As has been my tradition for many years now, I want to start this year with a look back at the stats for my blog. This past year was a big one for me; I spent a little over half of it pregnant and the rest of it caring for our new baby girl. I missed a few weekly posts this year, but honestly not as many as I’d though I might given the many distractions from writing (I posted 48 of the 52 weeks in the year).

I talk about this more in my newsletter today, but 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of year-end posts. I started this blog in 2013, and the end of 2014 was the first year I did a look back at my most popular posts (one of which is still on this year’s post popular list).

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10 Posts With The Most Traffic

These are the 10 most popular posts on my blog this year. They all date from pre-2024 (older posts tend to attract more long-term traffic). WordPress changed something in their stats report this year, so unfortunately I can’t see which posts published in 2024 were the most popular.

The one that surprised me most was seeing “Wanting Children While Single” in this year’s top posts. It’s something I wrote back in 2016 and while it sparked a few comments, it never really had high numbers of views before this. I’ll probably never know, but I do wonder what it was that made people gravitate to this topic in 2024.

1. What Do Other People Think of INFJs?
2. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships
3. 5 Relationships Problems INFJs Often Struggle With
4. When God Calls You By Name
5. Wanting Children While Single
6. Here’s What Happens When Church Hurts an INFJ
7. How Do Other People See INTJ Personality Types?
8. The Vanishing INFJ
9. INFJ Dark Side
10. Religion and the INFJ

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

Several years ago, I added 30-day scripture writing plans to the resources available on here on Like An Anchor. You can see them all and download them for free by clicking here. These were the most popular in 2024 (ranked by numbers of downloads):

1. Faith (nearly 200 downloads!)
2. Gentleness
3. Love
4. Big Questions
5. Self-Control

Countries With The Most Visors

I’m always amazed by how many people visit my blog from all over the world. There are far too many countries represented to list here, but here are the top 10 in terms of the number of visitors this past year:

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. India
5. Philippines
6. Australia
7. South Africa
8. Nigeria
9. Germany
10. Russia

Thank you so much to everyone who reads, follows, likes, and comments on my blog or sends me emails. It means so much to me that you enjoy my writing! I hope you have a wonderful new year 🙂

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It’s time for my year-end tradition of a blog review. It’s partly for me, to look back and see what people were most interested in reading, and partly to share with you all what’s been going on in the blog you’ve been following, reading, and commenting on this past year.

The big news on the blog this year was that I finally launched an email newsletter. I send out a short email every other week with an update or message, and a brief recap of the blog posts published between newsletters. If you choose to sign up, it’s a great way for us to keep in touch and you’ll also receive a free copy of my book God’s Love Story.

You can click here to see WordPress’s official summary of 2023 on LikeAnAnchor.com. According to those stats, there were 220,714 page views last year, 289 likes, and 79 comments. That’s not the whole story of the blog, though, so here are some of the stats I that I can see with my behind-the-scenes stats.

10 Posts With The Most Traffic

These ten posts were the most popular on my blog this past year. The top one had 7, 605 views!

1. When God Calls You By Name
2. What Do Other People Think of INFJs?
3. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships
4. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
5. How Do Other People See INTJ Personality Types?
6. INFJ Dark Side
7. How To Tell If An INFJ Likes You?
8. Religion and the INFJ
9. How Do I Know If I’m an INFJ or an ENFJ?
10. 5 Relationships Problems INFJs Often Struggle With

Top Posts From 2023

Older posts tend to get the most traffic, partly because they’ve been on the site longer and partly because my INFJ content still trends well in search engines. With that in mind, I also like to share the most popular posts published within this past year. Obviously this favors posts published earlier in the year, since they had more time to collect visitors, but I still think it’s interesting to look at them.

