From the category archives:

Blogging

Most Christian websites and blogs will have biblical references scattered throughout their text. But how much better would it be if that content could be automatically linked to one of the Bible websites that are out there? Well, I suspect it could be even better if, instead of merely inserting a link, you could automatically insert a little pop-up window that revealed the text without even leaving the website. That’s exactly what I can now do here on the blog.

That’s just what those wonderful people at Logos Bible Software have done. For example, if I was to write John 3:16 or 1 Corinthians 1:1-3, a script now creates those neat pop-up windows. There is nothing to install as such, just a few lines of code to add to your template, or if you are using Wordpress, as I think I would like to do soon, then you can install a plug-in and customize it. Apparently you can even change the look to match your site. I’m told that so far 2,000 sites have installed it, and 10 MILLION pages are calling the script.

Pop over to Reftagger and you can get the whole thing set up in about five minutes or so.

On Friday night I was privileged to be invited to attend a glitzy Christian Blog Award ceremony sponsored by a number of prominent Christian organizations, including the UK’s Premier Christian Radio.

You can imagine my pleasure, then, when some of the awards went to some of my blogging friends. I was also deeply honored and somewhat pleasantly surprised to receive second place in the “Most Inspiring Leadership” category. I hadn’t really thought of this blog specifically as a leadership blog, but I guess I write about things I’m interested in. Judging by the design of some of these sites, it’s certainly high time I made some progress on that major redesign we all know this blog needs!

Here is the full list of award winners and runner-ups:

Best Church Website

First Place and £1000
Kingdom Faith Church, Horsham
http://www.kingdomfaith.com/

Second Place
Magdalen Road Church, Oxford
http://www.magdalenroadchurch.org/

Best Christian Music Site

First Place and Bose noise cancelling headphones
The Band With No Name
http://www.thebandwithnoname.com/

Second Place
Worship Central
http://www.worshipcentral.org/

Most Inspiring Leadership Blog

First Place and Palm Pilot
Grahame Knox
http://www.insight.typepad.co.uk/

Second Place
Adrian Warnock
http://www.adrianwarnock.com/

Most Green (Environmental) Website

First Place and Solar Power Charger
Eco Congregation
ew.ecocongregation.org

Second Place
Environmental Ideas
environmentalideas.blogspot.com

Best Christian Newcomer

First Place and Nabaztag Digital Device
Looking at Life
http://www.lookingatlife.org.uk/

Second Place
What’s your point?
http://www.whatsyourpointcaller.blogspot.com/

Best Young Christian Blog (under 25)

First Place and Nintendo Wii
Hugh Bourne
http://www.hughbourne.co.uk/

Best Christian News and Reviews

First Place and Digital Recorder
Christian Today
http://www.christiantoday.com/

Shared Second
Release International
http://www.releaseinternational.org/
Shared Second
Inspire Magazine
http://www.inspiremagazine.org.uk/

Best Provision for Youth Website

First Place and Nintendo Wii and an article in Youthwork magazine
TearFund Youth Department
www.tearfund.org/youth

Second Place
Nymo
http://www.nymo.org/

Best Christian Social Action Website

First Place and Palm Pilot
Hope Info
http://www.hopeinfo.co.uk/

Second Place
Jubilee Centre
http://www.jubilee-centre.org/

Best Creative Christian Website or Blog

First Place and Apple iPod Touch
Theology Network
http://www.theologynetwork.org/

Second Place
CIA Basketball
http://www.ciabasketball.com/

Best Christian Organization

First Place and Palm Pilot
Catholic Church
http://www.catholicchurch.org.uk/

Second Place
Methodist Church
http://www.methodist.org.uk/

People’s Choice Award

First Place and Nabaztag Digital Device
Saffron Planet
http://www.saffronplanet.net/

Reports of the Death of Stand-Alone Bloggers Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

September 18, 2008

I missed the fact that Joe Carter hung up his solo blogging hat, but caught it on The Tall Skinny Kiwi’s site. As one who is still in mourning for the passing of Phil Johnson’s solo blog, and before that the true godfather of Christian blogging, Josh Clayborn, I’m disappointed by this latest development. I [...]

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Bloggers at the Desiring God Conference

September 17, 2008

Abraham Piper has invited any bloggers coming to the DGM conference later this month to an open house on the Saturday evening. I so wish that I could be there, but sadly I can’t. I am, however, sending a representative. My dear friend and pastor, Tope Koleoso (pictured right), is planning on attending the [...]

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adrianwarnock.com wordled

July 30, 2008

ALERT, web tool with serious addiction potential ahead! Well, I managed to manhandle my blog tool to export 500 posts on one page, copied the text and generated the following wordle. Its a bit of fun. See also the following interesting wordles – Team Pyro, All the books of the New Testament [...]

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The Top 40 Referrers To This Blog

July 20, 2008

One of my habits is that once per year I like to share with you a list of the top traffic referrers to my blog. This excludes search engines and blog aggregators. This time I thought I’d do it for half a year. So, here is the list for the first six months of 2008. [...]

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AND . . . WE ARE BACK!

June 2, 2008

Maybe you didn’t even miss us, but if you did, I am sharing an e-mail below that I received in my inbox shortly after returning from the USA on Saturday, which explains why you have been unable to reach my site. Nine thousand servers (and hence probably 100,000 websites) going down in one day is [...]

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Please Be My Friend, But . . . Don’t Ever Call Me Adrian Warlock!

April 23, 2008

Today I thought I’d tell you a little about an integrated approach I’ve set up to make use of the online social networking websites, and also to share with you some different ways you can access the content of this blog. Basically I have tried to ensure that a few of these sites will work [...]

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Adrian’s Blog is Five Years Old Today and a Competition

April 16, 2008

It’s my blogoversary today. Five years is a long time. At the moment I can only think of a handful of other Christian blogs that I still read from time-to-time that were around back in 2003. Here are some of them, with dates they began in brackets (where I know them):

Tim Challies (June 2003)

David Wayne [...]

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NWA08 – Final Audio Comments And Other Bloggers

April 11, 2008

I didn’t get a chance to capture people’s response to Hugh Palmers’ talk as I had to drive through the night to get home so I could go to work today. So when I was about half-way home, when I needed a break, I pulled into a service station and recorded this. It covers my [...]

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The Conference Season is Upon Us

March 29, 2008

The 2008 conference season is upon us. If you haven’t finalized your plans to attend conferences, you had better move quickly as many of them are set to sell out as they did last year.
I will be attending two conferences, and will be live-blogging both of them. The first is a brand-new conference called New [...]

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My 3,000th Blog Post

March 14, 2008

3,000 posts—that’s some kind of milestone, I guess. It means that while I may not have been blogging for as many continuous days as Challies, I have been cranking out posts at an average rate of over 1.6 a day for almost five years despite my intermittent blog breaks. I thought that I would comment [...]

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The Top 30 Most Read Posts on This Blog

March 5, 2008

I have now come to the end of publishing the top 30 posts of all time on my blog. I have compiled a list here, with links back to the original posts. I hope you enjoyed remembering these posts as much as I did!

Interview with Mark Driscoll — April 2, 2006
Blogging, Discernment, and a Book [...]

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My Most Read Blog Post Of All Time – My Interview With Mark Driscoll

March 4, 2008

Today I can finally reveal that No. 1 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on April 2, 2006, and was my interview with Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington.
Thanks to my friends at Crossway, a free copy of Mark Driscoll’s new book, Vintage Jesus, will be [...]

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