GBC 2006

This year's GodBlog Conference has been absolutely amazing. I've mostly been shuttling the speakers around from their hotel to the school and back. I'm officially assigned to Joe Carter, who's pretty much my favorite blogger. He also works for the Family Research Council and runs Evangelical Outpost (click on his name above), his blog that gets thousands of hits per week, so that's just a little bit cool. We call him "The Man." If you look at his picture on the GBC website, he looks like he's about to kick your face in. I've started inserting "Joe Carter" in place of "Chuck Norris" in all those awesome Chuck Norris jokes. Oh, and he's Reformed, haha.

So, Crossway puts out the ESV Bible. They called us up and said "want some free stuff?" Of course we said yes, expecting to get a bunch of those compact TruTone ESV bibles like they sent for last year's conference. This is what we got! An English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament. If you follow the link it will explain what all that means. Basically it's the New Testament written out in English (ESV, of course) with the Greek written in right underneath the English words, giving the lay person access to the original meaning of a text in Greek (it's called "reverse" interlinear because normal interliner New Testaments are written in Greek, with the English underneath). They JUST went on sale last week. They're selling for $50 a pop...they sent us 75...for free. Tomorrow I'm going to give them a huge thankyou on the GBC blog, link to them like crazy, and hope they do it again next year! I'm so excited. The book even comes with Strong's Greek dictionary on CD-ROM, so I can actually start to learn some of this stuff. This was a very generous thing of them to do, especially since they weren't even at the conference this year. I'm just stoked I got one. At $50 I probably wouldn't have been able to buy it myself.

Tomorrow's the last day of the conference and then I have to do all the homework I've had to put off for GBC. I'm not going to get much in the way of actual sleep for the next few days. :P