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A happy and merry Christmas from everyone here at Revolution. Jay did a special Christmas Day talk for everyone, and we think it will perk you up more than salt in your coffee! Today Jay talks about the Christmas SpiritâŠbut probably not in the way youâre thinking. He focuses on trying to find a way for us to live the Christmas Spirit all year longâbut we donât mean decking halls and sleigh rides, weâre talking about the spirit of kindness that we almost all unify with for one day of the year. But if it can be done one day, it can be done all days! We just have to get there. Today Jay also discusses the idea of echo chambers. Itâs easy for us to see otherâs echo chambers and judge them while ignoring our own, but the truth is no one is exempt from echo chambers, we all have them and weâre all part of themâthey just look different. But the real paradox and conundrum we face is that even though no one is spared from being a part of an echo chamberâŠChristianity shouldnât actually be oneâŠbut it is. Jay looks at the letters of Peter and James today in discussing how we can hopefully swap out our personal echo chambers, and instead focus on the humanity of everyone. Because if we focus on that then maybe we can find a path to expand our âecho chamberâ rather than be limited by it. If we see ourselves in each other, it makes it easier for us to be kind and gentle to all, and to treat everyone with respect. Unifying together is how we survive! By focusing more on our commonalities than on our differences. And in doing that, we learn how to become âcurious, instead of furiousâ (thanks for great idea, Linda!)
This talk was given on December 25, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Weâre all tired, and weâre all frustratedâand that shared sentiment can be heard in this talk. Sometimes it all feels like itâs too much. Too much hate. Too much anger. Everything we do seems to come at the expense of someone else, itâs maddening. Today Jay discusses the idea of love and power. Are love and power polar opposites? Can the two ever share a same space? Do churches today speak truth to power? Can we unite in diversity? Because it often feels like the powers that be fear bringing people together. Can we all work together for justice with power that has love in it and embraces diversity? Is this possible or is it just a utopian daydream? God is love. And God without love is no God at all. And power without love is power with no God at all. Itâs all starting to be too much. Something has to give! How much more divided can we be, how much more divided can politicians make us? Billionaires make us? It makes us all want to scream. But luckily if it makes us all want to scream, than that means weâre all united in this frustrationâand finding any way that weâre all united can be a pretty strong starting point to finding our way to this utopian dream.
This talk was given on December 15, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Todayâs talk so something pretty cool! After years, Jay gives a talk to a live audience! Jay Bakker Live from ECMCC! Itâs really fun to listen to Jay speak and hear feedback and reactions, rather than just reading them in chat. But even though the setting has changed, the talk, and spirit of Revolution stays the same! Today Jay talks about peace. He does a deep dive into the Gospel of Matthew and discusses the Beatitudes. He also talks about how the Kingdom of Heaven is now, not off in the sky in some distant future, but here and now! Especially if youâre feeling poor in spirit, which many, many of us are. Even more so these days. Jay discusses living life on lifeâs terms, but also how we have to be the narrow road walkers! We have to find a way to fight monsters without becoming one ourselves. Because if we all truly believed what we say we do, wouldnât society and social media look different? Wouldnât there be more peace and uplifting? Wouldnât there be a change in mindset and attitude? How can we become that change? How can we do all of this and still stay on the narrow path? This is a great talk, in front of a great group of people! More in person speaking engagements please!
This talk was given on December 8, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Todayâs talk is a bit different, but also very much in line with Revolution. Weâve often heard Jay talk about Martin Luther King Jr, and the influence he had in his lifeâin that same vein, today we are going to look at Malcom X, another hero of Jayâs. We know that idea might be strange to some, and alarming to others, especially because today Jay is talking specifically Malcom Xâs pilgrimage to Mecca. The reason Jay is focusing on this aspect of his life is because some really beautiful things and revelations happened for Malcom X on this voyage. It had a profound effect on him, which later had a profound effect on Jay. This specific example from Malcom Xâs life shows the true strength of grace, kindness, and generosity; the seeds they plant and the fruit they produce. Today Jay talks about love without agenda, and how judging, devouring, and dancing on each otherâs graves only yields misery and bitterness. And a lot of the time bitterness and giving up are more contagious than love and compassion on. Bitterness spreads like wildfire! Today, through Malcom Xâs words and teachings, Jay discusses the Narrow Path, and what it means. Have we had it backwards this whole time? We really think youâll enjoy this talk. God can use absolutely anyone to teach us anything Malcom X is no exception. This talk says a lot about the capacity for change, and the incredible blessing that it can be.
