Fabric Podcast

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. 

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Shiny, Receive...

You may not get around to cleaning your house and decorating for Christmas, but you gotta love those Currier & Ives snow scenes and driving the streets to look at the lights. Christmas should be shiny! So should our lives. At least on the outside. We shine up our resumės, Instagram posts, and our answer to ‘How are you doing?’ so they look as good as a shopping mall Christmas tree. What would happen if you gave up shiny?
In this episode, Chris Lillehei asks that question and helps us get curious about what might be waiting for us if we do. 
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.
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!

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Your List, Receive…

What's on your list? It's everyone doing and being what suits you best. Sure, you don’t look at it that way. You just think people doing what you like is doing what’s right. Guess again. What if your list of what you want wasn’t getting what you want, but keeping you from getting it? Would you give it up then? And if you did, what do you think you’d get in return? In this episode, Greg Meyer asks us to consider (and try) that very thing.
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.
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!

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Naming, Receive...

We spend a lot of attention, time and smarts naming things. Naming the disease and the antidote; naming the poisonous versus the edibles; the ski runs green to black diamond. It is natural, human and helpful! But can we get too good at naming? What happens when we figure it all out, know how it is, sum it all up or boil it all down? In this episode, Melissa Lock asks us what we might receive if we gave up that kind of naming.
Find related resources 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.
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!

Hearing Voices: Hear My Voice, Listen to My Story

What's the value of being known? For some it can be the difference between being valued or harmed. But for any of us? What happens when our stories are known; first by ourselves and then by others? What do we risk and what do we gain? What might others gain? Sharing who you are is powerful and changes lives - yours and others. In this episode we welcome several of our community and friends as they invite us to listen. 
Find related resources 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.
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!