Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast

Conspiracy of Kindness (#1): Introducing the Father's Love :: Donnell Wyche :: July 22, 2007 :: http://www.annarborvineyard.org/ Kindness outreach, or servant evangelism is a way of demonstrating God’s love for people by introducing them to the Father’s love through simple (and sometimes practical) acts of kindness. These simple acts of kindness open the door for people to receive the love of a ca...

The Art of Being Yourself #5: Loving Yourself and Living for Others :: Don Bromley :: July 7-8, 2007 :: http://www.annarborvineyard.org/ Jesus is talking with his friends, his students, and two of them have been saying they want to sit on his right and on his left when he becomes King, because they want to be in great glory with him.

The Art of Being Yourself: The Disparity Between the Self You See and the One You are Becoming :: Ken Wilson :: June 30 - July 01, 2007 :: http://www.annarborvineyard.org/ The Art of Being Yourself + not settling for the lowest common denominator you + a quest, involving struggle + occurs in the dynamic tension between hope and disappointment HYPOCRITE: The one thing no one wants to be Matthew 23:...

The Art of Being Yourself: The Paradoxical Path to the True Self :: Ken Wilson :: June 23-24 2007 :: http://www.annarborvineyard.org/ A Brief Philosophical Rabbit Trail: The Modern Debate About the Self's Existence From the earliest encounter with Jesus, the earliest disciples understood that in finding him, they were finding their truest self. If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himse...

The Art of Being Yourself: Mirror, Mirror :: Ken Wilson :: June 16-17, 2007 :: http://www.annarborvineyard.org/. We have to look outside ourselves to see ourselves, literally. It is physically impossible to see our own face directly. We need a mirror. John 1; Luke 5.

The Art of Being Yourself: The Mystery of the Self :: Ken Wilson :: June 09-10, 2007 :: http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

To Be Loved Is To Be Known :: Nancy Wilson :: June 02-03, 2007 :: John 4. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Merchant of Hope (#3): Kingdom Hope :: Don Bromley :: May 26-27, 2007 :: Matthew 13; Hebrews 6:19. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Merchant of Hope (#2): The Anchoring Dream :: Ken Wilson :: May 19-20, 2007 :: Hebrews 6:18-20. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Merchant of Hope (#1): An Orientation to Hope (Ken Wilson) :: May 12-13, 2007 :: Summary: Unlike other creatures, we humans cannot function well without hope. Hope is not an abstraction to us, even less a luxury. It's a necessity. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

The Culture of One: Messiah & the Commonwealth of Israel (Rabbi Mark Kinzer) :: May 05-06, 2007 :: Summary: The One and the Many: Unity and Diversity - I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the S...

Jumbo-Jet Forgiveness (#2): Delivers Us From Evil (Ken Wilson) :: April 21-22, 2007 :: Summary: The message of Jesus was for just such a cultural context. Forgiveness delivers us from evil. The death and rising of Jesus is like an epic hinge in history. God has entered human history and is nudging it from within. The death and rising of Jesus is orchestrated by God to forge and to powerfully affir...

Jumbo-Jet Forgiveness (#1): Defies Gravity (Ken Wilson) :: April 14-15, 2007 :: Summary: Forgiveness defies the gravity of our sense of fairness, the pain we suffer from the wrongs of other, our own guilt, shame and pride, the weight of history. Forgiveness is soul medicine. Luke 7:47. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Justice and the New Day (Ken Wilson) :: April 7-8, 2007 :: Summary: The entire biblical narrative could be understood as the search for a garden where all is well. ACT I: Genesis 2; ACT II: Ezekiel 47; ACT III: John 7; ACT IV: John 19-20; ACT V: Revelation 20-22. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Text Messaging: The Bible in Your Everyday (#3) - The Biblically Informed Imagination (Don Bromley) :: April 1-2, 2007. Summary: The world is both agonizingly beautiful and astonishingly ugly. Full of enormous joy and full of enormous pain. The question I want to ask is, how as Christians do we respond to this? How do we live as genuine, authentic human beings in the midst of all this ugliness, an...

Text Messaging: The Bible in Your Everyday (#2) - The Role of the Bible in our Daily Relationship with God (Donnell Wyche) :: March 17-18, 2007. Summary: When we make space in our daily lives for the Bible we learn to embrace the Bible and God's words with genuine affection, we learn to lean on God's words for hope, help, and strength, and we learn to humble ourselves and stand in awe of God (Psal...

Text Messaging: The Bible in Your Everyday (#1) - Making Space for a Text Messaging God :: March 10-11, 2007. Summary: Jesus brand spirituality has a Sacred Text because Jesus was formed by and interpreted and made his own contribution to Sacred Scripture.

Creation Care (#3): Climate Change (Ken Wilson) :: March 3-4, 2007.

Creation Care (#2): Understanding the Human Footprint on Planet Earth in Biblical Perspective (Ken Wilson) :: February 24-25, 2007. Summary: In a nutshell: We humans are a mixed blessings: we've had a negative impact on the world around us, but by the saving grace of God we can become part of the solution and find our rightful place in creation. Biblical understanding of human footprint on the cre...

Creation Care (#1): Our Stewardship of Creation (Ken Wilson) :: February 17-18-11, 2007 :: Summary: (Psalm 104) The Soul of Creation Care is a mystical awareness of creation that leads to understanding we're a part and not the whole and God cares for it all.

Permission to Speak Freely (#6): The Art of Asking (Donnell Wyche) :: February 10-11, 2007. Summary: (Matthew 7:7-11; Psalm 27) We receive permission to speak freely in the secret chambers of prayer; there we learn to grant others the same permission; thus we become a community that learns to "speak the truth in love" and brings that freedom into the world. The art of asking includes the process o...

Permission to Speak Freely (#5): Being Honest with Ourselves (Don Bromley) :: February 3-4, 2007. Summary: In order to speak the truth in love to others, we must first get honest with ourselves.

Permission to Speak Freely (#4): To the Powers (Ken Wilson) :: January 27-28 2007. Summary: Through the Spirit, Peter was given permission and power to speak freely in face of great spiritual, religious, political & military intimidation. Biblical language for these intimidating powers is "the powers & principalities." References to powers & principalities: Eph. 6:12; Ro. 8: 38-39; Col. 2: 15

Permission to Speak Freely (#3): Creating Space for Love to Grow (Nancy Wilson) :: January 20-21, 2007. Summary: We receive permission to speak freely in the secret chambers of prayer; there we learn to grant others the same permission; thus we are to become a community that together learns to "speak the truth in love" and brings that freedom into the world. "Instead, speaking the truth in love, w...

Permission to Speak Freely: The Art of Listening (Ken Wilson) :: January 13-14 2007. Summary: We receive permission to speak freely in the secret chambers of prayer; there we learn to grant others the same permission; thus we become a community that learns to "speak the truth in love" and brings that freedom into the world. Because fellow humans bear the image of God, we progress on the learning c...