My pastor was invited to a by-invitation-only conference at Saddleback Church, here in Lake Forest, California (outside of L.A.). He could invite one person, and whaddya know, he invited me. So here I am in the sanctuary of Saddlback church listening to a Panel discussion on Worship. Panel discussions have been the highlight of this conference so far. Yesterday there were 3 of them covering Evangelism, Fellowship and Preaching. The Preaching one featured a couple of guys, including Tim Keller, Erwin McManus, and Kerry Shook, which made for a very interesting discussion. I had never heard of Tim Keller before, but he was really great during the discussion. Other than him, I just wanted the other guys to shut up and let Erwin McManus speak. He was amazing. My feedback form from yesterday read, simply, "More Erwin please."Anyway - not much else I'm really looking forward to at this conference, except the panel on Discipleship at 3pm that has a bunch of guys and Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill in Seattle. The other Mars Hill. Beyond that, I'm looking forward to dinner tonight at Pei Wei, and maybe getting back to the hotel in time for the American Idol finale (go Chikezie!).
The temperature here in the Saddleback valley is between 66 and 69 degrees. It's sunny, breezy, and the mountains look amazing. It's absolutely beautiful here. How could you not love it here*coughAbbyLeeThomascough* ?? No wonder people in L.A. are so thin and beautiful and happy. There's never any reason to go indoors and do things that make you fat and ugly and sad. Kind of like I'm doing now...
We're leaving the conference early tomorrow - before lunch - to catch our 2:30pm flight back to H-town. I'll have my camera out again as we go through the airport - on celebrity watch. No luck on the way in. Maybe on the way out I'll snap a shot of the back of Kevin Eubanks' head. If not, you'll just have to settle for Rick Warren, yo.
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I went ahead and TOLE you that I wanted to visit there...I just wouldn't want to live there--and that is not based on the climate. If I were to pick a place to live based on the climate anyway, I would totally pick the French Riviera or Sicily or somewhere on the Greek Mediterranean coastline, thankyouverymuch.
And by the way, I'm sure there are plenty of fat, ugly, unhappy people in L.A., as well as thin, ugly and unhappy, thin, beautiful and unhappy, and fat, ugly and happy people.
California weather rules. I don't have an air conditioner in my apt now, and the highest my electricity bill has been in 9 months was $35 (Thanksgiving, cooking for days). Take that, TXU!
very cool.. what a blessing to be part of such an exclusive event.. i saw the first session streamed online.. that's all they were offering...
Have you read any Tim Keller? We go to Redeemer up in NY. I always learn something new, I love that.
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