This seminar discusses the challenges of telling the truth in a business world where expediency is the standard. Based in real world examples, this is how one business exec has tried to follow Jesus' teaching on "Let your yes be yes and your no be no."

Instructor: John Brandon
John Brandon has served as Vice President of the Americas and Asia Pacific for Apple since June 2001. Prior to joining Apple, he was President and Chief Executive Officer for Academic Systems, an educational content company. Also, John spent ten years with Adobe Systems, Inc., a graphics software company, where he served as the Vice President and General Manager of North America. Before joining Adobe, he held both sales and sales management roles at General Parametrics Corporation, a presentation graphics hardware company and Texas Instruments, a semiconductor and computer hardware company. John lives in Atherton, CA with his wife, Nancy. They have three grown children.

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The Christian Church is horribly and scandalously divided. Evangelical leader and author, John Armstrong, has been on a journey from "separated" Christian fellowship to now becoming a minister in the mainline Reformed Church in America. He'll be sharing his journey and talking about biblical principles that have led him to become a bridge-builder to Christians who are divided from one another.  John will talk about what we can all be doing to build unity between the churches in our city.

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Does God care about what I do in my vocation? What does Scripture say about work? Come develop a Christian worldview of vocation. Learn biblical principles about work, listen to a few people share about their vocational calling, and discuss with others about how to better understand vocation.

Instructors: David Stancil, Hal Oates, Carter Kennedy

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This seminar helped participants develop and sharpen practical skills for studying the Bible individually and corporately. The seminar primarily used bible study material from Ransom Fellowship.

Instructors: Anni Mingin and David Stancil

Heaven Here Now:
What your life and your church is meant to be. Where is God when the world has gone wrong? Where do we go to fill our thirst for the presence of God? What is the ultimate hope of all the world and every seeking soul? Believe it or not, these questions have everything to do with you, with us, with…the church. Tod Bolsinger, author of the award-winning book, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives, will speak on “Heaven Here Now: What your life and your church is meant to be.”

Tod Bolsinger became Senior Pastor at San Clemente Presbyterian in 1997 after serving fo ten years at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. He earned a Ph.D. in Theology and Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological
Seminary, and taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Practical Theology for Fuller Seminary. He is the author of two books, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian, and Showtime.

He has been married to Beth since 1989. Beth is a marriage and family counselor in private practice. They have two children, Brooks and Alison. He loves hanging out with Beth, playing with their kids, barbecuing meat, drinking coffee, planning and taking adventures and rooting for the Angels. He reads avidly, races triathlons slowly, skis passionately, fly-fishes enthusiastically, surfs awkwardly, and golfs never. Visit his blog here >

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