Netarts Friends Church Podcast

We all need do-overs. We mess our life up. We mess other people's lives up. We struggle to recognize what parts we are responsible for and what parts other people are responsible for. We want God's help, but we aren't ready to face ourselves. We blame God. We blame others. We try to deflect. How can we even get clear on where we went wrong? We need the gift of a do-over, even before we have our life all sorted out. Where is God in the middle of messes like this? Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces: Terrence Fretheim, Scott Peck, John Walton, Victor Matthews, Mark Chavalas, Erica Brown, Phyllis Trible, Jacques Ellul, and Uriel Simon.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(6/18/22)

Have you ever found yourself weathering a storm of someone else's making? Suddenly the impact of their choices is affecting your time, finances, home, relationships, workplace, safety, or life? Sometimes the way they involve you in their situation leaves you with lose/lose decisions. They put you into a double bind. You are left making excruciating and complex decisions. After it all goes down you are left with haunting memories and regrets. You feel complicit in their self-destruction, and it all feels so empty and final. Where is God underneath it all? Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces: Julie Green, Brian McLaren, Terrence Fretheim, John Walton, Victor Matthews, Mark Chavalas, Erica Brown, Phyllis Trible, Jacques Ellul, Chris Green, and Uriel Simon.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(6/12/22)

Your cover story includes some of the basic facts of your experience, but rarely does it tell the complete truth about your experiences and how they affected you. Words sometimes fail when the world no longer makes sense, when meaning collapses, when it feels like God might be on the side of your oppressors. This is why we need more than to "know" that God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in love. We need to "feel" this. Especially those who have been impacted by traumatic events need more than words. Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces: Bessel Van Der Kolk, M. Scott Peck, Elizabeth Boase, Sarah Agnew, Carl Jung, Oliver Cooper, Steve Cuss, Bernard Ott, Terrence Fretheim, Jacques Ellul, John Goldingay, Pete Enns, Erica Brown, Uriel Simon, John Walton, Victor Matthews, Mark Chavalas, Eugene Peterson, D. Stuart, Phyliss Trible, Irene Nowell, Edward Davis, and James Limburg.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(5/21/22)

Have you ever felt that feeling down deep in your gut? A palpable truth. Reality. A feeling. A thought. An image. You know God is telling you something. It is comforting and full of empathy; and it is challenging, eye-opening, and scary. You want to run away, argue it away, sleep it away. But still, it is there, coming after you. Possibly swallowing you up. How do you determine what to do next? How do you sort out your own motives and anxieties? Credits, Sources, Bits, and Pieces:Terrence Fretheim, Jacques Ellul, John Goldingay, Pete Enns, Erica Brown, Uriel Simon, John Walton, Victor Matthews, Terry Brensinger, St. Bonaventure, Mark Chavalas, Eugene Peterson, D. Stuart, Phyliss Trible, Irene Nowell, Edward Davis, Brian Ross, John Gardner, Leonard Sweet and James Limburg.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(5/8/22)

The story of Jonah and the whale is fraught with questions of history, biology, archeology, and botany, etc. Some people avoid the questions, some people do mental gymnastics with the questions, and some people deconstruct their faith with the questions. All of these questions center around one big question: "DID THAT HAPPEN?" Is this the question that matters the most when it comes to the book of Jonah? Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces: Terrence Fretheim, Jacques Ellul, John Goldingay, Pete Enns, Erica Brown, Uriel Simon, John Walton, Victor Matthews, Terry Brensinger, Mark Chavalas, Eugene Peterson, D. Stuart. Phyliss Trible, Irene Nowell, Edward Davis, and James Limburg.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(5/1/22)

Life is full of situations where we get mixed up with people who may seem irritating, gross, lonely, or dirty. It's easy to think that "they" are the people who need to get their life together, and to think that "we" are the ones offering the help (if we can stomach it). Alternatively, we may simply try to get as far away as possible from these types of people ASAP. But what if underneath these types of situations God is doing something completely different, and potentially life changing? Here's a fascinating story from the book of Acts that may help you take a second look at what's going on in your own life. Credits, Sources, Bits & Pieces: Craig Keener, Willie James Jennings, Scott T. Carroll, Edwin Yamauchi, Marvin Wilson. For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(4/23/22)

