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Beautiful Letdowns: Redeeming Car Wrecks



I was the youth pastor at a San Diego church for a few years. One of the youth I had the privilege of encouraging was Andy Shirley, who would ask me questions about playing guitar and writing songs. He went off to college and changed his name (as many musicians do these days) to Andrew, then to Drew. Sean Combs changed his name to Puff Daddy and then to P. Diddy. I was glad Andy did not go with Drew Diddy, although I was kind of pulling for "Drew Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Drew."
 
Drew is currently the lead guitarist for a band called Switchfoot.
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I Have a Dream... For Haiti



If you are half way sane, afraid to step near the edge of a cliff, or need to live by a plan then it would probably be best if you stopped reading right now. There. I feel much better. Consider yourself warned. I have a crazy dream to share with you.
 
Imagine with me for a moment...
 
The scene opens on a rice patty as the sun is just beginning to rise. There is a slight mist rising from the green fields reaching up towards the heavens. Stillness permeates the air. As the camera fades out and pans to the left a city is revealed. The honking of horns, the yelling of voices, and the hum of city life shatter the stillness of the field. As the image zooms in, women sitting on the curb, selling their wares comes into focus. The camera moves down the pothole and trash filled street and settles on some men sitting on stools outside the remains of buildings.
 
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Book Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller



In A Million Miles in A Thousand Year's, Miller invites us to get off our recliners and stop living vicariously through other people's stories. His own awakening was sparked when he was approached by two producers about making a movie based on his life. In this process of going through the plot line for the movie, Don is slapped in the face with the reality that his real life was too boring to actually be a good plot.
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Could It Be That Love Is All We Need?



Everyone wants change. We hear the cries for change resounding from the pulpit and the political platform. We desire to see our country hold fast to the moral values it is rooted in, and when we see these roots being pulled from the ground like weeds, we can't help but develop a little righteous indignation.    Everywhere you go, everybody has an opinion. One side or the other...
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So You Want to Change the World?



So, you want to change the world? That's a good thing.  That motivation has paved the way for many of the innovative ideas that we enjoy today: iPods, the internet, cars, planes, etc.  It is no easy task to change the world, but if you're really serious about doing it, I'd like to offer you some advice.   Before we get to the advice part, though, there's something you should know....
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Male Initiation: A Woman's Perspective



Awhile ago, my husband Scott and his friend Marc left the comfort of home (and their wives and children) to embark on a "Man Hike" in the Colorado Rockies. Some of them had been blogging about the need for men to get away together, so they met up with some friends (as well as Scott's brother) and set out into the mountain wilderness.
 
I don't know all the details of what went on out there; I'm not sure I want to know. What I do know is that I got 19 text messages all along the lines of "miss you", "love you", "miss my fam" during that week.
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Tennis Balls: Why Money Cannot Change The World



No one ever wakes up in the morning thinking that life as they know it will change overnight for them. Life changing events tend to make a habit of sneaking up when you are unawares, grabbing you by the throat and never letting go. The day my life changed forever, it wasn't through a lightning bolt or writing in the sky, but through a small child. She had eyes the colour of a Hershey's chocolat...
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Chocolate Pudding Spirituality: We Are All a Mess



Life is a complete mess. I don't mean this in a hopeless, rip-your-hair-out way. It's more sweet, like a toddler covered in chocolate pudding. As much as I think I am this free thinker, go-with-the-flow ,"let's see where life takes me," kind of person, I am still obsessed with control. I still try to clean up, to bring about order, to try and fix things... and people. I guess that's not nece...
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A Justice Adventure In India



My adventure around India over the past month and a half has been one of the hardest things Iʼve done. God loves to put us in situations where we learn to surrender and learn to depend on Him instead of ourselves or our stuff. More ugly stuff inside of me was brought up and out and I had to see it and kill it. I am being refined daily and my hope is that India would end the process, I want to be done, but I guess it never really ends.

I started in Calcutta meeting different people that work to bring human traffickers to justice, and an organization called freeset that offers prostitutes alternative employment in a loving environment.
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The Power Of Prayer: From Prosperity to Movement



"Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure." Every great movement? That's a pretty bold statement from D.L. Moody.  Can the prayer of one individual truly bear such power?  I mean, Jesus gave us authority over all things, the ability to move mountains and what-not, but most of us have the idea that this applies only to the miraculous, the healing, the casting...
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