New Beginnings

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving, taking my kids and visiting my parents in Tennessee. If you're on Facebook then you can check out some new photos from my trip. So, this past Sunday night The Living Room finished up its study/jam session on the Book of Acts. For the past three months we have been studying the first thirteen chapters of the Book of Acts. We learned so much about how the early church came into being by power of the Holy Spirit made known to us through God's Son. I want to thank everyone who came and was apart of the gestation phase of our development as a new community of faith. We've come a long way, baby!

What's next...starting this Sunday night our gatherings will "look and feel" more like worship - we will sing original worship music, continue our biblical jam-session, and have communion. Here's some details:

• This Sunday is the beginning of Advent, a time of preparation for the arrival of the birth of Jesus the Christ. The theme for our Advent season is Advent Conspiracy: Restoring the Scandal of Christmas by Worshiping Jesus through Compassion, not Consumption. This Sunday, December 2nd, we will jam on Luke 1:46-56 - known as the Magnificat, or Mary's song. We will restore the scandal of Christmas by meditating on Mary's song that includes such lyrics as, "(God) lifted up the lowly; he filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." Hmmm...

• This Sunday, Dan Ra will be leading us in music. For those who weren't able to be with us two weeks ago, all I can say is that you won't want to miss hearing Dan's unique composition of worship music! Borrowing a concept taken from classical music, his contemplative style is reminiscent of what's being called "Holy Minimalism" - check it out:
  
  
  
  
  click here to read a post from Dan's blog.

I want to major props to Haddon Givens Kime for putting together this wonderful web/blog site for The Living Room. Now it's your turn to add your two-cents... The "comments" button is below.

Troy's Convo on Emergent

This is from my good friend, Rev Troy Bronsink, on the topic of Emergent. This is from last Sunday's Sunday School class at Trinity Presbyterian in Atlanta, Georgia. Rev. Katie Givens Kime is the moderator of the conversation. Good stuff!

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Octane First Post!

Heya everyone, Haddon and I are at Octane and we just started us a website! Praise the Looooord!