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Artisan Church Podcast — 865 episodes
God Seen, Not God Cursed
Songs and Poems, Part One: Songs
Everything Is Meaning-Making
Everything Is Meaningful
Everything Is Meaningless
Everything Is Meaning
Easter Guidance for Chaotic Times
A City in Turmoil
On Seeing and Believing
Blindness and Sin
The Woman at the Well, and an Announcement
We Speak of What We Know
Six Days Later
Salt and Light
Light Bulb Moment
Acknowledging the Heaviness
Properties of Water
In the Beginning…
The Politics of Christmas
Unexpected Joy
Prophetic Peace
Vigilant Hope
What Large Letters!
The Spirit Claps Back
No Longer Divided
Old and New Wine
Shadows of Fruit
The Gospel in Chairs
Stories of Evolved Faith
Your Favorite Bible Story
Good Inside
A Flannelgraph Faith
Sobriety: Freedom from Bitterness
Day by Day
Lost & Found
"And Who Is My Grandma?"
Do You Still Talk to Grandma?
Faith Foundations
Merrymaking and Toil
Knots and Knocks
Penny's Story
Body, Stock, and Soil
Jesus Sets His Face
Deep Calls to Deep
Trinitarian Love
Washing Wounds
A New Commandment
Julia's Story
Which Jesus?
High Horses & Life on the Ground
Breath
Agents of Hope
Politics and Palm Leaves
Pressing On
Return of the Prodigal Son
Fate, Fruit, and Fertilizer
Reimagining Darkness
Pause for Discussion
The Other Senses
The Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Emotions
Who's Afraid of the Dark?
On Beauty
On Roots
On Community
On Justice
In Our Midst
Every and All
Staff and Leadership Team Panel
Berlin and Back
Now What?
Paging All Prophets
With God on Our Side
Begin Again: On Suffering and Faith
Rich and Poor
Taming the Judgmental Tongue
Upending Partiality: Why the Greatest Teacher Has No Favorites
Works, Wisdom, and Faith
Cross Roads: Where Joy + Sorrow Meet
Pilgrimage: The Journey Home
On Adoption: Belonging in God's Kingdom
Remembering and Moving On
Dual Citizenship: Life Lived between Two Places
The Woman Saved from Stoning: Scapegoats and Scapegoating
Truth and Power
Deanna's Story
Double Vision: What David and Jesus See
Sacred Reading of Ephesians 1
Grief and Grace
Only Human: Thoughts on David & Goliath
Kings and Kingdoms
Hearing God During Ordinary Time
Lessons from the Camino
Pentecost Reflections
Either-Or Enclosures: Use of Full Measure Prayers
Love, Burdens, and Commandments
From the Vine: Thoughts on Picking Fruit
Walking With the Good Shepherd
Ghosts, Revelations, and Burning Hearts
Thomas On His Worst Day
Resurrection Bodies
Remembering and Reflecting
5th Sunday in Lent
Leaving the Wilderness to Discover the Kingdom
Ten Words & Temples
Promise Delayed, Promise Kept
Memory and Mindset
From the Mountaintop: Embracing Mystery on Transfiguration Sunday
An Urgent Call to Remember
Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany
Repentance and Renewal
Come and See
Return By Another Road
Ken's Story
Midwives of God
Magnificat: Mary's Righteous Anger
Advent Anxiety
Christ the King Sunday
Scott's Story
Honor Every Living Thing
Overcome Fear
Cultivate Inner Peace
Transitions
WE
US
YOU
Diana's Story
Stories from LGBTQ+ Christians
Approach 2: Moral Logic
Approach 1: Verse by Verse
Ally's Story
Little Faith
Hungry in a Deserted Place
Crossing the Jordan
Corrye's Story
Seed, Root, and Fruit
Laws & Burdens
Stump the Pastor
Shake Off the Dust
Jae's Story
Pentecost
Pray With Your Feet
Pray With Your Emotions
Pray With Your Community
Sandy's Story
Pray With Your Ears
Pray With a Script
The Love That Changes the World
Loving Our Enemies
Wilderness
The Steady Work of Living Water
Jonathan Edwards Is Not My Homeboy
The Liberation of the Know-It-All
On the Days When I Believe
Dan's Story
Life Beyond the Binary
How to Read the Bible
The Controversy of God
Family and Darkness
Exodus 1 & 2
Epiphany of the Lord
Spectacular
Integrity
Awakening
Woe to the Bad Shepherds
The End (Was) Near
Ownership and Eternity
Clean Slate Sunday
Justice
Awe
Beauty
Roots
Community
What Gives Me Hope
Solidarity in Suffering
Rejoice in Suffering?
