With both sadness and gladness, this is the last blog post I will be writing for Worldview Warriors. As I wrote last week, this has been an incredible journey, and it is a journey that is not over. My life has gotten very busy. I teach physics full-time, and I coach fencing part-time. Not only that, but I am also now teaching a Bible study group at my church, and that doesn’t include writing and other things. It simply is getting to be too much.
Since the summer, halfway through my series on Jesus, I started feeling no heart or energy for this blog. It is not that there was anything wrong with it, but I was starting to get to a point where it was more of a distraction than a joy or pleasure. When I wanted to get working on my Proverbs 3:5 book, the blog posts had deadlines and took priority. And I didn’t have much time during the week to write them, and so I would write en masse during my times off to get ahead. It has become more of a chore than a joy. And one thing I don’t want to do is give half-hearted, no-energy teachings through these blogs. Yes, I get some of the greatest sermons ever preached were when the pastor had no prep time or had no energy and was completely reliant on the Lord, and that has happened with my blogs at times, but I can’t live on that. And God doesn’t operate that way. So to honor the series I had chosen to do, I decided to finish it, which I did last month, and that left me these final posts to be a “closing” for me.
Three weeks ago, I wrote about Biblical manhood and why we must not follow the world’s 11th Commandment of “Thou shalt be nice” at the expense of the other ten. Then I wrote about whether you are going to live as a victim or as a victor. I could have written about the Gospel many times, or about our salvation, but I felt that I should conclude my blog posts with those two topics before I say my farewell to the blog. Worldview Warriors is firing up with a very similar vision but a totally new thrust and engine, and what better way to help launch it than with those two posts? All that said, while this is my final blog post, this is not the end of my ministry with Worldview Warriors.
I still have my Proverbs 3:5 book to finish. I have several other books in mind, and one of them is a Lord of the Rings-style epic that is going to be a multi-book series. A central theme behind it will be the effects of true and false teachings. So I am definitely going to continue my book writing. But I have other projects in mind too.
The problem I had with the blog was that it was basically weekly maintenance. I needed to keep producing content to be released a week at a time, and that is the main reason I need to stop with it. I don’t have the time to do it anymore. That said, I have other content I can give Worldview Warriors. So I am not leaving the ministry at all; I am merely changing my role. The problem with the blogs is that they come every week, but they come and are forgotten unless you know where to look for something. What I will be doing is providing more permanent resources.
A church brother made a comment a couple of months ago after Bible study that I should write an evangelism tract on the “Crown of Thorns” because that is a mini-topic I include in multiple presentations that always tends to blow people away. In a short sentence, when Adam sinned, God cursed the ground to produce thorns and thistles. Then, when Jesus died, He wore a crown of thorns and therefore literally wore the curse of sin to the cross. So now that I am done blogging with this one, I can focus on creating one-time material that can be easily referenced and used. Obviously, I can do more than one tract, but it got me thinking. That’s a whole category of things we can produce. I also plan to write articles for Worldview Warriors as well, but these would be longer and more sporadic. Jason DeZurik has also asked if I would be open to speaking and even going on speaking tours. While it is challenging with my teaching schedule, due to having two weeks off in October, December, and March, with June and July off, that is not unreasonable. So I am not going away. I am simply going in a new direction. What I will be producing through Worldview Warriors will be evangelical tracts, booklets, longer-than-blog articles, books, and hopefully getting back into speaking again.
Also, I am chewing on doing some more scientific research. In a year and a half, the 10th International Conference on Creationism will convene, and I have some ideas I am cooking for a research paper. I will need to have it done by the summer of next year if I want a full paper for the 2027 Conference, and if I do just an abstract (which is more likely what needs to be done), I have a bit more time. I am looking at studying the “Uranium to Lead” decay chain in particular because it’s one of the favorites to showcase millions of years, and I’ve seen enough pieces to know there is a severe reason to question it. But I have some ideas that might put these different pieces together in a way that hasn’t been done yet. So I am still chewing on that, but I can’t do that and do my Proverbs book while doing the blog and my Bible study. Something has to be put aside.
So this wraps up blogging for me with Worldview Warriors. I thank you who have read and followed me for the last 12 years. I can still be followed on my personal Facebook page, where I post a devotional from my daily Scripture readings, and I’ll still be sending stuff to Worldview Warriors. What is going to come out of this is better and richer products than what I had before, and as God leads, we’ll see what else He prompts me to do. Farewell, and keep watching Worldview Warriors for a lot more content and a lot more variety of stuff. The fire has been rekindled, things are taking a new shape, and the zeal is just getting going again. Stay tuned because God is not done with us yet.
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