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It\u2019s time once again to review another year\u2019s worth of blogging here at my place. I have made it something of a tradition to look back and reflect on the year that has passed. I have done this previously in December 2006<\/a>, 2005<\/a>, and 2004<\/a>. The format is simple: I highlight some of the posts that I remember most, or enjoyed writing the most over the year. This time I will break it down into a series of posts.<\/p>\n

This year I began January\u2019s blogging<\/a>\u2014after extending my customary Christmas break slightly longer than previously\u2014by taking up my autobiographical story with a post entitled My Story Part Five\u2014Learning to Value Being, Not Doing<\/a>. I did not return to my story again this year, so this remains surely the longest running, as yet unfinished, series on my blog. I am sure that I will eventually return to this and catch up to the current day. In that post I talked about the value of silence and reflection.<\/p>\n

In one of the shortest, but most personally challenging posts of the year, in the second post of 2007 I shared some Reflections of a Returning Blogger<\/a>, citing Scripture that said few words were wiser than many. I suspect this contributed to a trend this year on my blog to shorter posts and, hopefully, to more careful consideration of what I say.<\/p>\n

I also spent a few days in January on an interview with Wendy Alsup<\/a>, a deacon in the Mars Hill Church\u2014Seattle, where Mark Driscoll<\/a> is pastor.<\/p>\n

In February<\/a> I began what would be an extended series on preaching with two posts that quoted the Together for the Gospel Statement<\/em> Article 4<\/a>, John Piper<\/a>, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Expository Preaching<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also mentioned that I had just heard a new book on the atonement would soon be released\u2014Pierced for Our Transgressions<\/span><\/a>. Little did I know then just how much I would be focused on that subject this year. I shared the audio of a talk I had given late in 2006 for Jubilee entitled What is the Bible?<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember being stirred to ask Should We be Optimistic or Pessimistic About the Future?<\/a> and challenging my readers to find a quote I was sure I had once read from Spurgeon. That readers\u2019 challenge remains open and can be answered via e-mail on reading Spurgeon\u2019s Prediction of a Future Revival<\/a>. I did manage to find one quote where Spurgeon asks the question Will More Be Saved Than Lost?<\/a><\/p>\n

It was also great to publish the news that I was able to play a small part in restoring the works of Charles Simeon<\/a> to a larger audience.<\/p>\n

I seem to have been somewhat distracted from my posts about preaching, and only quoted C. S. Lewis on the Need for Plain English Preaching<\/a> all month. I did quote one of my greatest living hero\u2019s impressions of one of my greatest preaching heroes of the past\u2014I am speaking, of course, about John Piper on Martyn Lloyd-Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In March<\/a> I returned to the subject of preaching, and there were a significant number of posts which culminated in Ten Conclusions About Expository Preaching<\/a>. In the middle of this I wrote about The Risks and Rewards of Using Technology in Sermon Preparation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I posted about the<\/b> T4G Articles 5-6\u2014The Attributes of God and the Trinity<\/a>, which included the audio of another talk I had given at Jubilee late in 2006.<\/p>\n

One of the traditions of this blog is that every now and then I engage in a gloves-off debate with the Pyromaniacs. In March, one of these was summarized in a post I entitled Am I a Thrill Seeker?<\/a><\/p>\n

If I remember correctly, that debate with the Pyros was, at least in part, sparked by possibly the most controversial post of the year anywhere in the Christian blogosphere. It was published over on Desiring God<\/em>, and my reflections on it were entitled <\/b>John Piper Hears The Voice Of God<\/a>. I also remember the call that went out that month for Prayer for an Exhausted Mark Driscoll.<\/a><\/p>\n

March was a hectic blogging month, but nothing would prepare me for what was to come in April, especially as I had written many of my forthcoming posts on atonement in a single sitting and thought I would have a quiet time as my editor faithfully published them all for me. That, however, must wait for the next installment of this year in review series.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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