Blog News

It has been 17 years since I began writing in blogs. I began writing in the Baptist Gadfly blog in 2008 and in the Old Baptist Test blog in 2011. I have written perhaps over 2-3 thousand articles in all my blogs. The only one I have been writing in the past few years, other than the Theology of Job blog (see links on this page) has been this blog, which is dedicated to witnessing to those in the Hardshell Baptist cult, although the past few years it has expanded to cover many subjects. I am thankful for brothers Kevin Fralick and Ken Mann for becoming a part of this blog. 

Sometimes I have become discouraged when I failed to get many readers in a given month. For many years the average monthly number of page views for this blog has hovered around 5000. So far this month it is close to 18000. Over the past year we had one month where we had over 35000 page views and next month over 25000. I am thankful for all who have visited and pray God will bless what they have read and have been either corrected, instructed, or saved by what they have read. Also, the other blogs get a lot of visits each month, although this blog is now the chief since it is the only one I write for regularly. We have 2244 posts between the three editors of this blog. I also have several hundred partial drafts for future articles.

We don't get as many comments any more, especially from Hardshell Baptists. One brother recently asked why we don't have long debates in the comment section of blog posts. I don't know why exactly and can only speculate. I can say that the Hardshells no longer comment, I firmly believe, because they know they cannot get away with promoting their views and cannot win the debate on the issues that makes them unique or a pariah. 

I also think that we have a lot of secret followers of this blog, mostly from the Hardshell Baptists and those among them who do not want any to know that they are a "follower" of this blog. How many visits we get in a month is far more telling than how many public followers we have in this blog. Further, lots of these Hardshells write me an e-mail which shows they are reading but choose not to become a public follower.

I am now 69 years old and declining in health. My pulmonary fibrosis is stable again, though it worsened a year ago when I got a bad case of Covid. I also have a heart stent and several other places that may need stents in the future. I tire easily and cannot read for long periods without becoming sleepy. But, I plan to keep reading, studying, and teaching by writing as long as I can.

I am getting ready to begin a series on the mega city Babylon of Revelation chapter eighteen, showing that there will be a rebuilding of Babylon prior to the coming of Christ and it will become the international trade center and a place of debauchery. 

In closing let me say that I find it quite interesting that the posting "Spilsbury, Knollys, Keach on Ordo Salutis" that I have had as the featured blog post over the past week has gotten no reads. That is so strange. The Hardshells who claim allegiance to the 1689 London Confession are not interested in what the signors of that confession believed?