Okay, I think most of us have our favorite Podcasts. I'm not talking (well, not necessarily) about the funny ones. These are the Podcasts we're grateful for, enriched by, and are driven to share with the world.

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I know some of you guys are in ministry to the "emerging" generation. My initial question is this. Do you consider yourselves as an emergent ministry or more of a ministry to emergents? In other words, are you more of a church that has a facet of ministry dedicated to that group, or is the whole of your church's ministry geared to minister to that group? If you are the former, what problems or difficulties has that created for you. If you are the latter, was that an intentional philosophy choice "in spite of" or "because of" your immediate cultural enviroment?

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Great new book with vital info:

Renaissance Generation
(The rise of the cultural consumer-and what it means to your business)
by Patricia Martin

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So we just finished an incredible series entitled "Miracles", and my team and i were brainstorming as to how we could knock home that the same God who does these miracles is still pursuing them.

We came to the conclusion of an intercative and reflective communion service, where we constructed one table for each miracle spoken about (6 in all) they were scattered throughout the auditorium, and were designed with imagry, a few icons, and origianl art, we added paper an pen.

The idea was if someone needed the God who heals lepers to show up in the same way for them, that they would write their prayers or needs on a peice of paper and ask him to show of for them.

I was blow away to the response of each station, and how beautiful the communion moment was when we celebrated the greatest miracle together...

if any one has thoughts, comments, snide remarks... i would love to hear.

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This essay by Philip Yancey is awesome.
Here is the link:
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1300
Here are the first two paragraphs:
f someone were to tell me that it lay in my power to write a novel explaining every social question from a particular viewpoint that I believed to be the correct one, I still wouldn’t spend two hours on it. But if I were told that what I am writing will be read in twenty years time by the children of today, and that those children will laugh, weep, and learn to love life as they read, why then I would devote the whole of my life and energy to it.

The man who wrote those words, Leo Tolstoy, vacillated continually between art and propaganda. People are still laughing, weeping and learning to love life as they read his books, but others are also reflecting on, arguing with and reacting to his particular viewpoint on social, moral and religious questions. Although in this statement Tolstoy claims to come down firmly on the side of art, veins of “propaganda” run throughout his novels, inspiring some readers and infuriating others. In nonfiction works like What Is Art? the great novelist leans toward propaganda -- even, as some conclude, at the expense of true art.

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This essay by Mako inspires me to see beauty in the mess of life...

http://www.makotofujimura.com

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I blogged about this excerpt from Dana Gioia today...this is generational work that we MUST face as artists!

http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110010352

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I placed a few photos in the Aesthetic Gallery. The first is a view of a Theological Plotline I painted last week comparing and contrasting OT and NT images. People signed the wall in chalk pen to mark where God is meeting them. There is a color palette we created by color photocopying paint swatches and using Mod Podge to attach them to 4x8 sheets of foam core which we hung all over the auditorium. There is a photo of the Last Supper we created by making "disciples" bodies out of lumber and foam and making their "heads" out of mac computers that all ran 30 second loops of the disciples' martyrdom stories--for people to listen to on headphones while taking communion. There is a photo of a prayer/communion wall from two weeks ago constructed with mirrors and hanging plastic chargers for the communion elements. There is also a picture of some faux trees we created by stuffing dead branches into metal towers and uplighting them. Every one of these aesthetic pieces cost under $200. What have you done recently? Share the wealth!

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Erwin McManus has a "Rob Bell'esque" but different short teaching video series called crave that is like a short movie with teaching.

Find out more at: www.soulcravings.com

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Mike Lewis "The Jesus Painter" has a beautiful series of 4-5 minute videos featuring a live multi-camera film shoot as he paints in Times Square. You can have audio with scripture or turn audio off and use.

www.jesuspainter.com

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