Every year, I put together a quick list of my blog posts that are most popular. Last year, I added my favorite tv shows, movies, books and albums as well. I had fun with that (and with your feedback), so I decided to do it again.
To be clear, the top blog posts are the most popular ones written by me this year (not merely my favorite…they got the most views). The top tv shows, movies, books and albums are all totally my opinion. I’ll also add some honorable mentions in the movie category, because I didn’t make it out to see every movie that did well this year (apparently planting a church and having a kid in the same year leave you penniless).
Top Five Blog Posts Of 2014
5. “Church Planting: The Miracles” – This was a post that told the story of all the miraculous ways that God affirmed that we were supposed to plant a church. These stories are still extremely important to me.
4. “Interviewing A Three Year Old” – This was a fun video post, in which I interviewed my son (then 3 years old) Kipton. We talked about big life decisions and God’s will for a student ministry series called, “How Does God Speak To Us?”
3. “Buy A Shirt. Plant A Church.” – This got a lot of attention because we sold t-shirts to help us move to Columbus, Ohio to plant our church. We were so thankful that all of our friends got involved. By the way, we’re about to launch another shirt sale! Be on the lookout in 2015 for that one.
2. “Cox Family Update // June 2014” – This was just a short post to update people right before we set out to move to Ohio. The fact that this was the second most popular post this year proves that we have some pretty awesome friends that are praying for us! Thank you!
1. “We’re Planting A Church!” – This was the most popular post of 2014. It was also most important to me, because we finally announced publicly what God had been doing in our hearts for the last three years! It’s extremely difficult to keep the biggest secret in your life under your hat for that long! We believe this announcement was signaling the future for our family for the rest of our lives. We are praying that God would allow us to pastor this church for the next 40 years! For the rest of my life, I want to be a husband to one wife, a dad to my kids, the pastor to one church, and to serve this city.
Favorite Books
1. Ben Arment – “Church In The Making”
2. Alan Hirsch & Dave Ferguson – “On The Verge”
3. Scot McKnight – “King Jesus Gospel”
4. Dallas Willard – “The Divine Conspiracy”
5. Lance Ford & Brad Brisco – “The Missional Quest”
Favorite Albums
1. Elevation Church – “Wake Up The Wonder”
2. Brooke Fraser – “Brutal Romantic”
3. Alt-j – “This Is All Yours”
4. Coldplay – “Ghost Stories”
5. This Will Destroy You – “Another Language”
6. John Mark McMillan – “Borderland”
7. Tycho – “Awake”
8. Phantogram – “Voices”
9. Andy Mineo – “Neverland”
10. Balmorhea – “Balmorhea”
Favorite Movies
1. Interstellar
2. Mockingjay: Part 1
3. Million Dollar Arm
4. Captain America: Winter Soldier
5. X-men: Days Of Future Past
6. 300: Rise Of An Empire
7. Guardians Of The Galaxy
8. Lego Movie
9. Locke
Honorable Mention: I’m looking forward to seeing Selma, Gone Girl, Fury, and Exodus: Gods & Kings.
Favorite TV Shows
1. The Walking Dead
2. Gotham
3. State Of Affairs
4. Suits
5. Brooklyn Nine Nine
What were some of your favorite tv shows, movies and books from 2014? What did I miss?