- What is Back Forty Blog
- Why Back Forty Blog?
- The Purpose of Back Forty Blog
- Who is Back Forty Blog for?
- Comments, questions, discussion
What is Back Forty Blog?
God is just really cool. Who He is, the things He has made and done, how He thinks, His understanding, how He works. He is too amazing to not share.
Back Forty Blog is something God has put on my heart, to share God, experiences, revelations. To discuss, encourage, strengthen.
The website is a great outlet. People can come to it and leave as they please. No one is keeping tabs, chastising for not coming to it enough, reading something that others may not agree with. They can read what they want to read, even—especially if—people around them may not agree with what is being said.
It is also great because I can put some time into a piece and then it doesn’t expire. It stays for people to see for years and years. It allows me to share resources that I have found helpful. Being the Internet, the information can reach massive amounts of people, not limited by my time and location.
Why Back Forty Blog?
Two ways to take this question. 1. Why does Back Forty Blog exist? 2. Why is it called Back Forty Blog.
The answer to #1 is: When I came back to Christ—after decades of thinking I could do things myself, trying to satisfy the emptiness inside with earthly things—I had doubts and questions. God, with His great love, gave me answers. I felt compelled to share those answers, to help others build their relationship with God.
The answer to #2 is a little more extensive. The name was suggested by my pastor, Lee, when I mentioned to him that I felt compelled to share with others what had been given to me by God and that a blog was going to be the ideal way to do it.
Back Forty Blog ended up being very appropriate. The back forty is an expression about 40 acres of land on a larger acreage. It is a place commonly used to put things that people want to ignore, not see; out of sight, out of mind.
It just so happened that around the time I mentioned the blog to Lee, I had just turned 40. I was not sad or upset about my age. Actually, I was amazed I’d lived that long—I wore “40 like a four year old wears a princess dress.” Ironic, too, was that for about 40 years I had put a lot of baggage and issues on the back forty of my mind.
God relieved me of that baggage, quite miraculously.
The Purpose of Back Forty Blog
The purpose of Back Forty Blog is to share revelations, insights,education, information, questions, understanding God has given me, to love on and encourage others, open thoughts and discussion, and strengthen God’s Kingdom.
Who is Back Forty Blog for?
Back Forth Blog is for anyone and everyone that God leads to it. It is for people who:
- Need encouragement
- Have questions
- Are struggling
- Have doubts
- Want to strengthen their faith
- Want to gain understanding
- Want to explore God’s Word as more than just
text on a page
Comments, questions, discussion
I thought long and hard about allowing comments directly onto the blog, directly under articles. But there were a lot of problems—time consuming problems—with that. Moderating the comments and spam, I was not going to be able to allow commenting. That would leave Back Forty Blog as really one-sided. For the time being, I am going to allow commenting. Hopefully this subscription for CleanTalk will weed out the spammers. If it starts taking too much time to moderate, I will have to turn off comments.
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