Tossing It Out

Monday, November 18, 2013

Blogging with Importunity

English: The Importunate Neighbour. At the National Gallery of Victoria (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am Blogman so I sit in church and turn sermons into blog posts. In a recent sermon at the church I attend, our pastor gave a sermon about praying with importunity. This sermon which was based on Luke 11:5-10 described how the most effective way to get prayers answered was to pester God about what we want. We should pray without ceasing even if we are repeating ourselves. Like kids nagging their parents, we need to be persistent in our pleas. I'd heard the verses and sentiments before but I'd never heard the concept put quite in the way the pastor had put it.

Then as I thought about this idea I realized that I blog with importunity. I frequently go back to the same topics. I'll take an idea and break it down. If one post about a topic isn't enough I might make a series out of it. I suppose some readers get bored with my rehashing of topics, but sometimes I'm just trying to get my point across, However, most of the time I blog about certain topics because they fascinate me. Marketing, promotion, "blog science", and the psychology and mechanics of social media. They are topics I am trying to figure out and am hoping some answers will come from readers or just come to me as a result of thinking about it so much.

So whenever you think I'm being pertinacious, dogged, or persistent to the max, please bear with me. I hope you will find something interesting in what I'm saying or discover a relevance in my topics applicable to your own purposes. Honestly, I'm not trying to be annoying. I'm just blogging with importunity.

Sorry but I just love that expression and had to use it in a blog post.

Do you ever feel like you blog with importunity? Are there any topics that people might think you are fixated on? Do you believe that an author basically has one story to tell and they just repeat it in different ways?

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