I returned last night from The Gospel Coalition Conference in Chicago. It was a great week, but I am tired. I am hoping to rest today, but my list of things that have to get done before the end of the day keeps growing, so I don’t know if that’s going to happen.
I’m sure I’ll have more to say about the conference in the next week or so. My mind is still reeling from all I heard. Most of the audio and video from the conference is available online, so I urge you to listen or watch. It was all excellent. If you only have time to listen to one thing, though, I especially recommend you to listen to Tim Keller’s sermon on Exodus 14.
Some personal highlights were meeting people in real life that I had previously only known through blogs and emails. I finally met Kim Shay (who blogs at The Upward Call) and her husband Neil (of recent Calvinist Gadfly fame (which I meant to ask him about all week and forgot — Kim and I had a lot of words to get said in a short time)).
Here’s a picture of Kim and me after dinner on Wednesday. If you think it looks like I’m asleep standing up, it’s because I am.
I also got to meet all three founders of Cruciform Press. I am happy to report all three are real humans and not imaginary. Since I’ve read Tim Challies’s blog every morning over breakfast for about six years, I was a little worried that he was just a mirage of pixels on a screen, but nope, he’s a real guy.
Carolyn McCulley, who did me the honor of endorsing The Organized Heart, was there as well. It was wonderful to finally meet her.
Here’s a picture of The Organized Heart in the book store at the conference. It’s blurry because I was trying to be super casual by pretending to be checking text messages when I was really taking a picture. I doubt anyone was paying attention to me anyway, but even if they were, I doubt I was fooling them.
All in all, a great conference. Todd and I are talking about Together for the Gospel in 2012, and I am also dreaming of attending the recently announced Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference. We shall see.
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I’m looking forward to your posts about the conference. I agree, Keller’s session on Exodus 14 is excellent!
*sigh* I would like to go to the women’s conference too!
I am happy to hear your happy reports, and I love the picture of your books and the story behind it.
Welcome! (sounds weird… because I am in Mexico!)
I need to download the messages. Hope to hear more about the conference in the days ahead. Also, thanks for the heads up re: the 2012 Women’s Conference. I’m marking it on my calendar and mentally calculating the airfare to Chicago.
So glad you had a great time – it’s great to see pictures popping of here and there of bloggers meeting bloggers at conventions.
I look forward to getting hold of a copy of your book. Glad you had a good visit with Kim.