Counting Down The Days

Well, it's almost here. New Attitude 2008.

I'm certainly ready to go. The road trip will be fun (if somewhat long). Plenty of friends will be there to spend time with. The teaching and worship promises to be fantastic as always and I'm excited to learn more about studying God's Word. And it will be nice to have some time away from work.

I'm curious to see what God will do while we are there and how He will use what He shows us to help us to better serve in our local churches. God has been faithful even in the midst of my current busy season to provide grace (i.e. I only got paged once last week when I was on-call, amongst other displays of grace). Things are very busy again this week but I am hoping to get some time to read and pray in preparation for going to NA2008 this weekend. It definitely helps me to get the most out of my time at a conference like New Attitude when I am spending time with God in preparation.

So, hopefully I will get to spend some time preparing. Particularly, please pray that God would refresh me so that I might be able to serve well in helping to lead one of the small discussion groups that the larger community groups break out into. I know at the end of the week I am going to be tired and I'll need God's grace and strength to serve well.

If you are considering how to get the most out of your time at NA2008. The NA blog has some good tips to consider before, during and after the conference.

Idea 1

Ideas 2 & 3

Ideas 4 & 5

If you are going to the conference, hopefully we'll get to see each other. There will be time to hang out. Also, a thought that just came to me was that in the midst of these world class teachers that we will be hearing, let's take time to pray for and thank the pastors who so faithfully serve us by bringing the Word every week in our local churches.

HT: NA Blog

Busy, Busy

I haven't abandoned the blog, I'm just entering the perfect storm of business for the next month or so, particularly this week. School is getting closer to finishing up, but there is still plenty of work every week. We are in the midst of a big coding push at work that has me coming in early and leaving later. I'm on call this week. I've got community group tonight (which is very helpful). My friend Justin is coming to visit this weekend. Not to mention the week to week things I'm involved with at church and the normal day to day life responsibilities.

So, things could potentially be a little slow here for a week or so. But I hope to be back to posting regularly sometime soon. I'll certainly have some things to say about New Attitude.

For now, use the time you were reading my blog to catch up on some reading of your own. If you are anything like me, I'm sure there are plenty of books you have lying around that you've been meaning to read.