Desiring God Conference in Just over Two Minutes

Last year I had this video produced by Carl Larson during our 2012 National Conference. It was made for exhibitors to get a birds eye view of the exhibit hall in all of its facets.  I hope that it inspires you to come and join us at an upcoming Desiring God Conference.

C.S. Lewis and the Desiring God 2013 National Conference

I am currently reading C.S. Lewis in preparation for the Desiring God 2013 National Conference which will look at Lewis on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Here is the list of what I have recently finished reading by Lewis:
God in the Dock 
Abolition of Man
Mere Christianity 

About Lewis:
Narnia: C.S. Lewis and His World

Conference dates: September 27-29, 2013
Minneapolis, MN

The Innkeeper by John Piper

Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclimation

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the field of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than theretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans,  mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.

In testimony wherof I have herunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

A. Lincoln

Desiring God 2012 National Conference Slide Show

Andres Alonso our conference photographer does a great job of capturing the emotion of the attendees and volunteers at the Desiring God National Conference.  Take a few minutes and view in pictures what happened at the 2012 National Conference.