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    • May 18, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Latest episodes from Living Stones Christian Church East Bay (formerly Great Exchange)

    Pure & Undefiled religion | James 1:27

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 55:41


    How Not to Pray | Jonah 2 (Anti-Hero)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 32:32


    Jonah's time in the fish is portrayed as a kind of death. But will this passage through death into new life change him? That's the big question explored in the last chapter of Jonah.

    How Not to Answer God's Call | Jonah 1 (Anti-Hero)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 34:46


    Jonah rebelliously flees the call of God, but saves the sailors. Even our evil can become an instrument of God's purposes.

    The Great Commission | Mt 28:16-20

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 41:27


    After the resurrection, Jesus sends us out as his witnesses

    Resurrection Mindset | Col 3:1-14

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 41:59


    Put your minds on things above

    Palm Sunday: The Unexpected King | Luke 19:28-44

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 33:35


    Jesus is The King We Didn't Expect, But The King We Need

    One: Obedience | Jn 14:15, 21-24; 1 Jn 5:3-4

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 35:46


    Obedience brings us into the heart of God's love

    Discerning the Times | Eph‬ ‭5‬:‭15‬-‭17‬

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 52:19


    Responding to the times with intentionality and discernment, active not passive, and in discernment, following what God is stirring and doing.

    "You are Deeply Loved | Jn 8:1-11, 42-47 "

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 45:26


    Our identity in Christ: Dismantling the Lies - Embracing the Truth - Wearing the Crown with Security and Resolve

    Abundance | 2 Cor 9:6

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 28:31


    Kingdom living from abundance rather than scarcity

    One: Know Thyself | Ps 139:1-6; 23-24; 2 Cor 13:5

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 18:58


    Journey inward (into interior castle) with Christ, confronting imperfections, recognizing God's presence within 

    One: Suffering | Jn 12:20-26

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 44:43


    Because of the suffering of Christ, we are empowered to live a life of surrender and through that, we can experience an abundant life.

    Becoming a Neighbor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 40:24


    As we serve those on the margins, God also changes us

    One: Inside Voice | Jn 14:15-27

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2025 45:25


    We can personally experience God guiding us through his Spirit

    Baptism: One in Christ [LATE PUBLISH]

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 35:50


    One: God's Spirit in Us | Acts 4:31-35; Eph 4:30

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 42:40


    The real presence of God filling/dwelling within us.

    One: All of His is Ours | Eph 1:17-20

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 40:38


    Our union w/Christ means that all that is Christ's becomes ours

    God's Unrepayable Gift | Luke 14

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 35:51


    God gave us a gift of his son that cannot repaid, and as an outflow, we give others that cannot repay.

    One: God First | Jn 1:1-14

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 33:25


    God wants to be in union with us, and reached out to us

    "The Gift Giver: The Gift of Love | 1 Jn 4:9-10; Rom 8:37-39; Ps 63:3 "

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 33:40


    God gives us the most unbreakable, precious gift: His love. And we know the depth of his love because of the depth of his sacrifice: He gave us his one and only Son, even when we did not love him. We don't deserve his love, nor can we earn his love; God gives us his love simply out of his grace. All we have to do is receive his love.

    The Gift Giver: The Gift of Peace | Isaiah 9:6; John 14:27; 2 Corinthians 9:15

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 24:53


    Just as Israel was full of worry and anxiety under the oppression of Rome, we experience the oppression of worry and anxiety in our world today. It's no wonder that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is peace. Jesus is not just the Prince of Peace, nor does He keep peace to Himself as a possession. Rather, in His grace, Jesus has given us HIS PEACE by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can have His peace as a gift right now by just receiving it.

    "Prepare Him Room | Luke 2:4-7"

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 33:51


    Practical steps to make room for Jesus in Advent

    Choose Hope | Lam 3:19-24

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 42:38


    In trials, we can choose hope because of God

    Deconstructing Politics: The Politics of Fear & Love (Ps 46; 1 Jn 4:18)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 36:22


    God calls us to a politics of love rather than fear.

    Deconstructing Politics: What's a Leader Anyways?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 27:00


    What is Jesus' definition of leadership vs. the World's definition?

    Deconstructing Politics: God in the Conflict (Rom 14:1—15:8)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 33:44


    Christians sadly, embody the same partisan and political divisions of the world. But we have something the world doesn't: God. What if God is in our political disagreements? What if there is something he is trying to teach us, form us, sanctify us in our conflicts? What if he is can make something new if we discern his presence in our radically opposing passions and beliefs?  This draws heavily on Tim Otto's “Oriented to Faith” and David Fitch's “Church of Us v Them”

    You are Here: Living for a Bigger Purpose (Isaiah 49:5-6)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 39:10


    Money, Family, Education, Comfort, Security, Health, etc - life in the burbs can be oriented around so many things. But what if God has an even bigger purpose for us? What if God is bringing his kingdom – and inviting us to join him? What would it look like to join him in his work of compassion, justice, and sharing about his good news? What would sharing the good news look like here in our pluralistic, post-Christian circles? C.f. Redemptive Presence

    You are Here: The Meaning of Where We Live (Jer 29:7; Jn 1:14)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 40:08


    Where we live tends to be about proximity to schools, safety, home values, or consumer preferences. But what if it is true that “the Word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood”? What if God has you where you are for a reason, to join him in his mission? This message delves into a Theology of place and the call to the practice of “neighboring”. C.f. Value of Redemptive Presence

    You are Here: The Meaning of Wealth (Mt 6:24; 1 Tim 6:17-19)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 38:34


    We live in a world so oriented around the worship of Mammon that it's hard to see Money soberly. But our worship belongs to God, and so we are called to a radically new relationship with money. How are we to use, spend, seek, and give money as people? E.g. Divine philanthropy (Malcolm Foley).

