Thanks, also, for those who prayed for the interview recorded at CBA with Focus on the Family. It, too, seemed to go extremely well. I'm told that parts of it will be aired on four consecutive broadcasts of the "Focus on the Family Weekend Magazine" sometime in the fall. I'll let you know when it's scheduled.

CBA is quite an experience. Literally acres of exhibits sprawled across the Orlando Convention Center. Book publishers, music companies, media outlets, gift makers, well-known and lesser-known ministries, and just about any kind of Christian organization you can imagine—and some you can't imagine—all were there to make their ministries, products, or services available to buyers for Christian bookstores and any others who were interested. The commercialism, promotion, and pride are sickening. In the midst of it all, however, the opportunity to meet or to renew fellowship with so many dear brothers and sisters who write and publish Christian books is, for me, well worth the downside of the overall event.

Classes resume next week at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where I teach. But I feel as though the fall semester has already started, for I taught a D.Min. seminar all last week on spiritual formation. A great group of nine guys participated. If you're interested in what's involved, you can read the syllabus for the course down near the bottom of the "For MBTS Students" page on the website.

Please pray for her as she begins homeschooling classes with Laurelen again this month, as well as teaching art a couple of days a week at a university-model school where Laurelen gets a couple of her classes. On Tuesday nights this fall she's to teach a class of seminary wives on Personal Spiritual Disciplines.