Romans Road: A Christian Group Writing Project

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A huge thanks to everyone who participated in August's group writing project on Romans Road.  It's amazing and heart warming to think that all these Christian bloggers have come together to write about such an important topic - salvation.  Below are the links to all the bloggers who participated.  I hope you are blessed.

Romans Road

Romans 3: 23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Romans 3:10-18, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes”

Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 10:9, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

Romans 10:13, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Romans 5:1, “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”

Romans 8:1, “[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

Romans 8:38-39, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.“

Romans 3:23

Debbie @ Heart Choices - Christian Group Writing Project

Jessica @ By Grace Alone - The Romans Road

Amy @ My Life As Me - “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23

Romans 3:10-18

Haneefah @ Reflections of a Queen - There is None Righteous

Romans 6:23

Corrie @ Heavenly Crosses - Sin is Death.  Is There a Solution?

Nancy @ Nancy Lewis - Romans 6:23

Nickie @ Southern Expressions - CGWP: Romans Road

Romans 5:8

Janet @ Wildflower Thinking - Choosing Vulnerability

Joan @ Reflections - His Love

Karla @ Purify My Heart - A Lasting Impression

Romans 10:9

Nicole @ Breathe Again Magazine - Confess With your Mouth

Rachel @ Hopeful Morning - Romans 10:9

Romans 10:13

Vanessa @ A Sweet Fragrance - I am Included

Romans 5:1

ML Michaels @ Chronicles of a Writer - Romans Road

Romans 8:1

Sandra @ Be Encouraged - Stamped Approved!

Ann @ A Grandmother's Journey - The Joy of Being Free

Caryn @ Caryn's Thoughts - No Longer Condemned

Charmaine @ Straight Paths - The Road Back

Romans 8:38-39

Carole @ The Faith Lounge - Red Words Lead to Love

Judith @ A Homemaker Speaks - Group Writing Project: Romans 8:38-39

Ashely @ AP Free Writing 101 - God's Love is Greater

Christen @ The Uncontainable Truth - Romans Road

Kim @ The Phone Tree Bible Study Blog - No-thing Can Separate Us

Lois @ Building Blocks 4 Life - God is Always With You

The special report with all the entries will be coming soon.

Thanks again to all who participated.

Group Writing Project: Romans Road

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Since the first group writing project was such a success, I thought we could do another one. How it works:

Each blogger that wishes to participate will choose a topic from the list provided and write  a post about that topic on their blog.  Once the post is up, the blogger will need to leave their link in the comments section so that everyone can read it.

Once everyone has submitted their posts, I will publish  a round up of all the posts with links back to the blogger’s blog. The entire writing project will then be complied into a special report for the bloggers who contribute to giveaway for free on their own sites.

This month's topic is Romans Road.  As Christians we know the importance of salvation.  Let share that with the blogging world.  Each blogger will select a verse from Romans Road and write a post explaining what that verse means to them.  It can be as long or as short as you want.  It can be a personal testimony, a devotional, or Bible study in nature.  It can be a photo that you believe describes the verse.  Anything goes.

Romans Road

Romans 3: 23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

Romans 3:10-18, "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes"

Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Romans 10:9, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."

Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Romans 5:1, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:"

Romans 8:1, "[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

Romans 8:38-39, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

If you choose a verse, please leave a comment saying so.  I understand we may have more than 9 bloggers who are interested in participating and that is fine.  Duplicates are fine, but please make sure all verses are accounted for at least once before duplicating choices.

You will have until Friday, August 13, 2010 to choose and claim a verse and then until August 20, 2010 to write your post and leave a link here in the comments to the permalink of your post.

Oh yea, there is a prize for participating too.  Everyone that participates (those who actually write a post and submits the link) will be put into a drawing to win a free 30 minute blog/online business coaching session with me.

I can’t wait to read everyone’s thoughts!

Edited:  Since I was unable to announce the group writing project to the newsletter list, I am going to extend the deadline to chose a verse to Tuesday, August 17, 2010.  Thanks.

All About Psalms 23 - Christain Group Writing Project

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This group writing project had been so much fun and I have loved reading all of the entries.  I've been encouraged, inspired, and moved to tears. I highly encourage you to read all the posts submitted, you won't be sorry.

We had 25 bloggers submit their posts to the group writing project.  Not bad for the first time. :)

Without futher ado, below are all the bloggers who participated and a link to their post.

