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We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your Wix Blog. Blogging from Your Wix Blog Dashboard On the dashboard, you have everything you need to manage your blog in one place. You can create new posts, set categories and more. To head to your Dashboard, open the Wix Editor and click on Blog > Posts. Blogging from Your Published Site Did you know that you can blog right from your published website? After you publish your site, go to your website’s URL and login with your Wix account. There you can write and edit posts, manage comments, pin posts and more! Just click on the 3 dot icon ( ⠇) to see all the things you can do. #bloggingtips #WixBlog

When it comes to design, the Wix blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will grab your reader's attention. Check out our essential design features. Choose from 8 stunning layouts Your Wix Blog comes with 8 beautiful layouts. From your blog's settings, choose the layout that’s right for you. For example, a tiled layout is popular for helping visitors discover more posts that interest them. Or, choose a classic single column layout that lets readers scroll down and see your post topics one by one. Every layout comes with the latest social features built in. Readers can easily share posts on social networks like Facebook and Twitter and view how many people have liked a post, made comments and more. Add media to your posts When creating your posts you can: Upload images or GIFs Embed videos and music Create galleries to showcase a media collection Customize the look of your media by making it widescreen or small and easily align media inside your posts. Hashtag your posts Love to #hashtag? Good news! You can add tags (#vacation #dream #summer) throughout your posts to reach more people. Why hashtag? People can use your hashtags to search through content on your blog and find the content that matters to them. So go ahead and #hashtag away!

With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog comes with a built-in members area - so that readers can easily sign easily up to become members of your blog. What can members do? Members can follow each other, write and reply to comments and receive blog notifications. Each member gets their own personal profile page that they can customize. Tip: You can make any member of your blog a writer so they can write posts for your blog. Adding multiple writers is a great way to grow your content and keep it fresh and diversified. Here’s how to do it: Head to your Member’s Page Search for the member you want to make a writer Click on the member’s profile Click the 3 dot icon ( ⠇) on the Follow button Select Set as Writer

Most of us have wondered from time to time what our heavenly bodies will be like. One of the key passages to understanding the future state of our bodies is found in Philippians 3:20, 21 . It says, But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Just imagine, we will have a body just like Jesus had following his resurrection: His body could pass through locked doors. John 20:19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” He could be touched. Luke 24:39 “Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” He could talk and communicate with people. Matthew 28:10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” He resembled himself. John 20:18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her. He recognized people that he knew before his resurrection. John 20:15, 16 “Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). There is also a wonderfully insightful passage found in Revelation 21:4 . Look at these great promises: He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. For those of us who have put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of the world, there is great news. The best is yet to come! Our ultimate home and destination is God’s heaven, where He has prepared a perfect place for our glorified bodies to live forever in the majesty of His presence. God’s Richest Blessings, Dr. Joe

We must be careful to guard ourselves against the pace of twenty first century life. Technology has provided us with ‘more’ opportunities to do ‘more’ things than ever before. We must be mindful of the fact that we have the potential of filling our days running from one thing to another. Not all ‘busyness’ is good. Some busyness is just a distraction and an escape. Busyness in God’s kingdom work is good! " But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." Matthew 6:33. However, God’s kingdom work involves making time to stop being ‘busy’ and heed Psalm 46:10. “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” God knows that we need a time of restoration and fellowship with Him. In fact, He is our source of rest. He invites us out of our busy world to spend time with Him. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28. There are times when we need to re-establish and separate the important from the urgent. God’s Word tells us what is important. He expects His followers to make time for the things that He has designated as such. He takes busyness off the table as a reason we can’t spend time being “Still” or finding “Rest”. Most importantly, it is in the stillness and restfulness with Him that we find direction, meaning and purpose in our busyness. Blessings, Dr. Joe

Earlier in April, our theme for Boot Camp 2019 was "Gospel Story." We often encourage our church's students to live the Gospel or to share the Gospel - but we wanted to slow down to make sure that they understand what the Gospel is. A few years ago, J.D. Greear (the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention) wrote a really helpful book for explaining the Gospel clearly. It is called Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary. The original book is a great read - and there is also a complimentary student edition workbook called Gospel Revolution. The book explains the "Gospel Prayer," which is written in the image that accompanies this post. It's a prayer that helps remind Christians to live in the Gospel consistently, no matter what feelings or circumstances they currently experience. We hope that this Gospel prayer could be a revolutionary cornerstone for yourself, your children, and your family!

