Bella Eden Podcast: Recent Episodes
chris lopez
Bella Eden is a WILD + GRACE + COMMUNITY based out of Austin, TX. Wild because we do life and church and spirituality in the wild wild. Grace because we aren't only saved by grace but we reign in life by grace. And community because its more fun to do stuff together than alone!
Lyrics:
I give you all my worship
I give you all of me
and through it all I'll worship
through it all I'll sing
when I rise, when I rise
through it all I'll sing
when I rise I'll worship
when I rise I'll sing
Your Name, Your Name
Your Face, Your Fame
the desert love:
I hear you whisper
in the sweet surrender
no fear in the waiting
I hear you calling
I love you calling
I feel you calling
Love
- by Chris Lopez
Bella Eden Music: Tidal Wave EP available everywhere
download the full album on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tid...
Bella Eden is a Wild + GRACE + COMMUNITY based out of Austin, TX. For more info visit our website at https://www.bellaeden.org
Bella Eden Music: Tidal Wave EP available everywhere
download the full album on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tid...
Bella Eden is a Wild + GRACE + COMMUNITY based out of Austin, TX. For more info visit our website at https://www.bellaeden.org
Bella Eden Music: Tidal Wave EP available everywhere
download the full album on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tid...
Bella Eden is a Wild + GRACE + COMMUNITY based out of Austin, TX. For more info visit our website at https://www.bellaeden.org
Bella Eden Music: Tidal Wave EP available everywhere
download the full album on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tid...
Bella Eden is a Wild + GRACE + COMMUNITY based out of Austin, TX. For more info visit our website at https://www.bellaeden.org
Peter Monterroso's message of GRACE shared at the Homeless Outreach Soup Kitchen on 7/16/17.
"The rose flowers without a why" Rilke
"I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys." Like a lily among the thorns, So is my love among the maidens" Song of Songs 2:2
Luke 15 shows a Father who is extremely confident, confident in Relationship, Reconciliation, and Grace. I believe this is how God is towards all of us, towards all humanity. The Father in Luke 15 lets both of His sons BE FREE. They are both totally free. Free to waste money, Free to obsess of being a great steward, free to sleep with harlots, free to be a virgin, free to ask for a lot of money to spend at the strip club, free to ask for nothing (not even a skinny goat), free to party, eat and drink, free to work in the field. The two sons are very different and live very differently and see their Father very different. The consistent Person in the story is the Father. He's consistent in running to both sons to reconcile. He's consistent in Grace and Goodness and Mercy. He doesn't punish either sons, not once in the whole story. He's consistent in keeping things free, free to live and grow and learn. Our Heavenly Father is confident, not insecure. He's confident that His Grace and Relationship will win both of His sons over so He can LET THEM BE FREE AND LEARN LIFE. Grace is confident. An insecure Father would not have given his son the estate early to waste on wild living. But our Father is secure in Himself, in Grace, to win everyone over.
All Humanity is Clean, Beautiful, and Diverse. See Acts 10, Peters Trance. God tells Him "do not call anything unclean, impure, or unholy, what God has made clean." In the context of Acts 10 - you can see that God is referring not only to animal life but humanity. The work of Jesus' Cross, The Father reconciling all things to Himself through Christ, is bigger and more inclusive than most think. God has made all clean in Christ, and humanity's true and real identity is not sinner or other awful labels, its BELOVED OF GOD, CLEAN, HOLY. Lets drop nasty unuseful labels and pick up God's "All Are Clean" - Do not call unclean what God has made clean. :) Peace and Love!
Message by Peter Monterroso given on June 18th at the Austin Baptist Soup Kitchen Homeless Outreach.
Music sketch by Chris Lopez
Lyrics
Let there be light
let it come across the sky
every heart
come alive
its just what I need now
its just what I see now
every heart
come alive
Lets raise it