Vox Dei Community Audio
Messages from the Vox Dei Community gatherings
Speaker: Joy Klee - Living with differences.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Relational problems in the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The church and personal callings as echo work.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Who really has say-so?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The relationship between restraint, truth, and real freedom.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Attention, imagination, and longing.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- The human pursuit of confident knowing.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The transcendent that Christianity makes accessible.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The search to belong in relationships.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The missing frequencies that leave us longing to make things right.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A pastoral reflection on the season and events of the week.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The finale of four things to remember as we begin again.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- A conversation about the peculiar observance of dark events during the Christmas season.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Learning to live in reality in our relationship to others.
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- Learning to see God everywhere.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Going back to go forward and the desire for a do-over.
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- The transforming practice of Centering Prayer.
Speaker: Levi Rennick ---Openness to friendship, the church, and joy.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- St. Polycarp of Smyrna and resistance to Emperor worship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Going deep and going wide.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An equation to change the world. (Outdoor Gathering)
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Intending to practice the Jesus Way.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles - The narrow and wide gates between encouragement and warning.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The wisdom of dogs and pigs.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Living with one another in community.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Needed encouragement about following the teachings of Jesus.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- What you can count on versus God.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The revolutionary prayer of Jesus at the heart of his teaching.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The necessity of cultivating a hidden life.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Going beyond the Law.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- The parable of the talents and personal responsibility.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Epistemic closure and the role of thick religion.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Jesus defines his intentions with the Law.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Jesus imparts a calling of proximity and otherness to his followers.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- A summary of the eight beatitudes of Jesus.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Jesus points to a new way of resolving conflict.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Learning to see and to discern in a time of cultural upheaval.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Who gets to see God?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Van Gogh and participating in what God is doing.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Where justice and mercy meet.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- A timely look at the politics of Jesus and his call to the church.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The first two beatitudes of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Surprise blessings from the Sermon on the Mount.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- What is the Sermon on the Mount?
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The central teaching of Jesus.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The final word from the cross and a roadmap to the true self.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- The work we have to do and how we find our identity.
Speakers: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles --- Jesus makes a plea from weakness.
Speakers: Rustin Smith & Jon Bowles --- Jesus expresses his suffering.
Speaker: Rustin Smith, Jon Bowles, Josh Payne --- A conversation around the third word from Jesus on the cross.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- An introduction from our pastor and a new word from Jesus on the cross.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The inconsolable longing at the heart of being truly human.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The first word from the cross.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- What happens when you don't quit because it's quiet.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The paradox of Christian hospitality and the cost of getting in.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The stories we live inside and the consequences of ideas.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- Following the ancient path all the way to the finish line.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Tempus fugit, memento mori, and numbering days.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lessons from a dramatic playoff football game and a theology of sports.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The heart of the Gospel at the end of all things.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An orienting message for the new year in the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christmas Eve and the truth as a fairy tale.
Rustin Smith --- Absurdity comes rushing together with what we expected to lead us to truth.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- To feel, speak, and embody truth.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Logos and mythos and telling the whole truth with our lives.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Building a life on grace and walking out our surrender in action.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The required imagination and courage to walk through a door to a deeper reality.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The Empire overtakes the church and the first Desert Father resists.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- God's joy is a community of loving people.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Transforming the unacknowledged patterns that make us predictable.
Speaker: Jonathan Klee - Priority and getting clear about what is really important.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The solution for the exhaustion of faking it.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The human daily act of faith we are given to master.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Finding our place inside the story of the Bible.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Where do we go to find the best information about how to live well?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Being fully loved and fully alive in God's unshakable kingdom.
Speaker: Joy Klee - Beloved children become belief-ful adults.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The primary target of evangelism.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Joshua's evangelistic invitation to become insiders to God's covenant family.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- The heart of God revealed in unexpected places.
