Introducing... ME!

Okay, so I'm relatively brand-new to this whole blogging thing. In fact, I only started reading blogs in the last, oh, 6-8 weeks. What a surprise I was in for! I've quickly come to appreciate the genre and hope to continue the trend for my own thoughts and life history.

I really wish I could say something prolific or great or memorable in this, my first post, but usually that kind of thing escapes me. The goal here though is not to be memorable... not to be significant... not even to be unique. The goal is to keep the Main Thing the main thing. For those of you who've stumbled across my blog on accident and for those who have come here on purpose, let me explain. The Main Thing in life is God - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Without Him and a personal knowledge of His redemptive work on Calvary, life has no purpose. Life wanders all around with no goal... no structure... no end... no balance.

So that is why this blog was started. I hope to provide a balanced viewpoint on life. I don't want to get off on tangents. I want put Christ first and foremost in this blog. All else is useless if Christ is not first.

And with that introduction, let me welcome my friends. I hope you find the discussions here to be profitable. I hope that you find the personal updates to be useful (and a lot better than the mass e-mails every six months). I hope above all else that Christ is exalted and that God is pleased.

Finally, let me close this introduction with a few of my favorite verses:

Romans 1.16: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes...
1 Corinthians 10.31: So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Philippians 3.8-9: I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him...