{"id":9766,"date":"2012-01-31T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2015-03-23T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:25:58","slug":"1000-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/1000-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 Posts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1000<\/p>\n

This is my 1000th Post!<\/p>\n

If you want to read all 1000, check out the Blog Archives<\/a>. Ha!<\/p>\n

Brief History<\/h2>\n

Here is a brief history of the Till He Comes blog.<\/p>\n

June 19, 2007.<\/strong> The first post on this blog:\u00a0Welcome to the TILL HE COMES Blog<\/a>. The website has been in existence since 2001, but this is when I launched the blog. Prior to the blog, I was posting mainly sermons and Bible studies, some of which I am migrating over to my sermon pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

December 19, 2007.<\/strong> Things went pretty well with the blog for about 5 months. I had a small, but growing readership, in large part due to the traffic I already had through my website, and also due to my work at a Christian non-profit organization and publishing company. I was getting published and speaking in conferences and churches. But on December 19, 2007, I published a post called\u00a0The Heretic in Me<\/a>\u00a0which would change my life forever. I had no idea about the magnitude of the storm that this post would create in my life.<\/p>\n

January 17, 2008.<\/strong> Within a month after writing that fateful post, I lost my job and most of my Christian friends. Though I had predicted that some would call me a heretic for the seven ideas I was studying (but had not actually believed), I didn’t actually think that anybody would actually <\/em>call me a heretic and\u00a0turn on me. But they did. I can count on one hand the people who did not reject me, criticize me, and condemn me. This is not the worst crisis that a person can face in their life, but it was a crisis for me. I wrote a post about what was going on here: From Crisis to Christless<\/a>.<\/p>\n

June 17, 2008.<\/strong> Over the next six months, I graduated from seminary<\/a> and decided to become a tentmaking church planter. \u00a0I just needed to find a way to “make tents.” In other words, I needed a job. So I applied for hundreds of jobs, and only got three interviews. Only one place offered to hire me: a carpet cleaning company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

November 21, 2008.<\/strong> Blogging really dropped off during my time as a carpet cleaner. Over the next five months, I worked 80 hours per week and had three surgeries. It became apparent that I could not clean carpets for long. So I looked for another job, and found one in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

August 27, 2009.<\/strong> This was the date of my 300th post<\/a>, and I was floundering as a blogger. I didn’t have the time to blog, and there was a lot going on in my life, my job, and my marriage. I decided to try to focus this blog on writing about Scripture, but if you look at the the majority of the posts over the next two years, I still found myself writing mostly about church.<\/p>\n

December 11, 2010.<\/strong> I decided to start taking blogging and writing seriously<\/a>. This meant re-organizing my blog, trying to post every day, and studying the art and science of blogging. At this time, I was getting about 30 pageviews per day. This is also when I first created my Twitter account<\/a>. I started reading blogs about blogging, interacting on other blogs, and began to teach myself about best blogging practices and design.<\/p>\n

Blogging in 2011<\/h2>\n

Over the course of the next year, I made several good blogging friends online, and learned a lot about blogging, started several other blogs, and decided to pursue my dream of getting published. I am now averaging about 1400 pageviews per day. As I look over this past year of blogging, I would say that these are some of the best things that happened:<\/p>\n