Happy New Year!

It’s currently about forty-five minutes to 2009. Diana and I have the obligatory Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on for background noise, and have enjoyed an evening of chatting while working to straighten our desks and organize random files from the year.

It occurs to me that as I await the arrival of this new year, I have nothing to look forward to. Now, I don’t mean that in a negative or depressed way. I’m sure there will be exciting developments (as well as difficult trials) in 2009. However, this is the first year of my adult life where at the stroke of midnight, I won’t be anticipating some major milestone or event.

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Merry Christmas from Elijah and Moriah!
(and Diana and I, too!)

Well, I can’t use Apple’s Time Machine to set back the clock on my blog’s destruction, but the good news is that I just managed to generate a text file of all of my old blog entries.

This means I’ll be able to slowly cut-and-paste old entires back onto the site. It’ll be time consuming, and I won’t have all of the images and videos I had posted, but it’s better than nothing. I really don’t want to lose it all; not that it was genius-level content or anything, but some of it was quite sentimental to me.

Maybe I should pull all my old blog articles from my old blogs out and post those too? I mean, it would prove I have absolutely no life, but it would be fun to see how things change over time. And with the new backup system I have in place, I should never lose the content again (note my crossed fingers)!

Lyrics from “Had A Bad Day” by Daniel Powter:

Sometimes the system goes on the blink
And the whole thing turns out wrong

Yep, that’s the gist of it.

Early this morning, as I lay in peaceful slumber, everything on lenflack.com was destroyed by automated script gone crazy. I have semi-recent backups of most of the visual theme stuff, but the content from the last two years is gone.

Note to self: backups of databases are just as important, if not more so, than custom theme files.

There is a chance I may have a way to get the posts back. I’ll be working to bring back as much as I can over the next day or so.

Either way, I have been blogging more in recent months than I had in the previous year and a half, and I intend to continue that, so keep visiting!

Update: Content posted after February of this year, including my most recent stuff, is toast. That said, I’m just going to consider this a mandatory refresh, and start from scratch.

Those of you who have known me well over the past few years know that one of my growing passions is to see a resurgence of pastors who embrace the historic concept of the pastor-theologian.

In America, a paradigm has developed where pastors often focus exclusively on the issues of congregational care and evangelism, leaving the work of biblical and theological scholarship to those in the academy. Likewise, those who spend their time in academic pursuits are often functionally isolated from active participation in shepherding the local church. Consequently, I believe there is often a disconnect between the scholarship being produced and the needs of the church as a whole.

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