From Virginia with Love

Here is a summary of my trip to Virginia and a little sample of all the goodness I encountered there for four days.

One of the delightful features of traveling as much as I do is the sheer joy of meeting people I have engaged with on social media for as long as 10 years and then having that first face-to-face encounter. It’s like we have been old friends, and adding the face to sight takes that friendship to an entirely new level. This was my experience multiplied by a lot.

I arrived in Virginia a few hours later than expected, but my gracious host, Pastor Virgil Hurt, gave me a little sample of Lynchburg with its Blue Ridge Mountain view up from Liberty Mountain. The colors were moving to their transfigured glory.

Kuyperianisms

I was to deliver my first two talks in the evening on Kuyper as a Call to Cultural Engagement and then another on Kuyper in Conversation with Radical Two-Kingdom Theology. There were probably around 150 in attendance, but the talks were the fruit of many of my thoughts on the Dutch theologian, and I trust they bore good fruit. The audio quality suffered a bit, but there should be no problems with following the lectures. You can watch them all here, including my Sunday sermon.