Why I'm Blogging (again)

1) Because i miss it.

I started blogging in the summer of 2005, after my second year the University of Reading. I was pretty steady for four years, and then things petered out around the summer of 2009. About a year ago i tried to start again, but stopped in the Autumn. But i miss blogging. I really do, i like the internet, i like the online community, and i want to be part of it.

2) Because it helps me.

Tweeting a devotional thought every now and then is helpful, but there's only so many thoughts one can develop in 140 characters. Writing comes from thinking (hopefully!) and thinking from processing, and processing from feeding. If i'm starved for blog ideas, it's a good sign i'm starved for actual ideas, and that's a helpful flag.

3) Because it might help you.

There's a story that a man was saved because a piece of paper with one of Spurgeon's sermons printed on it blew across his field one day. That may be apocryphal, but surely it captures the heart of all Christian blogging. The most helpful preaching comes overflowing out of the preacher's heart, and so, hopefully, for someone somewhere, with this blog.

4) Because Christ is sweet.

John Piper says one of the reasons he moved from teaching to pastoring was because he realised that 'Christ will not simply be analysed.' Eric Liddle said that when he ran he felt God's pleasure. That's how i feel about studying and proclaiming the sweetness of Christ. I feel most useful when i'm studying, at my most comfortable when i'm preaching. Making Christ known is my raison d'etre, so another outlet for that can't be bad.

Christ is sweet, let's enjoy Him together.