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Renaissance Celebration Messages
by Renaissance
This podcast is an extension of Renaissance - we're a grassroots church movement in the Boston metro area empowering, equipping, and sustaining microchurch communities. Listen in here to the monthly Celebration gathering messages.
Episodes
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April 2025 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 6:1-4)
“This is why Jesus starts this section with the words 'be careful.' I think what he is actually saying here is to 'take stock of your why.' Why are you giving to others? Whether it is your time, or your money, or your presence, why does generosity matter to you? Are you doing it for the fame and...
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March 2025 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:43-48)
“Love [of our enemies] doesn’t seem to suggest approval or a lack of accountability, but it does seem to mean we have to move out of frameworks of winners and losers and create the kinds of conditions that could be for our enemy’s good.”Taylor Straatmann continued our three-year trek through the...
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February 2025 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:38-42)
“This teaching is not a call to passivity or inaction, a rejection of justice, an endorsement of abuse or oppression, about weakness or cowardice, or a legalistic rule, but instead a heart posture. This is about a call to rise above retaliation in Kingdom-minded love, grace, and wisdom." Dan Lee...
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January 2025 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:33-37)
“Among all the dimensions of the mature person in Christ, none comes closer to the character of our Lord than the daring to make a promise and the courage to keep the promises we make. When we make and keep a promise we are acting in the power that sets people free. If to be free in Christ is to…
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December 2024 - Advent
"What an opportunity we have during this season to sit in wonder and delight at what God has done and is still doing. The coming of Jesus is a fulfillment of a promise that the hungry will be fed, the hurting and suffering will find comfort and compassion, and justice will reign. The mighty...
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October 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:27-32)
"I learned this in my research. Ancient Israel didn't have a big problem with adultery, the physical act. And one of the things they loved about that is they hung that in pride saying, 'Look at us in comparison to our Roman counterparts. We are staying faithful.' Yet, that wasn't enough for...
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September 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:21-26)
“Reconciling might look like laying down the need to be right or proven right. It might mean being the first to apologize for something, even if the other person has done greater harm in your eyes. It might mean apologizing and not getting an apology in return. It might mean, if you’re unable to...
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August 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:17-20)
“In this, Jesus wants to subvert their whole idea of the law and righteousness in the first place. He wants to point them to a higher understanding of God’s intent for humanity...his intent for the law was never to create shame spiral communities where everyone can try to be better than each…
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May 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:6-8)
“We are a people in the process of being shaped and being formed by God in the Kingdom and for the Kingdom.” - Damaris Taylor This month, we continued our three-year trek through the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) in a series we’re calling “Kingdom Manifesto.” At this Celebration, we looked at...
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April 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:3-5)
"...we might say that why you do what you do, is more important than what you do. Jesus 'kingdom values' (or, 'beatitudes') turned the cultural values of his day (and ours) on their head. Jesus calls us to radically reorient our lives." We continue our three-year trek through the Sermon on the...
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March 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Introduction)
“As a network, we’ve been saying a lot that we want to become beautiful kingdom people...people rooted in Jesus’ claim on reality. I don’t know about you, but that feels hard. It’s so easy to say you want that until you’re confronted with some random hard thing on a regular Tuesday. Suddenly it...
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December 2023 - Advent
"God can only love perfectly. God can only love purely." At our final Celebration gathering of 2023, Renaissance stopped to worship and remember the season of advent. We heard from four members of our network as they shared on the four themes of advent - hope, peace, joy, and love.
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November 2023 - Sacred Stories
"It's not that God just wants to help you with projects of self-improvement, or simply make you more moral, or better at following rules. But what I found is Jesus invites us into the kind of transformation that is beyond what we ourselves can imagine ourselves to be." At Renaissance, we believe...
