To Be Radical in Radical Times
Belonging House Fellowship
Luke 9:58 Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has no where to lay his head. Luke 9:23 If any man would come after me, let him take up his cross daily, and follow me. --- Today we are going to end this talk with a few prayers. First, I want to break off of you any ways people have made false declarations over you. Some of you have aligned your hearts with these lies and so we may have to renounce them as well. There are many artists who listen to my teaching who have been cursed by their churches. So we are going to break that off. There are many of you who feel...
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How to Receive Holy Communion
Belonging House Fellowship
This day we remember the Body and Blood. The Body was offered, it was blessed and dedicated, it was broken, and it was give to us. As a young person in the Episcopal church I was taught a deceptively simple rhyme crafted by Queen Elizabeth I: Twas God the Word that spake it. He took the Bread and brake it. And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it. God the Word made flesh took bread, gave thanks and declared over it a new reality, and in the breaking of that bread, the reality was released to us, and we can receive it. ----- You can get the Belonging House...
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Lover, Beloved, and Love
Belonging House Fellowship
The God of the Bible is the Most Relational Being in the Universe. Bishop Robert Barron, once talked about the uniqueness of the Christian God. God is Love. And then he paraphrased St. Augustine's Treatise on the Holy Trinity. The Father is the Lover. The Son is the Beloved. And the Holy Spirit is the bond of Love between them. The Father is the Lover. The Son is the Beloved. And the Holy Spirit is the bond of Love between them. And Jesus says this in this Gospel. Everything I have is from the Father. The Father gives it to me. And the Holy Spirit is going to give it...
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The Holy Spirit is the Solution.
Belonging House Fellowship
Genesis 11:1-9 Exodus 19:3-8, 16-20 Joel 2: 28-32 Acts 2:1-11 John 20:19-23 If you aren't paying attention, Pentecost seems to be the most random event in history. A group of people praying in a room in Jerusalem suddenly see fire on their heads and they begin to speak in various languages. And many people and churches do not understand why Pentecost is important and they call it the birthday of the church. And for people who believe that the Holy Spirit withdrew a generation later, they try to downplay this event and look at it as an anomaly. This is why...
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Why Did Jesus Ascend into Heaven?
Belonging House Fellowship
Simon Sinek once said that great leaders lead from their "why." I once worked for an art company that gave the staff random directions but never told us what we were doing or why we were doing it. And I recall the directions were always in bits, one task at a time. It was very frustrating, and the end goal always suffered because the staff did not know why they were doing it. Eventually I quit. A lot of people think God is like this. That everything is on a need to know basis, and that we are given directions to obey. And if you miss it, well it sucks to be you. Back to being an unhappy...
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The Holy Spirit Manifests
Belonging House Fellowship
The Father Speaks. The Son does, the Holy Spirit manifests. And so the Father calls a new creation. He sends his Son. And what does the Son do? The son only does what He sees the Father doing. The Father initiates, and the Son administrates. The Son carries out the word of the Father. And so the Son becomes sin for us. The son empties himself and becomes a servant. The Son becomes the word made flesh. The son conquers death and rises from the dead. But these things are limited by the physical reality that Jesus is one person. The Father has spoken, the Son has done his...
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You are Character in God's Story
Belonging House Fellowship
This week we share a long form conversation with a member of the Belonging House Community, LaChé Heron. You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com Christ John Otto writes at https://christjohnotto.substack.com You can support us at https://www.zeffy.com/donation-form/raise-up-an-army-of-artists You can view Belonging House Books here:
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The Lamb Will Be Your Shepherd.
Belonging House Fellowship
You are not a sinner. Sin is not what defines you. Sin is nothing more than static on your new identity, because Holies do not live in sin. And as you hear the Shepherds voice, and you present your body to the Shepherd, you are more and more transformed into the real you. Jesus tells you who you are. Jesus reminds you of his love. Jesus encourages you to become more and more your true identity in Christ. And everything that sticks to you, with the static cling of sin, will fall away. You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com Christ John Otto writes at...
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Heaven is in You.
Belonging House Fellowship
Revelation This Kingdom is not one of outward appearances, but a kingdom of internal realities. As Jesus said, his body was the temple, and it would be destroyed, and on the third day it would be raised up. On the cross the veil of his temple was torn, his heart was pierced, and out of that temple of his body flowed blood and water. That water, was the Holy Spirit. To be a Christian is to be a little Christ, a temple of the Holy Spirit. You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com Christ John Otto writes at https://christjohnotto.substack.com...
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Receive the Holy Spirit
Belonging House Fellowship
Jesus Christ did not come to start a religion, but rather, he came to establish his Kingdom. And on this eighth day of Easter, we look at the second half of John 20, and what Jesus did first after his victory over death. He gave the ability to forgive sin in the power of the Holy Spirit. You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com Christ John Otto writes at https://christjohnotto.substack.com You can support us at buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto You can view Belonging House Books here:
info_outlineMatthew 2:1-10
This isn't about stars and kings
and Christmas gifts.
This is about the Kingdom of God,
and
Matthew is showing us
that outsiders,
pagans,
who are paying attention,
recognize that the Kingdom of God
is being manifested on earth,
and those who are supposed to know
miss it.
He is pointing out what Jesus would say later on:
beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod.
Politics is not the Kingdom,
and neither is religion.
The Kingdom is about food.
It is about being fed by the good Shepherd,
and he is bringing bread for the life of the world.
He is bread
for the life of the world.
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