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  • Influent Streams


    What Is Influent Stream? from Awakenings Movement on Vimeo.

    Through the Influent Streams Project passionate musicians perform originally-arranged and written music in local venues, art shows, and open mic sets each week. Through "influent streams" of music and art, this project seeks to influence culture, inspire new music, awaken sensibility, and raise social awareness.

    As many of you know The Influent Stream Project has launched a 48-week citywide tour featuring eight AM bands and four quarterly concerts that promote new passion and new music. Each quarter concludes in a concert that celebrates the work and passion of two IS bands in a full concert.

    The second quarter's Influent Stream features Kuumba Freeque and Epiphany.

    We dare you to FOLLOW THE STREAM!

    UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
    Tue, June 30 - Epiphany @Concert Pub (5636 Richmond Ave) | 9:30 pm | No cover


  • Weekly Online Devotional : Engaging Eternity by Marlon Hall


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    Marriage Engagement is a wonderfully strange and paradoxical movement in a young man's life. If he marries a woman out of his league, (as every man should), that woman not only says "yes" to the man he "is," she also commits to the man of vision and ideals he "is becoming." When I asked Regina to marry me, she loved the man I "was," a man who had big dreams, but worked as an administrative assistant with a closet for an office and lived in between crackhouses in a 500 square-foot apartment with loud A/C window units that had to be turned off and on in between conversations. Regina also loved the man of infinite possibility and promise that I "was becoming." As a man engaging a woman in marriage, your end of the bargain is to commit who you "are" and who you "are becoming." Your dreams, possibilities, vision, and imagination meet your present state and you become a completing package that gets to kiss the bride at the altar.

    Engagement is a parable for entering eternal life. It is a space in the soul where "what is" meets "what ain't". Where who you "are," is instantly connected to who you "are becoming." So, when you ask God if you may have His hand in holy movement, He desires who you are now and who you are becoming. To engage the bridge between our physical world of boundaries and his boundless world of eternity, God dares to ask for what we can't afford to give Him and who we aren't in that moment of engagement. It is not some enlightenment or resource we wait to have, to give. We must give Him what we have and what we don't have now.

    Jesus offered eternal life to a young man who was waiting to bury his father. Burying a parent in this cultural context was more than just crying and putting an old black suit in the cleaners. It was a cross-generational exchange of real estate, rights, and even manhood. In letting his father go at the funeral, he was also gaining his father’s lineage and life to build upon and continue the family heritage. What Jesus asked the man to do was no simple task because his very manhood was at stake. "So the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."" Luke 9:59-62

    Come on now... the dude had not even gotten one cuff link, watch, or even an inch of land and Jesus asks for everything at that point? Jesus was asking him to be a man of eternal vision before he was even a man. How could Jesus ask him to give a life that he did not even have yet? This is what Jesus asks of all of us. He asks us to give dreams that are not realized, womanhood that is not fully developed, and money that we can not afford so that we may engage that space where what we have meets what we don’t have and where who we are meets who we are becoming. Will you give the life you don’t have today to engage a life that never ends?

    Read Luke 9:59-62 and answer the following questions.

    1. Are you in the position to give God what you do not have?
    2. Do you believe that you are one step away from bridging the divide between where you are and where you are going?
    3. What decision can you make today to follow Jesus and sacrifice what you don’t have to do it?

    Now pray the following prayer that helps us engage eternity:

    God, Prayer is not overcoming your reluctance; it is laying hold of your highest willingness, and we desire to follow you where your best willingness leads us. Forgive us for waiting to become something to give you everything and give us the courage to give what we do not have to gain what we can’t lose. We are not where we long to be, but give us the imagination to believe that when we give ourselves to you through our daily decisions, who we are becoming becomes one with who we are. (If you feel God pulling you, then continue the prayer in your own words)

  • Ripple Effect vol. 3: Facing Our Fears


    Thematic Series

    This current thematic series is the scariest one yet. We are venturing into territory that we all move furtively and intentionally to avoid as we carry out the daily functions of our lives—facing our fears. We are learning through this thematic series that we have two choices: to face our fears, or to wear fear on our faces. The former requires that we stop, acknowledge and examine our fears with the wisdom of God in order to be free. The latter ensures that we run with all our strength and might into decisions, situations and relationships that we were not designed for, but that congeal to form a prison, confining us and preventing us from living the destinies for which we were lovingly designed.

    We must go on a journey that includes recognizing the sound of change, discovering what our faces are for as we then turn to know our fears, face our fears and with God's love, power and truth, run toward them to dispel the lies that inflate them into imaginary monsters.