In the End
You Are Not Alone
The Struggle is Real
Where Do You Direct Your Faith?
Citizenship Tests
Water
Footstool
Incredulity
Resurrection Reactions, Part Two
Resurrection Reactions, Part One
Mothers & Brothers
Psalms for Lament
King’s Cross
Church & State
Betrayal & Denial
The Lord’s Prayer
Recap and Preview
Unexpected Voices, Unexpected News
Palm Sunday: A Triumph of Misunderstanding
Temptation Comes at the End
New Things for Those Who Hate Change
A Fig Tree in a Vineyard
L.T. Conversation
Jubilee?
Fasting
Centering Prayer
The Examen
Reclaiming the Darkness
Being an Epiphany
Living an Epiphany
Having an Epiphany
Tapestry
Boxing Day/St. Stephen’s Day
God Speaks Through the Son
Magnificat
Worthy Fruit
Prepare – Preparing – Prepared
Praying for Strength
Reign of Christ
Thanksgiving in Suffering
Gifts Great and Small
Saints of Today
Saints of Old
Reclaiming Salvation
Reclaiming Confession
Debriefing Q&R
Reclaiming the Bible
Reclaiming the Cross
A New Truth
A New Life
A New Season
A New Day
Always Near
Sheep and Shepherds
Every Spiritual Blessing
Love and Lament
Questions at Sea
Seeds, Trees, and Faith
Mothers, Brothers, and Kings
An Open Doors Story
Pentecost: Promises Fulfilled
Finding Your People
To an Unknown God
We Should Not Make It Difficult
What Is to Prevent Me?
Listen and Rejoice
What God Has Made Clean
Easter: Fragile Vessels, Priceless Treasures
Praise Without Understanding
A New Day For All
A Community of Healing
Destroy Your Temple, and Raise it Up Again
Rebuking the Suffering
Dead or Alive?
Transfiguration Sunday
Wait and Renew
Knowledge Puffs Up
Decide and Act
Known and Called
What Does the Voice Say?
Word and Flesh
Reflections
The Magnificat: A Feminist Reading
When and Then
Wait for and Hasten
O That You Would / God is Faithful
Community + Roots: The Marathon of Faith
Community + Awe: Gazing Together
Community + Beauty: Thinking About It Together
Election 2020 and a Plan for Reopening
Community + Justice: Partnerships
Emotions in Exile, Part Two: Hope
A Plague in the Desert
Emotions in Exile, Part One: Hatred and Anger
Moving Together With No End in Sight
Seek the Welfare of the City
Exile and Exodus
Man of Sorrows, Man of Protest
Prayers From the Belly of the Beast
Weeding and Watering
Godly Decisions in a Time of Crisis
Do Not Be Anxious
Insignificant Beginnings: God in the Unexpected
Being Human
Questions and Encouragement
The All-Vulnerable God
Breath and Breathing
Emptying, But Never Empty
Trinity and Transformation
Day of Pentecost
The In-between
Lord, Show Us the Father
Breaking Bread at Home
Preaching to the Converted
The Story Ends in Doubt
Easter: Resurrection, Salvation, and Liberation
When Jesus Is Unrecognizable
The Spirit of God vs. The Word of God
Dreams That Demolish
Anger, Pain, and God
A Prophet’s Question
Wise Builders
That Word You Keep On Using
Be Perfect
Moderate Justice
The Shelter of Mother Bird
The State of the Church
Emmanuel
A Desert That Rejoices
Hoping in a Stump
Finding Peace in a Dark Place
The Crucified King
An Ominous Prediction
In the Resurrection
Dinner With a Tax Collector
Competitive Prayer
The Widow and the Judge
The Ten Lepers
Increase Our Faith
Contentment and Riches
Conquest and Deliverance
This Is Not the End
Known and Made
Stand Your Ground
Becoming Neighbors
Daily Bread
The Kingdom of Mercy
Being Found
Mustard Seeds
Stories We Need
Stories of Faith
Who We Are Now: Sounds of Reorientation
Disrupting Time: Songs of Disorienting Rage and Reorienting Joy
This Is the Sound of One Voice: Songwriters’ Panel
How We Decorate Time: Sounds of Orientation
Making a commitment to Unity in Diversity
Learning the art of Gracious Integrity
Passionately Devoted to the Better News
Beyond a Two-Dimensional Faith
One Last Thing
What Is God Creating?
