I just wanted to share an update on some of the cool projects I have been working on.
New Business
I now setup websites for Author’s and businesses. Many of them are paying to much for golden handcuff sites. Others have no site at all. What I like about WordPress is that my clients can update the site as easily as they can ask me to do it for them. They like this too because they can keep their site current.
Some wordpress sites I have made include:
- PeerlessRoofing.com Great roofing & remodeling company in the Temple Belton TX area.
- RenaeBrumbaugh.com An expository daily devotional.
- AustinRhetoricClub.org My favorite debate club ever 🙂
- GreatShalom.org An Austin radio show about healing, homeschooling & health. A podcast is coming soon so that you non Austinites can listen in.
- CaltarionChronicles.com David Umstattd’s blog about a book he is writing.
- JenniferLackey.com A friend of mine. She is smart and too busy to update her blog.
Thomas Camp
I have started an internship program with my businesses called Thomas Camp. Paul Hastings is my first attendee. He is learning about marketing, web design, book keeping, organization, cooking and vacuum repair. Follow his blog for day by day rundown of Thomas Camp.
BrookAudio.com
We will be launching BrookAudio.com today! If you love Audiobooks you will love this site. Brook Audio: Turn your car into a classroom by bringing to the classic audiobooks on the road.
Writers Conference
By God’s gracious provision I have pulled together the funds to go to the Glorieta Christian Writers Conference in New Mexico next week. It is the second biggest writers conference and my best chance to get a publisher all year. At the conference I will get a chance to "pitch" my book to publishers. Pray that I get favor.
Courtship Blog
Over the last several weeks I have talked to dozens of homeschool moms and a handful of homeschool dads from all over Texas about courtship. Many of them are concerned that courtship is not working very well to get young people married, particularly young women.
I have also talked with people from all over the world including a member to the Chinese underground church to an Indian who grew up in Singapore about different methods of courtship in other cultures. I have heard about betrothal, courtship, Christian dating, arranged marriage, and even "dateship."
I will start a new blog soon that will examine the obstacles to modern courtship and then discuss solutions. My hope is to spark a dialogue as we pioneer this new approach to marriage. I will post a link once the blog is up and ready to go.
Grandfather
On a sad note we are concerned that my grandfather is dying. Please pray for him. He is not born again as far as we know.
I think thats it. Let me know if I forgot anything. Sorry for all the personal posts.
Sounds as if you are keeping busy 🙂 we are praying for you all & your Grandfather… Blessings…
Just have to say that I will look forward to hearing and possibly discussing your ideas about courtship. I'm seeing what is beginning to look like pretty big problems with the courtship movement and mentality here in the Midwest.
Looking forward to what you discover about courtship. As parents, we have been encouraged by the weddings we have attended that were proceeded by some very wonderful courtships, watching those courtships, and by the early fruit of those marriages. And, yet we see a Christian community that appears to be stumbling around with how to actually get to that point and what is the true essence of a godly and biblical courtship. And, this stumbling is finding young ladies and young men standing on the sideline and doing a lot of wondering about their purpose in life.
You made a reference in your blog about "pioneering this new approach to marriage". I am not so sure it is new, or we would be pioneering. It may be more of a finding our way to return to something of old. This return to courtship may be a fairly young undertaking and has not been given enough time to determine if it is the best or not.
I do know this, what I am observing in most of today's marriages, divorces, and quality of marriage relationships that have come out of multiple generations of using the dating method of finding a spouse gives me huge concerns about the real effectivness of dating.
Looking forward to hearing and reading more.
So, where is this courtship blog? Can't find it, which does not surprise me, I cannot find much I am looking for on the internet. But I sure can find lots I am not looking for.
Any way, I am discouraged how our dating model, even in Christian circles, merely prepares us for divorce, and re-marriage. First you find that special someone, hormones flow, hearts are given away, many times more than just hearts are given, hearts are broken, hearts are hardened.
There has got to be a better way.