Element Podcast

128: Collide – Alive
5_8_11

Scriptures:
1 John 2: 4-6
Luke 13: 18-30
Matthew 21: 28-44
Ephesians 2: 19-22
Galatians 5: 16:26
Hebrews 13: 1-21

Quotes:
“The things in life that matter require incredible intention.”
- Rob Bell

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that… because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-John Eldredge

“If we are sent, we speak something true and beautiful in the world, something people will cling to, something that will threaten the false religions, even false Christian piety.
Do you feel sent as a creator? Do you want to be sent? What might it feel like to be sent for a greater cause? What is the cause or meaning of your current work? What are you afraid of if you decide to be sent from God? Are you afraid your work will be cheesy? Are you afraid you will be ridiculed? Who are the great creators who have been sent who rose above trite artistic messaging? Rembrandt? Michelangelo? Handel? Perhaps there is a place for you amongst the sent.”
- Donald Miller

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”
- Thomas Merton

“The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould.”
- Oswald Chambers

Books Referenced:

Sailing Between the Stars by Steven James
Found Art by Leeana Miller Tankersley

122: Collide – Heart of the Artist
3_27_11

Scriptures:
Genesis 1: 26-31
Revelation 21: 1-5
Ephesians 2: 1-10
Isaiah 45: 5-16
John 15: 9-17
Ephesians 1: 3-12

Quotes:
“How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.”
- Erwin McManus

“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
- Thomas Merton

“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”
- Thomas Merton

“Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.”
- Oswald Chambers

“Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God’s prescription for us? Just take a look around.”
- John Eldredge

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
- Thomas Merton

Books Referenced:
Fathered by God by John Eldredge
Sailing Between the Stars by Steven James