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(Play It) 06/15/08 - Lightly Salted (audio)
Community member Richard Ross guides us through Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, challenging us to live purposefully--usefully--as salt and light in the world.
(Play It) 06/08/08 - The Berean Balance (audio)
Steve deepens the discussion on the characteristics and discernment of sound teaching and urges us to consider the consequences for both Christian and non-Christian communities when we fail to live with a balance between receptivity and critical examination.
(Play It) 06/01/08 - Full-Bodied Belief (audio)
Steve exhorts us to be committed to the pursuit of careful theological reflection, because good teaching is just as powerful as bad teaching.
(Play It) 05/25/08 - Radical Pentecostalism (audio)
Steve cautions the community against seeking after the Pentecost experience not accompanied by Pentecost action and meaning in community, and reminds us that a chief purpose of the Spirit is to empower us to live into His kingdom agenda.
(Play It) 05/18/08 - The Kingdom in the Streets (audio)
Steve challenges the smallness of our understanding of the kingdom of God as "Christian ghetto" in light of a post-resurrection world, and calls us to take the kingdom message to the "streets"!
(Play It) 05/11/08 - Waiting For the Right Time...
On this Pentecost Sunday, guest speaker and community member Jonathan Wong challenges us to live now mirroring the kingdom that is even as we wait for the kingdom that is to come.
(Play It) 05/04/08 - On a Mission From God
Steve urges us to be agents of the process of renewal that began with Christ's resurrection; to concern ourselves with the renewal of all creation, not merely so-called spiritual renewal.
"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." 1 Corinthians 1:27 (NIV)