{"id":374,"date":"2008-08-19T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2008-08-19T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:01:03","slug":"wild-goose-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Wild Goose Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wildgoosechase2_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-375\" title=\"200456093-001\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wildgoosechase2_b-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wildgoosechase2_b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wildgoosechase2_b.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I had an opportunity to read and <a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=19\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> <em>In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evotional.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Batterson<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a great book and led to some really exciting conversations with some of our staff and seniors.<\/p>\n<p>I came across the opportunity to read and review Mark Batterson\u2019s new book <em>Wild Goose Chase<\/em> a few weeks ago, and it showed up in the mail yesterday.\u00a0 I started on it last night and am pretty certain I&#8217;ll have no trouble finishing it up tonight!\u00a0 Great read&#8230;lots of challenging stuff.\u00a0 The book <a title=\"Buy the book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wild-Goose-Chase-Adventure-Pursuing\/dp\/1590527194\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1219096589&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">releases<\/a> officially today (August 19). Check out <a title=\"Mark Batterson's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/markbatterson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><\/strong><\/a>the <a title=\"Chase the Goose website\" href=\"http:\/\/chasethegoose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>C<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasethegoose.com\" target=\"_blank\">hase the Goose<\/a><\/strong><\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be giving away a copy this week to the first person who asks for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a little about the book\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Most of us have no idea where we\u2019re going most of the time. Perfect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCeltic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit\u2014<em>An Geadh-Glas, <\/em>or \u2018the Wild Goose.\u2019 The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it\u2019s like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.\u201d\u00a0<em><span>\u2013from the introduction.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About Mark:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of\u00a0Washington,\u00a0DC\u2019s\u00a0National\u00a0Community\u00a0Church, widely recognized as one ofAmerica\u2019s most innovative churches. NCC meets in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the city, as well as in a church-owned coffee house near Union Station. More than seventy percent of NCC\u2019ers are single twentysomethings who live or work on Capitol Hill. Mark is the author of the best-selling\u00a0<em>In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day<\/em> and a widely read blogger (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbatterson.com\/\">www.markbatterson.com<\/a>). He lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, Lora, and their three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, I had an opportunity to read and review In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson.\u00a0 It was a great book and led to some really exciting conversations with some of our staff and seniors. I came across the opportunity to read and review Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}