Welcome to the new devotional area of the Libertyville Covenant Church web site! The URL is
and it is also linked from nearly every page in the site.
Every week, the entire church will be reading and meditating on a single passage of Scripture. Several times during the week, Pastor Dwight and Pastor Brian will share reflections and ideas related to the passage, and you are encouraged to respond with comments of your own.
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Smartphone users please note: You will have better results if you look at just one blog at a time, since the main address is designed to give users a single place to find both Brian's and Dwight's thoughts and reflections. Those URLs are
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We built this site in response to feedback from you, in the recent Sunday morning survey. Many of you expressed interest in blogs and email as ways to strengthen your participation in devotional activities, and we hope these blogs accomplish that.
If you are familiar with RSS feeds, you can subscribe to the feed of either blog by clicking on the link in the header of each one. If you would prefer to be notified by email when there is a new entry, you can enter your email address in the form that appears at the end of each entry (you only need to do this once for each blog).
You will find it easier to leave comments if you register. There is a link to do so in the header of each blog. You only need to do this once for the entire site. If you do not want to register, you will need to enter a name and email address every time you comment, as well as fill out a challenge form called a CAPTCHA; this is a protection against "comment spam." Further details about registration are posted below; if you are familiar with registration systems, you won't need to refer to it.
We will be improving this site over the weeks and months to come, and if you have suggestions, you can send them to me at this address:
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REGISTRATION
When you click on the "register" link you will see a form like this (click on the image to see it full-sized in another window):
USERNAME is anything you want. It could be your first name and initial, for instance. No one but you needs this; you use it to sign in.
DISPLAY NAME is what you want associated with your posts. Your full name is fine, but again anything you want is OK.
EMAIL ADDRESS: This is where the system will send you a confirmation message when you register. You will need to respond to this message by clicking on a link in it. IT IS NOT VISIBLE ANYWHERE ON THE SITE.
INITIAL PASSWORD and PASSWORD CONFIRM: Give yourself a password. It needs to be the same in both boxes.
PASSWORD RECOVERY WORD/PHRASE: Enter a hint that will help you remember your password if you forget it. For example, if your password were ABCDEF (not recommended), your hint might be "alphabet start." No one will ever see this but you, and then only if you forget your password.
WEBSITE URL: This is an optional field. Use it only if you have a Web site that you want people to associate with you, like owenyoungman.com in my case.
CAPTCHA: This is a device that tells the system you are a person, not a program or a machine. Type exactly what you see in the box (in this case, ru3gc2).
SIGN UP: Hit this button. You will get an immediate response telling you to go to your email and click on a link in a new email from "webmaster@libcov.org." When you do, you will get an email welcoming you to either "Pastor Brian" or "Pastor Dwight," depending on which blog you registered on. Your registration covers both, don't worry about it.
This email will contain a link back to that blog. If you click on it, you will go to that individual blog instead of the page that contains both. If you want to go back to the main page, just enter www.libcov.org/devotions/ in your browser. If you are happy just to go back to the single blog, click the link.
