A Counter-Formational Political Practice: Breath Prayer
Release Date: 09/16/2024
Walking in the Resurrection: The Ascension of Jesus
The Practice Church Podcast
Jesus’s resurrection from the dead that first Easter morning changed everything. He began his ministry by announcing the arrival of the kingdom of God, and in his death and resurrection he defeated the powers of sin. Yet, we still live in a world consumed by darkness. We suffer, we grieve, we lose hope. The kingdom of God is a present reality for us now, but not all of God’s promises have been fulfilled. We live in the tension of the “already, but not yet.” In this series, we will be exploring the time between Jesus’s resurrection and Pentecost, in some traditions called Eastertide....
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Walking in the Resurrection: The Great Commission and Our Kingdom Lives
The Practice Church Podcast
Jesus’s resurrection from the dead that first Easter morning changed everything. He began his ministry by announcing the arrival of the kingdom of God, and in his death and resurrection he defeated the powers of sin. Yet, we still live in a world consumed by darkness. We suffer, we grieve, we lose hope. The kingdom of God is a present reality for us now, but not all of God’s promises have been fulfilled. We live in the tension of the “already, but not yet.” In this series, we will be exploring the time between Jesus’s resurrection and Pentecost, in some traditions called Eastertide....
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Walking in the Resurrection: Peter and Our Failures
The Practice Church Podcast
Jesus’s resurrection from the dead that first Easter morning changed everything. He began his ministry by announcing the arrival of the kingdom of God, and in his death and resurrection he defeated the powers of sin. Yet, we still live in a world consumed by darkness. We suffer, we grieve, we lose hope. The kingdom of God is a present reality for us now, but not all of God’s promises have been fulfilled. We live in the tension of the “already, but not yet.” In this series, we will be exploring the time between Jesus’s resurrection and Pentecost, in some traditions called Eastertide....
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Walking in the Resurrection: Recognizing Jesus on the Emmaus Road
The Practice Church Podcast
Jesus’s resurrection from the dead that first Easter morning changed everything. He began his ministry by announcing the arrival of the kingdom of God, and in his death and resurrection he defeated the powers of sin. Yet, we still live in a world consumed by darkness. We suffer, we grieve, we lose hope. The kingdom of God is a present reality for us now, but not all of God’s promises have been fulfilled. We live in the tension of the “already, but not yet.” In this series, we will be exploring the time between Jesus’s resurrection and Pentecost, in some traditions called Eastertide....
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Walking in the Resurrection: Thomas and Our Doubts
The Practice Church Podcast
Jesus’s resurrection from the dead that first Easter morning changed everything. He began his ministry by announcing the arrival of the kingdom of God, and in his death and resurrection he defeated the powers of sin. Yet, we still live in a world consumed by darkness. We suffer, we grieve, we lose hope. The kingdom of God is a present reality for us now, but not all of God’s promises have been fulfilled. We live in the tension of the “already, but not yet.” In this series, we will be exploring the time between Jesus’s resurrection and Pentecost, in some traditions called Eastertide....
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Easter Sunday
The Practice Church Podcast
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! This week we remember and celebrate Christ’s victory over death when he rose from the tomb that first Easter morning. This week, Jason led us through the story of Mary Magdalen at the tomb, encountering the risen Jesus. Mary, initially, does not recognize him because she had a limited picture of Jesus as the Messiah. Jason invited us to consider, what gets in our way of recognizing Jesus in our own lives? When we encounter grief, pain, loss, unfulfilled expectations or when our days simply feel like we are “living on the verge of...
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Defaults: Examining our Pictures of God
The Practice Church Podcast
C.S. Lewis once said that our ideas about God are not “divine ideas.” As much as we’d like to believe that our views of God are always biblical, we all bring assumptions and default beliefs to the table through our lived experience. Our culture, relationships, childhood hurts, and even our churches can all wrongly influence and shape our beliefs about who God is – often without us even realizing it. Rather than following the one, true God, we end up worshiping a God shaped by our own experiences. In this series, we’ll examine some common default views of God many of us...
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Defaults: Examining Our Pictures of God
The Practice Church Podcast
C.S. Lewis once said that our ideas about God are not “divine ideas.” As much as we’d like to believe that our views of God are always biblical, we all bring assumptions and default beliefs to the table through our lived experience. Our culture, relationships, childhood hurts, and even our churches can all wrongly influence and shape our beliefs about who God is – often without us even realizing it. Rather than following the one, true God, we end up worshiping a God shaped by our own experiences. In this series, we’ll examine some common default views of God many of us...
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Defaults: Examining Our Pictures of God
The Practice Church Podcast
C.S. Lewis once said that our ideas about God are not “divine ideas.” As much as we’d like to believe that our views of God are always biblical, we all bring assumptions and default beliefs to the table through our lived experience. Our culture, relationships, childhood hurts, and even our churches can all wrongly influence and shape our beliefs about who God is – often without us even realizing it. Rather than following the one, true God, we end up worshiping a God shaped by our own experiences. In this series, we’ll examine some common default views of God many of us...
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Living the Liturgy: Confession
The Practice Church Podcast
The music, scripture, prayers, teaching, and practice of our liturgy tells a story about who we are and what we believe. Liturgy forms us, but it is not meant to stay within the walls of a Sunday service. The story we rehearse together is meant to be lived out in the ordinary moments of our lives. So, it is good to remember why we do what we do and consider if our liturgy is forming us to become more like Jesus. We are not called merely to rehearse the liturgy. We are called to live it. In this series, we will explore how the liturgy we practice together shapes us. We will take a closer look...
info_outlineThis guided practice is a part of our series The Liturgy of Politics. As we seek to untangle ourselves from the partisan liturgies of our culture, we are engaging counter-formational practices. In this practice, we respond to the partisan liturgy of fear with the practice of breath prayer. With Jesus, we pray the words, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done.” This prayer reminds us, in the words of Pastor Mike Lueken, even if the worst we can imagine happens in this election season, “Jesus is still king. The kingdom is still real, and all shall be well.” And it reminds us that we are invited to join the Holy Spirit in its redemptive kingdom work.