In case you missed it, here was the most popular post of the last month.

Why I Don’t Use Digital Devices For My Devotional Time

See you next month!

Today, as I went to Google, I saw something like this:

And good luck if you tried to go to Wikipedia. You probably saw something like this:

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Before I share the top posts with you, I’d like to take a moment to share how we’re doing as a site. I always like to take a few moments at the end of every year to do some comparison and inventory. So here’s some stats I pulled from Google Analytics.

The first one here is showing the stats comparing 2010 and 2011.

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I was having a conversation with a friend a few days ago who is in the process of starting a new blog. As we dialogued we discussed the important of focus in a blog: instead of writing about  a million different things, it’s important to focus on just a few major themes and stick to those.

Well, a few months ago I started getting in to running. I was doing it just for exercise–taking the medicine in a sense, but as I kept it up I noticed that I started to make some progress and thought it’d be good to catalog the lessons I’m learning. That’s when the idea of starting a running blog came to my mind. I didn’t want to clutter Modern Ekklesia up with that stuff (it would lose the focus) so I knew I’d have to spin one off. I was quite hesitant to start one, by the way, because I’m no expert in running. In fact, I’m as far away from an expert as one could expect. I have quite a few friends (some of you reading this right now!) who are hardcore (in my opinion) and have done marathons and triathlons.

But there’s just something inside of me that loves to analyze, think through things, learn, and ultimately share and teach things that I’m learning. So, I decided to start a blog called Running Apprentice.

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If you’ve noticed, barely nothing has been coming out of Modern Ekklesia lately. Seems like every ten days or so I’ll put a new post out, but that’s about it. Here’s why:

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I’ve noticed a trend in the last few weeks on my blog. I had one blog post that had remained “the king” for the longest time. It’s a book review I did on Pagan Christianity. It has the most comments on any post I’ve ever done. So it made sense to me that this was the most popular post, because I had the evidence of it’s popularity, the comments, right there in front of me.

Well, in the last few weeks something has changed.  In first place (at the moment) is a video that I did on a whim as I was driving back from doing something different in a church service.

What’s interesting about it, is that it doesn’t have many comments at all, and yet it’s become the most popular posts (most page views) out of any other post I’ve done.

What’s the lesson?

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You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged in 13 days. For me, that’s quite a big span of time of not writing. There’s a big reason I haven’t been writing, though: I moved…to the other side of town, anyway.

This is something that my family and I have been praying about for quite some time. I’ve written about my frustration in not being able to effectively minister to my church or the community, because I don’t actually live in the community in which my church is. But God has opened the doors, and I now live about 5 minutes from my church. I feel like it’s a new adventure as I’m able to meet new people and make connections. It’s my sincere prayer to be a missionary to my neighborhood (the apartment building where I live), and to seek to live like Jesus if He were in my place.

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