The Current (10.20.10)

	In This Issue... Calendar of Events Community News Recommended Reading: Ted Grimsrud Voice & Verse
	Kingdom Tide 'think' Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010 Time: 5:30-7:30p Location: Butler Church, Rms 17/18 (4884 E Butler Ave) Please join us as we think about prayer through the lens of the Disciple's Prayer (Matt 6.5-15). Childcare will be provided.
	Common Meal Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Time: 6-8p Location: the Schneider's home (6916 E Heaton Ave) Please join us for food and fellowship. Bring a dish to share. Place settings and drinks will be provided.

Community News No Name Fellowship Luncheon Thursday, October 28, 2010, 11:45a-1:15p Guest Speaker: Dr. Danny Carroll - Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary and author of "Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible" Dr. Danny Carroll is a board member of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, he serves on the editorial boards of Religion and Theology (south Africa) and DavarLogos (Argentina), and is a contributing editor to Prism magazine. Dr. Carroll holds a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, England. Location: Fresno Pacific University, Ashley Auditorium 1717 S. Chestnut Avenue (Chestnut & Butler) Cost to attend: $10 Please RSVP by email or by phone to Gloria Meyers [gmeyers(at)leadershipfoundations(dot)org - 559.233.2000] RSVP deadline is 3:00 p.m. Monday, october 25 Please note rules that apply: 1. Day of event walk-ins will be charged $12, no exceptions 2. No shows or cancellations after the deadline listed will be charged $10.00, no exceptions. www.nonamefellowship.com Fresno Multifaith Exchange: Islam Sunday, November 21, 2010, 3-5p Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno (2111 E Nees Ave).  Participants are expected to be firmly grounded in their own religious tradition, while at the same time demonstrating an interest in interfaith dialogue and in personally experiencing religious pluralism.  It is hoped that participants will be able and willing to take this initial experience beyond the Multifaith Exchange program itself, back into their own religious communities. For more information, see the Mission Statement and the 2010-2011 Schedule. For handouts from the previous Exchange at the Sikh Gurdwara, click here and here. There is also an interesting news story recently  in the New York Times regarding the Sikh faith. A Question of Appearances: Obama Will Bypass Sikh Temple on Visit to India. Recommended Reading Jesus as troublemaker by Ted Grimsrud reposted from his blog "Peace Theology". I have started again on my series of sermons on Jesus based on the Gospel of Luke. My October 17 sermon, the eighth in the series, focuses on Luke 9, which is a focused discussion on Jesus’ identity— prophet or Messiah or Son of Man or Son of God? These are the options mentioned in the text. The sermon suggests that the key motif in this chapter of Luke that clarifies Jesus’ identity is how Jesus was a troublemaker. And he serves as a model for his disciples to join him in “holy troublemaking.” The sermon may be found here: it’s called “The Troublemaker.” The other sermons in the series may be found here. Ted Grimsrud teaches theology and peace studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. His blog, peacetheology.net, considers the issues of war and peace, violence and nonviolence, from a Christian theological perspective.

Voice & Verse “To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.” - Christina Baldwin "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. "This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven,   hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,   your will be done   on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts,   as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,   but deliver us from the evil one.' For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. - Jesus, Matt 6.5-15 "The Current" is a weekly email publication of Kingdom Tide and is open to community input. Distribution is typically on Wednesday evening. If you have an article, a blog, a request or anything else you would like to share, please contact Barry at barrymast(a)gmail(dot)com.

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"The most important [commandment] is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." - Jesus

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Kingdom Tide is an alternative, emerging, Anabaptist Christian faith community of Butler Church
[4884 E Butler Avenue, Fresno, CA]