2 Million Page Views!!!
We crossed 2 million page views at mattdabbs.com today! Thank you for reading! As a thank you I am going to get a copy of the book The Trellis and the Vine for a random commenter on this post. If we get more than 25 comments I will give away another copy. I will select […]
An Open Letter to Christians Who Write Open Letters
If you take a blog post title and add “open letter” to it you automatically get 10 times the traffic and attention. While, on one hand, we write to be read we also must be responsible in our writing and not reward the worst in people. My hunch is that “open letter” draws traffic because […]
100,000 Lesson Downloads!
I am happy to say the small group and Bible class lesson downloads have surpassed the 100,000 mark! Thanks to everyone who has downloaded them, used them, shared them, etc. I am always happy to get emails of people giving feedback on using the lessons. To God be the glory!
Wanting to Upload Curriculum By Women
Over the years I have uploaded quite a bit of free Bible study material and small group lessons to this site. God has really blessed the effort to provide free material and there have been nearly 100,000 downloads since I started doing that around 2007. What I don’t have on the site are lessons written […]
Social Media and the Entitlement to Being Heard
Social media has given a voice to anyone who wants one. When I first started blogging I blogged 5 days a week pretty religiously. If something came out in the news that connected with faith I tried to give my opinion on it. If there was some new big archeology discovery…I made sure to write […]
Kingdom Living Blog Ranked 90th on Top 200 Ministry Blogs List
Happy to mention that this blog has once again made Kent Shaffer’s Top 200 Ministry Blogs list! This time around the blog is ranked #90. Just happy to be around, happy someone reads and happy God is using this to help others. Here is the catch. Thank ranking is for my old URL pre-transition to […]
Welcome to the New Home of Kingdom Living at mattdabbs.com
Thank you for making the move over to mattdabbs.com. I am looking forward to blogging at this new platform and am looking forward to seeing all God is going to do through wineskins.org! If you aren’t subscribed via email and want to get all the posts here just subscribe over the right. Again, thank you for […]
What Every Christian Blogger Should Learn from the Miley Cyrus VMA Debacle
Stirring up controversy is a quick fix to running dry on time and talent. Don’t fall into that trap. Be patient, stay in the Word, pray continually and don’t be controversial to stir up traffic and a buzz just because you are bored or don’t have anything of depth left to say. Slug-fests attract a […]
13 Tips on Disagreeing With Love and Respect
After blogging for the last seven years learning how to navigate through disagreements has been a real learning process for me. Here are 13 tips for learning how to listen well and disagree in a cordial manner. 1 – Make sure you really are disagreeing. A small percentage of disagreements are people who agree but […]
How To Embed Youtube Video in WordPress.com
A couple of posts ago I tried to embed a video with no success. WordPress changed the way you do it and I got it all messed up. They actually made things as simple as possible but without telling us how they changed it, it ended up getting complicated. So now, instead of having to […]