I know I’m a little late with my 2009 review, but better late than never. Last year, 2009 was the first year of On the Bema in Ballston, often just shorten to On the Bema. This blog received over 13,000 hits in 2009 and the blog continues to grow in readership. Thank you for making this blog so successful! So, what out further adieu, the top 10 most popular posts of 2009:
10. Why You Should be Upset with John Piper John Piper’s statements about the tornado that hit during a Lutheran conference voting on homosexual policies.
9. Does My Church Look Like a Warehouse? One of my first posts on mega churches that yielded some surprising results.
8. What You Don’t Know About Generation Y A post on a hidden segment of our population.
7. Are You a Mega Church Drop Out? Includes statistics on mega church departures.
6. Churches Use Wine to Fight Swine Flu Swine flu is going to wipe out the world! Or, so some thought. Churches started to worry.
5. What Happened to the Christian Objection In the late 90′s and the early 2000′s, Christians cried out against the evils of Harry Potter… but it turned out that Harry wasn’t so evil after all.
4. Does God Promise You a Spouse? An interesting discussion ensued on common misconceptions of Christian marriage.
3. Two Pastors, An Angry Man, and Funeral My personal experience with a funeral director that almost cost me my job, well not really… but it was pretty intense!
2. Mega Church, Not So Mega Commitment More info and statistics on Christian commitment in mega churches… you’d be surprised at what was found.
1. The Pitfalls of Facebook “Live Feed” This post was picked up by WordPress.com ‘s editorial staff. It was featured on their main page as a suggested read. Read by over 2,500 people and continues to grow. Who says no one likes Christian blogs?
