Went did some shopping at Ontario Mills shopping mail for 2 hours. Jeans were cheap. Bought 2 pairs for less than 1 pair at home. Shorts are however the opposite. Headed to Palm Springs to find our Hotel and arrive in 45oC temperatures. The first session started at 8pm so we decided after a short break to settle in we would go for a walk to find some tea, Pizza’s.
After tea we headed off to the conference to hear the first of 12 messages of the weekend. Rick Holland opened with the naming of resolved (Named after Jonathan Edwards) and 5 of his resolutions that he wrote describing Heaven and Hell. The weekend was a challenging time of teaching from the John MacArthur, C.J. Mahoney, Rick Holland, John Piper, and Steve Lawson. The weekend was full on with 2 messages between breakfast and lunch and two from 6pm. So a late lunch and 11pm dinner was the way of life for four days.
On the Saturday a few of us went up the tram way for a bit of sightseeing in the afternoon. The tram way climbs the mountain 8000 feet and takes 10mins. There is a change in 30oF from the bottom to the top so it was rather refreshing at the top as it was 48oC at the bottom in Palm Springs. Awesome views from the top, out over the desert and a pine forest on the other side. So called bush walk in concrete paths like a city pavement. If only the Americans knew what a bush walk was.
Some of us struggled to stay awake during the sessions as we were up at 7am to get to the first session in time to get seats at 8am. And not going to bed till midnight after getting tea when the last session finished at 10:30pm. Friday night Rudolf had us walking all over town in the wrong direction to the motel to look for a supermarket that would still be open at midnight. In the end some of us saw the light and decided to go back to the motel before we had to walk another city block away from the motel, we were already 4 blocks away. One block would be 4 times the size of the blocks in Hastings.
The Resolved conference is a great place for young people that are well based in their faith as well as ones that are not Christians. The gospel was preached at each session.
