A devotional writing milestone

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I started writing a daily devotional in 2006. At that time, I was looking for a way to enhance my personal Bible reading by slowing down and focusing on some feature of each passage. For me, writing about it seemed to be a good solution.

Not long after I started I decided to publish my writing on the Internet. Of course, I hoped my thoughts would be helpful to others, but it also put a bit of a thumb in my back to stay with it day by day.

The first time I finished the OT I went back to the beginning, editing four a day as I went. That same work is now being published on the web for the third time.

Meanwhile, I've also worked my way through the NT. I made one change for the NT - limiting myself to one devotional per chapter. Otherwise, I'd have probably ended up writing a devotional per verse! I've now worked my way through those devotionals too - in fact, twice.

The milestone is that today I finished by third pass through the entire Bible. It has taken me about six years and I've written 1182 devotionals.

I've pre-published the devotionals to the web - and the final one isn't scheduled to publish until late November, 2014.

I'm going to look around for a publisher, but I don't have any illusions as to the market value of a daily devotional written by a little-known pastor. My plan "B" is to self e-publish for nook and kindle.

Anyway, I'm writing this post to invite my friends here on NazNet to celebrate the end of a years-long project with me.

I think my next project will be to try my hand at writing some short, Bible-based dramas suitable for use in church services. We'll see....

[Dennis M. Scott]

For what it's worth, Linda likes your devotionals, and uses some of them in class. I have not read a single one, so my evaluation doesn't count

Congratulations, however, on a significant milestone. Many of us can't keep at the task of pastoring one church that long. Please keep us informed as to your publishing efforts. The self e-publishing is intriguing.

Your leadership, friendship and management here on naznet are greatly appreciated. Thanks for being just like you are.

[Meghan Schoonover]

Congrats, Pastor. That is a huge accomplishment, I'd be overly impressed with once through never mind thrice!

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

When I started out I had no idea of what a big project it would become. I certainly didn't think I would ultimately have written my way through the entire Bible. In fact, when I finished the OT the first time, I went back to Genesis because I had skipped so many major events at the beginning. I did the OT the second time, and only then came up with an approach to the NT that I thought I might be able to handle (one per chapter).

If nothing else, it illustrates the truism that the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I've just added a mobile version of my two Wordpress blogs:
www.pastorscott.com
www.pastorscott.com/speaking

Visit on a smartphone to see the mobile versions.

It was pretty easy via a plugin. I'm pleased with the results.