I usually don’t post stuff like this but I recently found out that Amazon had made a Kindle reader for the PC (also for IPhone and soon BlackBerry). This is great for me because I love ebooks and Amazon has a huge library available (I have spent quite a bit already buying books). Thought you might like to know.

I hope you all are having a great New Year’s. I can’t wait to start the new year because I see such great things happening in my life. I look forward to being able to walk with Jesus in 2010. Thanks for reading.

2009 has been the first full year for this blog and I feel like I have accomplished quite a bit. I didn’t post as much as I would have liked or done a very good job marketing this blog so the traffic has been very low. I really do this more for the enjoyment of it anyway so I don’t mind that I haven’t had very many readers. I hope to post every day in 2010, so that should get traffic up. This is my year in review.

At the beginning of 2009 this blog was primarily about church of Christ issues and made progression toward being about organic church. This has to do mostly with me making the same transition. I do hope to write more about the church of Christ because all of my family and most of my friends attend these churches (and I do as well from time to time). I really wanted to get away from it but I really feel like I need to speak to these issues. If you aren’t part of the church of Christ, you may still be able to get something from reading the posts and I will try to make them as broad as possible.

I was also unemployed at the beginning of 2009 and that really made my blogging a little depressing (it also made me not want to write). Thanks for everyone who stuck with it when I was trying to figure out how to trust the Lord in the midst of a four month job search.

After that, I reviewed Frank Viola’s “Pagan Christianity” in my series Servants That Became Rulers. This was probably my best series so far and I really enjoyed it.

My next series was Preaching Through The Hymns where I got to show how church of Christ hymns don’t always match church of Christ doctrine. This is something I had been wanted to do for some time because I had often said that our song leaders were better than our preachers at teaching correct doctrine. I think I made my point without extending the series too long.

My next series was Experiential Baptism and it is kind of my baby. If I could ever expand it into a book I would love it. I’ve tried to figure it out but I don’t want too many pointless words. Maybe someday.

Probably my best discovery of 2009 is Darin Hufford and I have started a series on his book “The Misunderstood God” and posted links to many of his articles. This will probably continue because I really like his teaching and I hope to finish the series soon.

And finally, I just recently finished my review of Frank Viola’s “Reimagining Church” and I think it went pretty well. I was lucky enough to receive a free copy for review and really liked being able to go through two of Viola’s books in the same year.

The books I mentioned in this post are available in the Store if you would like to read them.

It’s been a really good year and I hope to have a better one in 2010. Thank you for reading.

Just wanted to drop a post to say that this is the best month that this blog has ever had in terms of traffic. This is probably due to the series on Reimagining Church but I hope that I can keep this up. I haven’t seen much from this blog but have very much enjoyed writing it. I have thought of getting rid of this blog and starting a different one. What do you think?

Here are some ways that I hope to improve in the next year:

1. I hope to love more people next year than I love today.
2. I hope to spend more time alone with God.
3. I hope to spend more time enjoying what God has given me.
4. I hope to teach more people what God has taught me.
5. I hope to be able to hear the Spirit better than I do today.

I guess you could call them “resolutions” but I would rather call them dreams. This is the future that I want for myself but I cannot make it happen. I must trust the Lord to grow these things within me as He desires.

I just wanted to drop a line to wish everyone a merry Christmas and to thank you all for reading my blog. Have a great day.