Vision For Life

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Everyone who attempts to cultivate a daily relationship with God runs in to obstacles and frustrations - time, distractions and apathy, just to name a few. In part 2 of our series, Autumn and Hunter discuss some of these frustrations and how we can keep going even when the going gets slow.

Many Christians only experience their faith as things they have to believe or do or not do. But the point of the gospel is to lead us into fellowship with God. Are you experiencing God as personally present with you, in your everyday life? Autumn and Hunter begin a new series of conversations on how to cultivate a daily relationship with God, starting with 3 essential ingredients. Here is the reso...

Corporate Sunday structures can easily read like a grab bag of "church things." Some coffee, some songs, some Scripture, some classes, maybe communion. So do we, one expression of the big family of God, simply select the coffee, songs, Scripture, and curriculum that we jibe with and call that our "Sunday Worship Gathering?" Adam and Autumn continue their discussion about worship by examining the h...

What is worship? Is it singing and sitting through a church service on Sunday morning? Connecting with God through the beauty of nature? An ambiguous feeling or a way of thinking? Worship, in the biblical conception, is our response to a worthy Creator-God and to all the ways He loves us. Our heart orientation, what or who we worship, manifests itself in all of life. God demonstrates his transcend...

What simple, meaningful things can we do to live a “Beyond Me” life? Autumn and Hunter wrap up the Beyond Me conversation series by discussing 5 practical ideas for living a bigger story that aren’t complicated, aren’t always easy, and almost always draw ourselves and others closer to the Kingdom of God.

This week Michael and Autumn respond to this listener question: “So much of the Bible is in poetic form, how can I better understand it if I am not a 'poetry reader'?” Roughly one-third of the Bible is written in poetic form; therefore, some knowledge of poetic devices commonly utilized by biblical authors can enrich our interaction, as modern readers, with this ancient text. Poetic language in Sc...

"Freedom" is a value dearly held by Americans. We presume that the best kind of life is one in which we are free to choose, one in which we are "free" to author our own lives. And, while we would not identify "connection" as a value of equal weight, we all also long for meaningful connection. The biblical model of community encourages us to hold our "freedom" loosely. To ask not "What can I gain,"...

Adam and Erin Anglin join Autumn to take on the topic of marriage anecdotally, as Adam and Erin share their own experience dating, getting married, and growing through the joining of two lives into one new family unit. Our inclination as modern Americans is to see everything through the lens of individualism. In order to make sense out of our lives, we place ourselves into a kind of story. Inevita...

Autumn and Hunter discuss how the "Beyond Me" story gives meaning to unmarried life. In our culture, romantic love is often depicted as the key to becoming a complete "me." For some it's even a replacement religion. "You've GOT to get into a relationship," we're told. If you go to church, it's even worse, because now that relationship has to end in marriage for you to enjoy the full fruits of roma...

Justice questions are on the front burner of public discourse and debate. The Scriptures contain the most holistic view of justice found anywhere, one that has stood the test of time and transcended cultures. But as Christians, we have to do the hard work of learning it and living it out, and that's not easy when our culture's debates about justice are polarized. On this episode, Autumn and Hunter...

"Church," in Jesus' conception, indicated a gathering of people, living in proximity to one another, engaging in discussion, collaborating on behalf of a community, working out the teaching of Jesus in all walks of life. Jesus' church was comprised of people who had accepted the efficacy of his sacrifice in repentant faith. They were to demonstrate a unique sort of unity that pointed to the divers...

This episode is one of a series of conversations that have to do with living all of life within the bigger story of the Gospel. We're calling the Gospel the “Beyond Me Story.” This bigger story sits in contrast to the “Me Story," the highly individualistic story of the culture within which we live. The Me Story is characterized by a set of questions that everyone living within it asks. We ask thes...

This episode is one of a series of conversations that have to do with living all of life within the bigger story of the Gospel. We're calling the Gospel the “Beyond Me Story.” This bigger story sits in contrast to the “Me Story," the one handed to us at birth within which we all live. Today Clark shares his own story of "finding home." Not unlike many Colorado transplants, Clark and his wife moved...

This episode is one of a series of conversations that have to do with living all of life within the bigger story of the Gospel. We're calling this big Gospel story the “Beyond Me Story.” This story sits in contrast to the “Me Story," the one handed to us at birth within which we all live. One of the innate longings all people experience has to do with place. Most people want a place to belong, a p...

You are and I are born into a story. The world and its story are old, and big, much bigger than any one of us. Yet we all instinctively tend to center ourselves in the narrative and write a version of the story called The Me Story. In the American cultural context this story develops via an experiment we call “finding ourselves.” We mix the ingredients of our lives in an attempt us to find and exp...

The doctrine of the authority of Scripture states that God's word stands above all earthly powers. Within God's governmental structure, God - the Living Word and the Written Word - hold positional authority. We are created, not Creator. We are stewards, not owners. Because many of us have experienced "authority" as a way to leverage power or to obtain a desired outcome, we may balk at the notion o...