Singles
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I spent seven years as a singles pastor. Can you imagine the issues I had to deal with regarding sex? How far can we go before marriage? What if we are engaged? What happens when we have already crossed that line? Is it okay to try living together if we don’t have sex? As well, I knew [...]
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(Lisa Robinson) As a follow up to my last post in which I described the qualities of a gospel-centered man (which I believe is the quality of gospel-centered people – male and female), I was reminded of this video. It’s nice to know I am not the only one. Hopefully, this will be some encouragement [...]
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(by Lisa Robinson) In my attempts to completely ignore Valentine’s Day, the last thing I intended to do or thought I’d be doing is writing a post about singleness and V-Day. Well, it’s not really about the day but more about singleness, that was prompted by something I heard on a Christian radio station this [...]
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This is one of those rare personal posts from me. But having written about my singleness here and here, I thought this was a good place to share some more thoughts on the subject, especially given this particular point in my life and the fact that I know I am not alone. There are many [...]
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At church, you numbskull! Numbskull, n “Thick-headed, dumb, oblivious to the obvious” Many of you know, but some of you don’t. I spent the early years of my ministry (wait . . . these are still the early years!) doing many things. As a pastor at Stonebriar Community Church, I spent time in various departments: [...]
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(Latin, “appeal to the people”) This type of argument is an oft-used fallacious argument where one will appeal to the popularity of a position as evidence of its truthfulness. For example, one may say that aliens must exist since so many people believe in them. This does not mean that one should not take into [...] continue reading
