Four Hills Church has been in the middle of a great Bible study (The Gospel of John). For this reason, my blog has been somewhat forsaken in favor of God's Word (unfair, right?). But, there is some interesting news that I wanted to share that might keep me blogging for some time.

In about 2 weeks, my first book will be released on Amazon.com. It is entitled "Still Here: Diary of a Church Planter" and it exists solely because of my blogging habit.

You see, when we began Four Hills Church, I began to write about it...a lot. After a couple of years of plugging away at the planting thing, I found it quite amazing to read my early thoughts on the subject and learn just how much I have changed as reality has taken hold. It has already been quite a journey, you know.

So, I compiled all the good posts (you can write a lot of junk in two years) and sent it in for publishing. I would love to tell you that some Christian publishing house picked it up and paid me tons of money for mass distribution, but...the truth is, it is being self-published by yours truly through Lulu (pretty cool site, by the way). You can buy it for $15 or download it for $5. Most of that money ends up in Lulu's hands (all but $3), but it's pretty cool to have a book in my hands.

I am hoping that some ambitious young man or woman out there might take a spell to read the rantings of someone who has planted a church...and find inspiration. It may not seem inspiring to write a book about a church that grew from 4 to 50 people. I might not be the wunderkind that set the church world on fire with an explosion of new church vitality.

But...it is inspiring to know that God still calls people to do difficult things. He still gives dreams and visions. And He is still faithful to remain with those people as they plug away...even from 4 to 50.

I hope I can inspire someone to do a difficult thing that God has called them to do.

Heck, I'll even give you the $3 they give me if you promise to read it all the way through. :)