    For the next few weeks, we will take the most risky steps we ever have into places in our hearts and minds that we have fought vigorously to outrun, choosing to abandon frail hopes that what we fear will disappear eventually and choosing instead to believe that what we fill find is a pathway that leads to our dreams, a more intimate relationship with our Creator, and the life He dreamed for us to live. This will NOT be easy, but it WILL be life-changing. Join us if you dare...


    Download: FacingOurFearsIII.mp3

  • The Trouble with Belief by Epiphany


    Thematic Series

    So I have this issue with belief...being that I am an artist and I normally have a very non-linear way of thinking and doing things, abstract concepts usually make perfect sense to me. But lately, I find myself bound by the concrete existence that, might I add, is barely there for me right now. I never thought that I would be the person starting over again, and here I am. Everything I thought was so sure about my life, the few things I actually held any confidence in, are gone now, and they are not gone because of something I did, but because of what I didn’t do. God said, "Move from here" and I didn't believe him. I thought if I just hung out a little longer, we could work out a fair compromise, or, at least determine, where do I go when I leave this place in life?

    While waiting on God to clarify himself, I looked up and it was all gone. So here I am reading John 3 and thinking about what it takes to live eternally. I could be like Nicodemus, who was a believer only because he saw Jesus' great miracles...not really grasping the real concepts of belief and only thinking I have something to believe in when I see the physical manifestations. Or I could be like John the Baptist, who was not rich or powerful, but firmly stood on the idea that, "Anyone who accepts His (Jesus') testimony...can have eternal life."

    So often I am stuck in my own rut believing that because I don't see any good in my life at the moment then something has gone terribly wrong. But John 3 shows that eternal life, the only one that matters, is not based on what you can wrap your hands or mind around, its on the impossible, the unbelievable, the highly unlikely and improbable...A man can be sent from Heaven, be born of a virgin, die, and three days later get up and be lifted back into the skies so that I never have to feel alone, unloved, or unworthy. I believe this, so therefore I must know that a woman, or man, can lose a job, a house, a loved one and remain faithful to their destiny as a child of the Most High God in Heaven and BELIEVE that there is a place in eternity for them.

    So, okay, yeah...I don't have anything right now, but I've got everything forever.

    I'm A Believer!!!!!

    God,
    Thank you for an opportunity to live another day in the glory that is the earth created for me. Thank you that no weapon formed against my mind, family, home or friends will prosper. Thank you for that peace that will continue to re ssure me of my destiny here in this life and lead me to an eternity hereafter...I love You, and I am sorry.
    Selah,
    Epiphany

  • New Life Documentaries



    Intro from Awakenings Movement on Vimeo.

    The video gallery features stories of three ordinary people who have made extraordinary decisions and life changes in 2008. The begin 2009 no longer full of themselves and emptied to be filled. They have chosen to lose what they can not keep to gain what they can not lose.

  • New Life Documentaries: Russel



    Russel from Awakenings Movement on Vimeo.

    New Life Documentaries

    The video gallery features stories of three ordinary people who have made extraordinary decisions and life changes in 2008. The begin 2009 no longer full of themselves and emptied to be filled. They have chosen to lose what they can not keep to gain what they can not lose.

  • The Awakenings Movement Worship Experiences


    The Awakenings Movement Worship Experiences

    Our Weekend Worship Experience is held on Sunday at The Eldorado Balloroom (2310 Elgin).

    The newly refurbished Eldorado Ballroom provides 76 years of rich history, providing a place to perform for such greats as Count Basie and B.B. King when other venues in Houston would not.

    The Awakenings Movement has partnered with Project Row Houses (owners of the Eldorado Ballroom) to use uncoventional public spaces for authentic worship. Childrens Church is available for the 12:30 Sunday worship experience for ages 3-11. Join us this weekend as we continue the movement!


    Download: LettersX.mp3

  • The Awakenings Movement: The Continuum


    The Awakenings Movement: The Continuum

    Join us for an interactive journey this week! We'll get together to discuss and respond the letters and stories we experienced this week. Be a missionary like little Taylor and bring 3 friends with you to experience a hands-on, interesting activity that will help you to process and apply all that we have learned through this thematic series.

    Time: 6:30pm
    Date: Thursdays
    Place: The Eldorado Ballroom


  • New Life Documentaries: Epiphany



    Epiphany from Awakenings Movement on Vimeo.

    New Life Documentaries

    The video gallery features stories of three ordinary people who have made extraordinary decisions and life changes in 2008. The begin 2009 no longer full of themselves and emptied to be filled. They have chosen to lose what they can not keep to gain what they can not lose.

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