January was a busy month for the Randleman family. My father-in-law visited for a week from Colorado, arriving the day before our new son was born. Jude Michael was born on January 8, 2013, and both mother and baby are doing wonderful. You can see some of the birth announcements I created on our family website.

February promises to keep us going pretty steadily as well. Some of my family will be visiting from Missouri this month, and we have a day planned for Disney, as well as checking out some of the other area attractions around this part of the country.

And with a lot of new and exciting things coming soon to our church and ministry, it will be a busy time. DeliberateDads.com is going well also. I created and did all the detail work in getting the DadCast launched and published to iTunes. An introductory podcast went live in late January, and the first full length episode will come out this week. That’s pretty exciting as well!

In case you missed them, here are my top seven posts for the month of January:

1. The Difference Between Purpose, Vision, and Mission
2. Why You Need To Develop A Philosophy Of Ministry
3. Trying A New Bible Reading System
4. My Current Philosophy Of Ministry
5. Leadership Means Believing In People
6. Book Review – Made In Heaven by Ray Comfort and Jeffrey Seto
7. Book Review – The True Account Of Adam & Eve by Ken Ham

With the start of a new year, it’s no surprise that my Bible reading posts scored high on the list. New Year’s resolutions always seem to bring these to the top. Three additional posts in this group are from my Foundations of Youth Ministry series. This series continues to amaze me at the amount of traffic it sees. I’m thankful to see that what I’m writing is continuing to generate interest.

The final two on the list are a couple of books I reviewed for New Leaf Publishing and Master Books. These were fascinating books, and will add to our homeschool resource library.

My favorite post written in January was one that I saw published in the Hernando Today newspaper, called How I Revitalize My Faith. That column led to more conversations about writing for the paper in the near future. That’s got me pretty pumped!

Looking forward to what happens in the coming weeks!

If you are a blogger, leave a comment with your top post for the month. If you don’t blog, leave a comment with a favorite post or blog that you read this month.