San Diego Day 5

I am sitting at the airport now. I have learned so much and have so much to process it is almost overwhelming. I am still blown away from last nights message by Francis Chan. I need to order the cd and share it with a few people.

After the service we went to a dinner put on by Dave Ramsey and Financial Peach University. It was at the poolside Tiki Pavilion area. Picture this, we leave a holy ghost service, seeing people on their face before God, some have never been in an altar service and we are lead into a party area, with loud secular music playing. All the songs were about money. The were selling Ramsey's stuff. On any other day I would not have cared, but i really felt vulgar sitting there listening to this music. It was the wrong atmosphere.

At the airport i got the treatment. Having this metal in my spine opens doors for me to meet some new people. They feel you and touch you all over. Of course it is not very intimate. First they put me in a glass box and then made me stay there. Then I got put on this metal chair and was assaulted by a beeping stick. Then he gloved up and gave me the rub down. I think I need a shower.

Any who, I just ate some pizza and finally have found some diet coke. I have not had some in days. All the resort had was diet Pepsi. You can live on it, but it taste like crap.

I am on my 3rd big gulp size glass of it. AHH heaven must be like this. I am going to nose around a bit.

Oh, all the books cost me an extra fifty bucks at the airport for a heavy bag. When the guy picked it up he yelled, my God that is heavy. He said this thin is over weight. I can not tell a lie, I have about 25 books in it. I even put some in my back pack, but, they got me.

San Diego Day 4 part 2

More Books: On the way to the evening part, I past through the exhibit hall, and Zondervan was giving away a ton of stuff that they did not want to pack and carry back.

1. Creating a Prodigal Friendly church by Jeff Lucas
2. Surprising Insights from the unchurched and proven ways to reach them by Thom Ranier (I love his work)
3. The Unchurched Next Door: understanding faith stages as keys to sharing your faith by Thom Ranier
4. Crazy Love by Francis Chan
5. Compelled by Love: a journey to missional living by Ed Stetzer
6. The Multiplying Church: the new math for starting new churches by Bob Roberts
7. Should we use someone else's sermon: preaching in a cut and past world by Scott Gibson
8. The American Church In Crisis by David Olson
9. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Almost vulgar the number of books i have to read now. Guess I know what I am doing the next couple of days. HA

tonight with Francis Chan. I don't know what else to say other than wow. It was so powerful and so moving and then he gave an altar call at the end and Lincoln Brewster was playing in the background. It was so heavy and so deep I am not even at this time able to express it in to words. I never expected to see God do something like this here. My friend the Lutheran Pastor, Joseph was really blown away. We have had a lot of discussions about what our different churches did. He had never experienced an altar call where people are laying hands on people, and people were prostrate in the floor. even Lincoln Brewster said he did not know what to do at this time. I will talk more about it later.

Headed home tomorrow.

San Diego Day 4 part 1

wow what a day. Good stuff, good teaching and preaching and worship.

I just got out of a class about Ancient Faith, about reaching the lost the way the early believers did. I will blog more about this later.

More Books:

1. The Juggling Act: bringing balance to your faith, family and work by Pat Gelsinger
2. Making God Known: how to bring others to faith by Greg Laurie
3. The Faith: what Christians believe, why they believer it, and why it matters by Chuck Colson.
4. When Your Teen is Struggling: real hope and practical help for parents today by Mark Gregston (he is from Longview Texas.)
5. More Good News for Great Days by O.S. Hawkins (former pastor of FBC Dallas)
6. Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the churches that reach them by Ed Stetzer.

I think my suitcase will be over the weight limit with all the books. they are just giving them away.

Francis Chan in next. Off to hear him.