Speaker: Jonathan Klee, various - Missional Partners Updates
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Three movements of evangelism.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- Three key people on your journey.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The attractive power of mutuality in the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The beautiful ringing call to participate in God's Kingdom and protest against false kingdoms.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The meaning and message of the crucifixion of Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Baptism as a ritual of identification with Jesus and God's people.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The journey from appearing to being the self God dreamed.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An open pastoral plea to readiness for God's work at Vox.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- Introducing Vox Summer Nights and three pathways for adults to grow, youth activities, and more.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- The journey toward a bigger faith.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Social media and human connection.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Turning aside from distraction to acknowledge the wonder of holy ground.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Looking for wisdom to rightly see the devices that now shape our lives.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - Awe and wonder at the heart of reality and the truths around the resurrection.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Doing whatever Jesus tells us to do makes God our helper.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The experience of wonder as the doorway to gratitude.
Speaker: Joy Klee --- What does actually require from us?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Spiritual power flows when we get honest.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Does God have a yes or no in his heart for you?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Three great No's that make space for a meaningful Yes.
Speaker: Levi Rennick - Solitude v. Isolation and giving visibility to God's love.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The power of the aestheticization of weakness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The antidote for the slavery of anxiety.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Sabbath as an essential rhythm for the people of God.
Speaker: Jonathan Klee --- The pitfalls of going it alone, and the rewards of community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Introducing a guide to your spiritual journey in stages of faith.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Doing business with forgiveness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The conversion of Peter and the love of a process.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The goal of gift-giving.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- We are made to give as God gives but start out by giving badly.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- The gifts nobody wants.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Giving as Christ gives to the difficult people in your life.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- God moved into the neighborhood.
Speaker: Joy Klee - Becoming the kind of person who can obey God rather than humans.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The patient Christians of Clapham and faithful cultural engagement in small and big things.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Freedom in Christ to love in the new community, and what keeps us from it.
Speaker: Jon Bowles - The gift is hyper-corrective to the curse.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - Humanity united in a family of death now welcome into a family of life.
Speaker: Jonathan Klee - Taking action to see what God is doing.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Being special is not being superior.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Radical welcome around Jesus as the center.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The pain and joy of the author of the letter to the Romans.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Your relationship with the totality of who you are.
Speaker: Jon Thompson --- Founder of http://www.peacecounseling.org on resolving conflict.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- God does not have a problem with things that take time.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Hosea and Gomer as a living parable of God's fidelity to a people he will make faithful.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The walls around our hearts can only be breached by someone who has been made tender by the pain of the world.
Speakers: Levi Rennick and Charity Hathcock --- Learning how to thrive through hard times by training our trust.
Speaker: Pedro Achucarro --- Brent Heid interviews Pastor Pedro from our ministry partner Jesucristo Verdad Y Vida.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Money as the truth serum for the human need for narrative consistency.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The heart follows our embodied investments.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- Levi and the Vox Students return from the big summer trip to IYC in Indiana.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Learning to value things properly inside the freedom of God ordained rhythms and boundaries.
Speaker: Joy Klee --- The kingdom is also for introverts.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Blessed are those who swing the other leg over the fence.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Our need to appear put together that prevents us from living in reality.
Rustin Smith --- Blessed are those who don't know what they're doing.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- God as a father who likes to be bothered.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Even those with a complicated relationship with emotions are included in God's Kingdom.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Blessed are those who long for more; dissatisfaction as an experience of betrothal.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Who is really well of in "Reality"?
Speaker: Peggy Heid --- People may be more receptive than we think.
Speaker: Peggy Heid --- Lessons on reconciliation from the story of Jonah.
Speaker: Levi Rennick --- Thomas and anticipation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Five life-giving losses and the meaning of Easter.
Speaker: Brent Heid --- Part 4b of the five hard truths, the longing for God and living with dissatisfaction.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Learning to relinquish the illusion of control in a post-scientific revolution world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The Copernican revolution of the mind, discovering that I am only a part of something larger than me.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Learning to break the attachments of ego to step into a larger life.
