Personal Update
Mar 28th, 2009 by Nathan White
I apologize for the slow-posting as of late. Let me provide a brief update and schedule for the future:
- Today is the day my wife is due to give birth to our second child. Obviously, I’m blogging and not otherwise occupied, so it looks like she will be late. Nevertheless, because of the pregnancy I have family in town, and the last few weeks have simply been too busy to blog.
- I am still putting the final touches on my ‘Five Views on Law and Gospel’ review, which will be in 5 more installments. I look forward to the discussion this will generate, and I just ask your patience as I prepare these (rather large) posts. Please be patient; these posts are coming!
- For various reasons, I have held off on joining the black hole that is Facebook. But recently, unfortunately, I caved and joined both Facebook and Twitter (FB is: nnatew24[at]gmail.com). I’m enjoying it way more than I thought I would, and I can now see why blogging has slowed dramatically since I first began in 2005. Facebook/Twitter is a much better way to keep in touch with friends and such regarding all kinds of issues, including theological discussions and articles, and has thus in a large part replaced blogging. So, if you enjoy my blog (all 10 of you that read), you’ll probably enjoy my FB and Twitter posts as well, if not more so because I update them daily.
- Speaking of Blogging, after I finish my 5 Views review I am going to take a step back and re-consider my options here for Shepherd the Flock, thanks in large part to this excellent post by my friend Paul. Go read Paul’s article, please, and deeply consider the points he makes.
I appreciate my readers, the few that there are that put up with me, and I would appreciate your prayers as we prepare to welcome a second child into the world!
And I...
Nathan,
I followed the link and read the reasons why your friend is stopping. I can see his concerns, but on the other hand, there are many people who do come to these blogs to read and be edified by what they contain. We may not always comment, but we are here. I attend a non-demoninational church, and I love my pastor. He preaches the gospel every second he gets. But he also stays away from the harder things, and I fnd myself having to go elsewhere to be taught the full counsel of God. These blogs are part of my “elsewhere.” Don’t be too hasty in your decision. You and your family are in my prayers.
Hannah
Nathan,
I hope you won’t go. What if you just disabled comments? Your posts are edifying and have been helpful to me in my walk.
I hope you’ll finish the eschatology series.
Doug in AZ
Thank you both for the kind and encouraging words. I won’t be shutting down the blog anytime soon, though I might focus more on book reviews and excerpts of good books I benefit from. Really, the blog is a good way for me to diary my thoughts/studies on a particular subject. The problem comes when people take me too seriously. I don’t do a ton of research on a particular subject. I don’t exhaust each and every argument. I simply write off the cuff. I wish I had time to write more thoroughly at times, especially when some expect that I deal with all sides of a particular issue, but I don’t really have the desire (or the knowledge/education) to take things in that direction.
BTW, Doug, did I not finish the eschatology series? Remind me (sorry!) and I will pick things back up. I’ve been studying the issue again as of late…
Thanks again, my friends. You are a great encouragement to me.
Nathan
Hey Nathan,
Maybe I got lost, but I thought your last post was from Sept 07 when you posted on “Sam Waldron on John MacArthur’s ‘Millennium Manifesto’”.
If you posted more and I missed it, let me know. The posts were very helpful to me and my wife as we attend a MacArthur like church which is a great place to worship but as a reformed amillennialist, I am totally outnumbered by pre-mil dispensationalists.
Glad to hear you’ll be hangin in there for a little longer.
Blessings to you and your growing family.
Doug in AZ
I too read your friend’s notes and appreciate him following his conscious. A better approach would be to turn comments off in my opinion and continue to feed those who follow the blogs. I’m just a blue-collar laymen who desires to learn more about God and find blogs to be a great way to help me do just that. In particular, they are useful as within my local church (outside of my pastor) I have virtually no older men to look toward as a mentor–so studying what I find on blogs helps fill that gap some even if it is not the best way. In turn, I’m trying to help mentor other young men whether it would be those I teach on Sundays or those I have a chance to develop relationships with as part of the church family.
Your friend is right that there is a certain “celebrity culture” (cc) out there that at times can be unseemly (the fanboy responses), but then this cc can be helpful too; especially for those of us w/o any serious theological training. I know everything I read must be measured against God’s word (Sola Scritpura), but it is nice to know someone I’m reading is somewhat “vetted” by a larger community–lest I go chasing to far down bunny trails of those who maybe more crafty in there heresy.