Wired Jesus Podcast

While I’m not real happy with the audio – for some reason I sound kind of muffled – a posted podcast is better than no podcast at all.
Holy Week seemed like a rough one for Christians this year. As we remembered the suffering and death of Jesus, the news seemed to focus on abuses [...]

 

 Wired Jesus Podcast #52 - Love, Hate, and Holy Week On YouTube [19:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tags: easter, nooma, rob bell, Video, weird, youtube

I received permission to embed this so enjoy.

Resurrection: Rob Bell from The Work of Rob Bell on Vimeo.

Tags: easter, nooma, resurrection, rob bell, Video

Here is one of the new shorts coming out of The Work of Rob Bell called Resurrection. I’ve asked for permission to embed it but in the meantime you can watch it here on Vimeo Visually and in pace, its different than most of Nooma but its a good telling of Easter then [...]

Tags: easter, resurrection, rob bell, Video

I came across this ancient hymn in my readings this morning and just goes to show that when our tendency is to make the church more like a funeral of facts, the ancients remind us that life with Jesus is party for all our senses. It reminds me of the great scene in The [...]

Tags: church, jesus, joy, party

I received this from Leonard Sweet this week and got permission to post it here on Wired Jesus. Its worth a podcast, so watch for more later. There is definately something to be said that in a world that is concerned in talking about Jesus, asking what would Jesus do, or pointing to [...]

I posted this on Twitter but I can give the full story here. John Armstrong was at a Greek Orthodox monastery with an ecumenical group for some interaction. During one break time one of the evangelical visitors went up to a monk and asked, “Have you made your decision to make Jesus your [...]

Here’s video to set the tone for your Good Friday walk.
Must admit, it would work very well for a worship service. Maybe next year.

Okay, I didn’t get a podcast done before Christmas but let me share this with all of you who have stuck by Wired Jesus over the past year. Visual media and worship is kind of “my thing” and recently I did a study for a local group of pastors on preaching on Christmas. [...]

I recently finished The Shack by William Young. A viral best seller, I would describe it as the heart of Mitch Albon (Five People You Will Meet in Heaven) and the offbeat, relational faith of Don Miller (Blue Like Jazz) with a Christian core that would make sense to an Greek Orthodox Christian. [...]

Found this posting about trends for Christmas cards in Great Britain, that only one out of every one hundred cards sold actually mention contain any religious artwork or mention of Jesus.
I find it interesting in light of a recent incident here in Chicago, where at the annual German Christkindlemarket, city officials opposed video kiosks showing [...]