Introducing Levi Rennick, Student Ministry Director.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The crisis of choices and what we do with our pain.
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- Transformation happens in the ordinary, dull parts of our lived lives.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Giving our attention as essential for healthy relationships in four directions.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Made in God's image for relationships and everything in its right place.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Choosing wisely to live in time in ways that lead to a life together that goes into eternity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- By God's grace in us, to carry one another, to take the mountains of this world with the love of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - We cannot go faster than the one we are following.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The fourth and ultimate word that we meet at the manger.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Sinking our roots into the source of blessedness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- We walk in the light...in the darkness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 1, a prayer of unfulfillment as a empty place for hope to fill.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christ the King Sunday featuring the life of a great teacher of the Kingdom of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 500 years since the great reformer reoriented the church around faith and encountering God's acceptance.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Constantine the Great transforms the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The final scrutiny before entering the church membership.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The phases of joining the early church and the three scrutinies for deep ontological repair.
Speaker: Cary Corley --- From Vox missional partner Peace Partnership, on living in the present.
Speaker: Seth Sears --- Missionary partner of Vox Seth Sears on listening to God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The church as an alternative community in relationship to status-seeking in the Roman world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The practices of the early Christians that made them visibly distinct to outsiders.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Reflexive Christian identity in the early church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The explosive growth of the earliest churches rooted in a surprising single virtue.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Numbering our days and the context of life. Psalm 90
Speaker: Rustin Smith - How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- John's vision of the consummation of history; fear versus hope.
Speaker: Various - A day to celebrate God's faithfulness to our church and stories about generosity.
Speaker: Dan Wilburn --- Pastor of Lakeland Community Church in Lee's Summit speaks about the Christian life as pilgrimage.
Speaker: Peggy Heid --- An encouraging image from Revelation about the nature of prayer.
Speaker: Seth Sears --- Vox ministry partner in Costa Rica shares stories and Scripture about hospitality and the Gospel.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Our apocalyptic reflex moves in conflict and the legitimate weapons of the Lamb.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- What the Revelation of John has to do with the idea of Rapture.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The way of the Lamb versus the way of the Dragon.
Speaker: Jonathan Klee --- Stories from Vox and beyond.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- Reflections on fathering and grace.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The earth beast joins the sea beast in competing for the attention of God's people.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The beast competes for the full attention of God's people.
Speaker: Jack Ramos-Needham --- Christ's role in making us free and the possibility for forgiveness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The Lamb rides out to battle. Revelation 6-7.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The lion is a lamb who is worshiped by all who live in the most real reality.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Shaping the imagination to see Jesus in our midst. Revelation 1
Speaker: Brent Heid --- Paying attention to what defines us spiritually.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Introduction to the controversial book of Revelation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Eternity breaks into time, the future into the present.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus enters Jerusalem as a dark king.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- John of the Cross, Paul, and Jesus as teachers in the negative way.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The blessing in acceptance and reverence in darkness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Blindness that leads to seeing and seeing that leads to blindness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Artificial light and encountering God in the dark.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Darkness that reveals and obscures the presence of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith and Jonathan Klee --- Staying present to God in places where we do not have the power.
Speaker: Alicia Britt Chole --- Author of "40 Days of Decrease" and "Anonymous"
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Managing Competition, Fear, and Control as barriers to God's presence in the spaces where we have power.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christian gathering as a practice of learning to perceive God.
Speaker: Andrea Sears --- Vox ministry partner serving in Costa Rica. Learning to surrender to Jesus rather than seeking to be right, power, and success.
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- Learning to be with Jesus in the midst of the storm.
Speaker: Pedro Achucarro --- Making a deeper commitment to life in God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A dark and dangerous tale about God's great gift.
Speaker: Rustin Smith ---What it takes to receive God's deliverance versus what makes sense.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Non-complementary behavior of God toward God's enemies and ours.
