Casa Charis: 1 Yr. Anniversary Coming Up!

Brewers? Patron Saint of Brewers is the Catholic Online entry for Augustine of Hippo. We, reformed people, know him simply as Augustine, one of the great early Church Fathers who lived in the last days of the Roman Empire, one of the early Church's greatest theologians and and the author of Confessions. Well, the one year anniversary of the publication of my devotional Casa Charis: A Day Book of Freedom on Galatians is coming up and once again, I'm reminded of the delightful humor into which the Spirit leads my writing. My conclusion in Casa Charis ends with the date on which I wrote it: 28 August, Feast day of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher of the Faith.  That's how the Anglican liturgical calendar remembers and celebrates Augustine. 

I've had fun this morning dipping into my book, remembering its birth, and seeing new and different connections too. I first studied Galatians in the summer of 2009. I was encouraged to publish it that same summer but it took me another two years and lots of divine appointments before I would do so. I wrote the introduction to the book in early fall, September 2012. By the time I finished writing the book everything had changed from the original drafts of 2009. It was a completely new book and I remember how thrilled I was when my pastor agreed to write the foreword to it. Here are some excerpts below from Casa Charis.

Foreword by Pastor Scott Bullock, Irvine Pres. Church - Anita's Casa Charis is a thoughtful reflection on the newly formed life that has been effected for us by Christ Jesus as it is sounded by Paul in his letter to the Galatians. p 7.