From 2006-2010, I hosted a weekly (mostly) podcast. Compared to today, fewer podcasters existed then. Blogging was king. When my site (northamericanmissions.org) was being developed to host the podcast, I was asked: “Would you want to start a blog instead of doing audio?” My immediate response was, “No. Blogs are for ego-maniacs who want to tell people more about the spaghetti they had for dinner, color of their socks, or how hot their wives look in ways that don’t limit them to 140 characters on Twitter. No thanks, I’ll podcast!” 🙂
For the next few years, I watched the art of blogging mature and reconsidered my take on it. By 2010, I grasped the Kingdom potential in such a resource and launched Missiologically Thinking. Of course at that time, pocasting was moving into the position of royalty just when I was ending my series. I prefer to think of myself as one who helped get the ball rolling in the podcasting world, rather than being out-of-touch with reality and ending my recordings prematurely (I am wearing parachute pants as I write this.).
Today marks my 501st post. While there are many bloggers who have written much more than this, today’s post is a milestone from a guy who used to be anti-blogging.
Whether this is the first post you have read at this site, or you have read all of them over the past 5 years, I want to say thank you. I greatly appreciate you taking out the time to check out this site. If you are blessed by it, please share it with others.
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Yes, I eventually returned to the realm of the podcast. Check out Strike the Match, where I often share about being in touch with today’s realities of parachute pants, acid washed jeans, and mullets: