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Comment on diminishable me: an open letter to myself at 19 by andrew burden

andrew burden — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:21:37 +0000

http://thisisnotabout.me/2010/07/12/diminishable-me-an-open-letter-to-myself-at-19/

Comment on keeping it one hundred by payday loan

payday loan — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:15:00 +0000

And, unlike a second mortgage, home equity loan or high-interest payday loan, borrowing through Pawngo helps you avoid getting in over your head.

Comment on big city adventure by Todd Messenger

Todd Messenger — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:36:00 +0000

I wish you both the best in the new adventure of living downtown. However, I think that life and your living situation is what you make of it. There is no reason that life in the suburbs needs to be boring or mundane, or that you shouldn’t know your neighbors. There is no reason that the “history” of a building that was a factory or a hardware company should enrich your life any more than living in a house that has seen families raised (or reared, if you prefer).

The suburbs tend to get a bad rap from those who are enlightened enough to live in places with a dearth of green grass and grocery stores. And to be sure, suburbs aren’t perfect. But they aren’t all bad either. Just different.

Comment on how to use a traffic circle by Robert

Robert — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:40:00 +0000

Good stuff, Andrew! Not sure why the Manhattan city commission decided to use the Iraqi method of traffic control – God knows Iraqis can’t drive – but this is going to be fun to watch student drivers run through. Suddenly, parallel parking becomes second in difficulty

Comment on inconvenient truth about Jesus camp by Aubree B.

Aubree B. — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:08:04 +0000

We go to a Nazarene church and there is a state Naz. camp for kids and teens. My 2 are still too young to go but I've observed that parents are welcome to attend as helpers with kids, our pastor goes for the week, our youth pastor goes with the teens, etc. As a person who is active in our own congregation, these transparencies and the knowledge that our own staff we know and trust are there is a huge bonus. It definitely boosts my confidence in the programs that they are recommending to our church body.

Comment on inconvenient truth about Jesus camp by andrew burden

andrew burden — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:21:26 +0000

Aubree – thanks for your thoughts. i really value the camp we promote, youthfront camps. westview used to go back in the day, but i don't know if they do anymore. our ms and hs groups are going next week. the doctrine is pretty much agreed-upon mainstream evangelical, but kids from all different backgrounds attend. i know from being a volunteer cabin leader many, many times that when campers ask questions about some of the more controversial doctrinal issues like eternal security or speaking in tongues, they are encouraged to ask their own youth pastor about it. i think that's a wise thing so that parents don't find their kids coming home with new ideas they weren't planning to deal with.

btw, the cutout of bush was so that kids could “pray over” him, albeit in effigy. i fear the younger kids, and most kids who see things in extremely concrete and literal terms, probably wondered if he was actually there. and it certainly comes across to “the other side” as strongly resembling “bush worship,” precisely because they don't understand a distinction between praying for leaders and being on their “side” politically.

thanks for your thoughts!

Comment on 12 free power tips for video footage that doesn’t suck by andrew burden

andrew burden — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:32:42 +0000

Josh Griffin of MoreThanDodgeball.com featured this today as a guest post: http://www.morethandodgeball.com/guest-post-12-...

I'm a "youth pastor" now - hehe!

Comment on inconvenient truth about Jesus camp by Aubree B.

Aubree B. — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:26:54 +0000

It has been about 4 years since I saw this movie but I felt that it was fair in terms of portraying those specific people on that specific occasion. I don't have much use for the Becky Fishers of this world and I wouldn't trust my kids to her care for a camp experience. However, it did make me think big time about camp in general and how I really want to make sure that when I have kids of camp age, I know exactly what they're attending and what the doctrine is there. I understand that Christian faith heavily influences people's political views, but I for one would not want my kid's summer camp delving into discourse on the US President from the pulpit, for example. I believe there was something in the Jesus Camp movie involving pictures of Pres. Bush II in the sanctuary but I can't recall exactly why anymore. Sadly this movie is going to confirm the secular view of “right wing Christians” if they watch it because they might believe this is representative of all youth group/VBS/church camp and it is clearly not. I just hope that Christians viewing it dissect what they see and not the impression it might give to an unchurched viewer–just because it is anger-inducing to see something unflattering about Christianity, it shouldn't stop a Christian viewer from being a critical thinker about the actual camp experience/style of youth ministry portrayed.

Comment on inconvenient truth about Jesus camp by Evangelical

Evangelical — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:44:26 +0000

inconvenient truth about Jesus camp | this is not about me http://bit.ly/c5LYHr #Jesus #christ #god

Comment on grammar snob (reboot) by Janet

Janet — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:36:06 +0000

Okay, I'll let you get by with that.

Comment on grammar snob (reboot) by andrew burden

andrew burden — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:12:23 +0000

sometimes you have to wonder! i am intentional about not capitalizing according to conventions, but that's only in my blog posts and for a good reason: http://thisisnotabout.me/2010/07/01/he-must-cap...

Comment on grammar snob (reboot) by Janet

Janet — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:11:11 +0000

Is punctuation important anymore?

Comment on whoa, oh, la la la by Rene

Rene — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:20:32 +0000

Great blog! Thanks for allowing me to “make noise” at times when I get the urge to sing:)

Comment on diminishable me: an open letter to myself at 19 by Robert Raedeke

Robert Raedeke — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:20:43 +0000

Like these “rules of life”! Way to go Andrew!

Comment on diminishable me: an open letter to myself at 19 by andrew burden

andrew burden — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:37:32 +0000

newly blogged: diminishable me: an open letter to myself at 19 http://bit.ly/bhH76r (please RT)

Comment on quit feeding me what i want – it’s killing me by andrew burden

andrew burden — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:30:01 +0000

I've thought a bit more about this. Jesus might well have passed up even the “substantial” food we so cling to, for His food was to “do the will of Him Who sent Me.”

Comment on disqus amongst yourselves by andrew burden

andrew burden — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:11:53 +0000

very cool! come check out disqus.

Comment on disqus amongst yourselves by andrew burden

andrew burden — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:01:00 +0000

here it is with twitter.

Comment on disqus amongst yourselves by andrew burden

andrew burden — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:53:00 +0000

here i am with my disqus profile

Comment on what do volunteers need? by andrew burden

andrew burden — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:16:23 +0000

http://su.pr/1xTla6 is my response to both @ys_scoop at http://bit.ly/bOx312 and @timschmoyer at http://bit.ly/az2AlR