This Sunday, author/theologian/professor Dallas Willard will be speaking not far from our very own little country church at St. Luke's United Methodist Church (which has one of my favorite church acronyms: SLUMC).

On Sunday, May 4, Dallas Willard will speak at all four worship services (8:30, 8:45, 9:45 and 11 a.m.) on "The Apprentice to Jesus in Your Real World Today," and again Sunday night at 7 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Not sure how convenient my Sunday is looking with the dayjob, but I think I'm gonna try to fit in one of these. Gotta admit, I'm more than a little curious to see how a 15-minute service happens.

I think I tend to go through an annual urge to pick up a few of Willard's books: either The Divine Conspiracy or The Great Omission. Recently, I've gotten wind that The Spirit of the Disciplines is in that same series and precedes both. Do I dare read a trilogy of books in the order they were written and/or intended to be read? Doesn't sound like me, but we'll see what kicks in for this month. I've still got a big book on the Berlin airlift to get through and I'm still getting a kick out of Tom Wright's commentary on the Gospel of Mark.