Chasing traffic and a platform will cannibalize your energy. Don’t expect the day-in and day-out of the journey to be sufficient.

I fear too many times I’ve tricked myself into saying I’m blogging for the glory of the King of kings when I’m blogging for my own glory.

My suggestion is to worry less about what others say is the right length and consider what length best fits your ability to write a post artfully.

When I ask that question, I want you to think of real people you know, friends and family. Don’t leap to an imaginary audience before you deal with the readers you actually know.

Is it possible you might need to courageously expose sin or theological error at some point as a blogger? Yes. Is it likely a God-glorifying blog is marked by a critical tone? No.

Perhaps the biggest lure to any blogger is the power of the 24-hour news cycle.

When I started blogging, I made the rule to always reach out to other authors when I interacted with their work on my blog. I encourage you to do this too.

On the other hand, I’ve learned if the posture of my heart in my sermon preparation isn’t devotional, then my preaching becomes dry and academic. If I am not growing spiritually through my pastoral ministry, I’m not pastoring as God intended. I would say the same thing to engineers,

I want to follow, to the best of my ability, Paul’s admonition to think upon that which is pure, lovely, and commendable (Phil 4:8). If I can put that in business