This talk was given on December 1, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Todayâs talk isnât just about disagreeing well, and arguing wellâthatâs what it might seem like at first glance, but actually, itâs about navigating the reality that we live in. No matter what anyone feels about conservatives, liberals, LGBTQ, or any person they disagree with, the reality is: They exist. Plain and simple. Whether or not someone agrees or disagrees or recognizes them, or not, it doesnât change the fact that they exist, and this is our shared reality. We need to find a way to all exist together. And learning to disagree and disagree well, is vital to that. And so is arguing well. Often times we might ask ourselves whatâs the difference between disagreeing and arguing, and how to navigate in those momentsâand that is what todayâs talk is truly about. We live in a time of arguments. And many of the disagreements we find ourselves in the middle of are usually based on misinformation. Misinformation that we blindly take as fact. How can we battle this? We need to remember that we have to love each other. Love our neighbors and our enemies as if there was no difference between them. Even when we donât like them, we have to love them. Especially when we donât like them. It may not seem it, but arguing and disagreeing is more important than we realize, because leaving no room for disagreements is what leads to war. Freedom is messy! Humanity is messy! Disagreeing is messy! There is pain and conflict that canât be avoided. But if pain and conflict, and suffering, is something we all go throughâdoesnât that just mean itâs our shared experience? And maybe, if approached correctly, instead of dividing us further, it can actually heal us, and bring us all that much closer together.
This talk was given on November 24, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Today we have something a bit different, but itâs awesome and weâre excited to share it. Jay sits down with longtime friend Brian Yarbrough and together they discuss some questions people have submitted. Jay discusses his time in New York at the premier of the Tammy Faye Musical, and all of the people he met along the way. The people that influenced him, and that were influenced by his mom. It was a very special day for Jay and he gives us a real inside look. Together, Jay and Brian also discuss favorite music and bands, favorite comic book characters, how Elton John smells like acceptance and love, what Jay is reading these days, and if Jay could have Revolution anywhere in the world where would it be. They also go into depth on how to work with people we disagree with, people we donât even particularly like, and how to focus on seeing past the binary thinking. Donât be fooled by the more fun questions, this talk gets real. Like, real, real. It gets heavy at timesâbut like everything with Revolution, itâs full of grace, and humanity, and heart.
This talk was given on November 17, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Itâs a crazy time with a lot of emotions after the election. A lot of wide-ranging and diverse emotions from everyone. Ranging from despair and quitting, to invigorated and inspired, to celebrating victory. Here at Revolution, we try to respect the entire spectrum of emotions, ideas, and people. Revolution will always fight for equality, on every level we can. If you are in despair, itâs not overâthis is what Revolution trained for. If you are celebrating, please do so, while seeing the humanity and others and understanding why they might not be feeling the same way and help them, with love, understand where you are coming from. No more biting and devouring. Letâs all give of ourselves to each other in hopes that it will bring about a truth that is higher than politics and parties. Are we so devoted to politicians that it blinds us to the humanity of each other? Do we want a revolution but not want to have to endure a revolution? We have to all work together and see each otherâs humanityâregardless of political leanings, this is the ONLY way forward. Seeing each other as humans. All of us. Because grace is anarchy. It doesnât hold to one system or leaning. Grace is for everyone, no footnotes or exceptions. MLK says we will remember the silence of our friends. This is what weâre saying, we canât be self-focused, we need to be others-focused, because weâre not alone in this. If we want change, we have to learn to take the higher ground. How do we live in such a divided world and still find a way to help mend this division? We donât know, really, we donât, but we donât see any path forward, any hope in mending division if we canât all come together and see each otherâs humanity. See each other as human. This is the only way. We can do this!
