[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] News for This Week: Thursday!

This week we're moving our GTS and GLive practices to Thursday in anticipation of Spring Break!

The guys are meeting for LIFE group at Kevin D.'s apartment at 6 pm, Thursday night. The staff'll bring dinner so just bring yourselves and your DT, and then we'll head to GTS together after. Here are the meeting rooms for GTS:

• Gospel Snapshots: First Pres Gym


• Course 101: Mears Room (down the hall from the gym)


• Course 101X: First Pres Sanctuary


• Survival Kit 1: Tilden Room in the MLK building on campus


• Church 101: Stephens room (MLK building on campus)

Junior girls are meeting for LIFE group at 5:45 pm at Jenny's office.

And here's another one of those GLive ads:



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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/19/2009 08:52:00 AM

[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] Undo Trailer: Parking Meter

This made me laugh and was a good way to start the week.


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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/17/2009 03:25:00 PM

[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] Super Santa Cruz Saturday

At long last, I uploaded our Santa Cruz pictures online. What a day that was. The junior guys across Koinonia and Kairos took time off from their busy schedules and decided to go on the mother of all one-day outings. The night before, we had GLive practice at NorthLoop, and decided to just stay the night in Alameda. First though, we packed the supplies, got the firewood, and then rewarded ourselves with late night In-N-Out. The next morning, we packed up our stuff, cooked up home made egg mcmuffins, and did our devotions together through Luke 11.

The day was packed:

• Dangling 60 feet in the air, tramping through the ropes course, swinging from platform to platform, balancing on thin cables with nothing to hold onto except one another, conquering our acrophobia; fear can contribute to a real bonding experience.


• Rock climbing on three climbing courses. We cheered each other on, egged each other one, encouraged one another, and experienced really sore forearms all together.


• Ultimate frisbee on the field with the Koinonia sophomores who had also come. In a sophomores versus juniors face-off, the juniors lost: 2 games to 0 (10 points each game). But through that time, I realized Brian J. (jr) is a scoring machine, and John X. (so) is a defending monster.


• Beach football. Tackle. 'Nuff said.


• Barbeque on the Santa Cruz SeaBright Beach with the setting sun as our backdrop, cans of clam chowder and hearty potato soup our dinner, marshmallows, s'mores, and good laughter.


• Time of singing songs around the campfire, remembering that God's the one who's placed people in our lives to shape us, mold us, love us, and with whom we can run this spiritual journey. Time of praying for one another, committing to God and to each other, and experiencing a fresh sense of fellowship as brothers.

And then it was time to go home. Chime in if you had a good time.

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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/14/2009 07:49:00 PM

[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] NEWS for this week--

GTS as usual is at 7 pm tonight at First Pres.

But beforehand, come join us! We're heading to Nations, home of famous southern burgers (and salads, if that's your thing) and wondrous banana creme pie! We're meeting at Anna Head West at 5:15 pm to grab some food at Nations, and will be back to First Pres so we don't miss our GTS classes.

As usual, GLive practices afterwards. Be prepared!

In other news this past week:

• Super Santa Cruz Saturday was action-packed: ropes course 60 feet above the ground, zip line, rock wall climbing, ultimate frisbee juniors vs. sophomores, football on the beach, a bonfire, talk about guy bonding! Pictures (and video) coming soon!


• Saturday's Redwood Hike: the girls went on a nice stroll (AKA Hike!) through the redwoods last Saturday, lunching out in nature w/ the squirrels, trees, and fresh air.


• Sophomore LIFE group extravaganza. Pictures also forthcoming


• Thursday night Fentons. Some of the guys went--one of them ate the Fentons Challenge in 3 minutes. Yes, we have it on video, and you'll see it soon!


• www.gracepointlive.org -check it out and get excited

See you guys tonight!


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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/13/2009 12:25:00 PM

[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] Gracepoint Live website is Live

Gracepoint Live is coming up fast. Less than a month away. The GLive website is live (no pun intended). There's a neat video online too, which I've embedded below:



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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/11/2009 04:06:00 PM

[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] This Week's DT: Romans 13

Romans 13 is our Scripture Reflection for this week. Here are the questions:

MON Romans 13:1-4
• What is the state of my relationship with those who have authority in my life?
• What place does fear have in the way I relate with those in authority?
• What can I do to be free of fear of those in authority?

TUE Romans 13:7-8
• What vision of human relationships is pictured here?
• What hinders this vision from becoming reality in my life?

WED Romans 13:7-8
• Who are the people I interact with? What do I owe each of them?
• Who are the people I may not interact with, but towards whom I owe a duty of some sort?
• How would a person's relationships change if he went from the attitude of "people owe me" versus "I owe people"?
• Which of these two attitudes typically characterize me? How can I specifically begin to give people in my life what I owe them?

THU Romans 13:8-10
• Reflect on the truth that love is the fulfillment of the law. Why is this so amazing? How does this change the way I view people in my life?
• Reflect on the truth that all of the commandments are summed up in the command to love my neighbor, and the truth that, when I sin, I am doing "harm to [my] neighbor." How does this motivate me to become a person of greater love and greater obedience to God's commandments?
• What does it mean to love your neighbor "as yourself?"

FRI Romans 13:11-12
• What characterizes the "present time"?
• Why is it important to"[understand] the present time?"
• What is it that causes me to slumber?
• What are the things I'm called to do as "The night is nearly over; the day is almost here."

SAT Romans 13:11-13
• What does it mean that "our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed?"
• What does it mean to put on the "armor of light?"
• What is the relationship between "[putting] aside the deeds of darkness" and "[putting] on the armor of light?"
• What are the deeds of darkness I need to "put aside?"

SUN Romans 13:14
• What "desires of the sinful nature" dominate my thoughts?
• What practical step is being urged in the words "do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature?" How can I specifically carry out this advice regarding my thought life?
• What does it mean to "clothe [myself] with the Lord Jesus Christ," and how can I specifically carry out this exhortation in my life?



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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/09/2009 08:26:00 AM

[H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley] GLive Practice: Juniors

On Friday, the juniors went to North Loop and embarked on a brave new world: taking on the GLive skit on our own as just Koinonia. A2F and Kairos paired up to tackle the skit on their own too. It was a lot of fun reading lines, acting, seeing the yoga people do their thing.

Any juniors want to chime in here how it went?

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Posted By kevan to H.1, Koinonia, Gracepoint, Berkeley at 3/08/2009 02:41:00 PM