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Yesterday (Wednesday) I had the highest number of users on my blog—73!  That seems kind of scrawny to “the professionals”, but to me—well, praise the Lord.

My “highs” to that point had been 66 last Monday and 59 on March 22 and 30.

I’m telling you this, not to brag about myself, but to boast in the Lord.  When disability drove me to retire from pastoring March 31, 2014, I didn’t know what I would do with myself.  How about blogging?  Sounded reasonable (brain surgeon and auto mechanic were equally out of the question!), especially since I’ve wanted to write for decades and the only thing I knew after 44 years of pastoring was the Bible.

So a couple weeks before retirement, I began.  I quickly learned that producing a blog-post that said something significant in typical blog-space was as big a challenge as finishing a sermon by noon.  It took much longer than I’d expected.  I still can’t write a blog a day.

But what’s significant about blogging for me is the opportunity it gives me to still “preach” God’s Word.  That was my life for 44 years.  And now our Father in his infinite goodness has allowed me to continue.

At the start I wondered, “Who’s gonna read what I write?”  While there’s value in writing to clarify one’s thinking, it doesn’t mean a whole lot if no one else “clicks” in.  For the first months (many) I struggled to get out of the single digits.  Now 73!  And over the last 90 days, I’ve had almost 300 “uses” from Russia.  I don’t know what that means, unless the Holy Spirit is working on Putin’s heart . . .

Anyway, this really isn’t about me.  It’s a testimony to God’s grace that he’s still using me in some small way for his purposes.  I used to say that I hoped to die preaching in the pulpit.  Now I say that I hope to die sitting at my computer working on theoldpreacher.com.

Thank you for reading.  And if you have a friend who will sign up for money (not too much now), let me know.  Seriously, it would be great if you would spread the word—which I pray will always be God’s for his glory.

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