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The work of the people. Our weekly rhythm of being together as a larger community to worship and confess, to engage scripture and prayer, to celebrate eucharist, and to be sent back into the city with a benediction each and every week.
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Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Weylin Lee talks about how our spiritual formation needs to be more reflective of what it means to be a child. [1 John 3]
Reflection:
What are the some new questions we need to continue to ask in our journey of following Jesus?
What are some rhythms that provide structure for our spiritual formation?
How can we practice the difficult expression of love in a diverse community?
Resources:
Video: Peewee Football Game Dance
Vox Expressions: Rhythms of Life
Vox Expressions: Covenant Membership
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Monday Sep 28, 2015
Monday Sep 28, 2015
Gideon Tsang speaks about repentance as healing. [1 John 1]
Reflection:
In what ways can you give up judgement of yourself and others?
How can you bring your full self into God’s loving light?
What does a conversation on healing and repentance look like this coming week?
Resources:
Podcast: On Being – Repentance
Book: Accidental Saints
TED Radio: What can doctors learn by admitting their mistakes?
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Sunday Sep 20, 2015
Sunday Sep 20, 2015
Gideon Tsang examines favoritism in our lives and what hinders and facilitates our ability to love the other. [James 2:1-9]
Reflection:
How have we been bad judges in how we view and perceive others?
Who is the other in our lives that represents the diversity that is required to live out the image of God?
How do we need to receive the love of God first in order to love others?
Resources
Video: Frank Movie Trailer
Video: Colbert Interview with Joe Biden
Person: Nadia Bolz-Weber
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Sunday Sep 13, 2015
Sunday Sep 13, 2015
Jason Minnix speaks about truth that helps create margin in our lives through community. [Acts 2:42-47]
Reflection:
What one thing would make our lives simpler and open ourselves up to spiritual growth?
Who are the people that make room for our humanity and spiritual growth?
What’s is alive in us today? What is dying? What is being reborn?
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Sunday Aug 30, 2015
Sunday Aug 30, 2015
Gideon Tsang speaks about how the church that has a high view of Scripture should be known most for their ability to listen well. [James 1:19-25]
Reflection:
How do we show that we have a high view of Scripture?
What is our ratio of listening to speaking when we engage scripture?
How are we using Scripture to allow us to see more deeply our true self in God?
Resources:
1. Sermon Slides
2. Book: Listening is an Act of Love
3. Podcast: StoryCorps
4. Movie: End of the Tour
5. Movie: I am Chris Farley
Correction to Gideon’s Sermon: The Church only exiled, not executed people to silence the idea of a sun-centered universe.
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Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
John Chandler speaks about having a framework of love in how we read Scripture and live it out in the midst of different perspectives. [Matthew 5:38-48]
Reflection:
What does it mean for us to love those who oppose us?
What does it mean for us to understand that we have a great deal to learn from others as well as offer to others?
How can we be complete people that God intended for us to be?
Resources:
1. Book: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2.Book: Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
3.Movie: The Matrix
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Sunday Aug 16, 2015
Sunday Aug 16, 2015
Jason Minnix speaks about how we read Scripture and the different seasons in our lives that may require different approaches and ways to engage Scripture. [Hebrews 5:11-14]
Reflection:
How do we approach a developmental way of reading Scripture?
How can we engage a mystical, trail-marker, or story framework for engage Scripture?
In what ways is God for us?
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Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Matthew Worthington speaks about what it means to imitate Christ and how we live that out. [Ephesians 4:25-5:2]
Reflection:
How can we be someone who is kind and useful to the greater community?
How do we hold space for other people’s experiences and pain and hear their story?
What does it look like for us to forgive they way Christ forgave?
Resources:
1.Podcast: This American Life – Changing Your Mind
2.Person: Oscar Romero
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Monday Aug 03, 2015
Monday Aug 03, 2015
Gena Minnix speaks about the importance of diversity in our community and moving beyond the safety of sameness. [Ephesians 4:1-6] Originally, the scripture follow up was scheduled for this date. The follow up will now be in three parts on 8/16, 8/23, and 8/30. Stay tuned.
Reflection:
What are some things that keep us safe from our blind spots and prevent us from seeing the fullness of God?
How can we engage more humility and gentleness in how we may wrongly understand or perceive others?
How can we practice peace through prayer and meditation?
Resources:
1. Video: Schoolchildren Funeral Tribute in New Zealand
2. Video: Who Needs a Calculator?
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Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Weylin Lee continues a conversation on Scripture and how it should impact and strengthen our interior life. [Ephesians 3:14-21]
Reflection:
How is our faith in Christ strengthened through Scripture?
As we read scripture, how are we becoming more loving people?
