Our family made it out to Summit at ACU this afternoon. We’ve been coming here since 2003 as a family. My first time was 2002 when forced to come as a student of the Center for Christian Education (formerly known as Preston Road School of Preaching).

I hated coming the first time to what was then called the ACU Lectures, but I learned to love it and now wouldn’t miss it for the world. There’s not as many people as there used to be, but the people I know each year typically remains the same.

An odd thing I saw tonight was a man who is constantly on the look out for candy at the exhibitor’s display tables. Some give away candy and I’m currently sitting right across from the Global City Mission Initiative display. It’s my favorite because it’s simply one of the best ministries represented here this year (or any year). Well, that guy I observed earlier at their table came back for more. He didn’t find what he liked so he left and moved on down to the next display with candy, the Zambia Missions table. He didn’t find what he liked in their dish, but must have liked their selection earlier because he actually hunted through their display table, looked underneath it and then pulled out a box and rummaged through it. Oh my, that guy is a candyholic. This is a Christian university and he should’ve left their stuff alone, or am I being a bit too judgmental. Well, just an observation I wanted to share.

I’m not exactly why I’m here this year or any year, but like I said before, I love it. I guess I’m addicted to ACU. But the last few years coming here and seeing old faces has seemed more like a high school reunion that I’d rather have skipped. I keep on seeing people who are so much more successful in ministry than I’ve ever been. It seems like this is a place where only my successful former classmates come, the ones who may not be so successful, don’t often attend.

I think this year, my goal has been to come here and meet as many people as possible and market my e-books I have for sale. After all, they are ministry related. One book called Purple Ducks: Reflections on Why in the World We Want to Belong even details some of my failures in ministry along with some successes, but most of all, it speaks on why God gave us this need to belong. It’s not a challenging book if people already try their hardest at helping the marginalized in society belong, but many people don’t and that just may be who the book is best suited for.

My other selection I’m trying to push is called Drop. It’s a collection of devotionals along with some study questions at the end of each chapter. Some good reading if you don’t mind some devos taken from real life, not a perfect life, just real. The subtitle for this book is called “An authentic look at spirituality from the inside out.”

Both of these can be bought at Smashwords (the above links) for any mobile device or tablet. You can also see them on many of the ipads etc at the ACU book store where I keep pulling up the Smashwords page for Purple Ducks and leaving it on the devices.
Last year I did that for my pizza website and I kept getting hits from ACU for a few months.

Well, I gotta go. A friend from school is waiting for me in the student center. He’s itching to talk politics. I’d rather not talk about that since I already have a problem with extremely high blood pressure.

Off to the pie sale…..

….I’m back.

The talk with my friend Greg went well. It was a great time of fellowship. I’m glad he left politics out of the conversation.