I know I’m a year late, but as I began to assemble the top ten blog posts of 2012, I realized that there were a few from 2011 that still had value and might well be worth a second look. Here they are, more or less in order of popularity.
1) God Will Destroy the Fat Cats – November 29, 2011 – A Blog about God’s desire to destroy the rich, well, not really… but sort of.
2) Laws of Man and God – Are guns evil? Part 1 – February 9, 2011 – Part 1 of 4 – The first in a series that I wrote after the shooting of Gabriel Giffords. Not really pro-gun or anti gun, just asking a lot of questions and thinking out loud. The first two installments made the year’s top ten, but while part 3 was moderately popular, almost no one made it to part 4. My lesson? Even broken into pieces, this was just too long.
3) Happy Birthday Mr. Shea! – February 2, 2011 – A tribute to George Beverly Shea on his 102nd birthday.
4) Laws of Man and God – Are guns evil? Part 2– February 10, 2011 – Part 2 of 4
5) Living Together, No Harm No Foul? – April 27, 2011 – Is living together normal, healthy, moral and responsible? I’m sure you can find lots of people who think it’s a good idea, but, well, no.
6) Seeing God in the World Around You – March 25, 2011 – A man I never met, weeps during my talk, wondering how I knew so much about his life. I didn’t. But God did.
7) 20/20 Blindness – March 31, 2011 – A blind man is thrown out of a restaurant because of his guide dog. Apparently, humans are just as blind today as the Pharisees that Jesus knew.
8) Christmas in January – January 4, 2011- I explain why our family still leaves our Christmas decorations us until the first week in January. Not everyone celebrates Christmas on December 25th you know.
9) Too Busy for God? – May 25, 2011 – Do you plans for the summer, or for the New Year, include church. If church is important to you, don’t allow it to happen by accident.
In reality, there was a three or four way tie for tenth place. Instead of picking one of those, or using all of them, I jump to the blog that comes after the tie because, even though it was read less often, it had more comments than any other blog of the year. That’s worth something mentioning, I think.
10) A New Digital Divide – Who wins, who loses? – January 19, 2011 – As we become an increasingly technological society, we cannot allow ourselves to forget the people who are being left behind.
Honorable Mention) The Nightmare of Democracy? – February 14, 2011 – I include this, a blog that was written at the very beginning of what we now call the Arab Spring. In it, I worried that the revolution in Egypt might not be such a great thing. In the two years since, attacks on Coptic Christians and on the Coptic Church have increased and the government has shown little interest in preventing it. Events are still unfolding in the Middle East and as they do, out brothers and sisters in Christ will continue to be in need of our prayers.
Pastor Partridge 