Remember this series of posts from several months ago?

I wrote about the book “Religion Saves (and 9 other misconceptions)” by Mark Driscoll, head pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle.

The book is based on the sermon series by the same name (which you can watch, listen to, or download for free).

Well, this month, like every month, ChristianAudio.com is giving away an audio book, and this month it’s the audio version of ‘Religion Saves’! It’s completely free!

Just follow this link during the  month of February, and you can download the book in mp3 form!

I especially recommend the book for those who consider themselves to be skeptics or opponents of Christianity. I think the book does a great job of clearing up several common misconceptions about the teaching of the Bible.

If you get it, please let me know what you think of it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDyAgKWA34

If you’re a high school senior or a college student — or that age — I would highly encourage you to consider checking out Passion 2010.

It’s a conference just for you, with music from Chris Tomlim, Steve Fee, and others, and life-changing teaching from Louie Giglio, Francis Chan, John Piper, Beth Moore, and others!

I went in ’05 and then Steph and I took a group in ’07 and both experiences left a significant mark on me.

The price is steep and the date falls right after new year, but it’s totally worth it.

Let me know if you have any questions!

You’ll find a couple of photos of Josiah, and if they get the most votes, we can use the cash to get his college fund started!

You can vote for as many photos as you want, and you can vote every day ’till mid-November.

If a couple-dozen of us vote every day, we can do this thing!

* There is one catch — and I don’t understand why they did it this way — but you have to create a Disney Family account in order to vote. But you only have to do it once, and you can un-check all the boxes that say “send me spam”.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32UvLWH1pg

Next weekend, I’ll be in Durham with some of my favorite Bible teachers in the world.

I can’t wait!

There’s still room to sign up if you want to join me: www.Advance09.com

I had just returned from being overseas for almost a year, and Steph was in the process of heading overseas for a 2-year commitment, after 9 previous trips.

We decided to pause for a length of time to start our family and learn how to be a good husband and wife, but one of our long-term dreams is still to move overseas and work together someday. And even though that seems ridiculously out of reach sometimes, we continue to pray and plan for it.

One of the biggest obstacles that we have is our finances. We have quite a bit of debt to pay off before we’ll be in the position to step back from a ‘typical’ American lifestyle and take a very small salary working in what we hope will be a third-world country.

So, I’m constantly looking for side projects. I do a bit of amateur photography, and have recently been busy designing and writing a handful of websites (here are a couple recent examples: EdgeDevelopment-inc.com and Acts242Church.com)

Are you looking for someone to put together a website for you? Have you been thinking about starting a blog or a small online store to take your hobby to the next step?

Why not get in touch with me and let me go to work for you?

Just shoot me an email at zack.riesland_at_gmail_dot_com and we’ll see what we can do!

These kinds of things really get the wheels in my head turning (video embedded below):

The September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo.