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2010-09-16T14:39:18-08:00

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Bigfoot Fever!

Last updated on: September 16, 2010 at 2:39 pm By John Shore

The post you are looking for is included in HA!, a full-sized collection of five years worth of my best humor. If you are a Kindle owner and a member of Amazon Prime, you can borrow HA! for free, with no due dates. (If you don’t own a Kindle, here’s where to get one. To learn more about Amazon Prime—and to get a one-month free trial—go here. ) As per Amazon’s rules, content included in the Kindle Lending Library program... Read more

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2010-09-15T20:06:43-08:00

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Why I’m Hopeful For Our Future

Last updated on: September 15, 2010 at 8:06 pm By John Shore

Today I was searching around YouTube for some didgeridoo information, when I came across this excellent reason to feel completely optimistic about the future of our race. What a trippy kid. (It cracks me up how he starts it off with, “Time to combine your skills.” Like everyone’s just sitting around with their home-made didgeridoo and a Rubik’s cube, thinking, “You know what? I think I’m ready to try doing both of these at once.”) Read more

2010-09-15T09:59:48-08:00

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Doing Christianity vs. Being Christian

Last updated on: September 15, 2010 at 9:59 am By John Shore

Here’s an expansion upon my Tweet o’ this morning that read: “Watch that you don’t sacrifice being a Christian for doing Christianity.” Sometimes I think that in our efforts to be all that we can be when it comes to Christ, we make Him entirely too complicated. As a means of proving that he loves and cares for us, God became a man, absorbed into himself the full cost of every wrong we and any other human would ever do,... Read more

Christian Spirituality

2010-09-14T08:39:20-08:00

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Our God of Premarital Sex

Last updated on: September 14, 2010 at 8:39 am By John Shore

Holy cow! In response to yesterday’s “The Question of Premarital Sex Rears Its Ugly Head!”, many of you really stepped up with the Top Notch Quality Sex Advice! “Top Notch Quality Sex Advice.” I wonder if a business called that would fly? (more…) Read more

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2010-09-13T12:22:04-08:00

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Me. On Radio. Today. 5:35 EST. Be There, or Be Somewhere Else!

Last updated on: September 13, 2010 at 12:22 pm By John Shore

Breaking news! Dateline: John Shore’s dining room table. I, your humble blogger, have been invited back onto The John and Kathy Show (WORD-FM 101.5 Pittsburg), today, at 5:35 EST. We’re going to be talking about something that has lately been on my mind: The Lazy Christian. The show’s streamable live online, so don’t forget to take your laptop with you in your car so you can hear it while you’re driving home. Thanks! Wish me luck! We now return you... Read more

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2010-09-13T06:05:27-08:00

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The Question of Premarital Sex Rears Its Ugly Head!

Last updated on: September 13, 2010 at 6:05 am By John Shore

Now, where were we? Wow, that’s a lot of W’s, relatively speaking. Anyway, right. I was deciding, via, “Should the Christian I Am Condemn the Sins of the Non-Christian I Used to Be?”, whether or not I should repent of the not-exactly-what-you-want-to-put-at-the-top-of-your-resume-when-you’re-applying-to-get-into-heaven things I did back in the years when I was but a shallow callow youth. (more…) Read more

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2010-09-11T08:22:08-08:00

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Share Where You Were on 9/11?

Last updated on: September 11, 2010 at 8:22 am By John Shore

[Hi guys. I’m going to leave up this post from yesterday until tomorrow morning, because how lame would it be to bump it on a Sunday? If you haven’t yet, please do share with us your recollection of 9/11. I’m probably going to create a separate page of these stories here on my (soon to be radically improved) blog, as a means of permanently offering them to anyone who at any time might care to add to or reflect upon... Read more

2015-01-20T07:29:43-08:00

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Her Parents Thoroughly Rejected Her. Now What?

Last updated on: January 20, 2015 at 7:29 am By John Shore

Last night a woman emailed me the following, which I wanted to be sure to address this morning. I have two living parents who didn’t raise me. My maternal grandparents did. My grandfather has now passed away. I have been trying for 15 years to have a relationship with my mom. She told me she doesn’t want me in her life. I had one argument with my dad, who I reconnected with in the fourth grade, and most of our... Read more

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2010-09-09T15:53:59-08:00

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Terry Jones’ Statement In Full

Last updated on: September 9, 2010 at 3:53 pm By John Shore

From the BBC: US pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has called off his controversial Koran-burning event. Here is his statement in full: This has been for us a very, very difficult, trying time. We have been in much thought and prayer over this whole period. A lot of times we were asked what would it take for us to call this thing off. We have thought it over many times. We felt very... Read more

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2010-09-08T15:07:25-08:00

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Should I Feel Remorse Over My Pre-Christian Sinning?

Last updated on: September 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm By John Shore

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Lately I’ve been getting some advice to the effect that I should condemn and repent of the sinning that I did before I was a Christian. That’s never before occurred to me as something about which I should be even vaguely concerned. In my teenage-to-early-adulthood years, I smoked a lot of weed, had sex with (not very many) girls to whom I wasn’t married, and for a year or so lived with a girlfriend to whom I was also not... Read more

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