Revising ‘Cruising the Gospel’

I’ve decided on the future direction of my website, ‘Cruising the Gospel’. I had intended to move the posts to JHM and close the old site; but it still has a useful function so I’ll update it instead and cross post to JHM.

A long time ago (August 2013) I began a new project which I called ‘Cruising the Gospel’ (CTG). I wanted to encourage people to read through the four gospels on a steady, rolling basis. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the four New Testament books that record what Jesus did and said during the last few years of his life on earth. We should read every part of the Bible, of course, all of it is useful, informative and helpful although some parts may seem quite difficult too.

But the four gospels are special: they, together with the rest of the New Testament, tell us all we need to know about Jesus – who he is, what he did and said, how we can understand him, how he will influence and shape our own lives if we will allow him, and why we should pay attention to him in the first place.

So my argument, and that of others too, is that we should form a habit of continually reading and re-reading these four books in particular. I call that ‘cruising the gospel’ and began to create a resource to help people do it. The website is still there online, almost three quarters complete. It needs updating, editing and finishing. Take a look at Cruising the Gospel (CTG) for yourself.

Moving it to JHM (or not)

I decided the best thing would be to migrate the material to ‘Journeys of Heart and Mind’ (JHM), and I began that task a while ago. But it quickly became clear this was not the best idea because the convenience and flow of the old site was getting lost as I merged the posts into JHM.

Instead, I now intend to keep the original website going while I complete it and update it, but every time I post a new item there I’ll cross-post here to JHM as well. That will give my readers the opportunity to see each post as an individual article, but also use the original CTG site as a reading guide should they wish to do so. I think it’s the best of both worlds.

It will take me a little while to get this organised and running smoothly, so please bear with me. But right now you can read the most recent posts here on JHM and all the older ones on CTG. I urge you to try it for yourself, try to read a little bit each day. Don’t rely on my ideas expressed on CTG, they are intended to get you thinking about it for yourself. And most important of all – wait for the Holy Spirit to guide you personally as you read. When you have useful thoughts or insights, leave them as comments to encourage others.

Here’s a recent post in the series, use the ‘< Previous | Index | Next >’ links in that article to see the rest.