This talk was given on November 10, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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The election is here, tomorrow as a matter of fact, so we wanted to get Sundayâs talk out a little ahead of schedule to give people time to listen before everything getsâŠwell, how itâs going to get. This talk isnât about politics, sort of. It is, and it isnât. Itâs about radical acceptance, about knowing what we can and cannot change and learning to live life on lifeâs terms. Itâs about the smallest things in life meaning the most and helping the most, especially in the darkest times. Are the Beatitudes a small thing that helps us the most? Is it Paulâs letter to the Galatians? Is it each other, and friendship and love? Is it all of the above? Itâs uncertain times like this that really emphasize the importance of community. Because when we divide, we stay divided. A lot of us are nervous and on edge, so letâs be kind to others and ourselves. Weâll get through this, one way or another, and we can only do it by helping each other. No matter how this turns out we love you all, and weâll see you on the other sideâin every sense of the phrase.
This talk was given on November 3, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Jay is super under the weather, but he throws on a hoody to keep the chills away so he can deliver us a really interesting and thought-provoking talk on what it means to be a Christian. The talk came about after Jay received criticism and questioning on his beliefs and when he wasnât able to be cleanly labeled and divided it gave him the idea for this talk. So in a sense this talk is your basic Revolution âgrace and loveâ talk, but it is needed. Itâs a topic that always should be revisited because it is that important. Can the Bible become an idol if weâre not careful? What about grace is so scary to us? Why do we feel it needs to be earned and can be lost? Why do we treat a relationship with Jesus as sand falling through our hands? Making it almost impossible to maintain fully. In the end it comes down to this: Grace is a free gift and there is nothing we can do about itâŠexcept to just accept it.
This talk was given on October 27, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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One of the perks of doing a pre-recorded talk is that sometimes youâre midway through a talk and you realize things just arenât clicking how youâd like, and when that happens in a live talk you just have to try to power through and hope it all works out in the endâbut when itâs pre-recorded you can just put a pin in that talk and revisit it later. Thatâs what happened this week. Jayâs original talk turned out to need a bit more tweaking and work, so he put it back on the shelf and recorded a new talk. In this new talk Jay dives into the topic of scapegoating, what it is and why we do it. He also discusses the idea of The Lack. What is The Lack? What does it mean to embrace The Lack? Is embracing The Lack at the core of Paulâs message to the Galatians? There is a lot going on in the world. A lot of suffering. Itâs at times like this society tends to do the most scapegoating, because in a strange way it gives us comfort in uncomfortable times, but at what price? Here at Revolution, we discuss disagreeing well, because maybe confrontation is needed for growth. Maybe confrontation can help us? But we have to do it right, we have to do it in a way where we find common ground and a shared humanity. Itâs harder to see each otherâs shared humanity through a computer or phone screen but that is where we spend the bulk of our time, so we have to find a way to recognize the humanity in others through a screen. Because arguments arenât the end of the world, and we shouldnât fear themâŠwe just have to learn how to both argue and disagree well.
This talk was given on October 13, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Big doings for Jay recently! He fills us in on his trip to NYC to meet with the folks who are producing and performing the Broadway musical about his mom, including Sir Elton John! Crazy! Today talk though is a bit of an audible. Itâs a really great talk! It wasnât, however, the original talk he had plannedâthat talk got derailed when his plane ride home from NYC lost power and had to make an emergency landing! Scary stuff, but everyone is okay and safe and sound! But with that talk being too much to tackle on no sleep and a nightmare of a plane ride, Jay switched his focus to Paul Tillich and really knocks the talk out of the park. Tillich is an absolute favorite here at Revolution. Jay discusses two of Tillichâs sermons and wow, do they get you thinking! Do non-Christians do a better job of showing love than Christians do? If weâre void of love, are we void of God? Is genuine love the presence of God? What is calculated justice? Are we living a life of passionate grace, and passionate love? Or are we just calculating justice? Does the Golden Rule have limits? Does love have a limit? And maybe the heaviest hitting question of the bunchâŠWhere does God abide?