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April 2023 - The Heart of Jesus (Guest Speaker)
“Gentleness is who He [Jesus] is. He is tender, He is open, He is welcoming, He is understanding, He is willing, He is accessible, He is merciful, He is compassionate.” What does it mean to understand Jesus' heart? How does this impact our view of life and faith? In this Celebration, guest…
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March 2023 - A Creative Minority Part Seven
"Redemptive participation means we don’t hate the world. We’re not protesting it. We’re participating in it with a vision of the way of Jesus. But in order to do that it must come from love. Love must be our motivation." What does it look like to model this? What does it look like to be a…
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February 2023 - A Creative Minority Part Six
“If we’re going to live as a creative minority, if we’re going to bring renewal to the world, we must give Lordship to Jesus and follow his commands…” What does it look like to model this? What does it look like to be a community living out an alternative way of life? In this Celebration…
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January 2023 - A Creative Minority Part Five
“True practices of faith are not performances. They’re encounters of love.” What does it look like to model this? What does it look like to be a community living out an alternative way of life? In this Celebration, Christine Lee continues our "A Creative Minority" journey at Renaissance.
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December 2022 - Advent
“Waiting is bound up with and tangled with the concepts and actions of anticipating, trusting, and hoping. By waiting we are declaring and living into the hoped reality that there exists a future. For the follower of Jesus, waiting in the present day is a statement of stubborn hope that Jesus is...
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November 2022 - A Creative Minority Part Four
"Daniel doesn't spend energy criticizing others or controlling others, but he leads by quiet example." What does it look like to model this? What does it look like to be a community living out an alternative way of life? In this Celebration, Eamon Anderson continues our "A Creative Minority"...
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October 2022 - A Creative Minority Part Three
"Worshipping God shouldn’t look condescending towards other people; it should look like an invitation for anyone to come experience who God is. Our worship of an almighty, all-knowing, intimately loving, life-giving God could be the example that invites someone else to worship Him too." What does...
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September 2022 - A Creative Minority Part Two
"A Creative Minority is fueled, driven, and framed by a compelling counter narrative – the full, Biblical story of God’s loving relationship with His people." What does it look like to understand this? What does it look like engage culture around us in a healthy way? In this Celebration, Robert...
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August 2022 - A Creative Minority Part One
“A Creative Minority is a Christian community in a web of stubbornly committed relationships, knotted together in a living network of persons who are devoted to practicing the way of Jesus together for the renewal of the world.” What does it look like to understand this? What does it look like...
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June 2022 - From Here to There Part Six
“Revelations are deep spiritual insights, offered by God, that usually bring clarity or a fresh understanding to whatever the recent circumstances you've been going through." What does it look like to understand this? What does it look like to experience revelation on the road of faith? In this...
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May 2022 - From Here to There Part Five
“Struggling is a doorway. When we struggle we discover our weakness, but we also get to discover God’s strength. We discover that we follow a God who meets us where we hurt the most. We discover it is in God’s character to find those who are hiding and to sooth those who feel lost and shame.…
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April 2022 - From Here to There Part Four
“This is the kind of change we should experience when we first encounter the church. The church is such a radically different community, that lives by such radically different values, that by choosing to be a part of it we have to restructure everything in our reality.” What does it look like to...
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February 2022 - From Here to There Part Two
“Calls are invitations from Jesus for everyone to trust him and follow him in bringing the Kingdom." What does it look like to hear God and follow his call? How can we discern his voice and help others do the same? In this Celebration, Jacob Vangen continues our "From Here to There" journey at...
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January 2022 - From Here to There Part One
“Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.” - Dallas Willard But what does that process look like and how do we know change is occurring? Well, 2022 is all about us unpacking these questions for our microchurches. In this Celebration, Drew Thurman kicks off the...
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November 2021 - ReJesus Part Four: John 20
C.S. Lewis famously stated, “Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.” In other words, growth in the Christian life is about reorienting our lives around the values embodied in the life and teaching of Christ. At Renaissance…
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October 2021 - ReJesus Part Three: John 11
C.S. Lewis famously stated, “Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.” In other words, growth in the Christian life is about reorienting our lives around the values embodied in the life and teaching of Christ. At Renaissance…
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September 2021 - ReJesus Part Two: Samaritan Woman
C.S. Lewis famously stated, “Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.” In other words, growth in the Christian life is about reorienting our lives around the values embodied in the life and teaching of Christ. At Renaissance…
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August 2021 - ReJesus Part One: Nicodemus
C.S. Lewis famously stated, “Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.” In other words, growth in the Christian life is about reorienting our lives around the values embodied in the life and teaching of Christ. At Renaissance…
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This podcast is an extension of Renaissance - we're a grassroots church movement in the Boston metro area empowering, equipping, and sustaining microchurch communities. Listen in here to the monthly Celebration gathering messages.
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