It's Time
I love the early fall of the year. The trees are becoming beautiful, but not yet bare. It is cooler, but the cold of winter has not come. Each fall, usually in October, my wife and I take a weekend to travel to the Chattanooga Tennessee area, where we went to college, met, and lived for a few months after our marriage, 28 years ago. This little weekend is a tradition that we have been keeping for nearly 15 years. Of course, my personal thing is to hit all the bookstores in the area that I know of! Last weekend was our annual pilgrimage. I found a great book called "Thirty Years That Changed The World" by Michael Green, scholar from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. The book is a study of the book of Acts and rather than being a commentary, it is a study of how the early church, from Pentecost till the burning of Rome (which Green puts as 33-64 AD), saw the new faith, which we call Christianity in our day, reached almost the whole known world. The book examines early church methods and c...