Speaker: Derrick Cook --- The evidence and purpose of God's love.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Isaiah presents a vision of a future that demands action that can lead to that future.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Belonging in the church as counter-cultural, hyper-local, covenantal, and essential.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A soldier monk discovers the life of God's presence in daily work.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lesslie Newbigin returns the church to its missionary nature.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The apostle to Germany models godly confrontation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- What we make erupts from a deep part of us.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The hum of the household tunes hearts to God's grace.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- How Christian worship characterizes us in surprising ways.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christian worship as a counter liturgy that re-habituates our desires.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Our repeated actions, rituals, and behaviors orient our desires.
Speaker: Brent Heid - Jesus is the bread that came down from heaven.
Speaker: Cole McGee --- (Guest speaker from Redemption Church) Jesus exposes our anxiety with the question, "Why are you searching for me?"
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- How can we know what we really want?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus comes to drive a wedge between our lived life and what drives us into our lived life.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Finding others who need what we need keeps the message alive in us.
Speaker: Mike Hathcock --- Welcoming others into the good news.
Speaker: Jonathan Klee - Vox ministry partner leader sharing reflections from sabbatical.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The mediation in blood of the relationship of God and humanity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The good news for those without solutions.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The good news of the possibility of movement from bondage to liberation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The good news movement from chaos to shalom in the Creation narrative.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Introductory remarks about dedication and baptism at Vox.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Relocating the good news in its original powerful narrative frameworks.
Speaker: Peggy Heid --- Rightly regarding eternity, an investigation into the Bible's clues about heaven.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An invitation to start, and stop, tithing.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Signs, works, and wonders in the imagination of the Apostle John.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Is it ever OK to use violence? What about self-defense?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The person you are called to be, the people you are called to belong to, the tasks you are called to do.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Does God have a will and can I know it?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Prayer, God's nature, and our place in creating the future.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- How can the Bible have authority to command our behavior today?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- How can the idea of hell fit with the idea of a loving God, Jesus, and modern sensibilities?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The necessity of the terra incognita of the resurrection.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Observations about the inherent sense of God in the human experience.
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- The example of Job and practices toward believing in a God who is other.
Speaker: Craig Babb --- Joshua as an example of contemplative prayer.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The mystical tradition and John of the Cross as guides on the path to the cross through the dark nights.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The temptation to avoid, resist, or ignore the hard parts of the good journey.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Our dreams and distractions that keep us from an awareness of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A history and meaning of the practice of Ash Wednesday and Lent at Vox.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- What is practical, sensible, knowable keeping us from the experience of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - Self-obsession that keeps us from experiencing the reality of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The Christian call to be awake to God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Wisdom on making and keeping resolutions for the year.
Speaker: Brent Heid - Joining God's kingdom action through missional prayer.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The Christian practice of prayer in which we show up and shut up.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 1 of 3: The Christian practice of prayer is rooted in our need to be formed in the language of Scripture, Jesus, and the Church.
Speaker: Various --- Members and friends of Vox share from what God is doing with them.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A wheel as a metaphor for community with Jesus in focus at its center.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus as the worthy one who takes away tears and the bridegroom.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus the servant king and servanthood as the path to follow him.
Speaker: Seth Sears --- giveDignity founder visits from Costa Rica
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- The four-chapter gospel and the mission of the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The invitation to behold Jesus as the glory of God who recreates the world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus as King through whom God saves and dwells with the people.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christ as victor over the unseen powers that run the world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus as the faithful priest, the final sacrifice, one of us.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- (Part 2 of 2) Exploring the validity of the claims of Jesus about his identity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Exploring the basic claims of Jesus and the trustworthiness of the written testimony about him.
Speaker: Mike Hathcock --- Life as an exclamation point, a question mark, and a semi-colon.
