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		<title>She Turns 5 Today.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a father is not easy.  Having a daughter is even tougher.  She turns five today and already I am telling her she has to stay little forever.  She has experienced her first little crush named Craig at the preschool and already is talking about getting married to him.  I asked where they would live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions&#8230; 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bianca and I have had many conversations about the future since getting married in September.  I think it is totally natural to dream about life together.  She is a dreamer and, well, I am more of a realist.  Of course, this always causes conflict between the two of us in a beautiful sort of way.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is a New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow!  It is almost the middle of January.  2011 has started and 2010 is in the books, so they say.  We all make New Year’s resolutions about being better people and to quit the bad habits that we have developed.  How many of us really keep them?  Over the last few years, I have developed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back&#8230;  What I have Learned.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I received a piece of the fortress of solitude, a staff award recognizing five years on staff at Mariners.  To be honest, it seems like 10 years.  I am incredibly grateful that I have had this opportunity.  I look at who I was five years ago and who I am today and it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Marriage Make You Happy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday night, five couples gathered in our home for dinner and the start of a small group on the ever-elusive topic of marriage. We are reading a book called Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. It was a night filled with laughter, honesty, excitement, humility, community and vulnerability as we all shared our stories and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is your heart at?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our pastors at Mariners Church recently returned from a six month sabbatical.  I know, must be nice!  He shared story after story of how they rented an apartment near Tuscany, slowed down, and blended in with village life.  I can’t recall much of the stories that they told because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Continues&#8230; A #1 Video on MTV in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, I had the opportunity to lead a revolutionary type of mission trip to Kenya.  We called it Project Mabadiliko.  The project brought eight students from America and eight students from Kenya, to live together, serve together and become fearless influencers in their schools and communities.  It is an amazing story of lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are all Stories.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert McKee said, “Stories are the currency of human contact.”  We all love stories.  When I return from mission trips oversees I would tell my kids stories of my travels.  I had pictures, but they wanted the stories. 
I would tell them story after story about being on safari in Kenya and being surrounded by lions.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Hate the Dentist.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate the dentist.  But I really hate dentists with bad customer service!  I had heard a quote that when a person has a bad experience on average they tell ten additional people, but when we have a positive experience we tell only three to four. 
It’s ironic that I, the direct, to the point, I-don’t-have-time-for-this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oneness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been talking to Bianca about &#8220;oneness&#8221; and doing things together. Since it&#8217;s Friday and oneness is the word I&#8217;m thinking about, I decide to do a post with B. Here&#8217;s a final wedding recap. Here&#8217;s what she said:
Ok, ok, so this vlog really isn&#8217;t a standard Friday vlog about theology, doxology, or eschatology. But [...]]]></description>
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