All of these bloggers wrote on Psalms 23:1

"The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want."

All of these bloggers wrote on Psalms 23:2

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters."

All of these bloggers wrote on Psalms 23:3

"He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake."

All of these bloggers wrote on Psalms 23:4

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

All of these bloggers wrote on Psalms 23:5

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."

All of these bloggers wrote on Psalms 23:6

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."

I am in the process of compiling all the entries into a special report.  If you do NOT want your post included in the special report, please email me using the contact form and let me know.  The special report will be free for everyone to give away on their own blogs.

I have contacted the winner of the Twitter background but do not want to reveal her name until I hear back from her.

This group writing project has been so much fun and such an encouragement to me.  We will be doing this again!

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Christian Group Writing Project

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I have a fun project for all of us Christian bloggers to contribute on together - a Christian Group Writing Project. How this works is that a blogger will choose a topic from the list provided and write  a post on that topic on their blog.  Once the post is up, the blogger will need to leave their link in the comments section so that everyone can read it.

Bloggers will have a couple days to choose a topic and then 1 week to write the post.  Once everyone has submitted their posts, I will publish  a round up of all the posts with links back to the blogger's blog. The entire writing project will then be complied into a special report for the bloggers who contribute to giveaway for free on their own sites.

The topic for the first ever Faithful Blogger's Group Writing Project will be Psalms 23.  Each blogger will select a verse and write a post explaining what that verse means to them.  It can be as long or as short as you want.  It can be a personal testimony, a devotional, or Bible study in nature.  It can be a photo that you believe describes the verse.  Anything goes.

Psalms 23

1. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.

2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

If you choose a verse, please leave a comment saying so.  I understand we may have more than 6 bloggers who are interested in participating and that is fine.  Duplicates are fine, but please make sure all verses are accounted for at least once before duplicating choices.

You will have until Monday, July 5, 2010 to choose and claim a verse and then until July 12, 2010 to write your post and leave a link here in the comments to the permalink of your post.

Oh yea, their is a prize for participating too.  Everyone that participates (as in actually writes a post and submits the link) will be put into a drawing to win a free custom Twitter background!

I can't wait to read everyone's thoughts on Psalms 23!

Christian Bloggers Meet-Up & Community

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Last week Kelly, Mary, and I all had the privilege of attending the Blissdom Conference. It was a great learning and networking experience. Overall, I was very happy with the experience and hope to be able to attend again next year. For me, however, the highlight of the conference was the Christian blogger meet-up we organized.

On Saturday evening, after the last conference session, a group of over 50 Christian blogging women converged on T.G.I. Fridays.   It was great and the waitstaff and management at Fridays were on their toes.  Just being in a room with other bloggers like myself was an amazing experience for me.  It's so easy to feel alone in the blogging world and when I sat in that restaurant with all those other Christian bloggers, I realized just how many of us there must be online.

We hope to host more meet-ups in the future, but until then, I'm excited to introduce the Faithful Bloggers Community!  The community is a place for all Christian women bloggers.  You can ask questions about blogging, about your faith, or your life in general.  We also have a spot for prayer requests since we all know how powerful prayer can be.  Each week we will also have a "Question of the Week" to help us get to know each other.

So come on over to the forums and introduce yourself.  You won't be sorry.

Not Popular

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Blogging is an exciting, challenging world.  One can learn much from those who write about experiences.  You are also able to share and encourage and shine for Jesus in a way that has the capacity to reach people all over the world.  I don't know about you but I find that pretty exciting!

Something that might quickly come to your attention is the fact that there are bloggers who are more popular and those who are, well, not popular.  This is an unfortunate consequence of living in a sinful world.  The good news is that you do not have to be popular in order to spread the Good News!

We are called to be different.  As Christians we must reject worldliness and change our sinful desires to holy ones.

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." -Romans 12:2

This should be reflected in blogging.  Our faith should be evident whether or not we are writing specifically about God's word or are just sharing stories of our lives.  Our blogs will be different because of this.

So what does this have to do with being popular? (Yes, there really is a correlation!)  Simply this: strive not to be in the popular crowd.  It may feel good to be a blogger who everyone wants to meet.  A blogger in which companies are scrambling to get your attention.  A blogger in which a crowd follows whenever you are at a blogging conference.

