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Personally, I like to sign off with “In His Way”. You can pretty much take it either way.

there are sooo many great ones…
A friend of mine and I also compiled a similar list… here they are below:
Amazed by Grace
Flummoxed by Faith
Flabbergasted by the Father
Gobstopped by Glory
Agitated by Adoration
Joyfully Jargon-free

Rockin’ with THE ROCK,
Robyn

Writing Justly for The Righteous Judge,
Suz

Sweating with the Saints,
Seriously it’s hot out here.
Susan

Enthralled with the inevitability of eternity,
Robyn

Mulling My Monday for His Majesty
(ouch that hurt)
Ms. Susan

Keepin It Real for the King of Reality,
Susan

parenting with a powerful purpose,
robyn

Soli Deo Gloria, glory to God alone. Be like Bach and sign your emails with “SDG”. You know you want to!

I just do the following:

Mandi \O/

(Yes that is my little runway for God — See Reason #33)

One of my favorites –

“For the untold millions who are yet untold”

I generally sign my letters thus:

In Christs holy, redeeming, beautiful name, that makes me tremble in worshipful prayer thrice daily, I pray that thee receive mine letter with a heart full of gladness and the holy spirit.

Timbo.

I thought IHG meant In his grace.
In his grip sounds like some type of wrestling reference.

In His Way is most often used in irony. I have a friend that uses it for everything, including his death match characters in M rated video games.

Its like running around and saying “With the love of God I blow your guts all over the screen”

Love the list, I find myself amused and saddened to read it many times. I usually just end with “shalom alechem” *shrug*

I’ve actually seen “F.A.T. for Jesus–Faithful, Available, Teachable”

love it…we make fun of these too. My personal favorites are “in the hands of the One who holds the whole world in His hands” or “Jamming the Lamb” or “rockin the flock”

I used to do “God Bless You,” which got truncated to “God Bless,” which nowadays is used by everyone around here (in California) as GB. When I got to seminary, I quickly learned the industry standard is “Blessings.” Many of my non-seminary friends rebel and just say “Cheers.”

i do this “When you die, will you go to heaven? Yes – No – Maybe” the text links to this site: http://www.allaboutgod.com/common/when-you-die-will-you-go-to-heaven.htm

always say exactly what you mean but be sure to end with a )
and after you say exactly what you mean sign off with
Blessings,
CJ

For example:
You suck.
Blessings,
CJ

I used to get emails from a group of Moms that would say after each sentince praisen Jesus for ______. Now I do live in Texas.

For His Fame Alone

Got that one from our former youth pastor. I can’t personally use it because I don’t have a seminary degree and it seems like you should have a Masters of Theology before you’re qualified…

My mother does this:

<><

For every. single. e-mail.

i got a “under his warm blanket” once.

and then i proceeded to vommit.

Love and peace,
Grace and peace,
Because of Calvary,
In Him,
For Him,
By Him,
Because of Him,
(pretty much any preposition followed by “Him”)

Here’s how I like to end an email:

with my name (werid, I know)

Now, don’t go check your e-mails to see if I used one of those other ones, because sometimes I backslide.

I’m bookmarking this page for the comments. Especially Robyn Collins’ list. Wow, that’s amazing.

Hah.

Paralyzed by His Pleasure and Motivated by His Movements,

~jason

Someone sent me an email with
GIGATT
above their name.
It took me a while to figure out (or at least I think) the acronym stood for God Is Good A The Time.
My department thought up our own acronyms using these letter for a week and put them on our emails to each other. It became a big game of one-upping each other.

Good Indians Go Absently To Tepees
-Paul

I am a travel agent to the missionaries (for lack of a better job description), so I get emails from preachers and missions directors all the time. my favorite is an email signed off with “investing in eternity” when the request was for a free upgrade or a plea for an exit row seat since God made them too tall for regular coach. this post resonates with me!

Sometimes I use God’s Warrior, but most of the time, I just end it with my name.

I used to put a little Jesus Fish using the ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ signs. It looked like this: <><

Then as I studied theology more I signed my e-mails with “Soli Deo Gloria.”

Now I don’t put any bells or whistles on them.

I just usually put my name and my favorite bible verse, Joshua 1:9.

This blog is hilarious, and I hope you keep it up!

I thought it was going to stand for “I hug God”. That would have been great.
Have you talked about life verses yet?

These are great!

All of my e-mail have a line of fish and my contact info. Thus :

><> ><> ><> ><> ><> ><>

My Name
phone#
e-mail addy
etc.

I'm hardly subtle. Mine all have:
I will keep faith until the sky falls upon me and crushes me,
until the earth opens up and swallows me,
until the seas arise and overwhelm me,
as my signature.

This is a really old post I know but none the less…

You know how you can customize your "signature" at the end of your email, mine is some verse in Exodus.

Closings are awkward. They're awkward both in e-mail and in letters. In e-mail, I usually use just my name, my name and locality, or my initials if it's a follow-up.

But Christians writing to Christians have ways to deal with the awkwardness. For me, "In Christ" or "Blessings" does fine, or if I'm feeling wordy, "In His love."

Some high-church clergy I've known go Latin: "Pax et gaudium" or "Dominus tecum." They add a +, but I always forget if it's before for a priest and after for a bishop, or the other way around.

usually just:

God bless
in Him
in Christ
because He lives
or
in His arbor

followed by my name

As a teacher at a Christian school, I close e-mails and memos for my job with "In His Service." If you don't like what I'm saying or doing, you're criticizing my service to the Lord!

For personal e-mails I usually just use my name, but maybe I'll pick up Joel Brown's signature.

-Juan

katdish! how hilarious are you!!! i was literally laughing out loud reading this blog.. good stuff..

I mostly say…
Forever His
because I am!

Sometimes I use "For His Fame". I have friends who use "For Jesus' Fame". I like that they just come right out with who "He" is

grace and peace, just like Paul. ; )

oh wow.
My email address was something along the lines of 4evrsteadfast4god@——.com and my signature was Latin for "the Lord is my light" ….

When I was catholic I'd put JMJ at the top centered with little html crosses or the + sign. An in them with In Jesus and Mary.

It doesn't bother me much when a Christian does this part of the culture ya know?

oh and when HTML let's me as a Druid I do /| html locvs eating the reversed "/" so I will do |0| more often.

The first is the Druid symbol f Awen the second is a form of the Druid's Sigil. I also now put the acronym of my Druid order under my name "ADF"

/|
Auberon
ADF

I change between Bible verses that really hit me. Like right now I have Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you"
It's personal to me, but can also minister to others who receive e.mails from me.

I do some emailing for our church each week, and I sign off with:
In His service,
~Susan

I thought IHG was going to be "I Heart God". My FIL says "God Bless!" every time he finishes talking to you, emailing you, or anything! I've just come to expect it…

I use this:

Jesus Christ
The Original Tomb Raider

But recently i've got ride of it, coz sometimes i keep it and sometimes i delete it……just easier having nothing!