Tyler’s Weblog

The updated Cox Web Ink site is up and running. And what a good looking site it is ( if I do say so myself.) Check it out at www.coxwebink.biz

For a long while I’ve had an idea of using the Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game (by Decipher) in conjunction with other literature I’ve found as a tool for ministry. Mainly using a fun, fellowship activity in a non-threatening environment to introduce other geeks like me to the power of our Lord of all things.

Now I don’t want to do what Tolkien himself said he didn’t do. The Lord of the Rings is not an allegory. In fact the stories were made to be just that, stories. They are fictional works to be taken as entertaining. Not as a great Christian outreach tool. However Tolkien’s life beliefs definitely shown through his works. And so I believe if given completely to God and let him take my nerdy talents He can use it to further the Kingdom.

Unfortunately for me Decipher has discontinued their beautifully designed role-playing game, but they have given me plenty of information to go on. And I own most all of the books they published. Also there are wonderful resources like Hall of Fire Magazine and others that are adding more stuff. And of corse I can be a pretty creative person myself, and I know quite a bit of the land of Arda and Tolkien’s universe.

Also as far as the ministry aspect goes I have the book “Finding God in the Lord of the Rings.” And a couple other devotionals about similar things.

Things are finally starting to fall into place, if ever so slowly.
The CWI website is getting the first face-lift. You can watch the process at http://www.coxwebink.biz/cwi4.html.
After that other sites will fallow with graphical updates. The good thing is that I’m learning as I encounter problems.

Finally after much confusion and work I have put my WordPress blog onto my own webspace. So now I can update my Xanga just by updating my WordPress.

This confusion is really my fault, it was actually quite easy, I just was confused to what I needed to do. And if any of you out there wants to know how to do it, don’t hesitate to ask.

My new blog site is at www.coxwebink.biz/tyler/wordpress/ No not exactly an easy address to remember, but I’ll see what I can do about that. For now it’s on our webspace and I have more edibility to it.