How can we engage Scripture with the mystery of God in tension with our need for certainty?
The post Scripture II appeared first on Vox Veniae.
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Jason Minnix speaks about the role that weakness plays in our spirituality. [2 Corinthians 12:2-10]
Reflection:
How do we practice true humility?
Where is the deeper river running in my life?
What would it look like to lean into grace this week?
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Monday Jul 13, 2015
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Gideon begins a conversation on how to rediscover the early and historic church’s transcendent reading of the scriptures.
[Heb 4:12-13]
Reflection:
What do you think of the Bible?
How does scripture affect your soul in a trans-rational way?
How are you living out scripture in active ways?
Resources:
1. Book: The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture has made us unable to read it.
2. Video: AJ Jacobs: My year of living biblically
3.Artist: Ai Weiwei
4. Article: “The powerful words of forgiveness delivered to Dylann Roof by victims’ relatives” The Washington Post, 19 June 2015
5.Movie: Stranger Than Fiction
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Monday Jul 06, 2015
Monday Jul 06, 2015
Terra McDaniel speaks about how Jesus works and uses us in spite of our rejection of God. [Mark 6:1-13]
Reflection:
When has God been something you have not expected? How have you been disappointed or even offended?
How does God use those who are least expected?
How is faith built and developed in community versus individually?
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Sunday Jun 28, 2015
Sunday Jun 28, 2015
Gideon Tsang speaks about the possibility that generosity is good news and how it can be a pathway to good news. [2 Corinthians 8:1-8]
Reflection:
Why are we generous? Is it out of love or is it to receive love?
How is generosity a path to good news?
How has our understanding of sacrifice impacted our practice of generosity?
Resources:
Article:“Malcolm Gladwell Goes Nuts on John Paulson’s Harvard Donation” 3 June 2015
Book:Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr
Movie:St. Vincent
Website:Color Eye Test
Slides: Good news of Generosity
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Sunday Jun 21, 2015
Sunday Jun 21, 2015
This Father’s Day, we hear the story of fathers as they share how being a father has shaped their journey of faith and understanding of God. [Psalm 128]
Reflection:
How is the God as a father metaphor helpful or hurtful?
How has your experience with your own father shaped your understanding of God?
What part of your experience needs healing?
What are some ways can you receive God’s love as a perfect Father this week?
Resources
Video: Interview with Gabriel Tsang
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Monday Jun 15, 2015
Monday Jun 15, 2015
John Chandler speaks about what it means for the church to practice hospitality in a culture of hostility. [Acts 10]
Reflection:
How do we invite conversation and dialogue in how we live the church?
What does it mean to open ourselves up to see and recognize the image of God in others?
What are your biases and labels that impact how we categorize people and prevent us from hospitality?
Resources:
Book: The Abundant Community
Person: Jean Vanier
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Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Jason Minnix speaks about Jesus’ habits of listening to himself, God/wisdom, and other people. Often times we only listen in one or two of these areas of our lives, yet spiritual discernment is fostered as we dabble in all three. [Mark 1:35-39]
Reflection:
Where am I being invited to listen/empathize more deeply – with my self, with God/wisdom, or with others?
What would it look like to lean into that on a practical level?
Resources:
Image: Spheres of Listening
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Monday Jun 01, 2015
Monday Jun 01, 2015
Geeta Mondol shares the story of The Ashish Center, one of Vox’s partners in India.
Reflection
1. What do you think God is sharpening you for?
2. What ways can you pray and support The Ashish Center in this season?
Resources
Website:Ashish India
Vox Veniae: Missions- Investment
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Sunday May 24, 2015
Sunday May 24, 2015
For Pentecost Sunday, Weylin Lee speaks about the Holy Spirit and how important it is for us individually as well as a church community to seek the guidance of the Spirit in how we live God’s story. [Acts 2:1-12]
Reflection:
How can our gifts from the Spirit be used to practice hospitality to those around us?
How can we be practical mystics in our attempts to listen to the Holy Spirit for guidance?
Who are those we need to seek forgiveness from and who are those we need to extend forgiveness to?
Resources:
Art:Icon of the Trinity by Anderi Rublev
Book:Eugene Peterson on Spiritual Direction
Book:The End of Memory by Miroslav Volf
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Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
Gideon Tsang speaks about how Jesus advocates for the broken and oppressed as well as each of us. [John 17:6-19]
Reflection:
How do we distinguish God’s protection as conservationism instead of conservatism?
How do we pursue a mind of joy?
How can we live according to God’s original design and purpose?
Resources:
Video: Larry Wilmore Meets With Gangs
Article:The Real Tenenbaums
Excerpt:Richard Rohr, “The Naked Now”
Definition:Sanctificaiton
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