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OCTOBER | IT'S COMING...

On Our Knees

we can read every book on leadership and spiritual growth ever written,
we can think and ponder relentlessly over how to build a successful ministry,
we can find the spiritual masters of our world and ask them what we should do to bring growth to our churches,

and yet even with all these things if we don't get down on our faces and simply obey what the living, loving Spirit of God guides us to do, I think we're missing the point.

By the way the "getting down on our faces and seeking Him" is one of the things we need to be doing during our worship times together (figuratively and/or literally). This is something each person must choose to do for themselves--no worship leader can do it for you.

A.W. Tozer writes: "Corporate worship is perfected when individual worship is purified."

Let's seek Him and obey Him as we love Him together.

ISAIAH 66

1 This is what the LORD says:
"Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
2 Has not my hand made all these things,
and so they came into being?"
declares the LORD.
"These are the ones I look on with favor:
those who are humble and contrite in spirit,
and who tremble at my word.


Love you all,
timothydavid

Christmas from Menlo Eleven

Check out videos from this service here: MENLO ELEVEN CHRISTMAS SERVICE

Matt Whitney - Seattle Artist

UPC ADVENT PAINTING from Andrew Pearson on Vimeo.

Hey friends,
There are few people that I've met who have shaped my understanding of art in the church as much as this fellow.  He is a dear brother and fellow creative soul.

Check out his work and philosophy of art at www.matthewwhitney.com
Or follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mattwhitneyart

Highlights from "Jazz" Menlo 11

Thanks to everyone who made this possible!
It's so good for us to experience worship in a different way than we're used to!  
It helps us to remember what worship is really about. See you Sunday!
-timothydavid

Mp3 of the Week - 11.29.09

An oldie but a goodie: "Living Water" from Sanctuary last night.

See you next weekend friends!

-timothydavid

Menlo 11 tomorrow!

This weekend we have a great combo coming in to lead us in worship.
The mp3 posted is a preview of one of the songs they will be playing for us.

DON'T MISS THIS WEEKEND!

Here are the players we have this weekend:
Piano: Hardy Hemphill
Bass: Jared Milos
Drums: Kent Reed
Sax/Flute: Chazz Alley
Vocals: Tim Williams, Julie Glazener, Kerah Richardson
Acoustic: Tim Williams

Menlo 11 "You'll Come"

See you Sunday, friends!

Thomas Merton

These pages are from a book I love, "Dialogues with Silence" by the trappist monk Thomas Merton. This book is a collection of Merton's conversations with God through prose and sketch that I find most moving and inspiring in my own pursuit of the Holy. My advice: buy this book--grab a latte, and go sit on a park bench in the sun.

-timothydavid

The song of the week
This is a version of "It is Well" featuring Debbie Shaeffer from menlo 11 this last weekend. Debbie, way to rock it!

The sermon of the week
There are a number of sermon podcasts that I subscribe to weekly. So I decided to post my favorite pick of the week each Monday.

This week I'm featuring Pastor Scott Scruggs' talk from Sanctuary last night titled: "What about Hell?" This is perhaps the most informed and most powerful sermon I have ever heard on the subject. I encourage you all to find time to listen to it.
Subscribe to the Podcasts from Sanctuary at: www.sanc.info

Blessings friends,

-timothydavid