Wired Jesus Podcast

Finally, a new podcast. What sparked it was some of the positive experiences I have had with congregations and change in recent months but the reality that most have become what Len Sweet calls “Bastions of Boredom.”

Bastions Of Boredom from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.
This great video done by Work of the [...]

 

 Wired Jesus Podcast #54 - What We Have Here Is a Failure To Communicate [21:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tags: boredom, church, Generations, Google, Guttenberg, Len Sweet, postmodern, Video, vimeo, worship

“Kasey McMahon’s self-portrait called “Connected” is made from steel, CAT5 and other data cables. It could be a few things: a bemoaning of the hyper-connected, digitally reliant evolution of humans in the recent generation, or a surrender to that, or perhaps a declaration of independence from it entirely. Regardless, it’s an impressive and powerful and [...]

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 [...]

 

 Wired Jesus Podcast 53 [25:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

Something interesting happened Sunday in worship. I was down in Florida and hearing my dad preach for the first time in years. He had a great point in his sermon that gave me an idea, so I pulled out my blackberry, clicked on notes, and typed in the idea. It wasn’t long before [...]

Tags: community, social networking, texting, tweet, twitter, worship

Wired Jesus On the Road
For those in Ohio and Florida, there are two Wired Jesus On the Road events coming up in April. The first is for students at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio but the second is for the Tampa area. There is a facebook page for registration.

Wired Jesus On the Road [...]

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

Once again, I’ve been lax in paying attention to the Wired Jesus Podcast but happily doing more with Wired Jesus on the Road. As I have been getting ready for a coaching event on introducing alternative worship in traditional/existing congregations, I came across this very helpful article by Karen Ward that reinforces the key [...]

Tags: emergent, mission, postmodern

Finally, podcast #50 is posted to start a new year, making five years of podcasting. Hard to believe.
In this episode I reflect on the impact of social networking on how we form relationships and the generational gulf between the Boomer emphasis on information/communication and the hunger for authentic relationships by emerging generations. I [...]

 

 Wired Jesus Podcast 50 - Facebooking Faith [17:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tags: Facebook, Gospel, Lutherans, twitter

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 [...]