WHAT ARE MY 2022 GOALS FOR "FRIEND OF THE PROPHETS" (AKA FAITH: FACTS AND FICTION)?

Passed along by author Rick Barry

 Let me start by informing you - this will be the last blog I post until next year. Hopefully you can wait for 2022 for me to resume. I do have some questions for you below.

I do have some plans for this blog. Starting the first day of 2022 (tomorrow), I'll be posting a fourteen part look at Church Fathers, influenced by Bryan Litfin's book Getting To Know The Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction. I also will be doing series on Romans 14, intriguing Bible characters, and whether prophecy exists today. There are some stand alone blogs I'll post as well.

One question I asked myself was whether I should do series for Lent (40 days) and the 50 days from Easter to Pentecost. I decided I will do them. For Lent, I'll be doing a series on Psalms, looking at various portions that I've memorized and review regularly. Starting Easter, I will be sharing favorite hymns.

Most of the blogs I've posted with the most views have been interviews. Unfortunately, most of those readers are there for the interviewee and don't read my blog regularly. But I still plan on doing more. Additionally, I'll still be posting reviews (and feeding an author).

By the way, I might interview some of my characters from my novel. I'll also check if some of my other favorite characters are up to being interviewed.

One thing I wouldn't mind if for the viewership to increase. Any ideas on how to get more viewers or more comments? I do paste a link on my Facebook wall, but I got the impression from one person that it's not obvious where the link is.

Finally, do you suggestions for blog topics, reviews, or interviews? Would any of you be interested in doing a guest blog? And were there any blogs that were favorites?

Friends Of The Prophets And What Is Our Focus?

  

Jon Wyclif giving the "poor priests" his translation of the Bible by William Fredericks Yearnes The "poor priests" (aka the Lollards) distributed Wyclif's translation of Scriptures in an age prior to printing presses.

 

Raise your hands if you noticed the blog's new name! Funny, I don't see any hands.

In a post about two weeks ago, I mentioned I debated changing the blog's names, and gave the two options :

1. Keeping the original name "Faith, Facts and Fiction."
2. Changing it to "Friend of the Prophets."

You would not believe the response I had (or maybe you would). After the days (or was it seconds) of counting the votes, my vote proved to be the tiebreaker. (Zero to zero is considered a tie, isn't it?) 

What is the idea behind that name? Because those that fill the role of a prophet are often friendless, but I have a desire to be a friend to those types of people. And you'll notice the new title is in the plural? My hope is that I not only encourage fellow believers on the front line of Spiritual Warfare, but I also encourage others to join me.

But what does it matter? Does it matter if I change the blog's name? Does it matter if I write this blog? Does it matter if anybody reads it?

Would you believe me it's discouraging for the blog to more often than not land in the lower single digits on people who see it? (That's when I post it on my Facebook page, otherwise it wouldn't have any.) I'm sure you have discouragements about your endeavors at times, asking yourselves "What's the use?"

The reality is WHY am I taking the time to do this? Is it to build my platform for writing? Even more so, is it so that my name means something?

I'm rereading The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer, and the chapter I read today deals with that issue. Is God the ultimate reason for what we're doing, or are we trying to build our own kingdom?

Hopefully, this blog not only has a new name, but a new direction on the part of the blogger.