From Friday, September 29 through Sunday, October 1, I will be in Minneapolis attending the 2006 Desiring God Conference.
If you’re interested in what is being said at the conference, Tim Challies and NA: New Attitude will be liveblogging the sessions. You can also find video interviews with the speakers at the conference website here.
Ahoy, landlubbers and scurvey dogs!
The TuckerProject be celabratin’ “Talk Like A Pirate Day”!
Here be some links for ye:
“How to talk like a pirate” a video by LoadingReady.com (PG)
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have been greatly exaggerated. I really am still alive! (I think.) Seriously though, I’ve been working a lot and doing a lot of (re)thinking about my life and theology. Believe it or not, I have a couple of drafts for future posts on the shelf. So hopefully I can get back into the swing of this soon. I really just wanted to write something to assure myself that I’m still Bloggingly Alive. Stay tuned…
In other news…
Registration opened on Friday for the Desiring God National Conference (Above All Earthly Powers: The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World).
The conference will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center and will run from September 29 through October 1. Speakers will include David Wells, D.A. Carson, Timothy Keller, Mark Driscoll, Voddie Baucham, and John Piper.
I registered as soon as I found out (this conference will probably fill up pretty quick) and can’t wait to go. First of all it will provide me with my first opportunity to fly. Secondly, I think it will make a great vacation where I will actually get out of town. And finally, the subject matter is highly relevant to what’s been going on in my life and in my head over the past year. This “postmodern” and “emergent” stuff has been in the forefront of many conversations and thoughts over the past year and I think it will do me some good to hear first hand from some men of God whom I highly respect.
Lately my reading has been very haphazard and has left me feeling rather unproductive. Whatever happens, my tendency to start one book, get half-way done, and then start another must be put to death. This list is intended to bring some order into the madness. (more…)
17 hours and 22 minutes left…
It feels like I’m finishing a story. One that didn’t quite turn out the way I thought it would. The main character didn’t develop the way I thought he would and he certainly didn’t go places or do the things I imagined he would. In fact, the whole story has turned out rather anti-climatic. The last few pages are nearly blank and I’m left with a bittersweet feeling…a sadness…but yet…expectation…
it’s like the last freeze before Spring…the last freeze that slowly gives way to the warmth of the Sun. The air is sharp with cold yet filled with expectation. Something is here. Something has come. It’s hidden. But you can sense that something has changed. The yearning of the dark winter has found it’s answer. Beauty has come…
So yes, it feels like I’m finishing a story…or part of one anyway. This is the silence between acts…wintry melancholy giving way to the breathless expectation of what beauty and adventure await in the next part of the story…it’s already happening… it’s beginning…the story is changing…the curtain is rising…the snow is melting…
“Here it comes a beautiful collision is happening now.”