On to Green Lake

Finally, I am finding time to write. Usually the problem is with me. I want to write, but find any excuse to keep me from writing. However, this time I have an excuse. I had minor surgery last week! I can assure you that "minor" doesn't have anything to do with the discomfort of the patient. So I spent most of last week, and the beginning of this week laying around and feeling sorry for myself. I kept telling myself that I should write, but I replied that I just didn't feel like it.

Now I feel like writing. I actually feel quite good. But, I am feeling pressure. Saturday morning I am leaving for Green Lake Wisconsin. I am part of Holy Spirit Renewal Ministries. We put on the Holy Spirit Conference at Green Lake Conference Center every year. It is a great conference. If you are near Wisconsin, you could still register. See the conference description at our HSRM website. General information on the conference center can be found on their website. I will try to give updates while I am gone -- and send some pictures. It is a beautiful place.

Reading the Bible in 90 Days

Bay View Baptist Church will be starting an unusual program next Monday. It is a program to read the Bible, cover to cover, in 90 days. Why is this so unusual? Certainly Bible reading is not an unusual activity in a Baptist Church. We say things like, "I believe every word it says -- from beginning to end." Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who say this who have never read every word it says. The Bible says a lot of radical things. So this program is an attempt to get people to really read the whole Bible. This program is different for several reasons:

• The whole Bible is read -- not just selected verses
• The Bible is read from beginning to end -- like a novel (of course we know it isn't a novel -- and there are many different kinds of literature)
  
• The Bible is read in 90 days -- a relatively short time -- allowing the participant to "get the whole picture" before forgetting where they started
• It is not a study -- it is a reading
• It is not devotional in nature -- it is a reading

I am excited about this. Certainly this program wont end all of our problems and our people wont be Bible scholars -- or even Bible students. But they will have a basic understanding of what is in the Bible and how this information is presented. At least this is a start. If we are people of the book -- we need to read that book!

More info is found about this program at http://www.biblein90days.com/