The holidays were wonderful. Grace and I and the Driscoll Fab 5 enjoyed the snow, hung out a lot as a family, laughed a lot, and had some great down time. As always, I got my big daddy dates with Ashley and Alexie. And I had great guy time with Zac, Calvin, and Gideon.

Now I'm officially back to work and this week has been nuttier than a Snickers bar.

The latest book, Vintage Church, showed up in the mail weighing in at 335 pages and over 600 footnotes. It is now for sale and covers a wide range of issues from the Spirit-filled Christian life, the definition of the Christian church, leadership (including women in ministry), preaching, sacraments (baptism and Communion), discipline, unity, love, multi-site churches (including video sermons), the use of technology for ministry purposes, missional churches, and the role of the church in culture. Honestly, I think the book is great, thanks to some twelfth-hour hard work by my copyeditor, Crystal, Crossway's rock star editor, Lydia, and my friend and coauthor, Dr. Gerry Breshears. It's not as edgy as Vintage Jesus, or as somber as Death by Love, but does cover more ground (especially new ground) on the church than any other book I have read. If you love your pastor or ministry leader, methinks this would be a nice and helpful gift to them. While you're at it, grab a copy for yourself as well.

We kicked off the "Trial: 8 Witnesses from 1 and 2 Peter" sermon series on Sunday. We had our biggest attendance ever and popped over 8,000 people. We hope everyone will use our roughly 200-page free study guide we handed out in order to study 1 and 2 Peter for themselves, with their children (if applicable), and in their community group. We also saw that Mars Hill people will laugh for five minutes if I come out dressed like an attorney in a suit.

This week we also saw our web traffic explode with more visits and downloads than ever. That was likely due, in part, to a lot of media attention. People have asked me how I feel about it, and to be honest I have not even looked at a host of recent media coverage; I figured that since "Driscoll" is the Greek word the New Testament uses for "pi