Fabric Podcast

4 Big Decisions: How Will I Establish My Career? (Pt. 2)

In case you are wondering if this is really about how to kick your career into high gear, it’s not. Your career is the wrong question to start life by answering, the better question would be about your character. Not “What do I do?” but “Who am I?” This week, Greg Meyer digs in to that deep question and everything that surrounds it.
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!

4 Big Decisions: How Will I Establish My Career? (Pt. 1)

In case you are wondering if this is really about how to kick your career into high gear, it’s not. Your career is the wrong question to start life by answering, the better question would be about your character. Not “What do I do?” but “Who am I?” This week, our friend Reeve Hutchinson shared his story with us this; an interesting and compelling look into his personal journey that engages questions about career, purpose, and meaning encouraging us to start digging down to see what this foundation might look like so we can better decide where to start building.
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!

What's Important or What's Happening

It's so easy to confuse what's important with what's simply happening. Greg Meyer, Melissa Lock, and Chris Tripolino share some conversation about how to get to those important things...those big decisions.

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.’
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!

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.
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!

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.
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!

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.