“We are a people in the process of being shaped and being formed by God in the Kingdom and for the Kingdom.” - Damaris TaylorThis month, we continued our three-year trek through the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) in a series we’re calling

April 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Matthew 5:3-5)

Apr 8th, 2024 17m 5s

"...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 co

March 2024 - Kingdom Manifesto (Introduction)

Mar 4th, 2024 37m 6s

“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

December 2023 - Advent

Dec 19th, 2023 26m 39s

"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

November 2023 - Sacred Stories

Nov 7th, 2023 23m 31s

"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

April 2023 - The Heart of Jesus (Guest Speaker)

Apr 3rd, 2023 46m 47s

“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 vi

March 2023 - A Creative Minority Part Seven

Mar 13th, 2023 26m 1s

"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 li

February 2023 - A Creative Minority Part Six

Feb 6th, 2023 32m 34s

“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 a

January 2023 - A Creative Minority Part Five

Jan 9th, 2023 27m 13s

“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

December 2022 - Advent

Dec 6th, 2022 17m 29s

“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 prese

November 2022 - A Creative Minority Part Four

Nov 8th, 2022 28m 15s

"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,

October 2022 - A Creative Minority Part Three

Oct 11th, 2022 22m 50s

"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 tha

September 2022 - A Creative Minority Part Two

Sep 5th, 2022 21m 29s

"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 ar

August 2022 - A Creative Minority Part One

Aug 8th, 2022 27m 28s

“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 l

June 2022 - From Here to There Part Six

Jun 6th, 2022 22m 29s

“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

May 2022 - From Here to There Part Five

May 2nd, 2022 23m 55s

“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 hi

April 2022 - From Here to There Part Four

Apr 4th, 2022 13m 25s

“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 e

February 2022 - From Here to There Part Two

Feb 7th, 2022 40m 49s

“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 V

January 2022 - From Here to There Part One

Jan 10th, 2022 46m 32s

“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 microchurc

November 2021 - ReJesus Part Four: John 20

Nov 17th, 2021 36m 33s

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