Writings on the Wall

saw this flic tonight. so great. go see it! hilarious!

well if you do - i have the person for you…

BECKY KOLEMAINEN

head on over to her newly designed website and check it out!!

the full update + pics are up from our chicago trip! head over here to check it out!!

we made it. sweet. good to be home.

check this out. rob’s going on tour again this fall. sweet. go here and see when you can see him.

dinner time. peace.

HT: Zach

yes. it is 6pm est. and we are at my parents place. over 24 hours past when we were SUPPOSED to be here. continental better hook us up. more on today’s saga later….

So we left my uncle’s place around 9 to take the L to ohare for a noon flight.
Now we are in detroit getting refueled to go do more laps around cleveland because of thunderstorms there. So I think its like 3pm est - hopefully we will make it to nc sometime before tomorrow.
Ah the joys of travel.

so the last day of the 2007 WCA Arts Conference was by far the best for me. donald miller and erwin mcmanus. money baby. so money. donald miller’s talk was called ‘on truth and meaning’ and i suggest you go grab that thing. i will not be able to communicate all that was there. the biggest idea that stuck with me is that we have lost a holistic understanding of truth. before the enlightenment and the printing press - the arts were used to communicate the truth, the art taught theology. in the enlightenment truth became limited - it became only scientific - only what we can ‘know’ and deduce. the printing press changed the way we knew truth - from holistic to only through words. and we took the part of our brain that experiences emotion and put it in our heart. we dont feel anything we our hearts, its all in the brain. man so good.

from there he talked about the mystery of love - how we really can’t explain it in a factual way - is mysterious and we are all ok with that. so the truth and meaning of love walk hand in hand. the reality of God is WAY BIGGER that we can explain with words - and that is beautiful and inspiring along with frustrating and hard. then he walked us through an explanation of the gospel through the eyes of romeo and juliet. holy crap. mind blowing - if you have read searching for God knows what then you know what i am talking about. i had read it and even heard him speak about it at south county united a while ago - but man, mr miller has really developed his voice and round 3 of this idea really blew me away. more on that later.

erwin and the mosaic team did a presentation of scribble and it was so good. a big thank you to them and it was a true gift to experience it!! the call to live our lives outside society’s lines of life was so powerful. good stuff. i would have loved to have erwin dive deeper and talk longer on some theological implications but oh well - maybe next year.

as we were leaving walking to our car, we all agreed that this year’s conference was so great. big ups to the arts conference staff - great great great job! looking foward to next year….

so we sucessfully made it to my aunt and uncle’s place this afternoon from the burbs and it has been a wonderful evening. i love these people. so real and so alive and so inspiring. not to mention we got invited to denia, spain tonight. oh yea - cant wait for that trip….

the last day of the arts conference was so great. i will post more details tomorrow - but it was amazing. i mean donald miller and erwin mcmanus - bound to make you think and blow your mind at the same time.

must say a quick ‘CONGRATS!’ to allie and matt. both got jobs and are settling in to portland. so stoked for you guys!

til next time…

so it was an early start and we all made an executive decision to for-go the earliest breakout and grub down at good ol apple villa. yum. nothing wrong with kona coffee and crabcake benedict. did i say yum?

then we headed to our second break out - got blog - which offered some good thought but was pretty basic. hindsight wish i wouldve gone to a weekend at wrigleyville. oh well - we will go there anyways on sat, the town that is…

after got blog it was lunch time, a little borders run where i swear i saw don miller - we shall see as he is speaking tomorrow - wonderful, yes. some pick ups this trip are as follows:

the jesus of suburbia

peppermint filled pinatas

soul cravings

the last breakout of the day was a behind the scenes look at how the delirious project from last year was put together and edited. pretty sweet i must say. took us right back to last year and made us want to go and watch the whole thing again. if you havent seen the dvd of delirious:live at willow you need to. great stuff.

after delirious it was dinner time at fridays then back to willow for the first ever film festival. good stuff - i think radkey could have held is own for sure, maybe even won some stuff. the man is gifted. maybe next year he can submit something, this year just a few churches were chosen. all in all great material - mostly announcement/sermon support/story stuff - not really any short films - hopefully they can expand to some other stuff - i’m sure they will.

i must say the conference this year has been so great. after last year i swore never to return - but man - this year is great - from the schedule to the line-up. tomorrow is the last day and we will hear don miller in the morning and erwin right before lunch. oh yes.

btw - saw nathan today wandering the halls! whooo hooo! so so great to see him - cant wait to see what he has to offer with the mosaic arts team tomorrow.

shalom friends.