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True North: The (Other) Final Word in the Modesty Debate
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Saturday, December 14, 2013. The (Other) Final Word in the Modesty Debate. Of this article, I postulated some postulates (what else would a person postulate? Opinion and I have mine. It does not.) So, with no further ado, I will now continue.(Wait, I just thought of one more piece of ado. I want to include a warning. Warning. I am planning on speaking fairly frankly (though not explicitly or inappropriately) about certain aspects of this issue in the paragraphs below. ...
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True North: September 2011
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Have you ever played the "What if? Or "What if I had gotten that text message sooner? It's natural to do this, although I don't know that it is particularly healthy. Lately, I have been playing the "What if? Several ideas have come to mind. Many of them are based on specific passages of scripture. Some of them are just my own conjecture and theory. All of them, at the very least, are interesting to think about and ponder. We stopped trying to p...
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True North: What The Promise Is For
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Thursday, June 30, 2011. What The Promise Is For. The following post is based upon a testimony I gave at the beginning of my Sunday School lesson to the Young Marrieds Class at our church on June 5, 2011- my 31st birthday and the 7. Anniversary of my marriage to Danielle. I received several bits of positive feedback about the testimony, and so I thought it might be helpful and encouraging to those of you out there in the. Every time we drive out to visit my in-laws in.
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True North: How to Have an Opinion
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. How to Have an Opinion. The advent and development of the Internet as we know it today has irrevocably revolutionized our world. I begin with this rather obvious statement because I want you to consider its truth. The Internet HAS revolutionized our world in countless ways- some good, some bad, some neutral, and some that can go either way. I want you to stew with me on one of those "it could go either way" ideas for a moment. There are few things...
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True North: January 2011
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. I have been thinking on and off over the last several months about Christian giving. For some reason, the subject has come up on several different occasions recently. As you might have guessed, I have a few questions and opinions about this important topic. Why do so many Christians accept the axiom that believers are required by God to tithe? They exclaim, "Of course we have to tithe! That's what committed Christians do! How would I know?
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True North: January 2014
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Thursday, January 2, 2014. 3 Things I Will Never Give My Children. In previous posts, I have intentionally used misleading titles. Not give my children, but they are not my focus here. The three items on my list today are not bad things. On the contrary, they are actually quite good things. The reason I will never give these things to my children is not because I won't. By choice but because I can't. 2 A Baggage-Free, Damage-Free Childhood. Andrew D. Doan. Andrew D. Do...
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True North: May 2011
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Benefit of the Doubt. I can remember swinging back and forth on the playground outside our church building as a boy. I must have been around 9 or 10 years old. I don't remember any other details of the context, but I can, to this day, remember very clearly pondering a sobering question. As far as I know, it was the first time in my short life that this thought penetrated my mind:. What if the whole thing is just a story? What if there is no god?
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True North: IFB...R.I.P.
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Saturday, April 9, 2011. So it all comes down to just three letters- three letters and all that they represent. It's amazing how drastically a three-letter label can impact your view of a person or organization. For instance, reading the words "Andrew D. Doan. May bring certain thoughts to your mind (hopefully they are positive thoughts). If, however, we attach the three-letter label "CIA" to the name "Andrew D. Doan. I grew up in IFB. Churches and related ministries that ...
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True North: June 2012
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My Mission to Find the Genuine. Friday, June 22, 2012. You Don't Know What You're Missing, Part II. Have you ever eaten at Morton's Steakhouse? Well let me tell you, you don't know what you are missing! Have you ever taken part in a conversation like this one? Most of us probably have at some point. We use phrases like "You don't know what you're missing! The greatness of which they have been ignorant up to that point. In many circles, questioning established traditions and beliefs is frowned upon (parti...
