Last weekend at the Lookout Presbyterian misison conference, I picked up a few books at the book table:
The New Global Mission by Samuel Escobar
In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham
George Müller: Delighted in God by Roger Steer
Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf
Sharing Your Faith with a Buddhist by Madasamy Thirumalai
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins
The next evening my folks got back from the Mission to North America Mercy Ministry conference in Atlanta, and mom had two books for our church library I'm interested in reading:
Breaking the missional Code by Ed & David Putman
The Urban Face of Mission by Harvie Conn and others
Then I made the mistake of stopping at McKay's Used Books last night, to look for one book, and I walked out with a stack of 'em:
The Story of Christianity from Birth to Global Presence by Jakob Balling
The Free Church & the Early Church: Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide collected essays, edited by D. H. Williams
theology in dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, & Science on Contemporary Religious Thought essays in honor of John W. de Gruchy
Equal Treatment of Religion in a Pluralistic Society collected essays edited by Monsma and Soper
The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges
Ethnic Realities and the Church: Lessons from Kurdistan by Robert Blincoe
So the question is, when will I read them? I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov, Spirit Wars: Pagan Revival in Christian America, Christians and Muslims at the Table (I might have that exact title wrong), and a handful of other titles.
in which I:
- rose early for a Saturday
- ran a local 5K race and placed 2nd in my gender and age group (there were perhaps 60 or so people of all ages running) with a time of 22:25
- listened to a lecture comparing and contrasting Martin Luther and Buddha as reformers
- ate lunch, and am presently enjoying coffee at Greyfriars, and will be working on a songbook for my church after posting here
- plan to swing by Four Bridges to see the art, including my friend Peter Delong Vaughn's natural/supernatural series of paintings
- plan to ascend Lookout Mountain for the missions conference banquet at Lookout Presbyterian this evening
"Christ is risen!" "He is risen indeed!"
My church's two missions focus areas are Berlin, Germany, and Kampala, Uganda.
German: Christus ist auferstanden! Er ist wahrhaftig auferstanden!
Lugandan: Kristo Ajukkide! Kweli Ajukkide!
My distant relatives in Sweden, if they use the Paschal Greeting, would have said, "Kristus är uppstånden! Ja, Han är verkligen uppstånden!"
Yeah, he is really risen!
For a ton of other languages, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascha_greeting