Fabric Podcast

4 Big Decisions: How Will I Deal with Other People?

Four Big Decisions: How Will I Deal with Other People? Ever notice that people are pretty weird until you get to know them. And then when you get to know them too well they get weird again? Yeah, people are like that; they are full of things that aren’t convenient or compatible with you. Question: Should they be? Maybe there is a score with your ‘you-ness’ that needs to be settled before you figure out what to do with their ‘other-ness.’
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4 Big Decisions: What Do I Do with My Money?

There are a number of decisions we best settle before hitting the road with our life. Chances are that you didn’t settle all of them before you turned 18 and left home so it is high time we deal with them now. One of those decisions is about your money. Your money, your wealth, your stuff, all of that. You may not even know what the options are, which makes this conversation even more important.
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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4 Big Decisions: Do I Have to Make Choices?

Do I Have to Make Choices? Of course not! After all, you are an exception to the rule. What happens to everyone else won’t happen to you because you are special, and… well, it’ll just work out. Just kidding! You probably wouldn’t say those things about yourself, but it is frightening how many of us act as though they were true.
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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Windows Into Christmas

We could all use a dose of perspective from time to time. Here's a podcast where Greg Meyer encourages you to discover some new perspectives as you engage the age old Christmas story. We're including a dramatic telling of that Christmas story from some Fabric youth. What you miss out on is the full drama, kids singing, dancing, acting, and using shadow puppets to lead the telling of lots of other stories in the middle of Greg's talk.  As you listen, imagine all of the lighted windows this evening in your neighborhood, each one holding unique stories that are somehow all connected.  Merry Christmas! 

Midrash: Perfectly Imperfect

What an explanation can’t accomplish a story sometimes can. We’re working on those stories this Christmas season. Imagine what the Christmas story would be if it were told by, perhaps, the stable? What if the animal shed that Mary is remembered for birthing Jesus in, because there was no room in the inn, could talk? Would it’s story be about being perfectly imperfect for the job? Does your life’s story have some perfectly imperfect in it? Let’s listen.
This midrash from 12/2/2018 was written by Jeanette Mayo and features Beth Studdiford and Melissa Lock.

Midrash: What Was That?

Reporters know to talk to more than the headliners. They go back in the kitchen, talk to the concierge and the guy on the street. People who may not know all that was going on, but they know something. Sometimes what they don’t know makes them better observers. Who were the extras that first Christmas? The guy in the shop next to the stable, the servants of the wise men? We’ve all been the extra, standing in the wings, witnessing what others missed. What was it?
This midrash from 12/16/2018 was written by Mark Trelstad and features Mark, Kris Meyer, and Julie Windholz. 

Midrash: Took the Risk

Joseph told the story about that first Christmas night differently than anyone else. He didn’t hear, see or experience the same thing anyone else did and I imagine the turning point of his story to be in the words “I took a risk.” We all take risks. The Christmas story of God being born into this world is about more than Jesus’ birth (a significant risk!) it is about the risks we all take for life. Life, change, growth are born of risk.
This midrash is from 11/25/18 and features Ed and Jen Hamilton.

Do You Hear What I Hear? What Was That?

Sometimes those who know the least know the most. Let me clarify… Insiders often overthink or have decided what was happening before it did. The outsider, the casual observer, can notice things no one else does. Ever wonder about those characters who were just around that night of Jesus’ birth? What would their stories tell? You’ve been the ‘in the wings’ person when things were happening, what do you know? What do your stories tell?
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!