Archive for month: February, 2007

In Sacramento This Weekend

If you’re from the Sacramento area feel free to join me at Capital Christian Center (Highway 50 and Bradshaw) this Sunday, February 25th, for Exodus from the Dirty Little Secret in any of the three morning services: 8am, 9:30am or 11:15am. I’ll be in town Saturday afternoon (today). Email me (see email link above) for [...]

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The Soap Opera

When I was producing porn, I was very open about what I did for a living. I liked shocking people. Now that I’ve become a Christian I am just as open with the decision for Christ. Part of the promise I made to my dad to remain true to myself includes not pretending everything is [...]

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Another Goal Reached

Categories:Donny Pauling, Weight Loss

My goal for the week was to get under 240 lbs. On December 3rd I weighed 271 lbs. I stepped off the scale not 5 minutes ago. I now weigh… well, I’ll just let you read it yourself: Yeah, I know… I need to clean the scale with some Windex or something. But that’s beside [...]

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I Stole Some Pics

Categories:Caden, Donny Pauling, Wendy

Yep. I did. I did indeed. I just added them to my pics page on myspace (unfortunately you can only see them if you’re logged into myspace). They belong to Wendy, but I had to seize them for my profile. It didn’t have enough pics of my son and his mommy. If you have a [...]

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Answers to Prayers

Categories:Donny Pauling, God, Prayer

The rewire continues. It’s like God has a spiritual electrician re-routing the thought patterns inside my brain. I’m seeing things from such a different perspective than ever before. I receive joy in small things that would have bored me to tears in the past. I’m receiving a different perspective on Christianity, and this time it [...]

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What An Honor

Categories:Donny Pauling, Soldiers

Craig Gross, one of the pastor’s of xxxchurch.com, called this morning and asked if I’d be up for taking a short hop to Afghanistan to speak to the troops. Are you kidding me? Of course I’m up for that! What an honor to be able to visit our troops in a combat zone, much less [...]

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Porn and Pancakes: Ontario, New York – February 10th, 2007

The Porn and Pancakes event this weekend was amazing. I am writing this from the airport in Rochester, getting ready to leave for the flight home. I’ll write more later. For now feel free to check out photos from the event. Click here to see them. The news media showed up BIG TIME. Click here [...]

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Size 36 Pants. XL Shirt.

As of this morning I’ve lost 29.5 lbs. I’m constantly having to pull up my pants, as they keep wanting to fall off. More and more people are making comments about the difference. My stomach is noticeably flatter. Wendy says she sees a difference in my face but I can’t see it yet. I look [...]

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Nathan and Donny at "The Stirring"

Last weekend I was invited by Nathan Edwardson, the pastor of a new church called The Stirring, to share my story with his congregation. Nathan’s church has grown rather quickly here in Redding to the point where two services are needed each Sunday evening. The congregation already numbers several hundred people in total. What To [...]

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XXXChurch on Nightline

Categories:Donny Pauling, XXXchurch

Last night’s Nightline featured a 10 minute segment on XXXChurch: click here to watch it (and yes, that’s my fat face that shows up briefly right around the 50 second mark. JR was interviewing me at Porn and Pancakes) By the way, the porn convention shown in much of the footage is the annual Las [...]

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