Category Archives: Religion

Lent

I despise religious traditions. Not all of them, but most of them. I despise them because most of them have been so mindlessly repeated year after year that they no longer have any real meaning to the people practicing them. … Continue reading

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Mission of Love 2011

This weekend our church did something really cool. We closed our doors, drove all the way across town to an underprivileged neighborhood, and with the help of a church in the heart of that neighborhood, we all put on a … Continue reading

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When will you “own it”?

Starting a new study at our men’s group, we were asked to go around the room and talk about how each of us came to believe in Jesus Christ. It’s always a somewhat uncomfortable thing to do because it inevitably leads to … Continue reading

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Paul Haugen

I normally don’t post about individuals. I don’t think it’s all that polite to talk trash about people directly, and I’m also not one to faun all over people. But I’m going to make an exception today because my good … Continue reading

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Christmas Party at Juvenile Hall

Every year our church gathers a bunch of food and goes to the juvenile hall jail to give the kids housed there some kind of Christmas, this year I decided to go. I gotta say I had a ball. I … Continue reading

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Step Up

We had a guest speaker at Clovis Hills yesterday. I can’t remember the guy’s name now, but he’s a pastor who spent years working in East L.A. and for the past 8 years has lived in India. This guy understands … Continue reading

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“Christmas” vs. “Holiday”

I just came across this story in Advertising Age about a trend where more and more companies ditching the term “holiday” in reponse to pressure by the American Family Association and going back to the word “Christmas” to promote their … Continue reading

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First Day of Tutoring

Yesterday was my first day of after school tutoring. No I wasn’t getting tutored, I was doing the tutoring. I have to say that even though I was stressing out about hanging out with a bunch of roudy youngsters, I … Continue reading

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The Gay Marriage Decision

Today the court struck down Prop 8 here in California. Of course that doesn’t really mean much except that a crapload more time and money will be spent fighting over the issue for the next who-knows-how-many years. But as a … Continue reading

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The Shack

Sunday at church our pastor played a little video clip of an interview with a guy named William Paul Young. Young wrote a book called The Shack which has been pretty popular in Christian circles for the past few years. … Continue reading

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