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Grace and peace
erik
I’m sitting at Starbucks today… i mean 5bucks (a clever nick-name some friends came up with)… sitting here getting ready for my Sunday School message tomorrow and since i left my bible at home i’m using the YouVersion online bible. I have YouVersion on my phone, iPad, and today i’ve been using my computer to read it. LOVE IT! Honestly i haven’t used YouVersion all that much but today i saw their bible reading plans. BRILLIANT!
So i’ve decided to make my first New Years Resolution… READ THE ENTIRE BIBLE IN 90 DAYS!
YouVersion has a reading plan that takes you through the entire bible in 90 days. So i’m going to do it! Starting January 1st i’ll be reading, i think it’s only 3 or 4 chapter a day. Which i’m ashamed to admit is more than i read currently. I’ll be posting here on my blog about my progress and you can also follow along on YouVersion. But i’m excited about it!
I’m sure i’ve read pretty much all of the bible at one time or another but i’ve never just read it all the way through like this. I’ve never done this primarily because i don’t think it’s the best way to read the bible but i think this is going to be good for me! And i’m excited about it. Remember, it’s more about quality than quantity when it comes to bible reading but if your up for the challenge why don’t you read along with me.
Grace and peace
erik
PS :: I think this is going to be a great way to get ready for Lent and then Easter. And since this is 90 days it should take us right up to that time of year! PERFECT!
I wouldn’t believe me if i were you but it’s true, i’m gearing up to start some serious blogging!
Soon and very soon i will have an office (that’s not a coffee shop) and office hours… all things conducive to some serious blogging that i haven’t had in the past 2 years // since the kid came along.
Grace and peace and blogging
erik
So last week this blog got hacked! How cool is that?!?!?
(this is the exact picture they used to let me know, thanks hacker!)
I mean seriously, i’m pretty much a nobody so it’s pretty surprising & amusing that someone would go to the trouble to hack my blog and put a picture with an email address below insinuating they are bribing me or something. HA!!! #1. i don’t have money to be bribed! #2. If you think this blog is significant enough to warrant a hostage take over you probably need to do more research on hacking victims! HA!!!
So yea, i think that’s kinda hilarious.
My blog is still a bit vulnerable because i don’t know how to update my wordpress on my server. (anyone want to help?)
But the REALLY good news, which i am extremely excited about is… this blog will be getting a facelift in the next month or so.
I’m going to be getting some new internet real estate! So my website and blog will be revamped and integrated with each other. Pretty stoked about that! So stay tuned for the new look!
The one thing that i am bummed about is that i was at a really great conference last week and i wasn’t able blog about it, you know, cause of the hostage take over. I was the AMiA Winter Conference and it was awesome! I really felt at home. Which is like the greatest gift God could have given me at the conference. I’m pretty overwhelmed at God’s graciousness to me and i’m excited to share some of what i learned and what i took away from my day and a half at the conference. But for now, a big cheers to hackers! I love it, kinda wish i was a hacker, it just sounds so cool and makes me think of the Matrix – GREAT MOVIE!
Grace and peace
erik
January is my favorite month to blog, there is so much to say and reflect on. And it’s the perfect time to bust out your top 5 or top 10 lists of the previous year. Which is always a good times and which i will be doing shortly…
Top 10 books
Top 10 movies
Top 10 TV shows
Top 10 albums
etc…
I’ve also declared January a free month. Instead of making my new years resolutions in December, i’ve decided that i will make my new years resolutions in the new year… so January is a free month! TAKE IT! It’s a month to think and dream of what i want to be in this new year and then make resolutions that will help to move me in that directions.
AND I REALLY LIKE RESOLUTIONS!
Resolutions can be about empty goals, failed intentions, and unrealistic dreams OR they can be about something much more.
I’ve shared this for the last year or two (check out last’s years blog) but i think at the heart of just about every new years resolution is a desire to be free. Free from the things that have held us back, free from the things that we’ve been addicted to, and free from the bondage and baggage that kept us from being who we were created to be.
God’s pattern throughout the entire bible is to step into our circumstances and bring freedom and wholeness so that we can be the people he has created for us to be. What if this year your resolutions signified more than a bunch of empty, sure-to-fail goals but rather they represented all the ways you were going to follow God into freedom and wholeness in this new year!
Make some resolutions…
And follow God into the freedom he has for you in 2011, or ’11 as i’m calling it!
grace and peace and a amazing ’11!
erik