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Holy Gibberish: Isaiah 28-30 (Dawn)

Isaiah 28-30 (Longfellow 1/8 | Field 1/15) - If the Bible reads like gibberish, half the battle for making sense out of nonsense is to get a handle on some key concepts that underlie the whole thing.  On Sunday, I hope to tackle some of those ideas that will make a lot of other things make a whole lot more sense! We'll also be wrestling with one of the most challenging understandings about the God we meet in the Old Testament, and especially in the prophets.  Spoiler alert: judgment.  Be there...or be judged!  (Ok, not really.  Just come!)
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

Holy Gibberish: Isaiah 1 (Greg)

We are focusing on one big and important book of the Bible, Isaiah. Listen each week and learn what God was doing with the people of Israel during this tumultuous time when Isaiah was a prophet and what it has to do with us.
Isaiah 1 (Field 1/8 | Longfellow 1/15) - One way to turn the gibberish of the Bible into something worth knowing is to get a handle on one book. Especially a book like Isaiah. Greg will take you so deep into the first chapter that you'll not only see Isaiah and the people he was talking to 2700 years ago, but you'll see yourself!
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

Prove It: Do It Big (Dawn @ Field)

The Bible tells us the point of Jesus was that God loved the wholeworld. That’s everyone. Part of making Jesus real is to think big and reach far. It might be inconvenient and require some sacrifice, but stretch your arms out like Jesus did to make a difference in someone’s life you don’t know and watch God get real.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com

Prove It: Be It (Greg @ Field)

Your life is evidence of something. Just what is the question. Jesus’ life was pretty convincing evidence to a lot of people in his time that God was real and afoot in their world. What about yours? Does your life, without all your words and layers of action, say that God is afoot in the world? It can and that doesn’t mean being perfect, churchy, holier-than-thou or boring. It does mean you’ve just become a pretty awesome Christmas present – kinda like Jesus.
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com

Prove It: Do It Little (Dawn @ Field)

The prophet Isaiah poetically anticipates the laying out of the red carpet for the coming King.  You know, every valley shall be raised up and every mountain made low, the rough ground made level and the rough places a plain.  But then the King comes...and goes...and in a lot of ways nothing looks or feels all that differently.  And I don't think we expect a constant stream of signs and wonders but we wouldn't mind if God could throw us a bone now and then!  But what if God is doing exactly that?  What if we're actually surrounded by signs...and what if we (yeah, you and I) are actually one of God's wonders?
Jacob's Well information can be found at http://jacobs-well.net
Older messages (back to Pre-Christmas 2010) can be found in the archives at http://jacobswell.podbean.com

Revolution: more than mine (Greg @ Field)

You’ve known all along that it isn’t all about you, it isn’t even all about us, our country or - for that matter - about human beings. The universe is a totality and has to be taken that way. Why doesn’t anybody get that? Believe it or not, you aren’t alone on this. God even gets it. Always has. It’s one of the Big Guys main points in the Bible. It’s about time we not only get God’s point, but start seeing how and why this makes so much sense. It’s a matter of faith. It’s a revolution that needs to happen.

Revolution: stranger than strong (Peter @ Field)

Why is it that all the power seems to belong to those with the most money, the biggest weapons or the most "connected" friends?  Do you ever wonder what the world would look like if the decision makers didn't have to be rich or carry the biggest stick?  Your gut tells you the system is broken but you wonder if thinking so means you must be crazy.  Well you're not alone because God agrees that real power comes from somewhere completely different.  It has to. Let's spend some time hearing how God's vision and your gut are really in tune.

Revolution: better than bigger (Greg @ Field)

Along with “Mama”, “Dada” and “No” most of us learned to say “More” as one of our first words and we haven’t quit saying, wanting or trying to have it ever since. That’s a problem because we are running out of more and there isn’t room for bigger. “Bigger is better” thinking is killing us and destroying our world. You know it’s got to change and guess what, God does too! In fact, 1000’s of years ago God put the clues to what’s “Better than bigger” in the Bible for us to discover. Let’s take a look.