300 Blogs - 14K Visitors

300 Blogs - 14K Visitors - Many Thanks

I have passed the 300 blog mark, and I wanted to take a few minutes to express my thanks for reading along - some since 2006! And no hateful comments; amazing! I have written about a lot of things over the years, but mostly Jesus, Holy Spirit, Stupidity, Politics (some think that that's the same as stupidity) and Relationship.

I have been most passionate about the the 5-Fold Ministry.

My top 2 most read blogs are The Role of the Holy Spirit and The Cost of Following Jesus. That sort of makes me happy - because they are important topics. I am also a little impressed that my blogs on the Demonic are also well read. The most commented blog on Fire and Grace is yesterday's on No More Church a Usual!

I was a little disappointed that my series on The Top 10 Stupidest Things Christians Do, did not become a best seller.

I have written some other blogs that don't appear here, but you can search me out at Tony C Today, and Kingdom Bloggers if you just can't get enough sarcasm. :o)

While I've been blogging Obama was elected president, the shooting at VT Blacksburg took place, the Underwear Bomber (sometimes known as the Crotch Bomber) was caught in Detroit, I reconnected with old High School friends on Facebook, lost a job, got a job, went on a car safari, 3 friends got cancer; one died, one was healed and one hangs in the balance, the melee at Ft. Hood happened, we bid farewell to Falwell, Senator Kennedy died - oh, and Scott Brown was elected.

For my 99th blog in '09 I decided to make a list of issues that are important to me. Check them out HERE - not a lot has changed.

And thanks again for reading along. If you would, I'd love it if you would post a comment - even a hateful one, that's what bloggers live for.

Comments

William Cody Bateman said…

Oh, to share the Good News Gospel of Jesus our Lord!

January 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM

Tony C said…

300 post...wow!

I'm glad God directed me to Fire & Grace a little over a year ago. It has been a true blessing.

Looking forward to the next 300...

January 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM

photogr said…

Congratulations Dave:

It has been good reading and passionate words from a follower of the Lord ( notice I didn't say Christian ).

You keep writing and I will keep reading and posting my off the wall comments.

January 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM

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