FOUNDRYcast

Friendship gets complicated. It’s a fact of life. No matter at what stage of life we are in or where our friends actually live, friendship takes intentionality. The internet and social media complicate it even further. People often complain that Facebook, Instagram and other forms of social media hurt friendship. This week we are talking about how the boundaries of true friendship transcend how we...

We’ve all seen the post on Facebook. The normal reaction is “did they seriously just say/share that?” It happens all the time. Social media has radically changed the way we communicate. It has changed the way we live our whole life (Mashable shares 5 ways right here ). While preparing for our #statusupdate series I asked folks about the behaviors they found frustrating on social media. Here is jus...

It's Easter at Foundry (and all over the world).  Chad shares from John 20:19-23, when the disciples encountered Jesus after he rose from the dead. In the conversation Jesus had with them that night, we can learn this lesson.  It is IMPOSSIBLE to encounter a risen LORD without responding and going.  Jesus offers peace, breathes on his followers (yeah..that's kinda weird) and finally sends them out...

There are some things that shouldn't be contained.  Chad shares about the vision of Foundry and the 4 assumptions of Jesus Foundry lives by.  1. Jesus is Here 2. Jesus is doing something 3. Jesus wants us to be part of what he is doing 4. Our greatest fulfillment in life will be found by participating in what Jesus is doing.  So we pull apart John 1:14 and talk about what glory is, what glory does...

Have you taken a #selfie before? They are pretty popular. So popular, the word selfie was the word of the year in 2013. But what is the motivation behind taking a selfie? The whole idea is pretty wild. When we put that camera in front of us (in JUST the right place), we are creating the perfect frame to share our life with everyone else...and let's be honest. We are all looking for a little valida...

Have you ever just wanted to be alone? I’m sure. It’s something we all go through. We need time to be my ourselves and in our thoughts. It’s restful and relaxing. But it isn’t a permanent state.  When we begin to isolate ourselves too much we get into situations we simply aren’t made for. There is no way we can isolate ourselves that is healthy. By isolating, we are divorcing ourselves from the la...

This is our second week in #bumpinthenight, a series on the reality of fear in our lives and our world. As we talked about the first week in our series, the matter of fear is a rather intense one and one that seems “to be all up in our business.” This week we will tackle the fear of the unknown. The unknown is something we all face, like let’s be honest do you really know what’s for dinner tonight...

The fear of failure can totally stop us in our tracks. It’s the beginning point for many issues that plague us personally and organizationally. This week, kicking off our Bump In The Night series, Chad shares about what a biblical view of fear looks like. It leads us to think of fear not as a single event, but as part of a spectrum emotions covering a wide range of human emotions. At it’s basic, f...

Chad and Allison sit down to begin a conversation about Fear and what the Bible says about fear.    We talk about What our silly fears are Allison starts quoting H.P. Lovecraft (what???!!!) Chad shares about the usage of fear and worship How fear isn’t self-dependent and it has to be part of a larger story How fear is the extent of anxiety and worship is the extent of hope.    Make sure to join us...

As Foundry leads up to our FIRST baptisms this Sunday, Chad and Allison sit down to have a conversation about baptism. In this conversation we talk about; What Baptism Is (and Isn't) What A Sacrament Is Why we have a BIG definition of baptism What it means to baptize infants AND adults How God is working in baptism. Why baptism is a community event.  For more information on baptism at Foundry, che...

So you are telling me folks put ashes on their forehead? On this episode of FOUNDRYcast, Chad and Allison sit down and have a conversation about the history of Ash Wednesday, what the practice means and how Foundry is celebrating this ancient holiday of the church.  For more information on our Ash Wednesday service, check out wearefoundry.com/ashwednesday

It is 2016, we a dependent on our devices. I heard someone the other day say “ how did anyone get anywhere before GPS?” But the thing about our electronic devices, our cell phones, our internet routers etc. is that they must be within range of the appropriate emitted signals in order to be of any use. To put it another way, while signals are being emitted all around us, they don’t do us any good u...

Waiting is part of the holiday season. Kids are waiting for Christmas vacation, gifts and seeing their family. Adults wait for some time off, travel and other parts of celebrating the season. The biggest question I remember asking as a kid during Christmas was "Are We There Yet?" This question is part of travel, waiting on the vacation to start and when Santa is coming.  This Sunday we looked at t...

What happens when we read the New Testament scripture that fulfills the Old Testament scripture before we read that Old Testament scripture itself? What happens when we realize that Advent comes before Christmas, but also after Christmas, since Advent rolls around every year. What happens when we start feeling the tension between longing and fulfillment – between “the now and the not-yet?”

Jesus comes into our world to bring about absolute change. He does this in three different ways and promised to do it thousands of years ago through the prophet Isaiah.  And...how Cousin Eddie teaches us this all.

What is waiting? As a kid we all waited for many different things. Advent, a historical celebration of the church, is a season all about waiting. Advent asks us to do three things and they are all wrapped up in time. 1. Reflect on the people who were waiting on Jesus to come. (the past) 2. Reflect on what Jesus is doing around us right now. (the present) 3. Prepare for the return of Jesus. (the fu...

So what is hope? There are some words that we use so often, in so many different ways that I think that they loose meaning all together. This week in spending time in chapter six of Hebrews I realized that one of those words is hope. I use it all the time in my everyday interactions: “Hope this email finds you well,” “I hope the weather is better tomorrow,” “ I hope she remembers to bring that pac...

When I was a kid we still had night church. I remember trying to skip church once I hit high school. One time Mom caught me and told me to get there right away. So I did. The only problem was I was wearing cut-off shorts and a Guns N Roses T-shirt. Let’s just say the night didn’t end well. Why does worship matter? Why do we worship? Those are big questions. And they make us ask even more questions...

So what do you think of character of God is like? As we have been talking about #DoOvers these last 6 weeks, we have focused on some of our mistakes and some of the second chances God has given us. We’ve talked about fun things, good things, crummy things and disastrous things. What do you think the attitude of Jesus is like when we get a #DoOver? In our own brokenness, I think we often think Jesu...

I remember the first time I heard the word. “You’ve got to be sanctified”…mumbled from a half-toothed caricature of a depression era southern child. It was just one of the many fast-paced scenes from the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou”. I never thought much about the word until I had experienced it myself. This week, we are looking at the #DoOver we find in the story of Peter. Peter was one of th...

Meetings. We have meetings every day. Some of them are serious and some of them are just for fun. When was the last time you walked into a meeting that was significantly more serious than you expected? It’s never fun getting blindsided. For me, it is usually not being aware of something pretty big to someone else. I am not aware of the whole picture. Jesus has a secret meeting one night with a rel...