Speaker: Bianca Como and Kids Vox --- Interviews with children at Vox and updates about children's ministry activities.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- The most powerful emotion and getting what we don't deserve.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Songs to lead us to new imagination for our circumstances, new life beyond death.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Songs to help us stay at the table with God when God's present is not felt.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - a reflection on the surpising ways Jesus has shaped our world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Songs to pray in gratitude and faith about what is most really real.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An introduction to the Psalms and how our vocabulary makes meaning of experiences.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Knowing God through Christ through the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Honoring our deepest commitments with our one and only human life.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A special celebration of our first 40 weeks in our new space, remarks, liturgy, prayers, honors, and thanks.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - Heaven and earth collide in the Ascension, Pentecost, and life of the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Astonishment and orientation toward loving Jesus by loving others.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A model of true Christian worship in the first post-resurrection assembly.
Speaker: Various --- A snapshot of the missional partnerships of Vox. Perception Funding, Truth & Life, GiveDignity, Hope Bridges.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Travelers meet with Jesus on the way to Emmaus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- St. Mark's storytelling invites us into discipleship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Resurrection Sunday: the last word of death is the first word of resurrection.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Rightly ordered idenity and work and the completion of calling.
Speaker: Troy Lakey --- God does not abandon, but invites us to abandon ourselves.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The third word of Christ from the Cross; the new family of Jesus formed around the cross.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The second word of Christ from the Cross; the longing for we know not what.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The first word of Christ from the Cross; letting go of the brand to live from the true self.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - Ash Wednesday Gathering.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Paul's thoughts in his final words to Timothy and the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An invitation beyond simplistic categories into the complexity of real community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Using language to cultivate life and health.
Speaker: Brent Heid --- Joseph as a study in leadership character.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A household takes on the characteristics of its leader(s).
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Paul writes to Timothy concerning leadership.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Redeeming the past: embracing, forgiving, and re-narrating.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Four things to remember about your own transformation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Acceptance and naming our restlessness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Hope as a way beyond optimism and escapism.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- We have a relationship with time.
Speaker: Troy Lakey - Learning to live each moment with God.
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- Part 8 - The finale of the Rest & Resistance series.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 7 - Sabbath as the practice of giving our full attention to what we love most.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- Relational evangelism in the way of Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 - Sabbath imagination as a marker for identity and membership after the exile.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 - Mid-series review; Israel's journey and relationship with Sabbath as a means of neighborliness.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 - Sabbath as breaking free from a new threat of slavery.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 - Rest and the invitation out of Pharaoh's system.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 - Rest and the first commandment.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 - An introduction to the Ten Commandments through the fourth commandment.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 - How we know Jesus existed and who Jesus thought he was.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 8 of 8: The surprise blessings and some words about the coming season of Vox.
Speaker: Brent Heid --- Part 7 of 8: Stirring the water on the way to peace.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 of 8: We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 of 8: God is like Jesus; Jesus is like the beatitudes.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 8: The politics of Jesus in the government of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 8: The humble, quiet, trusting, will get their share.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 8: Blessed are the depressed.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 8: Blessed are those who are poor at being spiritual.
Speaker: David Greusel --- Locating the gospel in a space; from a garden to a city.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An explanation of Vox's approach to worship; a panel update about our fundraiser toward a future meeting space.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- Training for life of financial generosity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The community of Christ is a house that can withstand storms when it is founded on his words.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The appropriate response to the gospel, and the posture for working out salvation.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Taps & Reveille, learning to care about the good news of Easter.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The prophetic witness of the church to the reality of God's future.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The eastward flight of human civilization, and the call west.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Pilate and Jesus at the trial of the powers.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The cure for life-killing boredom in the beauty and mystery of Christ on the cross.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christ on the cross and the superpower script.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Learning to live in the house of the Lord through the restoration of the soul.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Power, prestige, and prosperity: our programs for happiness.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Fear and evil on the path, and comfort from the shepherd's instruments.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- What motivates God's leading, and our choosing.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- He leads me in paths I choose, and paths I do not choose.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The soul in the human system.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The good shepherd.
