Update 2018: Articles Most Read
During 2016, we had a great
increase of readers to this blog, mostly from the United States, some of which
no longer follow us. I do not know what was the reason for the increase, nor
what became of them, but because of this, articles from 2016 became the most
frequently visited. These writings continue to have the highest numbers of
readings, although some others have been added last year and the order has
changed a little. I suppose it will take time before things normalize and some
of the older writings rise to take the place that they had previous to 2016.
Following are a list of the
ten most read articles from 2017 and after them the ten most visited in 2018. I
normally look at these statistics in March, but this year we were traveling
from March through May, so that I am now updating in June. Instead of a
12-month period, these will cover a time of 14-15 months. As of today, the total number of visits to
this English blog has risen to 124,251, since this blog was put together by our
grandson, John, in 2011. This last year, we have had 39,820 visits. When we add
the visits to our Spanish blogspot, the total number of visits increases to 326,255,
and the number over the last year to 100,439 (obviously, we have more Spanish
than English readers).
The Ten Most Read Articles from 2017:
1. A Mighty Move of
God 10/26/16
2. Eight Tactics of the
Enemy 10/22/16
3. Divine Power and
Attributes 11/17/16
4. The Syndrome of
Hubris 10/01/16
5. Who Planned
This? 7/11/16
6. A Last-Day
Song 7/03/16
7. Hezekiah’s Illness and
Error 11/04/16
8. Falsehood and
Farming
7/29/16
9. That Great Harvest
Day
7/24/16
10. Blessing Follows the
Curse 10/13/16
Ten
Most Read Articles from 2018:
1. A Mighty Move of God 10/26/16
This is a study of
Isaiah, chapter 37, with subtitles: Judah humbles itself before God; Jerusalem
honors God above all; The house of prayer; The answer from God through Isaiah;
and A mighty move of God.
2. Hezekiah’s Illness and
Error 11/04/16
This study covers both
chapter 38 and 39 of Isaiah. It includes an attempt to explain a very
complicated issue concerning the sovereign will of God.
3. Eight Tactics of the Enemy 10/22/16
This is an important study about how the enemy
works against the minds and lives of God’s people to this day. It is from
Isaiah 36.
4. Divine Power and
Attributes
11/17/16
Here is one of the most powerful chapters in
the book of Isaiah… chapter 40. It begins with these words from the Almighty,
“Comfort, comfort my people!” You know this chapter particularly, because of
its last verse: “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they
shall walk, and not faint.”
5. Blessing Follows the
Curse 10/13/16
My comments on chapter
34 and 35 of Isaiah, verse-by-verse, learning as the Holy Spirit teaches us
from His textbook. It is wonderful to see, throughout the Bible, that the
Lord’s stories have good endings!
6. The Syndrome of
Hubris 10/01/16
The subject of this
article is one that I most frequently bring up in preaching these days.
Understanding this Greek term Hubris, helps us to understand
what is happening in the minds and hearts of many “Christian” leaders in our
times.
7. Only God Foretells the Future 12/05/16
One of the reasons
that Christians have determined that the Bible is the Word of God, is due to
prophecies that have literally been fulfilled. A high percentage of the
biblical writings are prophetic. There are over 300 details concerning the
coming Messiah in the Old Testament, which were literally fulfilled. Prophecies
have been astoundingly fulfilled in the past century and this will go one until
the end of time.
8. Zion’s Sinners and Righteous Ones 9/13/16
http://calltocommitment.blogspot.com/2016/09/zions-sinners-and-righteous-ones.html
Zion will be literally
restored in the Millennium, but today it serves as a type of the church. In the
parables of Jesus, He made it very clear that the Kingdom of God, revealed on
earth, is imperfect. There are sinners in Zion among the righteous and from
time to time they are exposed.
9. Spurgeon, Ryle and the Jews 12/17/16
Towards the end of the 20th
Century, two men of God saw that His promises, given to the Jews by their
prophets, must be fulfilled. These specifically referred to their return to the
Promised Land. Around that time the Zionist Movement began, in which the God of
Israel placed in the heart of His people to return to Palestine.
10. God and His People
9/01/16
http://calltocommitment.blogspot.com/2016/09/god-and-his-people.html
God is jealous for His
people and, not only condemns the worship of false gods, but also the
confidence that is placed in mere men. He is the sovereign God, who took His
people out of Egypt and separated them unto Himself. He is still doing this,
making up His church from people taken out of the world.
In addition:
I want to bring to your
attention older articles, written previous to 2016, which received hundreds of
visits. If you have never read them, I greatly encourage you to do so. A short
summary is given for each one…
People continue to
read the stories about our friend, Coach Luneau. The coach suffered a stroke
since those stories were written, but he is back on his feet. The following
year, his high school team was undefeated, winning the Vermont State
Championship! The top story on this list is that of a star player’s accident
and how God moved through it to speak to hundreds of people (if not thousands).
If you have never read this story of God’s mighty moving upon high school
students, please read it. If you’ve read it, you may want to read it again.
2. A Voice
from Heaven by Dave Brueckner 11/2/13
I am always
anxious to get articles written by our sons, Dan and Dave. Dan wrote an
article, “I Have Found the Book” about King Josiah. I translated it to Spanish
and it is one of the most read articles on our Spanish blog. Right next to the
top of the blog is this article by Dave. He tells us that heaven is a
noisy place!
3. What Does It Mean to be
Used of God? 5/26/14
This article brings us a surprising lesson! It tells the story
of a young Spanish boy killed in Croatia and how God moved during the eight
months that he was in a coma before he died.
From 1983 to 1993 we received forty-five letters from Leonard
Ravenhill. These are two of them that have been most read on the blogspot.
When our daughter-in-law, Karyn, heard
that Steve’s plane had gone down in the Alaskan bush country, she gathered the
children in the living room. Together they prayed.
6. Wake Up! It’s Later Than
You Think 3/19/12
This article is an attempt to make God’s
people aware of the great deception that is taking place even in the area of
Bible translation. Please be informed.
7. Strong
Delusion
7/29/11
And more deception! Here you will read of
two books that sold millions of copies. They both were written by people who
believe in universal salvation… the assertion that everyone will be saved in
the end. No one will go to hell. Christians, by the millions, lent an ear to
two false prophets.
8. Coach
Luneau
2/13/13
How Coach Luneau left a promising
future at Syracuse University, one of the highest ranking athletic universities
in the country. What drew him away? A high school basketball program in a small
town in Vermont… and a calling from God.
I am soul-weary in a secular
world that has no fear of God and is anti-God in every respect. I am tired of a
“church”, which can no longer be termed evangelical, in which
the bulk of the members are not born-again, have no spiritual discernment, and
tolerate the entrance of most of the world’s garbage.
10. The
Testimony of Herman Williams 2/29/12
And finally, the
refreshing life story of an old Navajo friend, Herman Williams. A Navajo named
Williams? The government agent, in charge of registering his father, couldn’t
pronounce, much less spell, his real name, so he became Williams. Herman, a
simple Christian, was one of the godliest men that I have ever met.
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