The Meaning of the Cross
Forget the Past
The End of an Era
The Gift of Difference
Darkness, Guts, and the Goblet of Fire
Giving Thanks For Change
Glory Unveiled
Shalom and the Good Gospel
Is [Y]our Salvation Safe?
Transformational Salvation
Prophetic Boundaries
Faith and Feelings
The Spirit and the Voice
The Mystery of Openness
The Adolescent God
The God Who Cries
The Blessed Mother
Fruitless Repentance
You’re Headed In The Right Direction
Waiting in Shame
Experiencing Expansion
Together
Welcoming
Growing
All Saints’ Sunday
Domestic Violence: A Testimony
You Lack One Thing
The Helpers and the Helpless
A Response to Current Events
Fighting Words
A Stumbling Block to All
Rich and Poor Alike
Stump the Pastor
The House of God
Wisdom and Fear
Where God Was Not
Craving Proof
What happens when there aren’t any sides?
Christ our Peace
Tender Twigs and Strong Cedars
The Reluctant Leader
Church, State, and Power
Subjective Readings
Refugee Sunday
Sabbath-keeping
Stump the Pastor
Pentecost Reflections
Who Owns You?
Here I Am
Loving Our Phobias
Living the Love of Jesus
God’s Children Now
Declaring the Life That Was Revealed
Rise Up!
Palm Sunday
Planting Seeds, Giving Water
Raised Up to Rise Up
Justice That Restores
The Promise Rests on Grace
Water and Sky
Transfiguration Sunday
Power to the Faint
Troubled Minds
Stump the Pastor
MLK Sunday at Baber AME Church
Epiphany of the Lord
Christmas All Year Long
Justice Liturgy
Peace and Patience
The Gift of Waiting
Christ the King
A Movement
Invitations
Acorns
Generations
Growing in Faith Together
The Fruits of the Kingdom
Your Own Salvation
Complaint and Provision
Judgment and Forgiveness
The Debt of Love
So Far As It Depends On You
Renew Your Minds!
Baber Visit
A Sound of Sheer Silence
State Your Name for the Record
Do Hard Things
Guest Sermon: Denis Johnson - Hope While Jesus is Absent
If the World Hates You (Pt. 2)
If the World Hates You (Pt. 1)
Fruit That Will Last
The One True Vine
Peace On Our Way
Refugee Sunday
Pentecost Reflections
Becoming Christian (Baptism Sunday)
Reflections on Being Christian
Prayer: Alignment With Jesus
Eucharist: Thanksgiving and Welcome
Bible: Where God Speaks
Baptism: A New Identity and a New Job
Lent: April 16th Easter Sunday
A King Rides in on a Donkey
Alive in Body and Spirit
Seeing Through the Shadows
Hope in the Wilderness
Abraham’s Heirs
Confessing For Freedom
The Wild Sweep of Communion
Jesus Shows the Way
A New Commandment
Bread and Betrayal
Caring for Orphans
Caring for Widows
MLK Sunday worship at Baber AME Church
Looking Ahead: What’s In Store for 2017
Looking Back: 2016 in Review
Christmas Eve Celebration
Looking for Jesus: Confession
Looking for Jesus: Discernment
Looking for Jesus: Prayer
Cities of Refuge
Jesus and Jubilee
Empire and Election
Listen Up!
Egypt and Israel
Idols and Other Gods
Remembering and Forgetting
Hip-Hop Faith (feat. rapper Brother E)
Improvisational Faith (feat. jazz artist Greg Wachala)
Storied Faith (feat. Americana band The Crooked North Duo)
Blues as Lament (feat. blues rockers Violet Mary)
Criminal Injustice (feat. soul artist Danielle Ponder)
Studio
A Habit of Service
A Love of Scripture and a Practice of Prayer
Welcoming the Stranger
Inviting Friends
Do You Know What I Have Done For You?
Seeing the Father in the Son
Into Death, Into Life - Baptism Sunday
The Anointing of Jesus
How to Read the Bible Like a Rabbi
Grieving with Orlando
How to Read the Bible Like Jesus
Made for Love
Holiday BBQ&A
Life in the Spirit
Pentecost Reflections
The Old God and the New?
Imitating Emptiness
The Gospel in Chairs
Artists of the Gospel
Five Stones
The Sheep and the Shepherd
Good News and Bad News
The Rejected Stone (Palm Sunday)
Loss and Rubbish
What Do We Say?
