The past couple of weeks have been fun and fulfilling but so full - not too much time to stop and think about what to post on blog. So several quick things....
The latest book: I want to thank Vintage Faith Church for praying for me as I sent the email with a prayer request about it to our church and got so many encouraging responses - I am still working on the book, trying to have it done within the next 2 weeks. It is pretty intense for me as almost every chapter is pretty weighted with heavy/emotional but important topics. 2 weeks to go if I am to make the deadline I am striving for.
Molly leaving Santa Cruz: It was a bittersweet Sunday praying for Molly as she is heading off to Seattle to go to seminary. Molly became a Christian during the second year after we planted Vintage Faith Church. She was a pretty serious Hindu and through relationships, talking about faith issues and getting connectedinto community she put faith in Jesus and was baptized. She became a really big part of our church using her poetry gifts and is desiring to really study and heading off to seminary. So a sad but joyous goodbye and we prayed for her in the gatherings.
Apologetics For a New Generation: live simulcast with Sean McDowell. I wrote the opening chapter in a book on apologetics that Sean McDowell edited. Sean is doing a live seminar on it and you can download the book for free for a certain time after the simulcast. It is tomorrow, Tuesday (August 25) from 10-11 am PST. The link to participate or view is http://www.conversantlife.com/theaword
Origins Project Meeting: Tomorrow I'm heading to Los Angeles to meet with Erwin McManus, Eric Bryant, Margaret Feinberg and some others on the team to really lay out some next year direction for the Origins big summer event in 2010 and lots of other things. So it will be a fun but full 2 days and I will post about it after.
Green Day, slavery, Philemon: I have a post written about what I learned about church from the green Day show I went to last week, and some thoughts about the Bible and slavery as I am teaching through Philemon on Sundays at Vintage Faith Church. But I am packing right now and trying to work on another chapter, so this is a weird little blog entry. But that's all I can think to write right now!