This talk was given on October 6, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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The world is always suffering, always has been and always will beâso the world needs us to show love and grace to each other constantly, as much as we can. Whatâs todayâs talk about? Jesus and Paul, of course. Two of Revolutions biggest staples! Throw in a touch of Martin Luther King, Jr., John Hume, and Tammy Faye and you canât go wrong! The only hiccup with getting inspiration from all of these heavy hitters is that the lessons they teach are often easier said than done, and todayâs talk is no different. Itâs important, but we acknowledge that it is progress over perfection. These lessons are hard. Easy to teach, harder to practice. But we should always try. Doing good today is better than being perfect tomorrow. We need to love each other. Sometimes itâs easy, and sometimes we have to love from afar. Find a new, different way to love someone while still keeping our distance. Luckily loving someone doesnât equal liking them. Is there a way to hate evil, but not hate the people that do evil? Are they one in the same? Is groupthink our biggest downfall? Do we need more rebelsâpeople to go against the flow. Does that help us more, or is it too scary of an idea? Or is it both? Today Jay tries to tackle some of these hard questions by diving into both Luke and Paulâs letter to the Romans. What does it mean to think like Jesus? To think like Paul? When it comes down to the beliefs of Christianity what is the hardest part? Is it the rules? Or is it loving others?
This talk was given on Sept 29, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Why do we do things we donât want to do? Why canât we always do what we want to? These are topics that Paul brings up in his letter to the Romans. It is also a concept that Revolution favorite Paul Tillich dives into when he discusses the concept of sin. At Revolution we believe in grace and acceptance over all things, thatâs why we put a lot of trust in our two Pauls! The Apostle, and Tillich. Together they make a great team in their exploration of grace, questioning the laws of religion, and what it means to truly feel accepted. At times probably almost everyone has felt that God hates them, or maybe God has left them. Where does this feeling come from? Is it possible that this feeling is also one of the closest ways to be connected to Jesus? Do the rules and laws of religion amplify these feelings? These feelings of a being sinful and useless and unloved, not accepted by God or the church or ourselves? Where does this roadblock come in? How can we get the breakthrough thatâs needed to understand grace? What does it mean to have a life above ourselves? This talk doesnât have all the answers, but it is a great, great, place to start as we try to figure out more about God and ourselves and others.
This talk was given on Sept 22, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Today Jay dives into some of the philosophy heâs been reading and shares a lot of the lessons and insights heâs picked up in his studies. In this talk Jay talks about community, but hand in hand with that Jay also discusses the idea of alienation. How the feeling of being alienated is an essential bond that unites all of us. Itâs our common ground. Jay also ties that together with some thoughts he has on inclusion. On what true inclusion looks like. How true inclusion involves having different views and backgrounds, this canât be avoided if weâre seeking to actively practice inclusivity. Jay asks us to look within ourselves and our groups and ask if we have any unseen asterisks next to the grace we show people. Do we see the shared alienated humanity in everyone? Or do we make exceptions on who gets love, grace, and inclusion. How does alienation affect us? How does oppression affect us? How does it affect others? And maybe most importantly, are we becoming all the things we hate by alienating others and forming close exclusive communities that arenât as inclusive as they appear?
This talk was given on Sept 15, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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In todayâs talk Jay discussed the Good Samaritan. Like almost all of Jayâs talk, itâs about thatâŠbut really about so much more. Itâs about the Samaritan, and the man beaten, itâs about Jesus and itâs about Paul and itâs about Gaza. Itâs about Martin Luther King, and John Hume and Tammy Faye. Itâs about forgiveness and grace! It is about Jayâs compulsion to forgive, or at least trying his hardest to. Today Jay also expands on a principle instilled in him by his mom, and that is we all have a shared common humanity that keeps use connected to each other. We canât forget that or overlook it. Often, we struggle with the idea of forgiveness, but Jay poses the question that if we reframe forgiveness as mercy rather than sacrifice does it change things? If we see forgiveness as just more than all the adjustments we have to make and overcome, does that reframing help us? Is this how we can find ways to be kinder to everyone and build better bridges? What happens when we think like the Good Samaritan thought? If we see that all people are people and all people matter. What happens if we let grace do what grace does?
This talk was given on Sept 8, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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This will be a bit of a shock to our viewers and listeners but today Jay will be talking about the Apostle Paul. I know, we canât believe it either. Paul is a bit of a troublesome character these daysâŠor is he? That is what Jay is exploring in todayâs talk. Heâll be re-examining Paul and his writings. Are we reading Paulâs letters correctly today? In their correct context? Did Paul know he was writing the Bible at the time? Is everything attributed to Paul actually Paulâs writing? These are some of the topics weâll be exploring today. Because Paul gets a lot of hateâŠand also Paul is the person a lot of Christians quote when using the Bible to justify their biasâŠbut Paul also is quoted at almost every wedding when talking about loveâhow can someone with a message of love and grace that echoed Jesusâs same teachings sit on both sides of the spectrum? Maybe weâve been wrong? Maybe the context of Paulâs letters is the key to everything! The Bible is so complex with so much nuance, letâs not be afraid to take these deep dives so that we can learn more, know more, and so that we can unlock more. And letâs do all of that together.
