Hello Everybody, Four quick issues I would like to share: (1) First up is a bit of personal news. A few months back we began looking for a new place to operate ChristianBlog.Com and all of the other 4CM Network ministry operations from. As I run 4CM Network out of my personal residence I have come to discover that the place I have been living in for the last five years has gotten too small and the "bad part of town" has started to works its way to where I have lived. Last week we finalized approval for a place that is twice as big, in a part of town that is made up of mostly retired folks, and a place that I think will be a great new staging area for expanding the entire 4CM Network Ministries. It is going to cost us about 1/3rd more per month but...

Hello Everybody, I have been working on an new feature for ChristianBlog.Com that will help us flag certain messages that contains what appears to be aggressive/hate speech. As many of you may know I already developed a very sweet autonomous and AI-based system system that allows us (actually, the website software itself) to highly control the suspending of content and people who setout to cause harm. It has been self-learning for the better part of a year now and it rocks. Something that I have been wanting to do for awhile now is to take the same brilliant AI (self learning) system I already developed and morph it a bit to see if it can learn how to detect when people are posting stuff that is aggressive in nature. At this point I have most of the software end of things completed and it is time to start seeding the...

Hello Everybody, Forgive the blatant advertisement here... but, I guess seeing how I own the ChristianBlog.Com I can get away with this For the last week or so I have been working on a new website that is devoted to Christians who are interested in blogging about politics. Over the last three years it has become clear to me that the www.ChristianBlog.Com is just not a good place for generalized blogging about politics from a Christian point of view. I think some of this is because we have been pretty tight about what is allowed and not allowed, but I also think it is because people realize that perhaps ChristianBlog.Com is just not the right place to "talk politics" - even from a Christian perspective. So, I decided to give it a shot and see if we can make a success new website that is 100% totally devoted to...

Tips For Growing Your Social Community! 386 days ago I wrote a blog entitled 'Tips for being a better blogger' which I wrote to help out a newer members of the ChristianBlog.Com Community with some basic "how to blog" questions. Over the last year I have had a lot of people suggest I write some follow-up blogs to that blog, with topics ranging from "how to get your blogs listed higher in google" (which will hopefully be my next major blog I write) to "how to get more friends" and things along those lines. As I have thought about the suggestions for new blogs I think this is an appropriate time for a new blog about how to expand your sphere of contacts/friends here at ChristianBlog.Com. I think this is a very good time to write a blog about that topic because ChristianBlog.Com is getting closer and closer to a...

So, I got this title over at DrudgeReport middle of last week and wanted to blog about it... but was too busy at the time. Based on the news article posted at the Billingsgazette.com website (that's billings montana for those of you in Rio Linda) the lovely state of Montana spent $27 million on a new jail. A jail that was finished in July 2007... and has ZERO inmates.... even after two years since it was built. So, "what's wrong with the prison?" you might ask. Well, it seems not a darn thing is wrong with it. Well, except for the fact that nobody is willing to pay the great people of Montana to actually put prisoners in the prison. Imagine that. So what did somebody up in Montana think of? It went something like this... "Geeh, Gitmo is closing... hey, maybe we could house all the people here!" No,...

Hey all, Just wanted to pass along this super-sweet deal that ChristianBooks.Com is having right now! They've got the ESV Study Bible (black bonded leather) on sale for $37.99!! This beats even the low price that Amazon.Com usually has for this awesome Bible! For those of you unfamiliar with the "ESV" it stands for "English Standard Version" and is the newest main-stream Bible translation to be developed. Here is a small graph to show you where it is at, in relation to accuracy of other translations: While I am not here to say that one translation is any better or worse than any other, that one is more Biblical Authenticated than any other, I myself do not use a mainstream Bible (aka: kjv, niv, asv, etc) as I opt to use the Peshitta (online here:OT, NT) which pretty much nobody in the USA uses... but this just shows that I'm...

Hello Everybody, In December of 2006 when I sat down and started developing the software that makes ChristianBlog.Com run I had a plan! A plan to help me not go broke - lol. Yesterday, thanks to 16 people, for the first time in the 29 months since I started working on ChristianBlog.Com I can finally say with total exuberation that ChristianBlog.Com has brought in more money for the month than what the website costs me! My original plan/goal for keeping ChristianBlog.Com from causing me to go into debt each month was a rather simple one - it went something like this: (1) I make ChristianBlog.Com into a totally cool and useful website. (2) ChristianBlog.Com becomes successful. (3) ChristianBlog.Com becomes successful enough that people are willing to pay for "extras" at a small price per month. (4) ChristianBlog.Com (I estimated 29 months ago) would need about 1% of it's membership to...

Greetings Everybody! Just a few minutes ago ChristianBlog.Com had our 10,000 member join! This is a major mile stone for us, for me, for the website! While 10,000 might be but a shadow within a shadow when compared to websites such as myspace, facebook and so on, I like to think that 10,000 members at a highly unique and very niche sector of the world wide web, is a rather impressive number! ChristianBlog.Com went online on December 12, 2005 and officially went online (out of beta) on November 16, 2006 -- that makes ChristianBlog.Com just slightly under 29 months old! That is an average of 345 new bloggers every month, or around 11.5 new bloggers every single day, for the last 29 months. ChristianBlog.Com has become the #1 Christian Blog Service Provider in the world. We rank #1 at every major search engine (including: Google.Com, Yahoo.Com, Live.Com, Ask.Com) because we...

Hello Everbody! As many of you know, ChristianBlog.Com has been using the "RefTagger" feature that allows you to have the ability to quickly view a Bible verse by simply moving your mouse over any red-highlighted Bible verses. This has been a great addition to ChristianBlog.Com and it is something I use myself almost every time I am reading a blog that has references to Scripture! One of the features of the RefTagger is called "Enable Logos Libronix" which is a feature we have turned off by default, but is very sweet for those who use the Libronix software! The Libronix software is the heart of the "Logos Bible Software" that is the #1 rated Bible software in the world. For anybody who has any of the Logos software installed, you should really take a moment and enable the feature called "Enable Logos Libronix" because doing so will allow you to...

I saw in a blog posted yesterday a video of Keith Green (a real live video!!) and that got me thinking it would be truly awesome to put together a blog of all the live Keith Green videos I could find! While I did not come to really appreciate who Keith was and what he was doing until a decade after he died, he played a very important role in helping me get through the first few years of my Christian life. Keith Green is just one of those rare gifts that the Lord allows us, His children, to have for a short time... and I can think of nothing better to do than to share with everybody else as much of the real Keith Green as I could find! So, here are all of the videos of Keith Green in "LIVE" that I have been able to find on...