Our Communion Song and Message:

Click here to listen to our communion song we sung last Sunday night:

Click here to listen to Tom's message before we take communion (also last Sunday night):

Thanks Amy for helping me with this. I'm really trying to be a techno savy kind of guy... but trying is the key word!

Listen, enjoy, share, comment.

Bobby's new article

Here's Bobby Williamson's (our "Bible guy") new article: http://sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=777

It's really good, though he forgot to include any mention of TLR ;)

TLR in part

At The Living Room we don't want to be too comfortable defining ourselves because the moment we do so, we've created standards apart from God's unimaginable dreams for us

Well, I wrote a description on my other blog and I hope this description changes:

i'm a part of the living room. we're a self-described emergent community with a relationship to the pcusa (since tom, is ordained in the pcusa). we meet at tilt coffeeshop in the castleberry hill historic arts district.

our gatherings are unique in that we exercise in local theologizing. we converse, experiment, relate, and wrestle with faith, scripture, culture, and ourselves together to build a dynamic theology for God's kingdom on earth. there is no sermon except for the sermon we create together. and the songs we sing are created by our community for our community. our liturgy is raw and flat, while simultaneously rich and elaborate. it's creative, spontaneous, biblical, mystical, imaginative, and contemplative. we espouse an ancient-future paradigm where we draw from our ancient, historical traditions but create new liturgical expressions as we look towards Jesus' reappearing. our lord's supper is supernatural and symbolic, communal and priestly.

our kingdom mindset is missional where we take with us redemption and beauty towards those in our lives who yearn for those things. we seek the justice of God. the voices of the margins are the voices where God's kingdom erupts. we pray for those who wonder how long they'll sing their song. and we sing those songs along with them.

we're literally young and old. we're multi-ethnic. we come from various christian traditions, or no traditions at all. some of us barely believe in God. but we worship in faith together.

Tim Keller and "The Reason for God"

Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in NYC, visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "The Reason for God." This event took place on March 5, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. It is an hour long - but is VERY though provoking:

This Is The Living Room

Aren't we an eclectic bunch?