I have been sharing a rundown of the most viewed posts on this blog over this last year. I previously shared the top 10 posts written in 2025. Yesterday, I shared the first half of the top 10 posts of all time. Today, you get the second half. This is a rundown of the most viewed posts on this blog of all time.
As I mentioned yesterday, referrals account for a significant amount of the traffic. I appreciate – again, whether you are sharing because you agree or vehemently disagree – every one of you who has shared posts from here. It is encouraging to see people reading and engaging with what is written here and it certainly helps me to form my views more clearly.
But I love to share these rundowns because it shows, to some degree at least, what you have been interested in reading. I am so grateful to every one of you who has comment, shared or even just clicked the link and quietly read. I write so that people will read and engage. These lists of top posts give me the opportunity to say thank you to you for taking the time – which most of us have precious little of – and choosing to spend it reading content here. There have been nearly quarter of a million of you this year and I am grateful to each of you who has clicked onto here and read what I think about whatever it may be.
I trust 2026 will be just as interesting and manage to keep your attention. Thanks as ever for your continued readership.
And so, to the list.
5. Why doesn’t God make his existence more obvious?
At number 5, a post from 2020 asking a simple question: ‘It is a common objection to the existence of God: why doesn’t he make himself more obvious? And, of course, if God was inclined he could spell out ‘God exists’ using stars to make himself known if he wanted. So why doesn’t God make his existence more undeniably obvious? Here are some reasons.’
4. How long after Jesus’ birth did the wise men visit?
Incredibly, the fourth most read post on this list is one that ends on this damp squib: ‘What difference does it make to our understanding of the nativity? Frankly, not much. I’m not sure it makes a huge difference whether the magi were arriving early on or two years later (so I bet you’re glad you’ve bothered reading this far!)’ That is a conclusion that follows a list of things that we just don’t know about the wise men. We can have a rough guess at the age range of Jesus though.
3. Does the Bible call us to unilateral forgiveness without repentance?
The third most read post is a regular high flyer. It is a post from 2020 concerning whether the Bible calls us to unilateral forgiveness without repentance. It is certainly true that when a person repents Christian people have no grounds whatsoever not to forgive. But what are we called to do when somebody doesn’t repent? This one takes a look at the issue of forgiveness.
2. 10 times Jesus is explicitly called God in the Bible
The second most read post of all time is a new entry for 2025. It was, in fact, the most read post from 2025. It is also an incredible simple post. It doesn’t offer any arguments or analysis of anything. It is just 10 times in which the Bible explicitly refers to Jesus as God. It doesn’t include any of the occasions whereby you have to infer or imply what is going on, it is just bald list of verses stating explicitly that Jesus is God.
1. What are the good works God has prepared for us to walk in?
The most viewed post of all time looks at Ephesians 2:8-10 and asks: what are the good works God has prepared for us to walk in? The post aims to give us a level of freedom as we follow God’s will and seek to do what pleases him. We do not have to bind ourselves to discovering some secret will of God on our lives. Rather, God determines the good works we will walk in and we will do them if we are genuine believers. This one explains how and why.