1. The Crown of Victory
2. A Closer Look At The Role of Pastors and Shepherds
3. What Can We Learn from Shepherd, Sheep, and Lamb Imagery in the Bible?
4. The Women at Pentecost: Valuing the Contributions of Unnoticed People in Church
5. What If The Proverbs 31 Woman Was Less Intimidating?
6. Relational Faith: A Book Review and Theological Reflection
7. Building People Up in Christ
8. Jesus as the Originator and Trailblazer: A Study of Archegos
9. Witnesses in the Book of Acts
10. The Glory, Importance, and Victory of Other People

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

Several years ago, I added 30-day scripture writing plans to the resources available on here on Like An Anchor. You can see them all and download them for free by clicking here. These were the most popular in 2023 (ranked by numbers of downloads):

1. Inspiring Music
2. Double Minded
3. Self Control
4. Compassion
5. Big Questions

An honorable mention goes to my chart outlining God’s holy days, which isn’t a scripture writing plan but was the second-most downloaded resource on my blog this year.

Countries With Over 4,000 Visors

I’m always amazed by how many people visit my blog from all over the world. To give you all a glimpse into where your fellow readers are located, here’s a list of the countries home to at least 4,000 blog visitors this past year (I always choose a number as a cut off point for this list, simply for the sake of length).

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. India
5. Philippines
6. Australia
7. Germany
8. Nigeria
9. South Africa
10. Indonesia

A big “thank you” to everyone around the world who subscribes to the blog, reads my posts, and/or takes the time to comment or send me an email. I literally couldn’t/wouldn’t be doing this without your support! May you all have a blessed 2024.

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I realized just today that I’d completely forgot to do my traditional year-end review of what’s been going on with my blog. That’s probably because so much has been going on in my life this year and will be going on next year. I’ll be graduating with my Master’s degree in May and I’m currently planning a wedding for a soon-to-be-determined date in the summer.

Life for me is wonderful right now, and part of that is all that’s been going on here with my blog. Cutting back to just one post a week and focusing on sharing Bible studies has meant less stress for me and it’s been wonderfully encouraging to see how many people are still reading and commenting with this shift.

10 Posts With The Most Traffic

Once again, the year’s most popular post was “What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?” This is the first post in my Spiritual Warfare series, and it’s the basis for my Armor of God Study Guide (which will be available in spring or early summer of 2023). My INFJ and other personality type posts also remain popular.

1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?
2. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships 
3. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
4. What Do Other People Think of INFJs?
5. INFJ Dark Side
6. 5 Relationship Problems INFJs Often Struggle With
7. How Do I Know if I’m an INFJ or an ENFJ?
8. How To Tell If An INFJ Likes You
9. Want to Date An INFJ? Here’s 15 Things We’d Like You to Know
10. How Do I Know If I’m an INTJ or ENTJ?

Top 10 Bible Studies

As my focus with LikeAnAnchor shifted from personality types to Bible studies over the past several years, the most popular posts shifted as well. As you saw in the last list, my INFJ posts are still getting a lot of traffic, but the Christian posts are also getting more attention. Here are the Bible studies which people read most in 2022.

1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord?
2. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity
3. Jesus Christ’s First Words
4. Letting God Define You
5. When God Gives You Something You Can’t Handle
6. Reasons to Pray: Building Relationship with God
7. When God Calls You By Name
8. The Benefits of Living In Covenant With God
9. Hearts of Shalom: Nothing Missing, Nothing Broken
10. Replacing Anxiety with Power, Love, and A Sound Mind

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

Almost two years ago now, I started adding 30-Day scripture writing plans to the resources available on Like An Anchor. You can see them all and download them for free by clicking here. These were the most popular in 2022 (ranked by numbers of downloads):

1. Love
2. Compassion
3. Self-Control
4. Big Questions
5. Double-Minded

Countries With Over 5,000 Visors

I’m always amazed by how many people visit my blog from all over the world. To give you all a glimpse into where your fellow readers are located, here’s a list of the countries home to at least 5,000 blog visitors this past year (I cut this list off at 5,000 simply for the sake of length).

