• You Need a Revelation of Jesus
    Mar 5 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

    This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.

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    #bible #jesus #artists #Belonginghouse #lent #revelation

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    26 mins
  • Tempting the Master Artisan
    Feb 26 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people. This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.

    You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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    #bible #jesus #artists #Belonginghouse #lent #temptation #artists

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    30 mins
  • Perfect Love
    Feb 19 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people. This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.

    You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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    23 mins
  • The Mind of Christ and Discernment
    Feb 12 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.  This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.   This week's readings are I Corinthians 2:6-16 and Matthew 5:17-37.

     

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    #jesus 

    #artists 

    #Belonginghouse

    #kingdomofgod 

    #sermononthemount

    #discernment

    #prophetic

     

    We cannot understand the Kingdom using worldly systems

    worldly logic,

    and worldly paradigms.

    Grids.

    It is interesting when you read a lot of commentaries,

    that most of the people writing them are either not believers

    or believe that the work of the Holy Spirit ceased.

    And most of it is not helpful.

    This is what Paul describes as the "unspiritual man"

    who does not receive the gifts of the Spirit

    they are folly.

    And then Paul says the spiritual man

    judges all things because it is in the spirit that things are discerned.

    So what Jesus is telling us

    lines up with Paul.

    Jesus is showing us that the moral code

    that is required of us in heaven

    is beyond human ability.

    Jesus is building up to the crescendo of his sermon:

    Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden

    and I will give you rest.

     

    Come to me.

    Come to me and I will give you my mind.

    Come to me and I will help you give you my emotional stability.

    I will help you with your impossible marriage.

    I will help you with you rotten brother.

    I will help you with contracts and agreements

    so that your yes will be yes and your no will be no.

    I will help you with your wandering eye.

    I will be in you.

    And this is only in the Spirit.

     

    And in order to do this,

    you need the gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

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    53 mins
  • Trusting in the Power of God
    Feb 5 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

    You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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    32 mins
  • The Blessed Ones
    Jan 29 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

    You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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    Throughout this season 

    we are going to come back to one theme:

    How do we experience grace?

    This is not Biblical language, but rather,

    language that comes from the controversies 

    that happened five hundred years ago.

     

    The terms from the reformation

    introduced a vagueness into the Christian experience,

    that persists to the present day.

    The New Testament talks about life in the Holy Spirit.

    And this life in the Holy Spirit 

    is the experience 

    of God's favour, 

    goodness,

    lovingkindness,

    and Person, Presence, and Power in our lives.

     

    One passage of scripture that suffers from 

    a vague interpretation

    is today's gospel.

    The Beatitudes.

    Because I grew up in a liberal church,

    I have heard the beatitudes used to support

    a variety of political and social causes.

     

    And preachers can get away with this

    because the English translation is vague and broad.

    And the words in our Bibles are bland enough

    that anyone can read into them their own interpretations.

    And a number of errors have become common,

    like living in poverty is a better way of life

    than being prosperous.

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    42 mins
  • Grace without Jesus is not Grace
    Jan 22 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

    You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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    31 mins
  • The Grace Experience
    Jan 15 2023

    Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people. You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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    30 mins