The Big Story Powerpoint

A couple of weeks ago we took a break from Luke to talk about reading the Bible as a narrative and the importance of the "Big Story".  The talk from that week can be found here or through our itunes page.  I think I have figured out how to get you the powerpoint that goes with the talk.  Please download the file from this link and click along with the talk.  Happy Interactive Learning!

The Last Couple of Talks

First, I once again messed up the recording of the talk this week so I will have to re-record it by myself and post a 2nd rate version of it for those of you that are interested

Second, I cannot seem to upload the  power point presentation that accompanies "The Big Story" sermon.  So if you would like it just email me and I will send it to you. I could not get it to work with with  automatic transitions with the audio, nor could I put in the old school "DING" that we used to hear on our school slide shows, so I guess you will have to push the button yourself as you follow along.

If you have not heard this talk yet I would love if you would listen to it and see what you think.  Let me know if you want it...
Mike

The painting

Here is the controversial painting I referred to this past week.  I will be posting a recording of the teaching last week pretty soon.

Habitat for Humanity

Here is the info for helping out at the Habitat for Humanity House.

This weekend you can come and paint on Friday or Saturday (but not the weekend after Thanksgiving)

there is breakfast at 7am and will be there until the late afternoon

Here is a map from Court Street Methodist (click this link if you cant see it below)

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From last week

Here is a couple of link for you in lieu of our meetings the last couple weeks.

First here is a link to Myth of a Christian Nation which is the book I referred to when we talked about "The Idolatry of Kingdom Building" two weeks ago

Second we also referred to the Automatic Withdrawal Form that would allow you to set up your gifts to Ekklesia to automatically deduct from your checking account.  You can find giving info here or you can download the form by clicking this link

Thirdly I recently referred to the fact that we are trying to take a group to the National Pastor's Convention early next year.  Please begin considering your participation in this trip.  Here is the link to a website for more information and here is a downloadable  brochure  Download NPC08tri_mh_cms.pdf

Videos You Should Watch

Our friend Matt Christenot referred me to these teachings from Michael Frost's teachings at a conference from this past year.  Although I have not yet been able to read any of his books, it is pretty obvious to me he is a kindred spirit.  I think these talks (particularly the first one) really wrap up a lot of what we have talked about, particularly the first few weeks.  So take sometime and watch these if you can.

Habitat for Humanity

We mentioned this week that our brothers and sisters from Court Street Methodist have adopted a house that is being built by Habitat for Humanity.  Every Friday and Saturday for the next 6 weeks there will be workers building this house (in both half day and whole day shifts).  So if you can spare some time they could use our help!

The contact for this project is Jen Case ad her email is aktarheel@hotmail.com