Hunger and Hope
Stars and Darkness
The Word Is Near You
Sending the Seventy-Two
Generous and Sacrificial
Giving Is Good For You
In It Together
A New Year
Christmas Reflections
Christmas Eve
He Has, and He Shall
Fruit and Fire
Refined Repentance
Waiting In Faith
Roots and Branches
The Apostles’ Creed
A Great Cloud of Witnesses
Beauty in Tension
Pagan Beauty
Winsome Oneness
Identity and Value
Justice in Acts
Hearing From NEAD
Justice: an Overview
Take A Stand
Awe in Acts
Awe: an Overview
The Voice
The Gate
Confession and Communion
Ministry
The Day Alone
The Day With Others
Community
Invite Them In
What is the Bible?
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
A Jewish Atonement
Atoned By Love
Imagery and Analogy
Ascension
Identification
Easter: A Beautiful Gospel
Palm Sunday Festival
The Sixth Sign
The Woman at the Well, Revisited
Father Abraham?
Slaves to Sin
Where I Am Going, You Cannot Come
Lenten Preparations/A Valid Testimony
Panel Discussion
Healing in a Broken World
A Context for Caring
As It Is in Heaven
Christmas as a Season
Listen and Wait
Advent 3: Captivity and Rescue
Advent 2: Infant Mortality and Repentance
Advent 1: Racism and Spiritual Gifts
Interfaith Panel
The Forgotten Son
Jacob the Deceiver
Isaac and the Sacrifice
Abraham’s Journey
Baptism Sunday
Dealing With Uncertainty
Empty and Exalted
Whole-hearted Allegiance to the Gospel
Prophets and Promises
Rulers and Kings
Captives and Wanderers
Guest sermon (Baber AME visiting)
Creation and Calling
Ferguson, Reconciliation, and Diverse Voices
Jesus the Light of the World
The Woman Caught in Adultery
Case Study: Women in Church Ministry
Discerning: How Do I Benefit from the Bible?
Listening: What Do I Do with the Bible?
Story: What is the Bible?
Who is Jesus?
Judge Correctly
Pentecost Reflections
We Are All Witnesses
Memorial Day BBQ&A
Living with your Eyes Wide Open
To an Unknown God
The Synagogue and the Marketplace
Could He Be the One?
Resurrection Sunday
Palm Sunday
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Vocational Roundtables
Bringing the Gospel to Bear at Work
Toil and Thorns
Work In Paradise
Home As A Sanctuary
Relationships at Home
Intermission: Churchwide Visit to Baber AME
Cleaning House, Part Two
Cleaning House
Third Sunday of Advent
First Sunday of Advent
Faith, Race, and Our City, Part Two
There Is Good in the Hood: Which Gospel Do You Believe?
Panel Discussion
Faith, Race, and Our City, Part One
Sons & Daughters
Plant Gardens
Build Houses
Fifth Sunday Festival and Community Walk
The Walls We Build
From “Deeply Rooted” to “Beyond Our Walls”
Q&A and Discussion
The Movement From Illusion to Prayer
The Movement From Hostility to Hospitality
The Movement From Loneliness to Solitude
Soul & Strength
Heart & Mind
God as a Reconciler
God as a Parent
God as a Person
God as a Natural Object
Bread From Heaven, Part 2
Bread From Heaven, Part 1
Taking Jesus
Feeding the Five Thousand
Pentecost Reflections
Justice in the Early Church
Gospel and Eschaton
Prophets
(Baptism service)
Torah
Easter
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Unless You Repent
Slippery Faith
There Is No Distinction
Stability & Seed
Fruit & Shelter
How Will You Believe?
The Father and the Son
The Third Sign
The Second Sign
Love All
Give More
Spend Less
Worship Fully
Values: Community and Justice
Values: Beauty and Roots
Mission Statement, Image Statement
Spiritual Food
Many Believed
Living Water
Worshiping An Uncontainable God (My Faith Won’t Fit God)
Of God and Country (My Faith Won’t Fit on the Flag)
A “Bullet"proof Faith (My Faith Won’t Fit on a List)
Bumper Sticker Faith
Jazz
Blues
Celtic Pub Rock
Hospitality in the Church
My First Day at Artisan (Fifth Sunday Festival stories)
A Tradition of Hospitality
Hospitality at Home
Extraordinary Wisdom
Ordinary Life
Mike’s message
Choosing Light
The Cleansing of the Temple
Water and Wine
John the Baptist, John the Witness
Word, Life, and Light
Witnesses of These Things
The First Skeptic
Liturgy of the Palms
A New Law and a New Heart
Poison and Wine
The Temple of his Body
A New Father and a New Name
“Wild Card”
Your Mind
Loved Ones
Money
Work
Epiphany
Resolute
“Nothing Will Be Impossible With God”
“Good News to the Oppressed”
“Prepare the Way of the Lord”
“Tear Open the Heavens”
The Space Between Malachi and Mark
Seed
Stability
Shelter
Fruit
Liz’s Psalm
Mike’s Psalm
Scott’s Psalm
Welcome
Forgiveness
Unity
Surrender
Holy Communion
Local Justice: How?
