One main point that I have attempted to convey in these essays on blog-writing is the reality that writing is serious business. Like it or not, your words have the capacity to positively change thinking or cause confusion, to build a person up or tear them down, to encourage or depress, to show love or … Continue reading Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part IV: Take Your Writing Seriously
Wisdom From Devin, Part II: Wherever You're At, Be All There
The phrase used in the title of this essay is actually a quote from Jim Elliot, the God-centered missionary and martyr to the Quichua and Auca Indians in Ecuador. Devin, however, helped me to see what this truth meant practically during a conversation in the hall of a college dorm one evening. I was a … Continue reading Wisdom From Devin, Part II: Wherever You're At, Be All There
Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part III: Write Excellently
The second essential component of Christian blogging that I would like to examine is our responsibility to write excellently. Again, let me draw our attention back to the first essay: we are attempting to outline basic Biblical principles that will positively distinguish us as Christians within the web-writing community for the glory of our King. … Continue reading Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part III: Write Excellently
Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part II: Write for the Glory of God and the Good of Others
I put this principle first because that is where it belongs. The fame and reputation of God and the spiritual and common welfare of others should be the driving and guiding motivation behind our writing. And it is important to remember that the two go together. Great love for God is always coupled by a … Continue reading Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part II: Write for the Glory of God and the Good of Others
Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part I: An Introduction
Why blog? For Christians, this is a serious question. Why? Because Christians are instructed to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:5) and do all to the glory of God (I Corinthians 10:31). So it would be safe to say that the practice of blogging is a part of the … Continue reading Essentials for Christian Blogging, Part I: An Introduction
Wisdom From Devin, Part I: Short Conversations and the Kingdom of God
For Christmas, my wife and I spent a full week in my hometown of Billings, Montana. It would have been her first white Christmas had the climate not been its usual self: predictably unpredictable. Just a week before we flew in, Billings was experiencing record snow and kitchen freezer-like temperatures. When we arrived, it was … Continue reading Wisdom From Devin, Part I: Short Conversations and the Kingdom of God
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