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Constantly learning and organizing

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So I write…a lot.  And I’m still a learning, work-in-progress when it comes to this whole blogging thing.  Pacing when it comes to managing a blog is a learned skill with a bit of a curve to master.  There’s a balance to it.  If you don’t publish enough, you won’t keep people around long enough to get invested in what you have to say.  But, if you publish too much, you wear people out and overwhelm them to the point that they give up on you.  As your email inbox or Facebook feed may have clued you in, I’m not likely to fall victim to the former challenge.  The latter, however…well…I might possibly lean in that direction from time to time.

With that in mind, I’m going to try something new going forward.  I’m going to dial back posts to just three days a week: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  On each of those days there will be a combination of Morning Musings and Digging in Deeper posts.  But now, instead of having so much pressure to read right away because the next wave is coming, interested readers will have a bit more breathing room before the next set of posts will run.

Prayerfully, this will be a bit better a pace both for you, my faithful readers, and also for me, the verbose writer.  Thank you for coming with me on this journey and learning with me as we together explore how the Christian worldview serves as the nexus for all of life.  If you like what you are finding here, sign up to follow this site at the bottom of the page and share it with your friends.  Together we can build a community here that grows day by day (okay, well, three days a week for now) to not just understand, but live out of the life that is truly life.

New Beginnings

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When new beginning abound, adventures are sure to be found.

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This is a season of new beginnings for us.  About a month ago we said goodbye to the church family with whom we had served, grown, learned, and love for nearly nine years, propelled by God’s call to follow Him into the unknown.  We did so with heavy hearts, but also with a great deal of excitement.  God’s clear pattern throughout the Scriptures is that when He calls someone to follow Him into the unknown, while it may be scary and certainly isn’t always easy, the outcome is always good.  This ending, however, gave rise to a whole series of beginnings.  The old has given way to much that is new.  New community, new house, new job, new church family, new school for the kids, new patterns and rhythms, new places to go and see.  We are surrounded by beginnings everywhere we look.  And God has been faithful.  As much as we loved what we had, the people God has already placed in our path in this new place are wonderful and an encouraging harbinger of the exciting adventures that lie ahead of us.

What you are reading represents yet another beginning.  After much encouragement over the last several years and a fair bit of procrastination, this blog will be a place to share what God has laid on my heart and mind with you, a gracious reader who has taken valuable time out of your day to hopefully take part in what I intend to be a conversation.  A conversation about life and faith and the intersection–the nexus–thereof.  While I suspect this will change and develop over time, the plan from the outset for this platform is to regularly add three types of content.  The first will be reflections from out of the Christian worldview on life, faith, culture, politics, and the like.  The second will be an archive of my latest preaching at the First Baptist Church of Oakboro, NC (see above).  The third, which I’m going to call Quick Takes, will be notes and thoughts I have from out of my own study of the Scriptures.  I’ll share more details on these later.

For now, let the conversations commence.  Thank you for your time and attention, and I look forward to engaging with you and truly making this place a nexus–a place where the Christian worldview is highlighted as the central connection point for all of life.