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Cultivating Culturally Challenging Children

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Man look at the alliteration in the title.  I think I used the word alliteration correctly, and I'm not really feeling like going through all the effort of typing it into Google.  Yep that's just how lazy I have become.  Back in the day I would have had to get up, walk over to my book shelf and thumb through real pages to find the word.  That was a lot of work but I did it and learned a ton.  Now, meh not worth opening a new window and getting the answer in 0.51 seconds. Anyways, this … [Read more...]

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Sex is Amazing

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So I was going to write about this shirt that I love for the blog carnival on "Church" today but I was making a comment at Stuff Christians Like and I realized something about Sex and the Church. We tend to think that inviting people to church is the solution, and what's worse we end up spending most of our time inviting people from other churches to our church so our church will grow. Think about it. It is much easier to invite a Christian to your church than a non-Christian. It is also … [Read more...]

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Stop complaining start a revolution

So a few weeks back I had a young man visit the church for the first time. He was wearing a shirt that was probably intended to get a reaction. I did react to the shirt but not likely the way he thought I might. I agreed with it and encouraged the notion. Sorry if the language offends you but I didn't design the shirt. With my students I try to be very frank and real with them. They are likely to say these kind of words so I guess I just don't get offended by them. I don't bother with … [Read more...]

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Some people always gotta swim upstream

Just a note for birthday well wishers. Thanks for the visit, you will find that I do not have a birthday pos tup. Yeah I didn't feel like writting about birthdays. It's not that I feel old or anything. I am 31. I just don't have anything to write about. If anything interesting happens today I might post it tomorrow. Anyways, thanks for dropping by, enjoy what I did write about, and leave a comment. I am one to respond to all commentsSure, it might be easier to just go with the flow, and I … [Read more...]

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