Bible 09 » Notes

Bums me out when life gets in the way

Matt — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:54:01 +0000

As my wife put it today, “You haven’t posted since January 11th, you slacker!” Of course she was kidding, but that is how I feel. I am bummed when I am not able to post or, as in the past few days, read. It’s not that I don’t want to, but life does get in the way.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been sick, worked a special event, prepared a message for this weekend’s service and had some issues with work. But, the upside to all of this is when I go underground on the blogging scene, it means that God is growing me. I have been wrestling with things and it is pretty great. Now, I don’t want my hip popped out like Jacob (nor am I wrestling with God, just sayin’}, but there are those times and I know that it is going to be even better than before.

I guess my point is this: when you are into God’s Word, sometimes he is going to make you put it into action. And, it may make you busy. I believe it is alright if you are putting His Word into action you can catch up. I still don’t like not blogging about the Bible. It bums me out…

Work in progress

Matt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:41:22 +0000

As you may have noticed, there are things on this site that are missing or incomplete. That’s what happens with something that you do as a hobby. But, being that it is Bible09, I wanted to get it out as quickly as possible and it was 80% there, so I went with it.

If you are coming here from myBibleJournal.com, thanks for checking it out. I am excited about the new look and some of the new technology that comes with the new theme. I am excited about the plans for the old site and I hope that it can be a tool to help you as well.

There is a lot going on and I am fired up about where it all is leading. As always, thanks for coming along for the ride and for your patience as we build this up.

Hello world! New year, new blog

Matt — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:38:48 +0000

What do you do after blogging the Bible for 2 and a half years and finishing the Bible for the first time? Start a new blog, of course! But seriously, it has been a great journey with my first blog myBibleJournal, but there have been a couple reasons for moving on to a new site.

First of all is technical. A lot has changed in blogging and computers in the last two years, so I sort of wanted to start with a clean slate. While I have been able to upgrade the software, the structure of the categories and tags have changed and I am looking forward to starting over with that. Also, I am looking forward to incorporating other social elements that have become popular recently including Facebook, Twitter and more. I believe the new theme for the site lends itself better to this without a complete overhaul.

But more than anything, I wanted to change the tone of the blog to attempt to get as many people as I can to read the Bible in 2009. I don’t mean reading the whole thing or having to start on January 1, but at least beginning the habit of reading the Bible and finding out God has to say to us. Much of the tone of the writing will be geared toward this.

So whether you have ended up here via search, Facebook, twitter or good old fashion face to face meeting, thanks for stopping by and it is my prayer that you might dive into God’s Word this year and see what it has to say. Thanks and good luck in everything that you do in 2009.