re: the blog baiting – It worked, thought as you can tell I really blew off the blog for a good part of 2008 so I didn’t get near the 10k. The problem was…. it worked.

What happened was I used poor judgement in writing about some topics in the past which managed to find their way to #2 or 3 in google/yahoo/wherever for some big questions people have.

Problem was I didn’t care about the topics.

Example of this was “what does the bible say about ghosts”. Kid you not, this became by far the most popular post on my recovery blog. Did they stick around for the recovery aspect? I don’t know but it was a colossal pain – every single person griping and whining about how I wanted to take their ghosts away from them, etc. Many reported being Christians…

There are some people in the church who have struggled with spiritual aspects like this and I am definitely not one of them. Thus I did a lousy job not so much explaining some of the Biblical references, but it’s just my compassion wasn’t there. Hence, I auto-forwarded the page to a website that does better dealing with those questions.

Guess God was showing me some things about how I need to be very careful with the knowledge he has given me about the Internet and this isn’t a toy – we’re talking about people’s lives and if I am going to be ministering to people, this isn’t quite some grand experiment and I need to be prepared for that next step of the process. I can’t even imagine the garbage pastors put up with every day – no wonder they tend to burn out.

That being said, I’ll probably still do some of the (insert name of pastor) sermons because that could be a wide variety of people.

Plans for 09 are to breath a little life back into the blog and probably take it in a new direction. Want to make sure it’s the right one so I finish what I start so I’d appreciate the prayers on that one.

thanks for stopping by & hope for the best with CR for you