The Summer Webzine: Application
I still remember stepping onto the plane after this year’s Next conference. I’d just spent four days beholding Jesus Christ. He was bigger in my eyes than he’d ever been. I was more in awe of him. I longed for him more.
But just two weeks later things can feel so different. A busy schedule makes spending time with Jesus hard to do. My own patterns of sin–which I sort of assumed had been completely done away with at the conference–return and soon I’m apologizing to my wife for getting angry. I begin to feel other things push Jesus away from being preeminent in my life.
But then I remember a line from the Next 09 brochure: “Jesus hasn’t changed. And he invites us to meet him again.”
Jesus hasn’t changed. He is still more amazing and awesome and beautiful and wonderfully terrifying than I can imagine. And he is still worthy of being completely preeminent in every area of my life. In his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and return I find hope and help for everyday life.
This brings us to our summer issue of the webzine. In our summer issue we’re taking the whole issue to help you apply Next 2009. The content is pretty simple:
_Get application questions
_See a recommended reading list for post-conference reading
_Read all the notes from the messages
If you came to the conference our prayer is that these materials help you meet Jesus again. And if you couldn’t come to the conference we hope the message notes are a quick way to get some of the highlights from this year’s conference.
And one other note: This webzine will be our last until the fall. We’re already making plans for Next year and we can’t wait to share them with you.
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“But just two weeks later things can feel so different. A busy schedule makes spending time with Jesus hard to do. My own patterns of sin–which I sort of assumed had been completely done away with at the conference–return.”
This is so true. Thank you for posting this. What a joy to be reminded that our Savior never changes even though we as weak and sinful creatures change continually. We must keep clinging to His grace! I will definitely be using these application tools! :)
Ricky,
Last year, New Attitude, in conjunction with Crossway Books, provided us with the opportunity to purchase the books from the NA book shoppe at the discounted price. Will this opportunity be available for us this year? If you cannot provide us with the discounted price, can you atleast generate a blog entry that provides us with a list of the books that were available for sale at this year’s book shoppe so we can go out and purchase them? I feel that this would bless not only myself but the countless others who (1) went to the book shoppe and found the book were sold out and (2) folks who could not attend the conference but would have liked to purchase the books.
Thanks for the suggestion. Let me look into what we can do to serve you all!