I've often heard it said within Pentecostal circles that the Holy Spirit gets little recognition — even within our own Pentecostal and Charismatic circles. Of course, there's some theological justification for this: According to Jesus' promise in John 14:26, one of the Holy Spirit's primary roles in the believer's life is to direct our attention to Jesus:

"But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."

As I was checking out a few of my unread feed subscriptions tonight, I came across a mention of the Google Trends service. This tool has been in service for quite some time, but since I was

For some time I've wanted to provide some sort of real-world ranking system so that those of you who want to know who the "big fish" are can find them, and so those of you who have successfully worked your blog into the stratosphere would get a little praise for your effort.

After thinking about it and hacking around with some online tools, I finally have an easy way for me to quickly determine the Technorati Ranking of every blogger on my PneumaBlogs list. (The Technorati ranking is determined by the number of links to a site by other bloggers within the last few months. So it's sort of like a "vote" by other bloggers.) Upon seeing the results I was surprised at some of the lesser-known bloggers making it to the top of the heap.

Congratulations!

In a mad dash of creative craziness, a few more things have popped up on the PneumaBlogs tool-set. So, for your blog-reading enjoyment, here's a quick summary of everything not covered in my previous post ("PneumaBlogs, PneumaSphere, PneumaSearch").

FireFox Search Plug-in

First off, fellow PneumaBlogger Christoph Fischer ("my cup of coffee") saw that I'd created a Google Co-Op tool to search within the entire set of PneumaBloggers (PneumaSearch) and he went off and quickly fabricated a PneumaSearch MyCroft extension for the FireFox search bar. What this means is that if you use FireFox and if you use the built-in FireFox search bar, you can quickly add a tool to your search box that will allow you to search only within the PneumaBlogs universe of bloggers.

Thanks Chris!

Squidoo alternate for PneumaBloggers

In case you haven't noticed, over the past several days I've been trying to bring my "Pneuma" pages up-to-snuff within the new design and to make them all a bit more usable.

Just now I've added a third page to my collection: PneumaSearch. Yes, that's right, I've gone crazy with the whole "Pneuma" prefix, just like I've irrationally appended "Rodent" to everything else. I guess, in the tradition of Web 2.0 mash-ups, I'm the PneumaRodent. But that may be carrying things too far. (Talk to my editor about it.)

Anyhow here's what's new:

I've finally gotten around to evaluating everybody who's been asking for consideration, and it shows. My paltry list of 70-80 PneumaBloggers has shot up to 130+. That number could change daily, or weekly.

Also, previously, I've used the built-in "BlogRoll" or "Links Manager" function of WordPress to manage my ever-growing

Just a very quick note to say that I've updated the PneumaBlogs list in recent days to include some stellar new names, including:

Update, April 15, 2007: As of today, you can now link directly to your own entry in the PneumaBlogs list. Just look for the "link to this item" text to find your custom URL for your entry.

Update, April 10, 2007: You can also use the square-but-fiery button shown at right. Just see the updated section below.

For the 130+ PneumaBloggers currently listed on my PneumaBlogs page, if you want to host a button on your site promoting your pneumatic bloggy-ness, here it is in all its drab elegant simplicity:

Please right-click on the image and host it from your website (it's only 255 bytes) and then link to the PneumaBlogs page (or the PneumaSphere aggregator). Here's sample code you can use: