Anything worthy of praise

I don’t want to end my thoughts about the Willow conference on a down note. The theme was “what’s good in the world”, and I really appreciated this. The conference planners said that they understand that artsy people (and it was an arts conference) can tend to be a depressed lot. The idea was to look at the things that are going right.

I don’t consider myself an artsy guy, but I also want to look for what’s right with the world. Paul gave us the same advice, to look for anything worthy of praise.

Besides, they gave us cool wristbands that had a USB drive in them. Who couldn’t be happy with that?

Take a look

We took the kids to this.

The hope of the world

While I was at the Willow conference, I heard a phrase that really bothered me. The woman who organized the entire conference was speaking from the main stage, and she said, “The local church is the hope of the world.” What? Read the rest of this entry »