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	<title>Comments on: Taking Accountability to the Next Level</title>
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		<title>By: Hunter Bible Church &#187; Blog Archive &#187; How to keep a brother accountable</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hunter Bible Church &#187; Blog Archive &#187; How to keep a brother accountable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Taking accountability to the next level - Thinking seriously about keeping a mate accountable [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for coming by my blog and bringing me here.  Our pastoral staff at our church all use covenant eyes, but feel like we use it more in the cop sense instead of really caring about what the others are doing and seeing what is happening.  I think I&#039;ll send a copy of this to the rest of our staff (as I have already sent my friend whom I keep accountable here to take a gander.)  Well written and convicting.
Again, thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for coming by my blog and bringing me here.  Our pastoral staff at our church all use covenant eyes, but feel like we use it more in the cop sense instead of really caring about what the others are doing and seeing what is happening.  I think I&#8217;ll send a copy of this to the rest of our staff (as I have already sent my friend whom I keep accountable here to take a gander.)  Well written and convicting.<br />
Again, thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: Luke Gilkerson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Luke Gilkerson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Chip,

Thanks for stopping by and voicing your thoughts. I agree that addiction is never the fault of the supplier: addiction is a result of us voluntarily giving ourselves over to an addictive habit or substance. I try to never blame the adult industry on this blog for personal habits or compulsions, and if you ever catch me doing that, please call me out on it.

You are also right that common sense tells us that things like &quot;talking snakes and people walking on water&quot; don&#039;t really happen. However, your line of reasoning doesn&#039;t follow here. If miracles were &quot;common&quot; they wouldn&#039;t be &quot;super&quot;natural. The biblical stories talk about the extraordinary acts of God precisely because they are extraordinary, not because they fall in line with &quot;common&quot; experiences. As to whether certain biblical stories really are fairy tales, that remains to be seen (and I would love to dialog with you about why you think this is the case).

To say that belief in biblical accounts is not &quot;mentally healthy&quot; also goes against much of the psychological evidence out there. By what are you measuring mental health? Adherence to your personal understanding of reality? Emotional stability? Personal happiness?

Again, thanks for your thoughts and for stopping by our blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Chip,</p>
<p>Thanks for stopping by and voicing your thoughts. I agree that addiction is never the fault of the supplier: addiction is a result of us voluntarily giving ourselves over to an addictive habit or substance. I try to never blame the adult industry on this blog for personal habits or compulsions, and if you ever catch me doing that, please call me out on it.</p>
<p>You are also right that common sense tells us that things like &#8220;talking snakes and people walking on water&#8221; don&#8217;t really happen. However, your line of reasoning doesn&#8217;t follow here. If miracles were &#8220;common&#8221; they wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;super&#8221;natural. The biblical stories talk about the extraordinary acts of God precisely because they are extraordinary, not because they fall in line with &#8220;common&#8221; experiences. As to whether certain biblical stories really are fairy tales, that remains to be seen (and I would love to dialog with you about why you think this is the case).</p>
<p>To say that belief in biblical accounts is not &#8220;mentally healthy&#8221; also goes against much of the psychological evidence out there. By what are you measuring mental health? Adherence to your personal understanding of reality? Emotional stability? Personal happiness?</p>
<p>Again, thanks for your thoughts and for stopping by our blog.</p>
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		<title>By: Chip Bell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chip Bell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi

I wouldn’t worry about Internet pornography. If you have an addiction there are services available but It&#039;s not the pornographers fault if some one is addicted. I personally enjoy a little porn on the net once in a while. If some one is addicted their sick, that&#039;s not the fault of pornography or beer or casinos it&#039;s just a mental problem. I would recommend staying away from belief in fairy tales like talking snakes and people walking on water. Common sense tells us that these things don&#039;t really happen and belief in them is walking away from reality this is not mentally healthy either. You might want to check out these urls www.atheists.org or www.ffrf.org these organizations can help keep you grounded in reality and to avoid dependence on fantasies to explain the natural world and life in it.</description>
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<p>I wouldn’t worry about Internet pornography. If you have an addiction there are services available but It&#8217;s not the pornographers fault if some one is addicted. I personally enjoy a little porn on the net once in a while. If some one is addicted their sick, that&#8217;s not the fault of pornography or beer or casinos it&#8217;s just a mental problem. I would recommend staying away from belief in fairy tales like talking snakes and people walking on water. Common sense tells us that these things don&#8217;t really happen and belief in them is walking away from reality this is not mentally healthy either. You might want to check out these urls <a href="http://www.atheists.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.atheists.org</a> or <a href="http://www.ffrf.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.ffrf.org</a> these organizations can help keep you grounded in reality and to avoid dependence on fantasies to explain the natural world and life in it.</p>
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		<title>By: Sunday Stars for October 12th &#124; Weight Upon the Lord</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sunday Stars for October 12th &#124; Weight Upon the Lord</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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