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Free Christian Blogs has updated our software.

These are the OLD BLOGS. They will be deleted soon.

New users, blogs, comments, or posts are no longer created here, at OLD BLOGS of www.e4God.com/blogs/

From now on, New Users or blogs are accepted at the NEW BLOGS of www.e4God.com/freeblogs

If you had a blog here before the change, then please login to your old blog and use your control panel to export your blog content. This function saves a backup of your blog content to your computer so you can upload it to another blog later.

Blogs not moved in the next 30 days will be deleted.

TO MOVE YOUR BLOG:

1. Login to your old blog here > www.e4God.com/blogs or at YOURBLOGNAME.e4god.com/blogs/as though you were going to write a post.
2. In your control panel, choose EXPORT. Instead of writing a post, look on the menu inside the blog control panel or dashboard. You should see a menu bar across the page, near the top, that offers a choice of MANAGE. Choose this and you will see a submenu option on the line underneath it, of EXPORT. Choices will look something like this:Dashboard, Site Admin, Write, Manage, Comments, Blogroll, (etc)
   Posts, Pages, Uploads, Categories, Import, Export
3. Save export file to your computer by following instructions do download it.
4. Create a new blog at our new blog hosting location www.e4god.com/freeblogs
5. Login to control panel for your new blog as though to write a post
6. Choose Menu Option MANAGE again, but this time Choose IMPORT and follow instructions to upload your content saved during the EXPORT step (step 3) above.

The old blogs are being deleted to rid the web of thousands and thousands of spam blogs that were related to pornography and drug use instead of GOD. Thank you for your help and understanding.

Because this service is being discontinued, and we are in a transition period, there will be no new user registrations and no new blogs created.

Current blogs can be accessed in order to backup or copy your blog to another site.

This Christian Blog Site To Close in 2 Weeks:

With Apologies to those who have worked hard on their free Christian Blog: Many of your blogs are inspiring and impressive. I send you greetings and blessings in the name of the Lord God who is worthy to be praised. You deserve a blog host who has the staff and resources to create something praiseworthy and keep the evil one from abusing the service. I pray the Lord will show you how to continue elsewhere.

Reason for Closure: We have been overrun with blog spam and porn spam.

When we started, there was a vision and passion to be a FREE Christian Blog hosting provider that would bring power to individuals to share testimonies, ministry news, and local news from a Christian perspective. There would be no embedded banners as on other free blog sites. Our big wins include accomplishing #1 Google Rank for “Christian Blogs” and “Free Christian Blogs”, among other search phrases, and over 10,000 visitors per day. Hooray for the Kingdom…

In the beginning, this vision was unique. Now there are many web spaces for this.

Although we wanted to serve a living God we have ended up doing the devil’s work. I am only one person and cannot delete porn spam fast enough. I refuse to play web host to the smut slingers. Therefore… we shall stop this and await God’s leading for what is next.

This domain will resurface as a Christian web space directory or personal blog of the site owner. Guest articles may be accepted but will be moderated. There will be no separate blogs available for ministries or individual bloggers.

INSTRUCTION TO MOVE YOUR BLOG:

I encourage you to move your blog to another provider if you want to maintain it.

• From your control panel, you can backup your blog.
• Join another wordpress blog service
• Upload your backup.

May the peace of the Lord reign in your life and may His word speak through you and your blog - wherever you choose to post in the future…

Blog Spam is a real problem for blog community developers.

We had over 70 new blogs registered overnight…. 67 were spam blogs, mostly porn spam and viagra offers, etc.

My passion and sense of calling was to offer a CLEAN Christian News and Blog Network that is not influenced by “MEDIA” values or philosophies, but is truly driven by God’s people online.  Let the truth shine!  A thousand points of light.  All that jazz. 

Praying for funding to do this right.  If no answer then this site may not be on the right path.

Free Blogs - Christian Blogs, Growing up?

Ten years ago I started a web hosting company.  Due to my sense of calling in this regard, the first web site I set up was www.e4God.com.  At the time, it was a message board site.  Soon it became the only Christian Blogging site where a believer could get a free blog without running the risk of unwanted ads appearing on the free blog.

Now, all these years later, with over 5000 blogs having been created, we have made a dent in the darkness.  Satan is not pleased!  We are attacked by blog spam and porn spam, but we STAND against the enemy, holding our ground claimed for the Lord.   

