This blog marks the 100th post of Awaken Ministries. Now, if this were a TV sitcom, this post would be a re-hash of the past 99 posts played to music to make us all feel nice and sentimental. But…I don’t think that would work well for a blog. So instead, I want to talk about five of the ways I have been blessed by sharing part of my Sunday nights (your Monday mornings) with you. I will count down backwards from five to one which is the way Casey Kasem taught us:

5. It has allowed me to practice getting my ambiguous and scattered thoughts down to a somewhat recognizable and coherent short post of roughly 400 words.

4. I am a teacher at heart and the blog has allowed me a weekly platform to try to teach others through my life and thoughts.

3. The accountability in my life knowing that I am going to publish a blog post every Monday morning. This discipline has helped me stay sharper in my studies than I otherwise would have been and has helped my relationship with Jesus.

2. Communicating with a reader in California who was teaching Sunday School and asking about some Bonhoeffer quotes he was using for his class.

1. Hearing from readers that God spoke to them somehow through a post. I stated this before that the very nature of a blog lends itself to being more meaningful for the writer than the readers (as it is my thoughts and struggles that I write about), but I have heard from readers that have said that the posts spoke to them with something they have been dealing with.

So, there you have it! The first 100 blogs. I sincerely thank you for taking a few minutes each week to read these posts. Whether you have been following since the first post or have just recently started reading–I pray that your journey with Christ will be rich and full and never boring (which how can it be if you are really following Him?!) We will see where God leads this blog and Awaken Ministries in the future!

More to come…
Jeremy