But in the end, that is not what matters.  Being a Christian blogger will probably put you in the category that will not get all of the attention.  And that is okay.  God says that we belong to Him.  Wow!  I don't know about you but that is all the reward I want.

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." -1 Peter 2:9

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Using Your Blog for Good

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Reasons for blogging are varied depending on who you ask. Some blog to help build their businesses, some for monetary gain, while still others blog just because they like to write. As Christians we are called to do good in all things – “Trust in the LORD and do good. . .” –Psalm 37:3a -  however I will specifically be talking about how we can benefit others through blogging. I will be covering for areas however there are many more ideas that are included in this scope. Do not limit yourselves but be creative on how your blog could be used to shine for Him. I encourage you to seek out His guidance through prayer and to discuss with your husband before you jump into anything. I bring this up because some avenues of serving through our blogs may be very involved. Do not over commit.

Speak out on a certain subject

Whether it be on food allergies, addictions, personal struggles, share with your readers and guests what you have learned. There are times when I have personally benefited from those who have taken the time to research and share on their blogs on certain topics. Two of my children have issues with food allergies. I do not personally have the time to weed through every bit of information out there yet I am able to pick up knowledge from those who have “been there, done that.”

This extends beyond health issues. If you are great at recovering a couch or chair why not make up a blog post tutorial replete with photos? Do you homeschool a child who has problems learning to read? Share in a blog series what has worked and has not worked for that child. What about cooking? Share recipes!

Other ideas might be:

Crafts (with fall and Christmas coming up, now is a good time to share those “how to” tutorials!) Baking Gardening Blogging tips For older women I cannot stress enough how much being a Titus 2 woman and sharing your wisdom with younger wives and mothers is a must. Blogging is a perfect avenue for this.

Get involved!

There are many lovely ministries set up today. One way you could help them out is by writing about them. You could become a Compassion blogger, or write a post about ministries that seek to serve. This must be done with careful and prayerful consideration. Search out the ministry fully before you advocate it on your blog.

Feature Others

Many of us remember what it was like to start up our blogs. There are many new bloggers out there who just do not know how to start. Showcasing them in a blog post would be a way to bless them and introduce them to new friends.

If you see a blog post that has touched your life be sure and share it in a link. I often see links to posts by “popular” bloggers but it would be wise to search out those who may not be considered “A-list” but still have words of wisdom that are just as beneficial. Cliques are rampant in blogland just as they are in real life. I think you will be pleasantly surprised by what you find if you take the time to look outside the box.

Speak in Love

Lastly, always write in love. I know I seem to write this often on my posts for Faithful Bloggers but I feel it needs to be stressed. There are rampant instances of petty quarreling and hateful words thrown about by women bloggers. Remember who you are and to Whom you belong! We are called to shine, to be different. Doing good to others may be as simple as just being quiet and meek when others are yelling and shouting. People will notice and it will bring glory to Him.

Have any ideas on other ways to use your blog for His glory? Please share!

Photo credit: sraburton

I'm Thankful For Blogging

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thankfulthursdayThankful Thursday is a meme I have been participating in with my personal mom blog for sometime now.  It is a great way to give thanks to the Lord for the things He has done in your life, which is something we should always be doing. One thing I am very thankful for is blogging.  The fact that the Lord has seen fit to allow me the time and provided the tools to blog is amazing because there are so many of things I could be doing.  Having the opportunity the serve the Lord in this capacity just amazes me because it is something I love to do.

Another aspect of blogging I am thankful is the other Christian bloggers I have gotten to know.  The blogosphere has a great community of Christian woman and I am loving connecting with them.

Are you thankful for blogging?  What aspect of blogging are the most thankful for?

Thankful Thursday is hosted by Women Taking A Stand.

I'm Thankful For Blogging

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Thankful Thursday is a meme I have been participating in with my personal mom blog for sometime now.  It is a great way to give thanks to the Lord for the things He has done in your life, which is something we should always be doing. One thing I am very thankful for is blogging.  The fact that the Lord has seen fit to allow me the time and provided the tools to blog is amazing because there are so many of things I could be doing.  Having the opportunity the serve the Lord in this capacity just amazes me because it is something I love to do.

Another aspect of blogging I am thankful is the other Christian bloggers I have gotten to know.  The blogosphere has a great community of Christian woman and I am loving connecting with them.

Are you thankful for blogging?  What aspect of blogging are the most thankful for?

Thankful Thursday is hosted by Women Taking A Stand.