But, the opportunity to have a free christian blog is not unique to our site.  So we have to ask…  What’s next?  How do we reinvent ourselves to serve the Kingdom best?

What online service is needed by God’s people?   Where do we grow from here?  Please send your thoughts by posting a comment.

The best kind of Christian Blogs are Testimonies. 

As believers, we are supposed to be IN the world, but not OF the world. 

What does this mean?  It means we should not be far away in monasteries or removed from the day to day struggles of life.  We should have the same issues other people have. 

BUT… We should look different, act different, handle our challenges in a different way. 

Sharing 0ur own story, our process, about who we are, what we have gone through, and how we respond to it is the most powerful thing we can do.  This is our testimony.  As Christ lives in us, we become the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIGHT for others.  We become gates into the new city.  Others come to faith first through being attracted to us.  Then, they want to know what we have that others don’t.  We point them to Christ and the Holy Spirit does the rest….

Yes, we need to know the word, and we need to be ready in season and out to share with others about the Lord.  BUT FIRST - we need to BE REAL. 

Christ was a person who was AMONG the PEOPLE.  And he lived out loud.  The apostles learned to tell first person stories about who they used to be, and who they became in the LORD.

ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN, transformed by the living Christ, telling our stories, will do more for the kingdom than any streetcorner preaching or great sermons or memorized verses.     

Along those lines, I recently met a blogger who has a fantastic testimony and a heart that follows hard after Jesus. 

Please allow me to introduce you to Will McCullough.  Will is a man’s man who is now the Lord’s man.  As a Marine, he learned about fighting and winning.  Now he is fighting and winning a new battle.  He is being trained up by the Holy Spirit and fashioned into a new kind of warrior. 

Please read his story at http://pulledthroughthenarrowdoor.blogspot.com and drop him a word of encouragement.  BUT… no platitiudes…  The WORD Gives LIFE and so we want to give life to Will and not empty recitations of verses that “ShouldaCouldAughta” mean something.      

Free Blogs are our gift to God’s people online. 

We are pleased to provide the service, but it is clearly being abused by “comment spammers” to such an extent that we all need to make an adjustment.

We managed to get this under control on the main blog by setting all comments to moderated, and applying filters to blacklist comments that include troubling words in the text.  We recommended recently that you do the same.  

Member blogs are controlled by members, and not by us.  We have no control over your blog but we need your help.  If you allow comments then the spammer is taking advantage of you and threatening our ability to serve the Kingdom.  These comment spammers are using incredible amounts of bandwidth, while each comment creates spam email to notify the “fake” email address given by the comment poster.   

If this domain or server gets blacklisted by email servers around the world, then no email can be delivered from your blog - and God’s people will not be well served. 

Please use your control panel to IMMEDIATELY set all comments to MODERATED, and add a list of objectionable words to your comment filter. 

We are Praying for a breakthrough of the Spirit to deliver us from this attack, and we are counting on you to help.     

Instructions:

Log in to your admin control panel, select options, then select discussion from the submenu.  See the options controls regarding comments.  They are about halfway down the discussion page… and look like this when set correctly:

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Usual settings for an article:
(These settings may be overridden for individual articles.)

• Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
• Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
• Allow people to post comments on the article

Click UPDATE after entering settings.

Better Days, Calmer Waters.

Bluing Skys, Freshing Breezes.

Flowing Gentle Turns of Life.

Having All, Seeking Nothing.

Time And Space Unmeasured.

Lying With a Resting Lion,

Creation Spans a Wide Horizon.

Today is God’s, I Am His

One With the Lord in Zion.

Free Christian Blogs is open again for new users and new blogs.  Blessings to all!

Free Christian Blogs wants to say THANK YOU to those who offered help during our spam fight.

We are prayerfully considering the addition of moderators, and those who can help with our ministry by coding or designing or otherwise making this free blog community more available to those who want to use it. 

Our goal is to present the blog with a home page that lists most recent blogs and comments, and allows more interaction among members.  We want to be more of a testimony site and online communications system for Christians and Ministries.  

My own calling is to provide a place for sharing of testimonies and ministry news, even local news or world news reports from a Christian perspective.  This can be sort of an iReport for Christians.  Anybody who wants to help with this mission is welcome to apply by email to email-at-e4God.com (replace “-at-” with “@”)