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help

Over the past 4-5 years, I’ve wondered if family structures pre-industrialization, before “modern” times, were stronger and more supportive. The example I think of is villages in China where extended families live near each other. This allow them to help each other out in child care, food, etc. The other example I think of is […]

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Who here has had sex before?

That was the opening question I asked in yesterday’s college Sunday School class. I often ask questions and the class is accustomed to responding. But when I asked this, I could visibly see students moving their hands only to pause with a look on their faces of “Wait a second… do I really want to […]

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hooray!

After quite a few years of freeloading, we decided to actually pay money for a domain of our own. As e posted, the old site will be up for a while but there won’t be any new content there. I was considering a new theme for the new domain to celebrate the change (and make […]

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fast

It has already been one month–more than four weeks–into this new ministry school year. Wow. God has been keeping us afloat and moving well, it seems. Thank Him. But that’s 4 weeks gone before the next 2 Teen Conferences, TIOB Retreat, Branch Retreat, Project Destiny 2007. That’s 4 weeks of the year without a full […]

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the more we post…

It seems to me the more we post, the more sp@m we get. I’m not sure how that works but perhaps it has to do with increased hits? That first sentence reminds me of a quote from Gruffy Bear of “Jungle Jam and Friends.” It seems to me the more you’ve got, the more you […]

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sad.

sad. very sad.

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anxiety, anger, escapism

I came across this blog by Carolyn Mahaney and her 3 daughters. Carolyn is the wife of CJ Mahaney who was the pastor of Covenant Life Church. As of last year, the current pastor of this church is Joshua Harris. If this means nothing to you…uh, nevermind. There’s a series of posts on this blog, […]

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complaints.

I’m sure that someone has already thought about this and posted it on their blog somewhere but… Other than being annoying to others and stemming from an ungrateful heart, is complaining cultural? I got to thinking about this because of a study that I’m doing on the life of Moses. You don’t truly know complaining […]

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lasting?

I’ve noticed that there are quite a few parents that have blogs. I started wondering if this method of communication will be a fad (Oh man, blogging–that’s so early 2000s) or will it be a lasting medium. I mean will college kids be saying, “I read on mom’s blog that she’s taken up knitting again.” […]

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chain letters.

So if you have a blog, it’s highly likely that you’ve been “tagged” to write 20 random facts about yourself and the amount of time you take to do it equals the number of people that you are to tag. It really reminds me of the handful of chain letters that our family got in […]

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