L'Abri Fellowship - Southborough

Double Listening - By Dave Friedrich

A lecture given by Dave Friedrich at Southborough L'Abri on October 5th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Double Listening

To meet someone who listens well to others and to God is both rare and rewarding.  But there is a way to become that person – someone who practices what John Stott called double listening.

~David Friedrich

 

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Life in the Spirit in our Age of Authenticity - Joshua Chestnut

A lecture given by Joshua Chestnut  at Southborough L'Abri on September 28th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

If the spirit of our age is to be true to oneself over all others, what might the work of the Holy Spirit look like?  In this lecture we will consider some patterns of chaos in our day as the backdrop to reconsidering the unexpected work of the Holy Spirit.

~Joshua Chestnut

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Caring for Creation Part I. Friends, Foes or Food: What is the nature of our relationship to Animals? - Ben Keyes

A lecture given by Ben Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on September 21st, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Sept 21 Caring for Creation Part I. Friends, Foes or Food: What is the nature of our relationship to Animals?

This lecture begins a series on Creation Care (continued by Anna Friedrich, Oct 26). The human relationship to animals is a broad topic that includes our treatment of wild animals, companion animals (pets) and farmed animals. Each of these areas has long standing controversies connected with it. This lecture will focus primarily on wild animals. We will explore the nuanced perspective that the Bible brings to an often polarized conversation.

~Ben Keyes

 

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Between the Sound and the Sense: Reading the Bible to Find the Trinity - Joshua Chestnut

A lecture given by Joshua Chestnut  at Southborough L'Abri on September 14th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Between the Sound and the Sense: Reading the Bible to Find the Trinity

In this talk we will look at how the doctrine of the Trinity arises not from leaving the biblical witness aside (as it has been accused of or assumed to) but instead from understanding the bible as a narrative whole whose center is the sending of the Son and Spirit. 

~Joshua Chestnut

 

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Skills for Being Human in a Smartphone Culture - Given by Joshua Chestnut

^{A lecture given by Joshua Chestnut  at Southborough L'Abri on July 2oth, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.} 

Skills for Being Human in a Smartphone Culture
By Joshua Chestnut

From giving you the best route home to tracking your workouts and communicating across the world, no other gadget in human history can compete with a smartphone in its ability to consolidate so much of your life into a device that fits into your pocket. But this convenient consolidation has come with a host of problems, and in this lecture we will consider some of these negative consequences as well as constructive practices with the hope of learning to live well and wisely in this world.

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Traveling Plans for Following Jesus as Suggested in “…deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.” - Dick Keyes

A lecture given by Dick Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on July 13th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

How can you hold together the idea of denying yourself and taking up your cross with the abundant life of following Jesus?

 

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"Surprised by Joy”: Apologetics and the Imagination - Given by Linny Dey

A lecture given by Linny Dey at Southborough L'Abri on July 6th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

While “honest answers to honest questions” are still helpful for some, there are fewer questioners and fewer people today who believe that there is one answer that fits all.  If Christianity is the truth which all people need, Christians need to consider ways other than reasoned argument to make that truth clear.  This lecture will look at how understanding the significance of the imagination and our imaginative vision of reality can be an aid in developing a different kind of apologetics.  We’ll look at, among other things, how the great thinker C.S. Lewis’s conversion to Christianity, his being “surprised by joy”, was primarily a conversion of his imagination.

 

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America’s Polarized Politics - Given by Dick Keyes

A lecture given by Dick Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on June 29th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

America’s Polarized Politics

We will reflect on the nature of our polarization and ask – could Christian people help?

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Creative Work is Work (Part 2): What is (and isn't) Artistic Inspiration? by Sarah Chestnut

A lecture given by Sarah Chestnut at Southborough L'Abri on June 22nd, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

Creative Work is Work (Part 2): What is (and isn't) Artistic Inspiration?

This lecture will explore conceptions - and misconceptions - about artistic inspiration and experiences of transcendence in the arts, considering questions such as, "Where do ideas come from? Is there something—or someone—other than me involved in the creative process? What is meant by having a ‘transcendent experience’ with a piece of art? What are we after when we engage with art?" 

 

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Cultivating Joy: Learning from Flow Psychology, Ecclesiastes, and Jesus Dave Friedrich

A lecture given by Dave Friedrich at Southborough L'Abri on June 16th 2018,  Part 3 of 3 for our Summer Seminar: "A Flash of Eternity: Happiness, Joy and the Good Life"

 

Cultivating Joy: Learning from Flow Psychology, Ecclesiastes, and Jesus
Dave Friedrich

This lecture will compare and contrast what positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the Assembler of Ecclesiastes (also known as the Preacher), and Jesus of Nazareth have to say about the meaning and promotion of joy.

 

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