Speaker: Seth Sears --- Costa Rica missionary and friend of Vox on the story of Jonah.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The good reasons to give: needs, rules, and love.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Why Christians give ten percent of their money to God's work in the world.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A generous posture that gives light to the world.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 5 of 5 - Living in the generous illuminative gaze of our Father.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 4 of 5 - Who can we trust?
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 3 of 5 - Consumerism as the new Gnosticism.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 2 of 5 - "Who do you love?" is the orienting arrow to reality.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 1 of 5 - John the Evangelist writes to bolster confidence in Christ.
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Speaker: Joe Goodwin --- 6 of 6: The giving gift.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 5 of 6: What does what we do reveal about what we think about Jesus?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 4 of 6: God is relational.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 3 of 6: God chooses Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 2 of 6: Recovering the biblical setting of primary doctrines.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- 1 of 6: Doctrine is intended to be the healing teaching of the church.
Speaker:Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 2 - Finding a wise and faithful path forward for our church.
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Ain't No Grave - Speaker: Rustin Smith
Voice Sunday - Sabath keeping - Speaker: Jonathan Jones, Rustin Smith & the community
Speaker: Aaron Mills ---- Being a Christian vs a Disiple
Speaker: Brent Heid --- Why Jesus
Speaker: Klee, Fay, Schmidt --- Stories
Speaker: Resa Eastwood --- Putting Christ On
Speaker: Jamie Roach --- Prodigal Son
Isaac Anderson --- Turning to God
Speaker: Paul Hill --- Purity backfires
Speaker: Jonathan Klee --- Why Pentecost?
Speaker: Jon Bowles --- Hope
Speaker: Tim Suttle --- Overflow: Vulnerability
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4: Love
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3: How we see determines who we become.
Speaker: Costa Rica Team --- Sharing about recent trip
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2: Beauty is not what it is.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1: Resurrection means the present can frame the past.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lent Series Pt. 4 - For-ness as a mark of suffiency in the sweet society of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lent Series Pt. 3 - The proven theaters and practices that lead to living water.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones - The Vox Council announces a sabbatical season for Family, Creative, Pastoral, and Congregational renewal.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lent Series Pt. 2 - The Danger-Fear-Control cycle can be replaced by Surrender-Safety-Faith.
Speaker: Peggy Heid --- Lent Series Pt. 1 - The 'with God' life is based on God's promise to be with us.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones - Bitterness leads to destruction; we are the people formed by grace.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5: The church is a community where people experience the beauty of God, learn to live life with Jesus, and participate in God's mission.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4: The church gathers around the column of social action in the mission of God.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3: The church gathers around the column of restoration and formation in community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2: The church gathers around the column of experiential spirituality.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1: The unstoppable church-community reveals Jesus to the world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 4: Welcoming the other into the same and the visitation of Christ.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 3: Giving and Forgiving in the reckless way of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 2: Justice calls for our incomplete response.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 1: True Events are ongoing, vocative, and impossible.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 7 of 7: The Prophet of the Exile describes the way of return to God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 of 7: Isaiah and the experience of 'the holy' that leads to committed participation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 of 7: Elijah reforms the community with prophetic worship, and finds provision from God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 7: David and prayer toward an integrated life.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 7: Moses and names, stories, and signposts.
