Wired Jesus Podcast

This is a first – a book review. Wired Jesus has been largely about the net but as we have all seen in the last five years, the distinctions have disappeared and nearly everything points back to the web anymore. Your Church Is Too Small is a book that speaks to me and [...]

 

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Tags: church, creed, john armstrong, mission, your church is too small

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 can’t believe its been this long since my last post and last podcast. However, be brave you faithful, I’m leading an event on Becoming a Digital Missionary at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green at 12:45PM. Its a day long event called CrossTraining where people from congregations around our synod share [...]

Thanks for the emails and requests for a podcast on the recent actions of our tribe, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In becoming the largest Protestant denomination in the US to permit (within limited paramters) homosexuals in same sex partnerships to be pastors has awakened a firestorm and celebrations. As a local [...]

As I sit listening to the ELCA Churchwide Assembly discuss and vote on issues of homosexuality, I also received a facebook note about the tornado that the the assembly hall earlier in the week now being proclaimed as the wrath of God by local megachurch pastor John Piper. Author Rachel Held Evans has a [...]

I recently received via Twitter from Leonard Sweet – an post about a Baptist professor who teaches at Oxford who is arguing for a sacramental theology for Second Life. The heart of the arguments seems to be that if one can worship virtually one should be able to received the sacraments virtually. I’m [...]

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 [...]

Here is a new podcast I’ved called I AM, We Are – play on the the Hebrew name of of God and the nature of being a discipling community, the Church. I begin with my recent confirmation camp experience, painting a picture of the faith journey of millenials out of an exercise one of [...]

 

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I have not laughed so hard in months! Michael McKeaver is a Bible professor at a college in Chicago and put this video together on the perils of Biblical interpretation. He has done three other videos as well that are now out on YouTube. Let’s get this out virally because it is [...]

After a week of rest and coaching down in Florida, here’s a brand new podcast for the new year. Every notice the culture shift that takes place when you walk into Disney. There’s an attitude that everyone shares that helps make it “the happiest place on earth.”
Now consider the culture shift [...]

 

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