    You are Here: The Meaning of Work & School (Daniel 1-2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 37:01


    We often separate work and school from our spiritual lives, which allows the worldly logics and values of work and school rule how we live in those spaces. But what if God is deeply present at work and school? What if he has a purpose? How might this impact how we approach work and school as people who realize Jesus is bringing his good Kingdom everywhere? (Testimonies, TEDTalks, Panel of student and workers?). C.f. Value of Repurpose

    Panel Sunday (Isaiah 6 & John 3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 47:28


    Fall Launch Panel: Worship, Hospitality, & Small Groups

    You are Here: Actually Experiencing God (Gen 12:1-8; Ps 34:8)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 35:18


    Today, what we seek more than timeless principles is an experience of the Ultimate. God is the ultimate reality, but he is not just a philosophy we “believe in; '' he is a person whose presence, love, and power we experience through his initiation and our response of obedience. How do we actually experience this God? C.f. Our value of soul

    You are Here: What Matters Most (Ecc 1:2; 2:1-11; Mt 22:36-40; Jn 15:12-13; 1 Cor 13:1-3)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 37:59


    Life is more than about “being happy”; it's about finding self/fulfillment in our deepest purpose: loving God and others (c.f. How EEAAO deals with Nihilism). David Brooks calls our generation to consider living for our moral bucket list, rather than a eulogy that boasts little more than that we were happy. Cf. Our value of worship/allegiance

    Embodied: Training in the Spiritual Life (Rom. 12:1-2; 1 Sam. 17:32-37; 45-47)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 35:21


    Training in righteousness is training in relationship with God. It involves the whole person being in a relationship with God: physical, mental (thinking), and emotional (feeling), but it's worth the cost.

    Embodied: Disability & Community (Mk 2:1-12)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 50:59


    To be disabled oftentimes means the loss of not only dignity, but community. An extreme example of this is Alzhiemer's where, in modern society, we prize an able, conscious mind as the hallmark of what it means to be human. How does the gospel speak to the dignity and community of the disabled? How does this challenge the able-bodied believer?

    Embodied: Gender & Identity

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 39:28


    Gender roles and even gender itself is being deconstructed. How do we respond? How do we live as gendered people?

    Embodied: The Racial Gaze & Identity in Christ (Mk. 7:24-26; Matt. 15:22-28)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 38:51


    Race is when “your skin is that friend who meets everyone before you do.” Race is first and foremost, not how you identify, but how society identifies you - e.g. it is a social construct. But in Christ, we discover who we really are. How do we live out our true identity in Christ in while in the racialized gaze of the world?

    Embodied: The Spirituality of Sex (Eph 5:31-33; 1 Cor 6:18-20)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2024 39:55


    Embodied: Health & Sickness/Suffering (1 Cor 6:19-20; 2 Cor 12:7-10)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2024 47:32


    God gave us the gift of life in our bodies - and calls us to honor him with our bodies, animated by his breath/Spirit, because our bodies belong to him as the giver of our bodies and the one who gave his own body for us. This stands in stark contrast to o

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 37:04


    Sabbatical reflection: Our Creator/Lord of the Sabbath created us in grace and gave us the gift of Sabbath rest; we are finite mortals not the eternal God – even Jesus rested! Yet, is “work-life balance” the pinnacle of spirituality? We are still called to labor/toil – but for what end? In our world, we sacrifice our health for the gods of wealth, body image, etc; but in Christ, there is a greater thing we can give our bodies to: Loving God and Others/His Kingdom

    EEAAO: Risen with Purpose | Col 4:2-6

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 34:26


    Our priorities and commitments are reorganized in light of the Lordship of Christ

    Psalm 111

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 29:35


    Living a Life of Gratitude

    EEAAO: Risen to New Relationships| Col 3:18—4:1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 33:28


    Baptism Sunday

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 39:00


    Baptism Testimonies

    Pentecost Panel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 41:26


    Brian, Kenneth, Kris talk about unity in Christ

    EEAAO: Risen to a New Me | Col 3:1-17

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 39:38


    The new moral character that have in Christ requires intentionality to walk it out.

    EEAAO: Jesus Plus | Col 2:1—3:4

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 40:04


    Our suffering means victory instead of shame now, bc Jesus is the crucified God; we are sharing in his victory Worldly philosophies/values/habits press us to compromise our faith in Jesus the crucified God. But he triumphs and fulfills these the values/desires.

    EEAAO: New Meaning of Suffering | Col 1:24-29

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 43:42


    Our suffering means victory instead of shame now, bc Jesus is the crucified God; we are sharing in his victory

    EEAAO: The Crucified God | Col 1:15-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 38:18


    Jesus is creator, new creator, over all. But he's different, he's the crucified God

    The Ascension | Lk 24:50-53; Acts 1:1-11

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2024 37:49


    Why the (forgotten) ascension of Christ matters

    Glory | Rom 8:18-30

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2024 35:37


    Our present sufferings can't compare with our future glory - possible because of Jesus' resurrection

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