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Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 7: Abraham and the Way of Faith
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 7: Remembering the figures and tales that give shape to who we are.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 4 - The early church in contrast to Josephus and the Zealots.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 4 - Jesus in contrast to Caiaphas and the Essenes.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 4 - Jesus in contrast to Herod and the Pharisees.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 4 - The Jesus way wedded to the Jesus truth leads to the Jesus life.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- All-ages gathering. Characters converge at a hole in a roof to become entry points into the Jesus life.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 10 of 10 - Founding our lives in the teaching of Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 8 of 10 - The value of the kingdom changes how we evaluate one another in community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 7 of 10 - Locating our resources in the most secure place.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 of 10 - The Lord's Prayer is a central, revolutionary framework for learning how to pray.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 5 of 10 - The secret life is rewarded by the Father.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 10 - Jesus intends to make citizens who can live in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 10 - Jesus has come to fill the Law to the full.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 2 of 10 - Our corporate idenity as Salt and Light.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 10 - The coming of the Kingdom means surprise blessings.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Receiving, Remembering, Responding: a Trinitarian strategy for life in the church.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 7 of 7 - We she walks on the street, you can hear the strings: the Jesus mission has a sound.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 6 of 7 - We can avoid the grace of God.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 5 of 7 - Grace is free, but it is not cheap.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 7 - Grace constitutes a new society that is alive in Christ.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 3 of 7 - There is grace in the desert.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 7 - Grace is for Resurrection, Creation, and Mission.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 7 - Grace is the form and medium of God's power to bring life out of death.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 7 of 7 - The greatest sin.
Speaker: Chuck Whittington --- Part 6 of 7 - The longing to set things right inside justice, love, gentleness, and grace.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 of 7 - The plague that destroys at midday.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 4 of 7 - The sick sin of comparison.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 7 - Arrogance and fear destroy joyful generosity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 7 - We are made to hunger for sustenance and to desire union.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 7 - An introduction to our Lenten series on the historic seven deadly sins.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 of 6: Responding to an invitation to whole humanity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 of 6: Forging a life apart from God.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 4 of 6: Life through the waters.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 6: The sons of Eve suffer.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 6: The downward phsychological spiral of the fall.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 6: God creates a functioning cosmos out of what is formless and empty, good news for a people in exile.
Speaker: Robyn Adams --- We are undone, but we are undone...
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 4: We are not primarily defined by our thinking or doing, but by by our loving.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Advent 2: Exchanging our Isolation for the Peace of the Kingdom.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 1: Hope replaces worry in the Kingdom of God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Christ the King Sunday is marked with child dedications and a preview of Advent.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 of 6: Work of the People: blowing the ashes of Christian worship.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 5 of 6: Work of the People: blowing the ashes of Christian worship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 6: Work of the People: blowing the ashes of Christian worship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 6: Work of the People: blowing the ashes of Christian worship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 6: Work of the People: blowing the ashes of Christian worship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 6: Work of the People: blowing the ashes of Christian worship.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- A reflection on Psalm 126 and the first ten years of our church-community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 of 5: Our vision overrides our ability to hear.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Part 4 of 5: What is God doing and how do we move more into God's life?
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 5: We have not arrived; we are already here.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 5: No one designs new app for an old iPhone. Cultivating a posture of flexibility, compatability and receptivity to what Jesus is doing now.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 5: What the river says. Preparing for the tenth anniversary of our church-community.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- What we renounce when we say yes to following Jesus in baptism.
Speaker: Kyle Gillespie --- Zacchaeus shows us what it looks like to say yes to Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 4: An introduction to baptism in the Vox Dei Community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Unlikely storylines are brought to a dramatic result by a conspicuously absent God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Ruth 4: Naomi's risky plan tests our sensibilities about God's activities.
Speaker: Rob Elkins --- Bucket fillers and bucket drillers: spuring one another on with the power of an encouraging word.
Speaker: Kristen Brown --- Ruth 3: Boaz finds his way into the story through daily obligation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Ruth 2: Naomi goes back to God and God's people with grievances.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Ruth 1: Ruth does what we would not do; God is like Ruth.
Speaker: Rustin Smith - St. Barnabas, Pentecost, Ruth, and the commissioning of a new Pastor. Vox welcomes Kristen Brown!