On Sunday evening, March 17, seventeen of our boys and girls competed in this years Bible Drill program in front of our Sunday night congregation. At the close of the program, I called each one of them leaders. There were many reasons why I identified them as leaders. Perhaps, one of the main reasons that I addressed them as such may surprise you. You see, these seventeen children chose to be vulnerable. They risked standing in front of a group of people and being wrong. They didn’t let feelings of inadequacy and failure prevent them from competing. In short, they were willing to look ‘less than’, for the sake of the greater good. The Bible tells the story of many ordinary people that I consider to be great leaders. These people were risk takers. They were willing to look foolish and risk failing while obeying God and acting in faith. A shepherd boy by the name of David must have looked incredibly foolish when he marched out to meet Goliath. Elijah probably looked like he was destined for failure when he went against 850 prophets of Baal and Asherah. And what about Noah constructing a giant ship in the middle of nowhere? In the end, these God-fearing people, these ordinary people, were highly successful in the sight of Almighty God and generations of people. Godly success is a matter of choice, not chance. Our Bible Drill children choose faith over fear. They choose risk over playing it safe and I’m proud of each one of them! Blessings, Dr. Joe

Parenting is hard work. There are always more tasks to complete. There are always more hopes to fulfill. There can be a constant pressure to have "good" kids who do everything the "right" way. In our busyness, we often settle for looking for quick tips and proven formulas just to survive the practical challenges of another week. In Parenting, Paul David Tripp offers 14 gospel principles that will help parents keep focused on the big-picture work of Jesus Christ in the lives of their children and in their family as a whole. We need God's grace. We need the freedom that only comes through the help of the Holy Spirit. We need divine help to parent with vision, purpose, and joy. We need to remember to ask, "What is your calling as a parent?"

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” This verse was not written during the height of Judah’s faithfulness to God. It was written while they were captives in Babylon. There are times in our lives that may feel like we are in the midst of a spiritual dry spell. Perhaps even wonder if God has forgotten us. God has not forgotten us. He still has a plan for our lives. The temptation during such times may be to succumb to discouragement and apathy. It is during these times that it is important to remember the two verses that follow Jeremiah 29:11. “Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:12, 13. As God’s children, we always have the blessing of God’s presence and the promise that, “I will listen to you.” However, we must come before Him wholeheartedly. “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."There are seasons in our lives where God is preparing us for a new beginning. Embrace His plans to, “Give you hope and a future.” It is often on the anvil of difficulties that God shapes us for a fresh, new start with Him! Blessings, Dr. Joe

All the time, we see students paralyzed by choices. How do they know what God wants them to do? Search their feelings? Look for a sign? Flip the Bible open to a random page? Just do whatever most people expect them to do? Students face these choices in the big areas: Which college should I choose? What career should I pursue? Which friends should get my time? Which activities matter most? (Here's a secret: these situations affect adults and families as much as students!) In response to these often paralyzing scenarios, Kevin DeYoung challenges readers to Just Do Something. God's will is not mystical and difficult. God has already spoken His will to us: love Him, read and obey His Word, trust in Jesus and not self. If we are living out those aspects of God's will faithfully, could decisions really be a simple as just doing what we want to do?

There are many passages found in the Word of God where Jesus taught about prayer. Since then, thousands of books and probably millions of messages have been preached concerning the topic of prayer. Some of the material is very good and some of it is very unbiblical. The ‘name it and claim it’ books and messages are perhaps the biggest culprits in the unbiblical category. Jesus was very straightforward in his teaching regarding prayer. In John 15:7 for instance, Jesus tells his disciples what they must do to have answered prayer. “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” First he said, “If you remain in me.” That is, Jesus, not us, must be in control of our lives. Secondly, he said, “and my words remain in you.” That is, our lives are to be filled and guided by scripture. A very simple way to look at this is to ask ourselves if our prayer is in line with scripture. When these two biblical principles are in place, it is then that we have the assurance, “ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” So rather than going immediately into our prayer, our time would be better spent, IF WE FIRST EXAMINE OURSELVES in light of Jesus’ teaching in John 15:7. It is in this process of self examination that God can change US before we pray. Blessings, Dr. Joe

Pray For Me consists of a series of tools designed to help you pray for the next generation of believers. As you work through the 13-week guide, you will be immersed in using the Scriptures as a tool to pray for others. There are 3 versions of the prayer guide - with a fourth on the way: 1. The original prayer guide (pictured below) is a tool for adults to pray for teenagers. It is even available in a large print edition. 2. The Student Edition helps teenagers pray for themselves and their friends. 3. The Children's Edition helps adults pray for younger children. 4. The Grandparent's Edition (in development) helps grandparents pray for their own grandchildren. The pray guide works as a simple, daily tool to help you pray strategically for your own children or grandchildren - or for students/children that you care about through any life connection. Pray For Me resources will provide the backbone of Lawndale Student Ministry's Bible studies during Fusion on Wednesday nights during spring 2019!