One of the habits that I've picked up over the last year 18 months or so is running several times a week. And one of the reasons I look forward to it is that it has become my devotional time. It's during that time that I listen to the weekly sermon from Mars Hill Bible Church or lately to N.T. Wright's latest book, Simply Christian. I get a lot out of that time. I just let my mind concentrate on the material, with no distraction (I run on a track because of my allergies, so it's just running in a circle over and over again).

I've been leading our Sunday School class through the Faith Lessons video series from Ray Vander Laan's Follow the Rabbi site, a great series to check out if you're interested in teaching your group about the Jewish roots of Christianity. There really hasn't been a week of it where I didn't learn something new, or a new way to look at a piece of scripture. The first few volumes are very heavy on the Old Testament and what became of the Jews with the revolts and eventual destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. And all of this was really inspired by listening to Rob Bell. Rob reference's Vander Laan's work was listed by Bell as being an influence.

I'd also highly recommend watching this Authors@Google talk by Tim Keller, author of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. He said some really interesting things that might show up in a program at camp this summer. We have a night with the theme of Called to Faith, I can see plugging some of this in. I'm definitely picking up the book.