The Way of Jesus

The Lamp: Walking in Daily Trust

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Episode 7 wraps up our series on God's Authority, Truth, and Scripture.  This is really the start, the middle and the end goal of being shaped by the Bible.  God wants to be with us and teach us.  The question is will I trust him.

Attention to Detail: Lights, Camera, Action

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Episode 6 is our bonus episode in this series and was a treat for the hard core memorial day crowd.  If geneology in the scriptures has been the boring part you usually skip over, then this teaching is for you.  For me, it turned a meaningless list of hard to pronounce names into an amazing invitation of trust.

Directors Cut: Canon or Code

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Episode 5 of Lights, Camera, Action provides the major talking points around the New Testament and the Da vinci Code.  I am grateful to Dr. Michael Holmes at Bethel University for sharing a lot of his expertise on early christian documents and the gnostic writings aluded too so much throughout Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.  Click on this link to download the handout that accompanied this teaching:  Da Vinci Handout.doc.

The Cast: Lights, Camera, Action

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There is so much more to be said and explored from this episode.  The amazing take away from this teaching is how much responsibility God entrusts his cast in fleshing out the story that he is forming.  Our glance at Acts 15 is quite a remarkable witness of the dynamic interaction between the Director (Holy Spirit) and the actors (disciples).  For those interested, Rob Bell has a good chapter on "binding and loosing" in his book Velvet Elvis.

The Movie: Lights, Camera, Action

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Picture a DVD menu screen.  We move to the Special Features.  We select "From Script to Screen:  the making of the Bible".  We then select "Story Boarding the Bible".  This is how we began the teaching.  Visualize the major movements of the biblical story in six chapters or acts 1. Creation, 2. Curse, 3. Covenant, 4. Cross, 5. Church, 6. Consummation.  N.T. Wright was very influential in helping me see this model.  Click on this link and read his article "How can the Bible be Authoritative?" or read his book "The Last Word".  Brian McLaren also uses a similar model in his book "The Story We Find Ourselves In".

The Sword: Lights, Camera, Action

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This episode definitely involved some heavy lifting and I am really proud of our church's ability to wade through these deep waters.  Thanks for being willing to work out!

The Word: Lights, Camera, Action

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We begin with Episode One in seeing scripture as God's epic film.  This was a very visual morning so if you are listening online...use your imagination as we walk through scriptures unveiling of the eternal word--Jesus, who is the beginning and maker of all things.  The summary take away for me is that when you watch the whole film of scripture you see that in Jesus God has created all things and in Jesus God has re-created all things.

There was a lot of great questions turned in that morning on the Bible.  It will be an interesting 6 weeks as we wrestle through our questions and the truth of God's Word.