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39 Questions Your Parents Hope You Never Ask About Sex

Bare Facts 39 Questions your parents hope you never ask about sex

I get the occasional email about book reviews, but don't usually take the bait, so to speak.  I love reading, but just don't have a lot of time to invest in the kind of reading I feel is important for a solid review.  This doesn't mean I'm not tempted and when I was asked to review a book about teens and sex by Josh McDowell ... I just couldn't resist. The official title is The Bare Facts: 39 Questions Your Parents Hope You Never Ask About Sex and it was written with Erin Davis.  I didn't … [Read more...]

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Today is my third post in the “Who is God” series on Make a Difference to One. I’m explaining “Spirit” and how we can use simple analogies that are fun for kids to explain a very complex concept. Click through for the full article.

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God Is… Spirit
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Super Youth Pastor and the Pit of Despair

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It seemed like decades, maybe even centuries has passed. He remembered watching The Princess Bride as a child. The pit, that life sucking machine, yes it seemed he had been sucked into that very pit with no one to hear him scream. Darkness surrounded him. Mind numbing darkness that seemed to rob him of the memory of light. That word seemed foreign to him now. He tried to focus, to remember ... what color was, even the faintest glimmer, a spark, a part of the shadow that wasn't as dark. The … [Read more...]

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I am participating in a “Who is God” series on Make a Difference to One. This latest addition to the series written by Jason V attempts to explain the Infinite, Eternal, and Unchangeable aspect of God. Great read so click through for the full article.

Apr
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God is… In His Being
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Thinking God is too small? Think again.

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It keeps happening to me. I think about God and how amazing He is. I think about everything He has done and I am literally in awe. He made the entire universe form scratch. I can't even bake a freakin cake without a box recipe. He build each of us and made us unique and special and then made it all better when we screwed up his perfect work of art that is us over and over. Despite all of that I keep forgetting just how big and powerful God is. Maybe it is because He is close and personal. He … [Read more...]

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Super Youth Pastor v. the Planner

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When last we saw our hero he was on the edge of insanity with a strange man named the planner threatening a painful series of tests that may well cost his sanity. The light blinded him. SYP blinked at its brilliance. "None of that now, I must see into your eyes and I cannot do that when you continue to close them. I do not wish to use force, but you must cooperate." SYP remembered now, the voice was the shadow, the Planner. He was looking into his eyes because they are the gateway to … [Read more...]

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Love v Lust Remix

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Today’s title bout features two super heavy weights in the emotions that drive us. I wrote the following for our local paper on behalf of another organization that submits a weekly column to the paper. ***For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~Rainer Maria RilkeLove is eternal where lust is temporary. This is a plain and apparent fact as easily seen … [Read more...]

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Poll: Will Christian lit that deals with gritty sin sell?

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A couple days ago I posted a writing exercise and got some great feedback. I feel that I learned a lot and want to say thanks to everyone who commented or sent me an email with critique. I think some people were worried that I might be offended, but trust me when I say that I know I am not a great writer. I don't have the training, which is why I put the exercise out there so I could learn, and I learned a lot more than I had expected. I also got a lot of feedback suggesting that I pursue … [Read more...]

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The Camouflage Shrub Angel Squad

One of the reasons I started a new blog was to begin exploring my writing. I do several writing experiments including a book that I am writing. My plan with this book is to make it available for free and accept editing tips with revised editions. I don't know that my goal is to every be a published writer but I do want to be a good writer. It is something I enjoy so I want to do it well. To that end I saw a comment over at Stuff Christians like that made my snicker a bit and them leave a … [Read more...]

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Super Youth Pastor: the Shadow revealed

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In the last installment of Super Youth Pastor SYP made some poor time choices and found himself collapsed on the ground.As he shakily stood to his feet SYP was overcome with dizziness and had to sit before buckling again. Already he was surrounded. He tried to get his bearings as the shadows closed in on him. If only he could focus. He couldn't remember where he was or what happened. All he knew was something was wrong. He hadn't had so much as a cold since he became a super but this felt … [Read more...]

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