David Miller

At the Feet of Jesus – David Miller from Discovery Church on Vimeo.

Bellarive is a band that is revolutionizing corporate worship.  There is so much to say about this band but I’d rather allow their music to speak for itself.

Their new album has just been released on iTunes.  Click below to get it for yourself.

Check out their Facebook Fan Page HERE

If you would like to bring Bellarive to your church, camp, or other event email Sean Curran at seancurran@discoverychurch.org

Life moves so fast  sometimes that we forget to take an inventory of how God is moving in our lives.  Below is a excerpt taken from David Loveless’ blog about the spiritual inventory taken by John and Charles Wesley.

In the early 1720’s John & Charles Wesley were students at Oxford University in England.  While there they began to refine a process for increasing piety through a systematic practice of personal accountability.  The brothers encouraged other classmates to gather with them weekly for the purpose of discipleship and accountability.

Out of those discipleship meetings John developd a series of 22 questions that were used for evaluation of one’s life.

1. Are you consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that you are better than you really are? In other words, are you a hypocrite? How do you know?

2. Are you honest in all your acts and words, or do you exaggerate?

3. Do you confidentially pass on to another what was told you in confidence?

4. Can you be trusted? Why?

5. Are you a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits? How would you know?

6. Are you self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?

7. Did the Bible live in you this week? Can you share an example?

8. Do you give it time to speak to you every day? What do you hear?

9. Do you enjoy praying? Why?

10. When did you last speak to someone else about your faith? What was their response?

11. Do you pray about the money you spend? What are the answers?

12. Do you get to bed on time and get up on time? If not, what’s getting in the way?

13. Do you disobey God in anything? If yes, what is an example? If no, see question 2.

14. Do you insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy? Why and what or why not?

15. Am you defeated in any part of your life? What would that be? What are you doing about gaining victory?

16. Am you jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful? How do you know?

17. How do you spend your spare time? Give some examples.

18. Are you a proud person? How do you think your closest friends would answer that question about you?

19. Do you thank God that you are not as other people (like the Pharisee who despised the publican)? How would you know you are not like that?

20. Is there anyone whom you fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what are you doing about that attitude?

21. Do you grumble or complain constantly? How would you know?

22. Is Christ real to you? What are the evidences?

*David goes deeper into the importance of evaluating where you are in the start of his new series iThrive.  Click the icon to check it out.     

It’s also important to take inventory of the passions and gifts  God has given us and how we can be integrated into being apart of The Body (The Church). Check the links below and download a passions assessment along with a spiritual gifts test.

Spiritual Gift Experience Assessment revised edition[1]

Passion_Assessment1[2]

Proverbs 14:31
³¹ He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,
but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

Proverbs 21:13
¹³ If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.

Scripture is clear that caring for the poor is dear to the heart of God.  Home Sweet Homeless takes this very serious and invites you to join them.

Home Sweet Homeless celebrated its two year anniversary this summer.  If this is your first time hearing about Home Sweet Homeless you should check out these articles written last year for Relevant Mag. and the Orlando Sentinel.

Here is a short breakdown of how you can get involved with HSH in the community:

• The Potluck – On the second Saturday of every month hundreds of homeless and volunteers meet at Lake Eola to share a meal along with their stories.
• Movie Night - Everyone loves a good movie!  Twice a month a group meets and takes the homeless to a flick.
• Breakfast Brigade – This is the newest arm of HSH.  Every Friday they make and serve breakfast for a local labor pool.  Neue Resources featured HSH Breakfast Brigade in their latest issue (Vol.4).

The Element just got back from an amazing camp!
Here are our daily recap videos.

ELEMENT Camp 2009 Day 1 from Element Orlando on Vimeo.

ELEMENT Camp 2009 Day 2 from Element Orlando on Vimeo.

ELEMENT Camp 2009 Day 3 from Element Orlando on Vimeo.