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Shut UP and Get MOVING!

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Yesterday was the big moving day. As I waited for the movers to show up I laid in the middle of the living room floor fully expecting to get emotional. I am an emotional man and I do not apologize for that. So step off male emoter haters or I'll cry in a way specifically designed to annoy you. It's been a bit of a grieving process leaving my wondebah condo so as I stretched out for a final good-bye thought and prayer ... I immediately thought ... What the heck am I doing in the middle of the floor? I don't have time for this ... suck it up, get over it... sheesh I am so annoying with the emotions sometimes! I'm tired of me whining … [Read more...]

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The Most Important Things In Life Aren’t Things (Photo)

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I found this photo yesterday. I took it at Universal studios back in March of 2007.  Then I read this post, Healthy Belonging Makes People Our Priority, today by Kathy and thought, "I'm going to post this picture." So here it is ... … [Read more...]

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Saying Goodbye to a Finished Season in Life

February 19, 2012 By 5 Comments
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Sitting here with all the windows open is very refreshing. Not quite sure what it is but the air is different this time of year; fresh, inviting and full of reminders that beach days are around the corner. I love living in Florida. I don't love it so much from about July through September. Those three months are like living in a full-time steam room, in hell, but even then ... you can always go to the pool or beach. That is why, while I am moving this week, I will only be moving two miles down the road. Selling my condo was a strictly financially based decision. I praise God that it has sold and things have worked out as they have. … [Read more...]

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The Power of One Word to Contextualize and Stevie Nicks

February 17, 2012 By 4 Comments
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From "The Edge of Seventeen" (emphasis mine): Just like the wide-winged dove sings a song sounds like she's singin' oooooo.. baby oooo say ooo.... All the Cult of Stevie Nicks members just cringed at the heresy represented in the lyric line above. However, that is how I sang that song literally for decades. Hint for the non Cult of Stevie Nicks members ... it is not "wide" winged dove. Interestingly, a former co-worker corrected me one afternoon as I was playfully butchering the song. With almost tears of laughter (about the whole conversation) in his eyes he sang (emphasis mine): Just like the one-winged dove sings a song sounds like … [Read more...]

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Jeff Buchanan and “The Absolutists of Change”

February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Jeff Buchanan, Executive Vice President of Exodus, writes and excellent post titled The Absolutists of Change: Change is an unavoidable and necessary part of life.  Sometimes it may involve the smallest adjustment in our day and other times it might involve a radical transformation.  Some people like change and others will do everything in their power to avoid it (and often these two types are married to each other).  As it relates to sexual orientation, the term “change” has often been a point of confusion.  But does it have to be?  Is the problem that there are those who insist that change be defined as an absolute and … [Read more...]

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In Christ, My Heart is At Home – Happy Valentines Day from a Single Guy!

February 14, 2012 By 10 Comments
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Every year, I like to joke around about how February 14th is the official start to Cupid Hunting Season. This year my good friend David Hernandez drew the awesome cartoon featured in this post. Thank you David! Truth be told. I really like Valentine's Day. I have to play the "let's HUNT Stupid Cupid down!" bit every year to maintain my self-righteous single-man street creds (you can follow the hunt  during the 14th via my Twitter and Facebook feeds)... but all in all... Valentine's Day is a cool holiday. Love and romance are beautiful aspects of relational intimacy. In their purest and truest forms they are reflections of a deeply … [Read more...]

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Wisdom Has Built Her House – Poetic Prophecy? I Think So.

February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The Way of Wisdom Proverbs [9:1] Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. [2] She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. [3] She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, [4] “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says, [5] “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. [6] Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.” Proverbs 9:1-6 ESV Once again, I must state that I love that the Lord personifies an attribute of Himself as a woman. His ways are so much … [Read more...]

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Mad Max Doesn’t Like to Cuss … but Did … Twice

February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I started following Max Andrew Dubinsky's blog Make it Mad. a few months ago. He was recently attacked (verbally and with spit) by a homeless guy in Los Angeles. He shared what the man said verbatim which included the f* bomb. I will include an extensive quote but it is a long article. Please read his whole post. Now for the quote: I know this isn’t a very Christian thing for me to do or think, but I’ve already said the F word twice in this article so you know how my week’s going. Congratulations if you’re still reading and not already down in the comment section rebuking me. I’ve got a book you might enjoy. It’s called We … [Read more...]

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Web Traffic and Blog Content: A Psychological Juxtaposition?

February 7, 2012 By 7 Comments
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A Facebook friend writes: Have you ever noticed that the blog posts that you think are most important get the least traffic, and the less informative ones get the most? I wonder if that's a psychological juxtaposition or just God telling me I'm not *that* important. Well, you and God can work that out. We both know you are important to Him. That said, I have come to the conclusion that blog traffic isn't *that* important. I mean blog stats are important and informative. Blog stats aren't trivial and a serious blogger should note what their stats reveal with regard to what is read and shared most often. I have found however that blog … [Read more...]

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Can a Current Brutal Communist Dictator Go To Heaven? Fidel Castro Hopes So

February 7, 2012 By 3 Comments
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From GetReligion's The Last Temptation of Castro (linkage and emphasis theirs except I italicized the quote from Fidel's daughter.): Fidel Castro will be received back into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the island in March, the Italian press is reporting. If true, this is a remarkable story — and one that has yet to catch the attention of editors this side of the Atlantic. On 1 Feb 2012, La Republicca — [Italy’s second largest circulation daily newspaper, La Republicca follows a center-left political line and is strongly anti-clerical; not anti-Catholic per se but a critic of … [Read more...]

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