Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast

The Culture of One: Messiah & the Commonwealth of Israel (Rabbi Mark Kinzer) :: May 05-06, 2007 :: Summary: The One and the Many: Unity and Diversity - I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Jumbo-Jet Forgiveness (#2): Delivers Us From Evil (Ken Wilson) :: April 21-22, 2007 :: Summary: The message of Jesus was for just such a cultural context. Forgiveness delivers us from evil. The death and rising of Jesus is like an epic hinge in history. God has entered human history and is nudging it from within. The death and rising of Jesus is orchestrated by God to forge and to powerfully affirm the path of forgiveness as the means by which we are delivered from evil. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Jumbo-Jet Forgiveness (#1): Defies Gravity (Ken Wilson) :: April 14-15, 2007 :: Summary: Forgiveness defies the gravity of our sense of fairness, the pain we suffer from the wrongs of other, our own guilt, shame and pride, the weight of history. Forgiveness is soul medicine. Luke 7:47. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Justice and the New Day (Ken Wilson) :: April 7-8, 2007 :: Summary: The entire biblical narrative could be understood as the search for a garden where all is well. ACT I: Genesis 2; ACT II: Ezekiel 47; ACT III: John 7; ACT IV: John 19-20; ACT V: Revelation 20-22. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Text Messaging: The Bible in Your Everyday (#3) - The Biblically Informed Imagination (Don Bromley) :: April 1-2, 2007. Summary: The world is both agonizingly beautiful and astonishingly ugly. Full of enormous joy and full of enormous pain. The question I want to ask is, how as Christians do we respond to this? How do we live as genuine, authentic human beings in the midst of all this ugliness, and this beauty? We need a biblically informed imagination to make sense of a world of beauty and distortion, and our place in it. http://www.annarborvineyard.org/

Text Messaging: The Bible in Your Everyday (#2) - The Role of the Bible in our Daily Relationship with God (Donnell Wyche) :: March 17-18, 2007. Summary: When we make space in our daily lives for the Bible we learn to embrace the Bible and God's words with genuine affection, we learn to lean on God's words for hope, help, and strength, and we learn to humble ourselves and stand in awe of God (Psalm 119; Psalm 19; Psalm 139).

Text Messaging: The Bible in Your Everyday (#1) - Making Space for a Text Messaging God :: March 10-11, 2007. Summary: Jesus brand spirituality has a Sacred Text because Jesus was formed by and interpreted and made his own contribution to Sacred Scripture.

Creation Care (#3): Climate Change (Ken Wilson) :: March 3-4, 2007.

Creation Care (#2): Understanding the Human Footprint on Planet Earth in Biblical Perspective (Ken Wilson) :: February 24-25, 2007. Summary: In a nutshell: We humans are a mixed blessings: we've had a negative impact on the world around us, but by the saving grace of God we can become part of the solution and find our rightful place in creation. Biblical understanding of human footprint on the creation is dynamic tension between pitfall & promise; unvarnished truth and hope.

Creation Care (#1): Our Stewardship of Creation (Ken Wilson) :: February 17-18-11, 2007 :: Summary: (Psalm 104) The Soul of Creation Care is a mystical awareness of creation that leads to understanding we're a part and not the whole and God cares for it all.