History is full of hundreds of millions of people who were born into cultures and religions who never heard the name of Jesus. They were left to patch together their way of life from their parents, their village, their culture, the religion and politics of their people, and the technology of their day. These days many who have heard the name of Jesus associate that name with something ugly rather than the self-sacrificing, other-oriented, enemy-loving way of Jesus. What is the ultimate plight of those people? What was Jesus doing on the day that his body lay rotting in the grave and what difference does it make to Easter? This is a meditation on the day known as Holy Saturday. The phrase, "He is risen!" takes on worlds more meaning as you explore the depths from which Jesus rose. Scripture References: Genesis 6:2; Genesis 3:6; Genesis 6:12; Mark 3:27; 1 Peter 3:18-20; 1 Peter 4:6; Acts 2:25-27; Ephesians 4:8-10; Colossians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 15:24-25; Luke 23:43; Matthew 27:51-52; Revelation 1:18; Luke 4: 18-19. Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Thomas Oden, Leonard Sweet, Matthew Lynch, Book of Common Prayer, Justo Gonzalez, Peter Beaumont, Brad Jersak, Matthew Emerson, Richard Murray, Nathan Jacobs, Scot McKnight, Nijay Gupta, A.J. Swoboda, Brian Zahnd.  For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(4/17/22)

Life is hard in different ways than we anticipate. The things that actually trip us up often come out of left field. They are things we were looking right past or didn't see coming. Rarely it is one thing, it's a deadly cocktail of events that come together and somehow, we end up saying or doing things that we never planned on. We look back on it all and say, "Well, I certainly didn't see that coming." We carry the weight of our words and actions that feel heavy, dark, and shameful. There is something cathartic about hearing the words, "You are forgiven." while receiving the symbol of that forgiveness. We need it more than we can say. Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces: Miroslav Volf, David DeSilva, Bruce Malina, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Moises Silva, Frederick Dale Bruner, Ian Cron, Steve Cuss, A.D. Clarke, David Garland, Lewis Smedes.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(4/10/22)

Have you ever felt like you had so much going on, or so many limitations that you couldn't even bear your own burdens, much less help someone else out? Does that make you useless in the kingdom of God, or is there another way of looking at it? For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(3/13/22)

Most people I know aren't very good at personal evangelism. In addition, they've seen evangelism done in some really ugly ways. Put it all together and there are lots of Christians who steer clear of evangelism and even more non-Christians who steer clear of evangelists. But what if there are other ways to think about evangelism? Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Rodney Stark, Max Weber, Brian Ross, Charles Taylor, Gary Habermas, M. Foucault.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(3/6/22)

J.R. Briggs tells the story of canoeing around a lake and noticing that none of the docks even reached the water's edge. The water levels had changed. Sometimes the body of Christ is far too much like those old docks, rigid and not meeting anyone where they are. What does it mean to be the body of Christ in the changing water levels of today's culture? Sources:J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt For more information or to support this podcast visit Netarts Friends Church(2/27/22)

We live in a world that is NOT organized around sharing resources. Our world is organized around ownership, consumerism, and individualism. Asking one another for help creates all kinds of feelings of insecurity. In this episode you'll hear about how we are going about becoming a community that actually shares our resources with one another regularly.

Bad habits, addictions, cravings, impulses, and urges. We've all been told to just "STOP IT" a million times. We've probably told ourselves the same thing. But self-control turns out to be much more complex than just "STOP IT!" Credits, Sources, Bits, and Pieces: Moises Silva, Gordon Fee, Philip Kenneson, Peter Robinson, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Richard Schwartz, Thomas Meron, Judith Wright, Bianca Bagnarelli, Brian Resnick, Wilhelm Hofmann, Roy Baumeister, Georg Forster, Kathleen Vohs, Marina Milyavskaya, Michael Inzlicht, and Jim Baker.Video Credits to: Mad TV, Bob Newhart, Mo Collins, Bob Newhart-Stop It - YouTubeFor more information or to support this podcast visit Netarts Friends Church(2/6/22)

Is gentleness a personality trait? What is the relationship between what we believe about power, and our gentleness? We live in a world that is increasingly aggressive online. How does this affect us? What does creating space in our life have to do with gentleness? Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces: Andy Mort, D.S. Dockery, Moises Silva, Philip Kenneson, Scot McKnight, Frederick Dale Bruner, Richard Rohr, Judy Paulsen, Tim Geddert, Don Riso, and Russ Hudson.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(1/23/22)

