I recently updated my About page with a link to a new Disclaimer page that has user expectations about comments and emails from you my blog readers. (HT to Said At Southern, as it borrows similar user expectations)

The most significant change is that from now on I expect all commentors to use their real name when commenting/emailing me (either in full or initial+name). Commenting by a nickname or anonymously (as seen in this recent post) creates a hostile environment where the commentor seems to be unopen to dialoging nor receiving correction or rebuke as they are hidden behind a smokescreen.

From now on, anyone commenting anonymously or with a pseudonym may have their comments removed without notice. Hopefully, this would make my site here more dialogue friendly

For more info, please read the
Disclaimer about Comments/Emails

Here’s my Live.com feeds page with the blogs of friends.
Why is nobody blogging?
(click below for larger version)

I want to apologize to you, my readers, for not posting anything substantive lately.

My last significant post was on April 27, titled “Arriving at a knowledge of truth“. If you skipped this, do read it, for it was a response to certain stirrings in my heart.

I have been storing up many things I want to say, in my heart, in my journal — but I have not found the right time to type it out and publish it. One reason is due to the lack of time in these recent weeks (and months), as I am trying to get used to working full time. However, such a reason is not the primary reason for my lack of published work. A lot of friends I know, who used to blog casually in a regular, consistent manner no longer do — now that they are working, or now that they are in a dating/courting relationship. I hope I never to become such a person, who does not embrace the high importance of blogging as a personal spiritual discipline. I will continue to press on blogging, despite life’s circumstances.

Before you read this, if you have not had your quiet time with the LORD of Lords yet, please come back later. I don’t want you to read my blog if you have not done your devos yet. Seriously. “If we are to be Spirit-filled as we engage others in online dialogue, discussion, and debate — we need to first immerse ourselves in prayer and in the Word.” (Nathan Busenitz)

Having said that, the Holy Ghosted led me earlier to Titus 3:9 where Paul exhorts his young disciple to, “avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.”

I just read and commented on Challies’ intriguing article which asked, “Is Error in Doctrine Always Sin?” I never truly wrestled with this tough question, but I am now. And yet at the same time, I am also reminded of the nature of the conversations that I have with others in the blogsphere–some Christians, some not; some are Calvinists, some are not; some go regularly to a church, some go to a church that some evangelicals would not call a church.

Quite frankly, I do not find myself engaging in enough discussions about the things that matter to me–namely, theology and doctrine. There is much discussions going in the Reformed blogsphere that I have not joined in on–like here and here! (Though, I know some of you have already skipped reading this post ’cause of how boring this jibber-jabber seems!)

Reflecting on this, I am somewhat disappointed at my day-to-day schedule which does not allow me to read enough Scripture, not enough Christian books (let alone finish my shelf-full and bedside table full of books I have not finished or started), and not enough time to listen to mp3 sermons and seminary classes that were taught last year! As much as am I do participate in conversations on my blog and respond to posts on other blogs, I still wish I could read & respond to more so that my mind could be sharpened more. Those of you who are reading my blog, and especially those of you who have made comments, have indeed helped me in sharpening my mind of biblical discernment.

At the Pulpit Magazine blog, Nathan Busenitz (MacArthur’s right hand man), has started a series titled “The Blog in Our Eyes” that aims to provide some blogging principles that us Christians should strive embrace. Part 1 and Part 2 has just been published.


Also, fellow SBTS blogger Tony Kummer also wrote recently in a similar tone on the same topic.