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The Bible (preferably not) according to Clark

 Howdy! Welcome to my humble little blog! For my first post, I wanted to lay out my hopes for what this blog will be, and give an understanding of who I am, and who I am not.

I, Clark Ping, am a broken, flawed, sinful man who is in love with a flawless God and His spirit-breathed Word. My hope in writing this blog is that I would grow in my own understanding of His Word, and be able to encourage others to do the same.

The Bible is the authoritative Word over my life, and should be over the lives of all people who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ. Scripture is infallible. I am very fallible, and am by no means an expert. I will likely make many mistakes, incorrect assumptions, and false interpretations as I read and write. My hope is to facilitate discussion through that, that the Lord may be glorified and that I may be edified.

I plan to write on a variety of topics here as I go through God's Word, but I have some early plans on projects I'd like to do for this site as well. I plan to write profiles on as many people from the old and new testaments as I can, giving full scriptural context on their lives. I also hope to write multiple devotionals and expositions on whatever parts of scripture I happen to be reading through.

In all honesty, I am poor at managing my time, and do not have a time set aside at the moment to write blog posts. Expect my posts, at least for now, to be sporadic. Perhaps God could use this blog to mature me in that capacity as well.

Anyway, that's me! Hopefully this blog is in some way useful to those who might come across it.

Glory to God,

Clark

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