Welcome to "An Ordinary Pen"
In the first verse of Isaiah 8, God tells Isaiah to pick up an ordinary pen to write down prophetic words. But why an ordinary pen? God chooses again and again throughout scripture to use the mundane, from simple objects to plain people, to accomplish the greatest things. He used an unknown woman to give birth to our Savior. He chose a simple shepherd to rule His chosen people, the Israelites. He chose a man that persecuted the Church to bring the Word to the Gentiles. God is greater than what our minds can fathom and it is incredible to see how He uses each of us to do great things.
With this in mind, we hope that our writings and reflections can have a positive spiritual impact on our readers. Here at "An Ordinary Pen", we reflect on literature, current events, scripture and music to try to explore Christian spirituality. We pray that God blesses you through the content on our blog.
Click on the blog link above to read the (almost) daily writings of Ordinary Pen. The "About Us" link has contact information and small bios about each of our writers.
Where is the ministry headed?
(Updated 10/12/08)
The first stage of this ministry is building a readership! The blog is the focus of this ministry, so we encourage you to invite your friends to this site and the blog!
The end goal of this ministry is to create an internet experience that brings hopes to both internet readers and the homeless in Rochester, NY. With the money from ads on the site, the writers of Ordinary Pen will travel into downtown Rochester to bring the Gospel to the hungry. The money will go to food, clothing, and Bibles. If we make a great deal of money, excess will be donated to local Rochester Charities. We will then bring our experiences back to the site for our readers. For now though, we have to build a regular readership before we can support that ministry.
Ordinary Pen is an ad-supported site and ministry. All site costs and future ministry costs will be paid through the ads featured on the various pages. But we hope to minimize site costs, so the most money possible goes to charitable work.
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