Fabric Podcast
Welcome to the Fabric podcast! Fabric is a thoughtful, progressive experiment in being church, based in South Minneapolis. We love hosting space where curiosity, connection, and inclusive belonging have space to stretch out and get comfy. Take the time you need to explore what we’re about, and when you’re ready, connect however feels best. The conversation is always fresh! Fabric is church, for the rest of us. #FabricMpls
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Episodes
Tuesday Apr 03, 2012
Tuesday Apr 03, 2012
What does it feel like when you're paying the bills: frustrating, maddening, or deflating? How is it supposed to feel when there's not enough coming in to match up to all the places it could be going out. For most of us, most of our money needs to go to places over which we have seemingly little control and it's hard not to feel manipulated in the process. God knows how hard this is for us and wants us to see things more than a little differently. Maybe it's not about "having" the good life but more about "giving" the good life away. Let's explore how we might have some very different emotional responses when it comes time to pay the bills.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Tuesday Mar 27, 2012
Tuesday Mar 27, 2012
So, do you think the Good Life is achieved through wealth? Or that wealth has nothing to do with it? Maybe money - either having, or not having it - has a tendency to both help us and get in the way of the Good Life. It isn't a 'how much do you have?' as much as a 'what is its role in your life?' question. What are God's goals for your finances? Well, let's just say they are a lot bigger than yours. Join us Sunday when we dig up a whole new set of questions about our money that can open doors to a whole new set of solutions.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Tuesday Mar 20, 2012
Tuesday Mar 20, 2012
Our lives are populated with friends, co-workers, neighbors, customers and clerks. We choose some of these relationships while others are chosen for us. And then there's family, especially the family we chose to be with. Husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, all hold a unique place in our lives. These are the people most intimately influential in the ups and downs of our journey through life. How can we even pretend to live the good life if we don't pay attention to how we tend to these relationships? Could it be that God's plan for this world and God's plan for you is rooted right here? Join us and we'll dig deeper into how God's app for the good life includes tending to the people we draw in most closely.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012
The Good Life. You may wonder what it is, but one thing is for sure, it depends on how our relationships are doing. If you're rich - but lonely - you're miserable. If you're at the top of your field, everyone's go to person - but your kid/parent/ partner won't talk to you - you feel like you're at the bottom of life. We need relationships to work, but so often they don't, and the linchpin is often forgiveness. Yeah, forgiveness. We don't get it. We think it's this unrealistic something we give someone who doesn't deserve it. Actually it is one of the universe's most powerful forces and the least understood currency in the Good Life's economy.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Monday Mar 05, 2012
Monday Mar 05, 2012
We all have a sense of the Good Life, and around the first of the year we often reflect on what it could be in our lives. We make a plan, we re-prioritize, and we set out with determination to finally start living it. That usually carries us to around the second week of January when the eggnog wears off and reality sets in. But what if the struggle to change direction in our lives stems from a much deeper struggle with our (often wimpy!) understanding of God and the word 'repentance'? Unless your life is on a perfect course, this is a Sunday you won't want to miss!
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Sunday Feb 26, 2012
Sunday Feb 26, 2012
Great music weaves around a central theme. Great stories build their plot around one idea. Great lives will one thing that guides its various strands of experience. What about your life? How do you decide what you will do and who you will be? The Good Life doesn't just make something up or accept what society hands it, it knows what is planted mostly deeply in its heart. A planting that God seeded and waters and loves. Join us as we learn how to find that one thing and how it can create clarity in the messiness of life.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Monday Feb 13, 2012
Monday Feb 13, 2012
Politics are in full force these days and it seems like name-calling has become part and parcel with the process. I'd hate to think what some of the names would be if we lived back in the time of the prophet Isaiah who named his sons 'A-Remnant-Shall-Return' and 'Spoil-Quickly-Plunder-Speedily'! Pretty much walking billboards among the people with a message from God embedded in their very identity. Come next Sunday as we take name-calling to a new level and dig into Isaiah Chapter 62 where you'll find that some of the name-calling has even been powerfully directed at you!
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
Monday Feb 06, 2012
Monday Feb 06, 2012
As a community we have some big changes happening right now. Both of our sites are transitioning to meeting at one location and we are exploring a possible new home for that one location. We also have Nate Bergengren moving on to a new position with Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Park. Those changes take a toll on us. Isaiah spoke to Israel at a time of even greater transition. As he walked with them he reminded them of realities that were upon them, but held up the promises that awaited them and pointed them in the direction that could get them there. We have the same needs today. Isaiah chapter 55 is an example of how God does does this. As we go through these changes these next couple of weeks we'll let this chapter lead the way.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net or Jacob's Well Minneapolis on Facebook
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com
