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Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality And Spirituality by Rob Bell


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I have heard a lot about Rob Bell and seen several of his NOOMA videos. If you have heard him speak, or seen one of his videos, this book seems to follow that type of story telling approach. Connecting things that we all do everyday or hear about or think about to God and how He engages us to have a relationship with Him.
I found in this book that Rob does do a great job of reminding all of us of the value God has in each of us and that He continues to remind us of His desires for us through many of the ways He has set up the world...marriage, the Exodus, and the New Testament scriptures all have repeating patterns in the way God talks to us and reminds us of the way He has established the way things work...and also shows why there can be such pain when that which was made for good is not used in the way God intended.
I think that this book can be really poignant and would be an incredibly good read for people who are engaged to be married...as Rob does a good job of speaking to the sacrifice that is necessary in a marriage to make it work.

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A Few pictures from our vacation

know that Kristen posted some pictures on her blog alread, but I figured I would add a few as well...these include her a little more anyway since they are from my camera :)
Thank you to all who made time to see us, hang out and go places and most of all...you just made it a wonderful memory for our whole family.
I will post a few more on Facebook!

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Golf Outing with the Family

Take a look at these pictures:)
Kristen and I took all the boys over to a little 9 hole par 3 course just a couple blocks from our house. The boys had a blast!
Jaden and Jacob both had some amazing shots for the first time out and even Kristen got into the swing of things (pun intended) and hit some great shots.
They are all asking how soon they can go again :)

Goals for 2009

Writing down a couple of the goals I have for myself this year:

1. Last year I read 24 books (12 Fiction, 12 Non-fiction). I would like to improve on that and hit 36 this year (18 Fiction, 18 Non-fiction).

2. Kristen and I did not make it a priority to have date nights and it resulted in us going out once or twice last year....in total. We will have at least 6 date nights this year.

3. We haven't done a great job exploring the New England area unless we have had visitors. We will make 6 local trips to new places this year.

4. I will complete the Old Testament Bethel class in 2009.

5. I bought the P90X workout series a little while back. I will complete this 90 day program in 2009.

6. Learn one cool magic trick for the boys

7. Clean, organize and paint my office

8. Since I have started to create little movies with activities we have done or from trips we have taken, I want something at the beginning of each of these that is constistent and says that it came from us...our own logo. So, I will create a feature presentation logo for all "Moffitt" movies we make moving forward.

9. To do 40 hours of community service


There are still a number of other things I am thinking through...and I need to talk with Kristen on others still, but, at least this is a good start :)