In this 2nd week of "Not One Stone: Starting over with God, faith and church" we are looking at whether all they make sense or not. What do you think? Should God make sense in terms of the ways of the world, or should God be too far outside our natural order that anything God does is an interruption to the way the world normally works? Or is that a false choice? Today we will jump into that vast gray area between those two options, and rather than get lost in the fog we can find clarity; we can make sense of what often hasn’t. 
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. 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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Not One Stone: It Was Never Meant to Be That Way

Everything about God, faith & church is changing and it isn’t because we have gotten so smart and progressive. This skin we are shedding is another layer long overdue to be shed. Whether you are embracing the transition reluctantly, painfully, happily or don’t really care, this isn’t academic navel-gazing, it is the next step of the journey of understanding what life is all about.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. 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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Christmas Eve: Make Room

Whether you’ve pulled together all the loose ends for your celebration or not, Christmas is here, so are you, and that is enough. May this episode help you find room within you for the fullness of life, and room in the world for the fullness of you. That’s really what Christmas is, God making room for you and every other one in the world - even and especially when we think it can’t be.
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Scraps: A Much-Needed Love Note

Christmas can be hard. We often make it harder on ourselves. Maybe you need to hear this message from Melissa Lock this Christmas.