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Easter 6: Recovering a Biblical view of the future of the cosmos.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Easter 5: To care about justice is to care about Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Easter 4: The church is a community in a world where community is dead.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Easter 3: Marks of being an apprentice of Jesus; honesty, yearning, doubt, and humility.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Easter 2: The church lives by a peculiar narrative, so our experience can only be as deep as our yearning.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Easter Sunday: What we believe is what we see is what we are is what we do.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lent 6: Despair is the location of God's being.
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Speaker: Jon Bowles --- Lent 5: Neighbors are replaced by institutions, leaving us craving community but resisting what commuity requires.
Speaker: Tisha Gillespie --- Lent 4: Work & love, consumption & intimacy, and the thin idenities we form in our bodies.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lent 2: God meets us in our encounters with death in all its forms.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Lent 1: Death is a monster that comes to separate us from our identity.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The tasks of the church find their source and fuel in the virtues of Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus and Paul and the difference between a bad and good kind of hypocrisy.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The journey to recovering the human vocation requires navigational support.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus comes to live and make possible the restoration of the human vocation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Aristotle's framework for transformation invites a significant innovation from Jesus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Rules versus Authenticity as two options in finding the best way to live life in-between the beginning and the end.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An orientation to 2011 for Vox Dei Community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus was born into a time of agony.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 2: God is a giver but we are not God.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Advent 1: Financial and relational pressures of the season requires new possibilities for living well.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Voice Sunday is an annual look back and forward in the Vox Dei Community. Vincent Van Gogh orients us with a critique of the church of his day.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of 4: Psalm 15 as an orientation into proximate justice.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 4: Psalm 15 as an orientation into the neighborhood.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 4: Psalm 15 as an orientation into the power of words.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 4: Psalm 15 as an orientation into God's integrated world.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 13 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. A final word for the beginning of the conversation.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 12 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 11 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. The alternative ways of getting things done.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 10 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. Morality is not maturity. The ordinary, relational, shy way the Spirit inhabits our choices.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 9 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. The how, why, and what of becoming mature.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 8 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. Prayer, the native tongue of the church, is personal, communal, and deep language.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 7 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. Inscape seeing as the posture of maturity in the church.
Speaker: Jonathan Jones --- Seeking the welfare of the city.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An introduction to baptism in the Vox Dei Community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 6 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. Jesus is our peace.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 5 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. It is grace or nothing.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 4 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. It is here. We are on it. It us under us.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of a conversation on growing up in Christ. The cosmos is bigger than we imagined.
Speaker: Tisha Gillespie --- Part 4 of 4 in a series about patterns of evangelism throughout Scripture.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 3 of 4 in a series about patterns of evangelism throughout Scripture.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 2 of 4 in a series about patterns of evangelism throughout Scripture.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Part 1 of 4 in a series about patterns of evangelism throughout Scripture.
Various speakers contribute to a community reflection on a long journey through the gospel of Luke.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus leads and blesses his followers who respond with worship and a joyful return into the neighborhood.
Speaker: Kyle Gillespie --- The physical resurrection as a call for local, ordinary presence.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- The disciples recognize what is familiar in the midst of the unfamiliar on the road to Emmaus.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- In the aftermath of resurrection, two orienting questions and a response.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- An invitation to atheism and resurrection.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Gazing upon the cross gives us the potion that breaks the spell of our dominant cultural religion.
Speaker: Rustin Smith featuring David Clark and the Vox High School class --- Part one of two weeks in the crucifixion narrative of Luke.
Speakers: Meredith Muenks, Jonathan Klee, Kyle Gillespie, Rustin Smith --- Three members of a medical relief team share some of their experience with the Vox Dei Community.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Everything sad will come untrue.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Three 'nothings' revealed in dinner conversation between Jesus and his guests.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus eagerly hosts a meal for his friends.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus prepares a ritual while Judas sides with the crowd.
Speaker: Rustin Smith --- Jesus looks ahead to a turn in history that requires a broader conversation.