Happy Friday to Everyone!

I thought I would let you know a couple of things that are new as of today. First, I have uploaded my re-written study on Proverbs. You might recall that when I finished blogging through Proverbs, I was not happy with the product. I also said that I would go back through and re-write it because I thought I had finally figured out how to handle a book like Proverbs that has vast open spaces filled with random appearing lists of one and two liners.

I think I have it now; I’ll let you be the judge. I’ll leave the link below if you’d like to have a read. In this edition, I also added some thought-provoking questions at the end of each Chapter for those who enjoy thinking more deeply when they study God’s Word.

I have also created a new blog Page called “Resources” where I will be linking in all downloadable content as I re-work all of my collections on the books of the New Testament and the ones I have posted previously on the Old Testament. I may also include other things as time goes on, so check it out when you have a moment, just click on “Resources” in the toolbar at the top of my Home page.

Nephilim Series Will Begin on July 28

My new topical series Tracking the Nephilim will begin on Tuesday the 28^th and will continue Tuesdays and Thursdays after that. This should be quite interesting; I hope to see you there.

Have You Tried AI on Your Blogsite?

Some of you may have noticed that I have been experimenting with it. I’ve found that it can be a lot of fun, but you need to keep reminding it who’s running the site.

I’ve found that Copilot (free version) is good generating featured images for blog posts and images for series and individual posts, but you have to be patient; “he” is a real talker. Gemini (free version) is good at researching if you use the Notebook feature, and both can research, edit, proof and draft first drafts very well. Both also like to change what I’ve written without permission, and I don’t much like that.

Jetpack (free version) is best for drafting devotional content if you give the right instructions, which I tend to mess up and end up drafting myself as always…

When I was very young and just out of Grad School, I got my first writing job in Washington, DC. It was quite an exciting time for a kid from the West Coast. At the time, I was a junior staff writer and spent my days and nights coming up with language on whatever the bosses needed double quick. They took that and finished things up. I was very quick and improved as I went and moved up the food chain quickly. Eventually, I was doing the main drafting, using language and research from the “juniors”, and then I went into the higher management of communication.

The reason I’m telling you this, is that if you experiment with Ai, be sure that the AI is the “Junior staff writer” and you are the Big Boss, or they’ll run away with your content, and that wouldn’t be much fun, would it? If you do use AI as an assistant, with practice, it can be very handy, and in my case, being legally blind, it sure helps in the proofing and editing, as long as it follows my rules.

Well, I could go on and on about this, but I don’t want to use up all of the fun in one sitting, so I’ll save some more for another time.

I sure would like to hear your thoughts on AI, please leave them in the comments! With that, I’ll say thanks for reading, see you next time…

Don

The Book of Proverbs is HERE