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. Philippines
5. India
6. Australia
7. Germany
8. Indonesia
9. Nigeria
10. South Africa
11. Brazil
12. Singapore

Thank you so much to everyone around the world who reads and comments on my blog! It means the world to me to see how many visitors come through here, and to read the comments and encouraging emails that some of you take the time to write and share. May this next year be filled with blessings for all of you ❤

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With 2021 behind us, I’m halfway through my grad school program. I’ve slowed down posting on this blog because of that, but I’ve still posted every week and even released a new book in June (The Beatitudes, first in a Like an Anchor Study Guide series that will continue this year with Armor of God).

As I do every year, I’m starting 2022 with a look back on what’s been happening on this blog. Here, I have top 10 lists for most popular posts. Since I’ve added downloadable resources to the blog, I also have a top 5 list for those. Finally, we take a look at the countries around the world that this blog’s visitors call home.

10 Posts With The Most Traffic

The most popular posts list for 2021 changed quite a bit from the ones in 2020. There are still some posts about fictional characters on this list, but “What Does It Mean To Be Strong in the Lord?” took over the top spot. This is the first post in my Spiritual Warfare series that will be the basis for my next study guide.

1. What Does It Mean To Be Strong In The Lord? (12/16/2017)
2. Dating Your Mirror: ENFP and INFJ Relationships (published 11/11/2017)
3. INFJ Dark Side (published 3/31/2014)
4. How To Tell If An INFJ Likes You (published 1/7/2019)
5. Water, Spirit, Fire: The Three Baptisms of Christianity (published 8/25/2018)
6. 7 Fictional Characters That You’ll Relate To If You’re An INTP (published 4/1/2019)
7. What Do Other People Think of INFJs? (published 5/22/2019)
8. Updated Disney Princess MBTI Chart (published 12/19/2016)
9. Finding Your Real Myers-Briggs® Type (published 11/2/2015)
10. Want To Date An INFJ? Here’s 15 Things We’d Like You To Know (published 9/18/2017)

Top 10 Posts For This Year

As usual for LikeAnAnchor.com, all of the posts that got the most traffic on my blog last year were published before 2021. Of the new posts I published, these 10 were the most popular.

1. What Would the Myers-Briggs® Types Be Like as RPG Classes?
2. Hearts of Shalom: Nothing Missing, Nothing Broken
3. What Does It Mean To Be Double-Minded, and How Can We Fix It?
4. Why Are So Many INFJs Obsessed With Fictional Characters?
5. Getting Comfy With Your INFJ Personality Type
6. Psalm 133: Unity Like Oil and Dew
7. The Curious Case of the Introvert’s Function Stack
8. Finding Treasures, New and Old, in the Pages of Scripture
9. “Instead, I am single-minded”: Learning from Paul’s Focus on Jesus
10. Judge Yourself (and Others) as You Would Like God to Judge You

5 Most Popular Scripture Writing Plans

This year, I added 30-Day scripture writing plans to the free resources available on Like An Anchor. You can see all the ones available for download by clicking here. These were the most popular (ranked by numbers of downloads):

1. Compassion
2. Big Questions
3. Self-Control
4. Double-Minded
5. Love

Countries With Over 5,000 Visors

I’m always amazed by how diverse my readership is. I love looking at the world map in WordPress’ reports and seeing all the different countries that blog visitors come from. To give you all a glimpse into where your fellow readers are located, here’s a list of the countries home to at least 5,000 blog visitors this past year. I cut the list off at 5,000 simply for the sake of length (if I included countries with at least 1,000 visitors, for example, the list would be over 50 countries long).

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. India
5. Australia
6. Philippines
7. Germany
8. Brazil
9. Indonesia
10. Singapore
11. South Africa
12. Italy
13. France
14. Poland
15. Turkey
16. Mexico
17. Netherlands

Thank you so much to everyone all around the world who’s reading and commenting on my blog! I hope this next year is full of blessings for you.

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