Back to Blogging

I have started my third month serving as the pastor at First United Methodist Church in El Dorado, Kansas. It has been fantastically busy, fun, exciting and full of opportunities and challenges to have a baby, move to a new home and start serving as the lead pastor at a new congregation in the past three months.

While I am still continue to make the transition to our new home, it is time for me to start blogging again. I know, it has been months. However, I plan to begin with  a few posts a week and see how it goes. While I have a lot of ideas about what to write about on this blog, I want to write what would be most interesting, helpful or intriguing to you. So, what will it be?

What would you like for me to write about on this blog? What would be interesting to you? What would you want to share with others? I am looking forward to beginning this blogging adventure with you again.

A Year Ago on Thoughts of Resurrection – October 2010

Here are some posts from Thoughts of Resurrection one year ago, that I think you might find interesting. Take a look…

A Year Ago on Thoughts of Resurrection – September 2010

Digging through the archives of this blog, I found a few posts from a year ago that I continue to find value in today. I invite you to take a look back with me.

Blog Anniversary – 5 Years

I published the first post on this blog five years ago. At that time I was using blogger.com as the platform and was thinking about using it as a tool to communicate with the congregation for whom I cared. A lot has changed since then, but some things have stayed the same:

  • I hope that people in the community and congregation where I serve will be able to read this blog to know me a bit better.
  • Writing helps me process things
  • I am humbled that there are people that actually want to read what I have to write.
  • There is an ebb and flow to my blogging.
Looking ahead, what kind of posts would you most enjoy?

A Year Ago on Thoughts of Resurrection

Here are a few posts from a year ago, I hope that you might take a look at two or three and add your comments. Enjoy!

Blogging Break

I am spending time with family this week and am taking time away from the blog for the rest of the week. I hope that you will take a moment to enjoy a few popular posts from the recent past:

Moving on to Blogging Perfection

Groucho Marx & anonymous blogging

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After a week and a half, I finally managed to put up the rest of my notes from SXSW Interactive. I suppose that shorter blogging breaks is indicative of more regular blogging. I have several weeks worth of posts in mind and I hope to be more regular about blogging.

I’ll get there…

Top Posts from 2010

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Here are the top posts for the past 365 days that were written in 2010:

  1. Church Growth = Increased Pastor Salary?
  2. Top 8 Reasons to end Guaranteed Appointments in the UMC
  3. Ordination Paperwork in the UMC: A Provocative Proposal
  4. Do I have to believe all the beliefs in Methodism to be a Methodist?
  5. What to Do with Ineffective United Methodist Clergy
  6. Ordination in the UMC: Doctrinal Papers
  7. 2010 Twitter Hashtags for #UMC Annual Conferences
  8. #smckc + #smcjoco = 7
  9. What is a guaranteed appointment in the UMC?
  10. What to Do with Unhealthy United Methodist Congregations

 

 

 

 

Speedlinking – October 22, 2010

Top 10 Search Terms for andrewconard.com – 3Q of 2010

These are the top search terms over the past quarter that lead to viewing my blog –
http://andrewconard.com
. What does this list tell you about this blog or about searching people do on the internet?

  1. immanent trinity
  2. church attire
  3. gracepoint church wichita
  4. proper church attire
  5. methodist hymns for funerals
  6. united methodist service death resurrection
  7. pastoral prayers
  8. united methodist polity
  9. methodist funeral hymns
  10. invitation to offering