Let's Worship Sodium!

Over the memorial day weekend a bunch of my church friends and I went to the New Attitude Conference in Louisville Kentucky. Believe it or not, the seven of us drove 12/14 hours there in a minivan! Don't ask me why we did that ... maybe it was to save money, maybe we wanted to bond with each another through suffering, maybe we were just messed up in the brain ... but fortunately we made it there and back in one piece. Even the van had a blast, after the first 200 miles it developed a much more powerful "VvvvrrrrooOOOM" sound when you press on the gas pedal, I guess it was getting excited for the trip as much as we were.

I have a lot of thoughts about the conference, but I'm not going to try to spill it out here. To give you a little taste of what it was like, the catch phrase of the conference was "Like the wheel, the Truth never changes." If you really want to know what that means, go here and embrace the humble orthodoxy. Very simply, it is a conference to call Christians back to the truth of the Gospel, to help us be aware of all the new-age postmodern thought floating out there in the modern church. Sounds pretty interesting, huh?

Well, I'll come back to my thoughts later. Just wanted to let you know I didn't disappear after all. If you want to see some pictures, click here

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