This talk was given on Sept 1, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Jay received a text that a dear friend of his, Bobby, had passed away. This news came as a shock and devastation to Jay, so today is a bit of a memorial for Bobby. This talk is hard to summarize, because itâs not just about Bobby, but itâs about grace, and how grace is for us and for others, that there is no asterisk. Itâs about telling people you love them, while you can. Itâs about letting people know the impact they have on your life while youâre able to tell them. Itâs about realizing that grace isnât too good to be true. Itâs about the nuance of life. It's about being there for people when they need you. Itâs about the dangers of pushing people away. The dangers of retreating into yourself. Itâs about the power of community and love and the impact we can have on each otherâs lives. Itâs about love, itâs about friendship, itâs about grief, itâs about loss. Itâs about togetherness. Itâs about Bobby.
This talk was given on August 25, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Lately a lot of our talks seem somber but recently weâve been living in some tough times, and here at Revolution we try to live life on lifeâs terms, but as of lately those terms are pretty somber. There is a famous quote about some of the things weâll remember most in this life will be the silence of our friends when we needed them. We donât want to stay silent, and we donât want to make our friends or any loved one feel alone, like they donât have anyone in their cornerâthat is for our brothers and sisters both local and abroad. All over the world. Today Jay discusses how all conflict stems from differences, the problem is that difference is the essence of humanity, so there will always be differences. Jay dives into the gospel of Matthew, as well as some letters from Paul to try and see what grace without peace looks like, and what we can do to both show each other grace, and to be peacemakers.
This talk was given on August 18, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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The world is upside-down and on fire. Everyone is killing each other, being nasty to each other, violence is begetting violence, bombs are falling everywhereâŠand our tax dollars are footing the bill. Itâs making us go madâand enough is enough. Weâre stumped, weâre at a loss, so today weâre going to be leaning on King. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a great map on how to approach conflict resolution, and on that map is his speech Beyond Vietnam. Weâre going to take a look at this speech, and weâll be treating it similarly to how we do other scripture and letters in the Bible. Why? Why not! We donât see any reason why we shouldnât treat it that way. King refers to speaking up and speaking out, and to peacekeeping as a vocation of agonyâand here at Revolution we couldnât agree more. Itâs tiresome, constant, and unceasing. But itâs part of the work and it comes with the territory. Can you have grace without social justice? And can you have social justice without grace? Because this is part of it, right? They go hand in hand and should be talked about equally. We are all accepted as we are, not how we should be. And if we donât grow to learn that and see that in others than have we arrived at spiritual death? Can this part of the work, speaking out against the dangers of people wielding power without compassion, be the mustard seed of faith and hope that we need? This is a good one folks, and Jay pours his guts into it. Jay is a punk rocker at heart, always has been and always will be, so when he gets to talking about Social Justice and combines it with his calling to show and teach grace, itâs hard hitting and great. Buckle up folks! Weâre in this fight together, and we can only win it if we stay together and love each other.
This talk was given on August 11, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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Love is a common thread through all of the talks that come from Revolution. Love and Grace. And this week we continue that thread when Jay looks at 1 John to unpack what the Bible says about love and about loving God, and about how God loves. We seem to live in a time of almost exclusively biting and devouring each other, or as Jay puts it, Dancing on Their Graves. But when we do that, instead of how the Bible calls us to gently and humbly restore one another, then where is the love? Do we leave room for others to make mistakes? Do we demand perfection over progress? The struggle is that some of us have hurt that runs so deeply in us that we canât help but pay it forward, even if we donât want to. Even if we try not to. But we always have to keep trying. Again, progress over perfection. Because what if how we love others is how we truly love God? What if how we know God, and Godâs place in our lives, is by how we love others. That is how we experience God. So, letâs let love rule. Because if any of us are saints, itâs not through works, itâs not through religion, itâs not through hateâWeâre saints because of grace.
This talk was given on August 3, 2024 from Seattle, Washington.
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