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Archive for August, 2008

Posted on August 30, 2008

My Morning Bike Ride

This was my route on this morning’s bike ride. It was a total of 31.7 miles that I biked in a little less than 2 hours. Right now I’m saving my longer rides for the weekend and working on strength training and pacing during the week.

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Posted on August 29, 2008

Life Is A Series of Problems

Does it seem sometimes like you just go from one tough situation to the next? Here’s some food for thought.
“Life is a series of problems. Either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested [...]

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Posted on August 28, 2008

CONFESSION: I Care Way Too Much About What Other People Think Of Me

The reason I chose this as my first confession is because most of my other confessions come back to this one in some way or another. Be sure to read this first.
We’re taught from an early age to ignore the kids who tease us at school. “Their opinion doesn’t matter,” we’re told but when you’re [...]

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Posted on August 28, 2008

CONFESSIONS – Read This First

Dear Reader,
As I prepare to write the first post in my new Confessions series, I wanted to write a disclaimer of sorts so you would know where I’m coming from.
The Confessions series is a place where I can peel back the layers of who I am. It’s a series of posts where I can be [...]

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Posted on August 27, 2008

The Long Road To Getting Back In Shape

I used to be in decent shape.
When I was younger a group of friends talked about going on a long bike trip and camping out along the way. When it came down to actually doing it only myself and Mark (now my brother-in-law) were the only ones able to go. So we bought all the [...]

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Posted on August 26, 2008

Crazy Things I Did as a Youth Pastor – part 2

One of the events I put together when I was a Youth Pastor was a Western night. It was a blast. We even brought in a real square dance caller and had a good old-fashioned square dance (although many found out square dancing was a whole lot trickier than the hip-hop stuff they did).
In keeping [...]

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Posted on August 25, 2008

Retraining My Palate

Lisa and I just completed our first week of a fairly significant diet change. This past week we’ve been on a Daniel diet or Daniel Fast. For 21 days we’re eliminating all meat, dairy, sugars and processed foods from our diet and only eating fruits, whole grains and vegetables. It’s basically a vegan diet with [...]

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Posted on August 24, 2008

Are You Hooked On Facebook?

(click here if you can’t see the video)
Are you hooked on Facebook?

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Posted on August 22, 2008

There’s A Monster At The End of This Post

One of my favorite Little Golden Books as a kid was The Monster at the End of this Book. It was a great moment when we received this book as a gift and I was able to read it to my kids.
I got hours of enjoyment sitting down with Emily and pleading with her in [...]

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Posted on August 21, 2008

We Bought a Fish

Chloe, my oldest, loves animals. Like, just about any animal. She can’t walk past someone walking a dog without asking if she can pet it. She’s been begging us for a dog, cat, rabbit, hamster – you name it. Instead we bought her a fish.
I know eventually we’re going to have to break down and [...]

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