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A Mother Asks for Help

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I received an email from a mother asking for help for her 14 year old son’s pornography problem.  Because this is a common issue I decided to post it here on my blog.  Here are a few of the lines she wrote: I have a 14 yr old son who got involved in pornography online [...]

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When I Let It Hit Me, Folks, This Is Gonna Be Incredibly Hard

In response to a comment left on Craig Gross‘ Facebook page by Michelle Truax, one of the key players on the XXXChurch Team, I just wrote: I have decided not to deal with it right now. I’ve laughed today, read books, talked to Ted Haggard a few times, talked to my Pastor about the book [...]

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Don’t Be Afraid of the Pain

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Donny is rambling again… Recently written to a great person who is hurting after a long term relationship ended: Kristin told me you’re hurting right now. I total understand how that feels. It’s kinda like the color has drained out of everything. You see things, they just aren’t as brilliant and full of life as [...]

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The Voodoo We Do

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The title of this blog post is a total rip off of  a page on JR Mahon’s blog: http://www.hollywoodpastor.com/the-voo-doo-we-do/ .  Sorry JR.  Actually, no I’m not ’cause you probably ripped it off from someone else, didn’t ya? Hee hee.  Dear Constant Readers, if you’ve heard me speak you’ve likely heard me mention that XXXChurch flew [...]

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A Lazy Morning – Video Blog Experiment

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Thanksgiving Thankfulness

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Baptized Today

…adding this for my records… As Caden looked on from a few feet away, my Pastor, Bill Giovannetti, baptized me at our 10:45am service.  I’ll be sure to post photos later.  For now, here are photos from last week’s baptisms.

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Mastiffs, Or Whales?

Am I the only one who thinks my Mastiffs sound like whales when they play/wrestle?  Check out these two audio files of Princess Buttercup and Mister Moose (aka Senator Charles Bosworth) playing today: Part 1 Part 2

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A Brief, Unsophisticated Review of Starbucks' New Instant Coffee: Via

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I’ll keep it simple: I like it! Tastes great. Tastes like regular coffee. All that jazz. BUT (and this is a big but)… It is WAY too expensive. The box of 12 packets you see here set me back $9.99 – 10 bux for 12 packets that make 8 ounces each is flippin’ outrageous in [...]

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Write a Better Story, Live a Better Story

This post was written September 12th.  I couldn’t post it until today because it contains my review, of sorts, of Donald Miller’s latest book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, and we (“we” being the bloggers given advance copies) were not supposed to release our reviews until today.  This is cross-posted on both this [...]

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