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kiss-1430150_960_720I’m tired of digging through crud to try and get to your website. The popup ads, autoplay videos, subscription forms, and other clutter make it next to impossible to go there and read anything.

Add that to one of my greatest pet peeves: the sites that add extraneous stuff to anything you copy and paste. I used to frequently use Relevant Magazine as a source for my “Links To Go.” No more. It’s not worth the hassle of editing out “Read more at…” every time I copy something from an article. (every time I copy the title or copy an excerpt… it’s a little much!) Now I may read things on their site, but if I want to refer to them, I Google them and find them elsewhere. (And I’m also looking at you, ____ website)

So if you’re wondering why traffic is down on your site, maybe it’s because other people feel like I do. Maybe you don’t care; we aren’t paying subscribers. We’re merely consumers of what you are offering. You are well within your rights to tell us to go away if we’re not going to pay.

That’s what you’re telling me, anyway. See ya!

P.S. (9:00 a.m. CDT) — Just subscribed to an email newsletter. Not via an obnoxious popup nor in-your-face video. It was a link in the signature of a well-written article on MacWorld.

B&B Friday: Preacher’s Pen

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It’s Friday again, a good time to recommend a book or a blog. Let’s make it a blog again. Well, let’s make it a multi-featured website again.

Chris Gallagher has assembled a collection of resources for Christians at his Preacher’s Pen website. Sure, there’s a blog on the site, but that’s merely the tip of the iceberg. The site also contains e-books, sermon outlines, slide presentations to accompany sermons, and a special series called “Stop Doing Church.”

The site name might make you think these resources are only for preachers, but that’s not the case. Anyone can benefit from the writings and studies Gallagher has made available. I’d encourage you to take some time and look around the site.

Some Bible class material on the Web

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In our Bible classes at the University church in Abilene, we’re studying the book of Leviticus using some materials prepared by Dr. Glenn Pemberton. If you’ve never done an in-depth study of Leviticus, it can be really fascinating.

The materials that we are using are from eBibleTeacher.org, a site run by Oklahoma Christian University. I had looked at their materials years ago, but had never taught from them. I’m really impressed. The site had seemed to have died on the vine, with no lessons being posted since 2006, but I see that a new series has been put up this month. Whether it’s for personal study or for use in a Bible class, I bet you can find something of interest on their site.

Another resource for class material is being developed by Matt Dabbs over on his Kingdom Living website. You’d do well to bookmark the page, as I think Matt will be adding much more material in the near future. I appreciate his putting this resource together.

I know there are lots of other resource pages out there. John Mark Hicks has some studies up, as does Al Maxey. Jay Guin also has a few series of classes up. Eddie Cloer has some over at the Truth for Today website, but unfortunately, the website had a popup that wouldn’t work correctly in my browser and I couldn’t access the site to give you the link. :-(

I know there are lots of other good resources out there, so I’ll leave it to my wise and knowledgeable readers to share with us places we can find Bible class material.