Have you ever just wanted out? You're there, going through the motions, but you just want out. What happens inside of you? You begin to disengage, turn off, shut down. You begin to imagine a life somewhere else, with anyone else. Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Philip D. Kenneson, Nijay Gupta, Moises Silva, Leon Morris, Matthew Bates, N.T. Wright, Steve Cuss, Justo Gonzalez, Edwin H. Friedman, Brian Ross, Eugene Peterson, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, & Ephraim Radner.For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(1/16/22)

God became flesh and took up residence among us. Do we fully grasp what it means that God became human, and will always be human? Sources, Credits, Bits & Pieces:Brad JersakKenneth TannerThomas Oden Bruxy CaveyJusto GozalezC. Norman KrausTim GeddertBrian ZahndFor more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(1/9/22)

We all imagine a good world, a better world. But is the world getting any better? Or is it simply getting better in some ways, and worse in other ways? Everyone is imagining a different version of what a good world looks like, and we all go in a million different directions.This is Part 7 in our "Fruit of the Spirit" series. Galatians 5:13-25Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Philip KennesonMoises SilvaScot McKnightBrian ZahndBruxy CaveyBruce WinterJames D. G. DunnGordon FeeJohn M. G. BarclayMandy SmithAmerican Psychological AssociationMusic:Tyler Chester & Michael GungorFor more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(12/19/21)

Imagine that someone with deep faith, an atheist, and a secular friend all answer this question. How are their answers similar? How are their answers different? Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Rodney StarkLeonard SweetMoises Silva Philip KennesonGordon FeeChristopher WrightBruxy CaveyJosiah HakenBrian McLarenBarna GroupJusto GonzalezFor more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(12/12/21)

Your triggers are rarely all that's going on. Underneath anger, there are always more vulnerable emotions. We feel powerless, disregarded, unimportant, devalued, rejected, afraid, accused, unlovable, disconnected, or abandoned. Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:David RoseHoward KassinoveAdam Pearson The American Psychological Association.Steve CarterMoises Silva James G. Dunn Gordon FeeJoseph ManginaChristopher WrightTerrence FretheimFor more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(12/5/21)

According to Jesus, there are two different versions of peace. There’s a peace that Jesus gives us, and a peace the world offers us. We all want peace…and we live a world ripe with unrest, anxiety, conflict, estranged families, broken relationships, bloodshed, and war. So, which peace is which? How do we sort out the difference between the peace the world offers us, and the peace that we receive from simply being in God, and God in us?Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Bruxy CaveyDavid B. RoseHelmine BiglerBessel Van Der Kolk, MDRichard BeckS.E. PorterBernard OttPhilip Kenneson James DunnGreg BoydFor more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(11/28/21)

Everyone wants to live a life of joy, but not nearly as many people are living a life of deepjoy. Joy is elusive. It’s slippery. It’s hard to hold on to.Credits, Sources, Bits, & Pieces:Kira M. NewmanAlexandra SifferlinEdwin FriedmanThomas OdenPhilip D. KennesonSteve CussGreg BoydSteve SussmanVern HyndmanScott PeckC.S. LewisDavid RoseJames D.G. DunnParker PalmerStatista.comA. Guttmann  For more information or to support this podcast visit www.netartsfriends.org(11/21/21)

Do you ever have too many competing desires? You aren't sure what you want. You don't have clarity and so you try to get everything you want, but your desires are incompatible and so you end up not getting anything you want? This is our introduction to our Fruit of the Spirit series. Galatians 5:13-25Credits, Sources, Bits & Pieces: Lauren MillerGretchen RubinAdam GrantDenis HillJames D. G. DunnPhillip KennesonChristopher WrightJohn M. G. BarclayMark BakerDallas WillardGordon FeeBruxy CaveyGreg BoydBruce WorthingtonM. Robert Mullholland Jr. Music: Michael Gungor & Tyler Chester(11/7/21)

There’s a love that is holding this entire universe together, sustaining all of creation, and that same love is inside of you. It’s inside of your wiring, your fabric. God in you and you in God.  Sources, Credits, Bits, & Pieces:Philip KennesonJames D. G. DunnGordon FeeChristopher WrightGreg BoydPaul MillerDebra HirshRichard BeckDallas Willard M. RobertMulholland Jr.(11/14/21)