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  @theideacamp sex abuse week wrap-up [#ICSEX]

  ministry, spiritual practice, worldviews 5 comments

  Dang… I thought #ICSEX Porn Week was tough… But this issue of sexual abuse was more difficult that I could have imagined. I’m still in shock at some of the stories and perspectives that I’ve read. If I could give an online version of a standing ovation to those who [...]

   
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  behind the numbers of sexual abuse [#ICSEX]

  ministry, spiritual practice 8 comments

  We’ve heard the stories about the damage of sexual abuse. And others have shared about our attitudes towards victims of abuse. So it’s easy to imagine that Sex Abuse Week with The Idea Camp blogging series has been a tough one for lots of people involved. But I want to [...]

   
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  dan king is a real dude [we are real guest post from cheryl smith]

  engaged in culture, spiritual practice 15 comments

  I should have known that anyone who names his blog “BibleDude” (and has a twitter handle by the same name) would be a fun guy with a heart for God. It didn’t take me long to realize this truth. Dan and I first began interacting at the beginning of the [...]

   
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  @theideacamp porn week wrap-up [#ICSEX]

  ministry, spiritual practice 11 comments

  I don’t know if I really knew what to expect when I agreed to lead a blogging series on sex for The Idea Camp. But I know that anytime you get a bunch of bloggers together to talk with a single focus, the result is usually something pretty special. This [...]

   
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  10 things i learned from joey and chandler about porn [#ICSEX]

  ministry, spiritual practice 5 comments

  It’s ‘porn week‘ with @theideacamp. This means that several of us are talking about an issue that is often very uncomfortable for the church to discuss. When we do talk about it, all we usually have to say is, “porn bad” or, “porn is the devil”. And that doesn’t paint [...]

   
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  why i’m going to #haiti [a personal testimony]

  haiti, missions 4 comments

  I can’t wait to get down to Haiti! And I’m praying that this is just the first of many trips to a place that I’ve been wanting to get to for a really long time. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere. The average person in that country [...]

   
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  wholly jesus [an interview with mark foreman]

  book reviews, engaged in culture, worldviews 2 comments

  Some guys just seem to get it. But let me back up a little bit first… When studying Bible history it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) take long to pick up on some cultural differences between the ancient Eastern culture of the Hebrews and the modern Western culture that we now live [...]