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Four Reasons Every Christian Should Set Up a Blog Site

 

I believe that every Christian with a heart to serve God should consider setting up a blog site, I think there are (at least) 4 good reasons for this.  Before I go there, I want to emphasize that I am not saying that everyone should become a blogger.  Becoming a blogger is a separate issue, is not for everyone and is a topic for a separate post.

The online world is a relatively new phenomenon, Facebook has shown the public the power of connecting online.  Facebook has been a revolution for connectedness and communication.  Most social platforms however, limit and control how we can interact with the world, they are businesses and must do this to survive. They take advantage of our activities online to sell to marketers.  Facebook controls what we see, they control who sees our posts, they can turn the lights out or change the rules at any time, they have a right to do this because it is their network.  Who knows who has (or will have) access to our conversations on Facebook.

I’m not suggesting that we all get off Facebook or twitter I am suggesting that we own our online presence, we should control it, we should build it how we want it.  Every Christian with a heart to serve God should set up a blog site for the following reasons.

  1. A blog site provides a place on the web to call home that we own. Having a place on the web that is not subject to Facebook or other controlling and intrusive sites is and could become very important. Owning our own site gives us an online presence which enables us to share our message (or potential future messages) online.  Some of these we may not want to spray on Facebook, they may not be for a general audience, we may want to password protect them or just send links to select people.
  2. A blog site gives a place for other people to find out who we are and what our passions are. Look at it as a creative resume, as proof of our professionalism and experience.
  3. A blog site enables us to share our gifts or to share what God is giving us to share with the body of Christ and with the world. This is one of our responsibilities as children of God. When God gives us words of wisdom, words of knowledge or songs or teachings, etc.  we should be willing and eager to share these with others.  For the body of Christ, building a platform in the form of a blog is one great way to share “Christ in you”.
  4. A blog site can evolve into a business or enable opportunities in the future, start building now.

If you’d like help to get started down this path learn more by clicking here or leave a comment below.

What questions or reservations do you have about building your own blog site?

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Rights, Giftings & Blog Plans for 2015

 

We should be able to agree that all people have inalienable natural rights, rights we do not tolerate being stripped away by other people. Of this most Americans and many people’s around the world will agree to and would even give their lives to defend. As you know these rights include:

  • Life
  • Liberty
  • Pursuit of Happiness

Standing on the foundation of these rights are what I call inalienable gifts, these gifts are human activities that emerge from people when their natural rights are defended.  These gifts emerge from us naturally when our rights are ensured and defended, these gifts are built into our DNA and they include:

  • The ability and drive to create, to invent and to provide value.
  • The ability and drive to build community and family.

Creativity, as I’ve written about extensively in the past is a powerful force in this world and has been the primary topic of this blog.

In 2015 I would like move to the next primary topic of this blog which is ‘building and managing of households’.  Creativity will always be an important theme for this site but I want to also write about managing the family.  The fellowship that comes and is enjoyed by people among family or friendship groups is foundational to a civilized society.  There are households of families, there are households of faith and I believe that family gets to the core of why we are on this planet.

I’m not necessarily adding this topic because I am an expert on this topic but because this is where I am in life.  You may know that I am married with 5 young children, and am a member of a church. These two families are a huge part of my life.  As part of my new years goals for 2015 I am attempting to better align my blogging with my family life and create products accordingly.  I also plan to share my faith much more so on this site. Topics that I plan to write about and hopefully create products include: Household management, parenting from a dad’s perspective, children’s training and education (particularly science), healthy marriage from a husband’s perspective, family budgeting and healthy church.

Some of you began following this blog when I was writing about innovation and science, where this blog is headed I think is considerably different from this topic.  I may still write about this periodically but I understand if you un-follow, no hard feelings. This blog has been a several year-long journey of tweaks and adjustments and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

Any feedback? Are there particular family or church topics that you would like to see discussed?

PS: My home computer is down which means I can not edit podcast episodes, unfortunately until my computer is replaced podcasting for this site is on hold.

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Free-to-Explore Creativity

 

Human beings are creative machines both individually and when working together in groups.

Freedom provides the environment for beginning the creative process.  Early stage scientists, engineers, and technicians typically need a great deal of freedom from management in order to do their best creative work.  Early stage innovators are the free-to-explore creators that our economy relies on.

As we progress to manufacturing, that freedom diminishes. But without the free-to-explore creators the parts-of-the-machine creators would never get going.  Without the parts-of-the-machine creators the free-to-explore creators would be hungry on the street and hindered to create.

Together, when cooperating, they make up large-scale human creativity, for now it works. The majority of workers of the world would be happy with either role in exchange for a little security and provision.

I believe that we were created to do both and one day we will have the freedom and ability to do both.  Freedom to learn, to invent and to explore while participating in creating things much bigger than ourselves, willingly, voluntarily as a part of a great machine and without fear.

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