Here are my notes from the Verge13 conference. I took copious hand-written notes and then captured them with the notebook feature on Evernote for the iPad. If you scroll to the end, you can save them to your own Evernote account. Some of it is more detailed than other parts, so fire away if you have any questions. Your browser does not support iframes.
I’ve spent much of the last few days scanning a notebook from half a century ago. It is the notebook of Ernest “Pappy” Reveal, who was the founder of where I work, the Evansville Rescue Mission. He lived from 1880-1959 and in 1917 started the mission. You can read all about that stuff here. Here is a page out of the notebook. The coolest part about this to me is that about a week ago we had a guy named Steve Davis preach at chapel and this was almost identical to the outline of his talk....
Here are some notes from a sermon I didn’t have to preach at the mission. Fill in the blanks on your own.
Here is an interesting quote from the opening pages: “Temples were still erected for the old gods, priest continued to serve and sacrifice to be offered, but these were obsolete; and the myths about the gods were a spent force, no longer capable of satisfying the individual’s longing fr protection and blessing, salvation and redemption, in this world and the next. … “This is the background against which we have to view Judaism with all its differences and strangeness, its belief in the one, invisible God, Lord of heaven and earth, the rigor of its law, its ethical and ritual commandments (observance of the Sabbath, the dietary laws, etc.), its uniform way of life throughout the whole world, the venerable antiquity of its history, its call to turn away from all idolatry and moral confusion, and its proclamation of the judgment about to overtake the impenitent and of the peace and righteousness which the Messiah, soon to come, would bring in his train.” – p.7 It kind of boggles my mind to realize that people were attracted to the rule of law and the moral standards of Judaism.