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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Sunday Apr 24, 2011
Sunday Apr 24, 2011
Okay, it seems that people who are trying to live like Jesus might be less stuck on what we've always done, said, been and a little more busy imagining what the world and our lives might be like if... If what? Depends on what God has put in your heart. God doesn't put things there that you already have down pat, you know. God is into possibilities, stretches, "what if's".
Sunday Apr 17, 2011
Sunday Apr 17, 2011
We’ve been taught that altars look like tables. Jesus altered that. They look like… him. He took a cross and gave himself on it, and what came out of that was some sort of life that is found by giving itself. And now Jesus is… in you!
You’ve noticed that the things that give the most also ask the most. Whether it’s in your friendships, parenting, career or just trying to make a difference, there is always some dying in the best of living. God found no short cut – no way to have just life at no cost, neither will we. This is not easy stuff. It’s God stuff. It’s stuff we do together. Read John 2 & 19, bring your bible on Sunday. See you.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2011
Wednesday Apr 13, 2011
We’re a few weeks into the Altarations series and we’ve looked at a couple of the more interesting and challenging ‘altar’ stories in the Bible. On April 10, we’re going to look at a story that doesn’t involve an actual altar. So how did it make the cut for this series? Read it ahead of time and see what you think. It’s in John 18.15-27 and John 21. See you soon and it would be great if you brought a friend. It just might be life-altering!
Sunday Apr 10, 2011
Sunday Apr 10, 2011
We’re a few weeks into the Altarations series and we’ve looked at a couple of the more interesting and challenging ‘altar’ stories in the Bible. On April 10, we’re going to look at a story that doesn’t involve an actual altar. So how did it make the cut for this series? Read it ahead of time and see what you think. It’s in John 18.15-27 and John 21. See you soon and it would be great if you brought a friend. It just might be life-altering!
Sunday Apr 03, 2011
Sunday Apr 03, 2011
When was the last time you picked up a bible? Maybe you made it a habit to do it regularly but more than likely it not such a regular thing, maybe not even at all. During this “ALTARations” series we’re going to use a different story each week to find another pathway into discovering about this relationship God is trying to have with us. If altars are where God breaks into the world and where things get changed than taking a look at the story of Abraham and Isaac is a great place to start. In chapters 17 and 22 of Genesis we read how God changes Abraham through an unconditional promise that carries some pretty serious conditions. God sets up a test for Abraham that results in God getting tested as well. I invite you to come next week to hear how Abraham faithfully comes to the altar and you and I are forever blessed.
Sunday Mar 27, 2011
Sunday Mar 27, 2011
Altars – those places where we come face-to-face with God and stuff gets turned upside down, transformed, altered. There is a hard to forget altar story in the ancient book of 1 Kings in the bible. There a man named Elijah, a prophet of the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob (the good guy), takes on the prophets of Baal (the bad guys). A spectacular event results, but that’s not the end of the story. It plays out on a mountain where Elijah runs for his life despite his slamdunk victory earlier. It isn’t just a 3000 year old action thriller, it’s a story about something we have to deal with everyday. (1 Kings 18.16 through 19.18)
Monday Mar 21, 2011
Monday Mar 21, 2011
Imagine yourself standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon, under a starry sky, or at the top of a mountain peak. Faced with such beauty, some of us would quickly identify the creative energy of wind and water over millennia, the uniqueness of the cosmos or the power of shifting tectonic plates. At the same time, many of us stand in awe and give thanks to God for the depth of beauty embodied within such creation. Why is it so easy for two people to encounter grandeur yet only one sees God and the other doesn’t? What is it about the astonishing that becomes a pathway to experiencing God? How do we talk about the undeniably amazing with those around us in ways that don’t seem cliché or nostalgic? If we’re trying to believe that God is doing something in this world, then let’s spend some time next week staring at some things that are truly unimaginable without God.
Sunday Mar 13, 2011
Sunday Mar 13, 2011
“I just want to know what I’m supposed to do.” You’ve probably said that. And if God’s been a factor in your life at all, you probably wished God would weigh in. God would like to too. But how? How detailed is ‘following God’s will’ supposed to be? And how does God let us know? Through the haze of baffling questions like those God appears. There are times when you knew you were doing the right thing… or the wrong thing. And there are some among us who feel their whole lives led by God. It may not make a lot of sense when or how it happens, it’s an OMG experience.
