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New Series: The Truth Project

This Wednesday, September 17th, we're starting a brand new series call the Truth Project. see website view the trailer

This is an awesome video series all about worldview. It will challenge us to wrestle with some BIG questions about life, God, culture, etc.

Each night, we'll watch a video and then have a discussion time.

I'm really looking forward to this series, and I'm praying that God will challenge us, transform us, and use us.

Only TWO MORE disciplines to go!

In April, we kicked off a study on Richard Foster's book, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth. In the book, Foster covers 12 different spiritual disciplines that encourage spiritual growth in our lives. In the same way that a farmer must cultivate his soil to see growth, we too must cultivate the soil of our lives so God can transform us and grow us.

So far we have covered the disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, study, simplicity, solitude, submission, service, confession, and worship. The final two disciplines are guidance and celebration.

Tonight we'll be discussing the importance of the discipline of guidance as it relates to individuals and also the corporate body.

New baby + New School Year!

Baby Josiah was born on August 15th! We have been very busy and tired as we're adjusting to adding the fifth member of the family!

Brini and I are excited to get the college+career group going again. We love hosting and leading this group - you guys are awesome!

We're resuming our study on the spiritual disciplines tonight at 7pm with a discussion on discipline #10: Worship.

Please note the dates posted on the right hand side of the blog for our Fall schedule. I pray blessings on all of you as we enter the fall season.

Cheers,
Andrew

Beach Bonfire Night

On Wednesday night, June 18th, we're meeting at Seabright at 6:30 to hang out, play games, eat, sit around the bonfire, etc...

We want to celebrate the homecoming of our friends who were away at college.

So bring friends and bring food to share.

Drinks and S'mores will be provided.

Hope to see you there!!!

G3: Groups of Three

Last week, I introduced an exciting way for each of you to reach out to your friends. The idea is to form a small group of three people to meet once a week and talk about God together.

It's a great way to invite people into a conversation as opposed to inviting them to a church service.

Here's the site where you can get more info about G3 groups: http://www.metamore.org/pages/Groups%20of%20Three

We'll be getting into groups of 3 and "test-driving" the G3 concept throughout the summer...

New Place to Meet

Hey everyone! We're all moved into our new house now:
359 Nature Dr. #A San Jose, CA 95123.
We are looking forward to hosting this group in our new home. If you need help finding us, an interactive map for our new house is posted in the right column of this page.

Also, remember to come back to our blog often to check the schedule and see what's coming up...

FASTING

Tomorrow night we'll continue our series on Spiritual Disciplines with a discussion on FASTING.

Fasting is one of the toughest, but most rewarding, spiritual disciplines. I hope our discussion will inspire you to consider making FASTING a regular part of your life.

Hope to see you there!

SPECIAL EVENT - APRIL 30

Next Wednesday, April 30th, we're going to meet at Almaden Lake Park (click for map) at 6:30pm to play bocce!

Bocce is a fun game for everyone - and super easy to learn.

We'll hang out and play bocce, then all go out to eat dinner somewhere. (bring some moolah for dinner)

These fellowship nights are a great opportunity to bring friends! Let's invite our friends and pray that they will experience God as they connect with our community.

No Group This Week!

Hello friends,

We won't be meeting this week. My childhood best friend will be in San Jose on Wednesday speaking at VCHS chapel. Then a bunch of my friends from elementary school will be hanging out in the evening. It will be the first time we've all been together in about 15 years!

Jared was my best friend all growing up. He moved to Kansas right before Jr. High. He got married a few years ago, and 6 months later his wife died in a huge car accident. Jared got burned over most of his body. It's a crazy story!

Click here to see my friend Jared's story.

Notes are Now Viewable Online

If you missed last week's or this week's discussions, the notes are now published online! Click the links below to view/print the notes:

Celebration of Discipline Introduction 04.02.08

Discipline #1: Meditation 04.09.08

Discipline 1: Meditation

Last week, I introduced our new series based on the book called, The Celebration of Discipline (see post below).

This week, we'll be discussing the first discipline: meditation.

We will look at passages of scripture in the Bible that encourage/describe meditation. We'll discuss what meditation is and what it isn't. We'll talk about how, when, and where to do it.

Then I'll challenge all of us to block out some time during the day to escape the NOISE and busyness of life and spend time meditating on God and on His word.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all!

New Series: Celebration of Discipline

I'm really excited to start a new series based on Richard Foster's book: Celebration of Discipline. In the book, Foster covers 12 unique spiritual disciplines that help us on our spiritual journeys: meditation, prayer, fasting, study, simplicity, solitude, submission, service, confession, worship, guidance, and celebration.

We'll spend each week discussing one of the disciplines - see the schedule for which discipline we'll be covering. My hope is that we will be able to apply these disciplines into our daily lives, so I'll be assigning a special challenge each week!

I'll be preparing worksheets (like usual), but if you want to buy the book and do some extra reading on the disciplines, that would be great!

A New Start...

The new year is always a time to look ahead and make plans for the future. It's a time for new beginnings and a fresh start. This week, when we meet, we'll be discussing the future of the College + Career group.

What do we want to accomplish this year?

What do we need to work on in our lives?

Where can we be regularly serving?

We'll ask these questions together and make some plans.

I'm very excited to see what God will accomplish in us and through us this year. I want us to dream BIG! Let's not put any limits on what God could do...

I hope to see you there tomorrow night at 7pm!