Local Justice: Why?
What is Artisan Church?
What is the Pastor?
Greetings From the Ugandan Church
Seeds Among Weeds
The Fellowship of the Saints
Who is the Church?
Working Overtime
The How of Work
The Why of Work
Easter Sunday
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Third Sunday in Lent
Second Sunday in Lent
First Sunday in Lent
Question & Answer
Starting Over
Common Conflicts
Myths & Misconceptions
Biblical Basis
Consider the Lilies
Food for the Hungry
Let Your Light Shine
Blessed
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Advent Conspiracy Sunday
Second Sunday of Advent
Christ the King
Christ the Prophet
Christ the Teacher
Beyond the Culture War
Comparing Creations
Gardening in Babylon
A New Covenant
A Land With A Future
Not a Total End
The Potter’s Hand
Clothed in Love
Disarming Authority
The Elder Son
The Younger Son
To Whom Much Has Been Given
The Pharisee and Tax Collector
Treasures Old and New
Ephesians 5:21-6:9
Ephesians 5:1-20
BBQ&A
Ephesians 4:1-16
Ephesians 2:11-3:21
Ephesians 2:1-10
Ephesians 1
Full Transplant
Subtle Symptoms
Open Wounds
Revive
Adrenaline
Make Us One
For the Sake of Others
Does Prayer Change God?
Unanswered Prayer
Our Daily Bread
Specks and Shifting Sand
Casting Nets on Other Side of Boat
Prophet in His Hometown
Preaching in the Synagogue
Water into Wine
Baptism of the Lord
Unopened Gifts
Lowly Servants
Lavish Leftovers
Simple Preparations
Prophets & Promises
Rulers & Kings
Captives & Wanderers
Creation & Calling
Business of Community [Clinton Ave]
Beauty & Creation Care [Highland Park]
Strength of Diversity [Swillburg]
Senior X-mas: “Kill Your Fears”
Junior X-mas: “Face Your Future”
Sophomore X-mas: “Lose Your Faith”
Freshman X-mas: “Leave Your Family”
engage culture
embrace people
homosexuality
depression
The Gallery 08-05-2009 (fixed audio)
singleness
Hopeful
Broken
Fallen
Unashamed
Reckless
Chosen
Trinity Sunday
Pentecost
Nevermore - Holy Ground
Wherever - Hell or High Water
Whoever - Spies & Unlikely Allies
Easter
Palm Sunday
Barbarian Hordes
Dangerous Frontiers
Creative Destruction
Easy Jesus
Driven Out
Slave [Onesimus]
Owner [Philemon]
Advocate [Paul]
Places
People
Calling
Baptism
Epiphany
Naming
Love All
Give More
Contender Round 2
Contender Round 1
Scarecrow Messiahs
Scarecrow Politics
Scarecrow Superstitions
Scarecrow in the Mirror
Grow
Connect
“IMHO” - Share Your Story
“LOL” - Enjoy Life
“WTF” - Face the Pain
“OMG” - Experience God
Pause Yearly
Pause Monthly
Pause Weekly
Pause Daily
Philippians 4
Philippians 3
Philippians 2
Philippians 1
Make Us Pray
Questions & Answers
Pleasure & Pain
Sacred & Secular
Silence & Violence
Multiplied in Mission
United in Faith
Bad at Doing Good
Beat Down by Sin
Make Me Believe
Welcome to the Club [Easter Sunday]
Plunge: The Meaning and Mystery of Baptism
Living Bones
Forgotten Kingdoms
Lost Tribes
Undiscovered Country
Lies in Ruins
Unorthodox Plans
Revolutionary Returns
Irreverent Riches
Feast of the Holy Family
Signs of Arrival
The Wild Road We Travel
Wonder Where We’re Going
Get Up and Travel Light
Darkest Before the Dawn