After almost a year of planning and preparation, we have completed our first Seeking 7 event. (Click here to pre-order CDs) For the uninitiated, Seeking 7 is a joint ministry of Fixed Point Foundation and Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.  It is an initiative whose sole purpose is to encourage and mobilize the faithful in America.

We believe that this mission was accomplished.

This blog has been silent for a few weeks now.  I took a bit of a break during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays to relax with the family, watch a ton of football, speak at our annual youth conference, and gather my strength for the coming year. Professor John Lennox, teasing me about my hectic schedule, once quipped, “This is the only Fixed Point I have ever heard of that never stops moving!”  2010 will be no different.  We begin the year with Seeking 7’s “Into the Fire”, an apologetics conference that starts tomorrow (Wednesday) night at the Sheraton.

Recently I was lunching at Full Moon BBQ, one of my favorite haunts here in Birmingham, Alabama.  Like many other restaurants of this type, once you pay the cashier at Full Moon, you are given a receipt with the number of your order on it.  A few minutes later, someone emerges from behind the counter to call out your number and deliver the meal to your table.  It is a simple and unexciting process.

This day, however, was an exception to the rule.