Breaking the Spirit of Poverty (March 7)

Hope Lives

Compassion changes everything: how you view your world...yourself...even Jesus. While many feel despair at the state of the world we can find hope in Jesus. This two week exploration of compassion is aimed at both head and heart, inspiring a new way to interact with the world.

March 7: Breaking the Spirit of Poverty

Often we fail to give to those in need because we feel we don’t have enough ourselves. We assume that there is a finite amount of resources and if we give generously those resources will run dry and we will be poor ourselves. Instead of believing the Bible that we should operate from a spirit of abundance we instead live in bondage to accumulation and suffer from a spirit of poverty. We can break this spirit of poverty in ourselves is by giving extravagantly – not from our excess but from our necessities. Scarcity vs. Abundance: Deut. 15:10; Prov. 21:13; Prov. 11:24; 1 Tim. 6:17-19; 2 Cor. 9:6, 8, 10-11; The Story of the Widow of Zarephath: 1 Kings 17:7-24; Our Mandate/Response: Isaiah 58; Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Tim. 6:17-19; Ch. 3 Hope Lives Pastor’s Guide

Producer: Rachael Suddarth & Ben Phillips
Set-up: Kris Shermer
Speaker: Colter Bloxom
Music Leader: Joshua Nedrud & Kris Shermer
Sound Tech: David Meyer & Ken Kim
Keynote Tech: Mark Dominguez
Pickup: Joshua Nedrud & David Meyer
Nursery: Heidi Kim
Greeters: Camille Mathieu & Mark Dominguez

Music

Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb
Twenty-First Time – Monk & Nagle
Give Me Your Eyes – Brandon Heath
Green Disease – Pearl Jam
Sweetest Girl – Wyclef Jean
Mo Money Mo Problems (R&B Montage)

Video

South Park – Margaritaville
Dead Like Me – Taking the soul of a Homeless man
A Tale of Two Cities
Armageddon – Willis sacrifices himself for Afleck
*South Park – Shipping the homeless to California (Maybe tied in to Set-up story abou
Smallville – Chloe dies to save someone
Pushing Daisies or Carnival – Bringing people back to life, but causing another’s death
“Why the Economy Collapsed” video from the web
The Order – Heath Ledger movie about a sin eater
SNL Weekend Update – Scrooge McDuck
Wall Street jubilee – Another World is possible
Seven Pounds
Pay It Forward
Simon Birch
City of Ember – contrasting against how our world is (we don’t have a limited supply like they do)

Drama / Original Video

Hot Mic
Boxer, the horse from Animal Farm – sacrifices again and again until dies

Worship

More Than Us
Lighten My Load
Mighty to Save
Enough
Hungry
How Great is Our God
Everything

Poverty and Prosperity (February 28)

Hope Lives

Compassion changes everything: how you view your world...yourself...even Jesus. While many feel despair at the state of the world we can find hope in Jesus. This two week exploration of compassion is aimed at both head and heart, inspiring a new way to interact with the world.

February 28: Poverty and Prosperity

We live in a world in which unprecedented prosperity exists alongside desperate poverty. The oppressed and poor are at the center of the heart of God and God is mobilizing his church to bring hope in a world of despair.
God’s Heart: Psalm 9:9; 146:71; 10:17-18; 72:12-14; Our Mandate/Response : Micah 6:8; 1 John 3:17; James 2:14-17; James 4:17; The Parable of the Good Samaritan; Ch. 2 Hope Lives Pastor’s Guide.

Producer: Tim Suddarth
Set-up: Josh Schaa
Speaker: Tim Suddarth
Music Leader: Colter Bloxom, David Meyer & Kati Wint
Sound Tech: Mitch Peterson & Josh Schaa
Keynote Tech: Tyler Stibrich
Pickup: Josh Schaa & David Meyer
Nursery: Kris Shermer
Greeters: Jenna Schaa & Nick Summers

Music

What if She’s An Angel – Tommy Shane Steiner
You’ve got a Friend in Me – Randy Newman
Another Day in Paradise – Phiul Collins
What Matters more – Derek Webb
Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb
Help – Beatles
The Twenty-First Time – Monk & Neagle
What If God Was One of Us – Joan Osborne
Give Me Your Eyes – Brandon Heath
My City of Ruins – Springsteen
The American Dream – Switchfoot
Beautiful America – Five Iron Frenzy
Vultures – Five Iron Frenzy
Uptown Girl – Billy Joel
The Sound (John M. Perkins Blues) – Switchfoot
*Pins and Needles by Muth Math

Video

Fast and Furious – When Paul Walker lets Vin Diesel go.
Avatar – the Last Airbender
My Super Sweet
WALL-e
Chocolat – condemnation vs Grace
Schlinder’s List
Monty Python
Chapelle’s show – Cribs
Rich Girls – Episode 2 (Tommy Hilfiger gives his daughter’s birthday gift to charity)
Fabulous Life of …
MTV’s Cribs
Stats from 30 Days
Another World is Possible Video from Shane Clairborne

Drama / Original Video

New Skymall Items
MTV Cribs: The Fort

Other Concepts

Skymall Items
iPad

Take-Home Items

Something from the Good Samaritan story Something from the Micah 6:8 verse (bookmark?)

Ideas for dividing up in groups

Birthdays
Shoe size
Stickers in Median
Colors you’re wearing

Practicing Spiritual Life: Contemplation & Meditation (February 21)

Practicing Spiritual Life (Part 3)

February 21: Contemplation & Meditation

Christian meditation and contemplation is the practice of reflecting upon, ruminating about, and considering matters of our faith. We recognize that every experience offers more than meets the eye and are open to seeing the unseen world. In other religions, meditation serves as a means to empty the mind in order to become detached from the world. Christians agree that meditation is an effective technique to quiet and clear the mind and achieve detachment from the world. But, for the Christian, detachment is not enough; we must go on to attachment. Detachment from the confusion all around us is in order to have a richer attachment to God and is a preparation for God's inspiration.

Producers: Tim Suddarth & Ken Kim
Set-Up: Tim Suddarth
Music Leader (if needed): Ryan Miller, Mitch Peterson & Dave Chojnacki
Sound Tech: Josh McInnes
Keynote Tech: TBA (if needed)
Pickup: Josh McInnes
Nursery: Kerri Dominguez
Greeters: Aaron & Renay Burger.

Corporate Meditation and Contemplation ideas

Lectio Divina – Philippians 2 or perhaps multiple modalities of Psalms
Call to worship in Latin (maybe with translation or possibly switching languages throughout)
Be Still and know he is God – Newsboys
Progression through music meditation
“The Stand” – chorus of a Hillsong/Michael W. Smith arrangement
Time-lapsed Sunrise – Praying in the sunrise
Empty Me – Jeremy Camp (Clay/pottery)
I Corinthians 13
They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love – Jars of Clay
Rise – Robbie Seay
John 1
All Around Me – Flyleaf
Maranatha (Aramaic – Chanting)
World Peace
Centering Prayer

Communion Ideas

Everyone take at the same time
People reading scripture from around the room
Respond by audience repeating scripture “Do This in Remebrence of me”
Different interpretation
Actual Breaking

Music for Communion

By His Wounds
Paid it All
Holy, Holy, Holy
Lead me to the Cross

Things we could use as contemplation material

Jesus w/ Dirty Feet - Everts
Blue Like Jazz - Miller
Soul Cravings – McManus
Face to Face (Devotional Book)