Online Baptist

Silver Screen Sensation

Continuing our annual tradition(for the second time), Sarah and I joined my cousins, Billy and Bryce, for an evening of music from the silver screen performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The concert opened with a short Star Wars piece and continued with songs from Lawrence of Arabia, a western medley, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Simpsons, Harry Potter, Spiderman, and about four Star Wars songs to crown the evening. It was...

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Moving day is tomorrow. I dread moving so much, but I sure am glad to be moving to our new place! For the first time since moving to China, we'll have walls that are a color other than white and also carpet in the bedrooms. This is the first time that we'll be living in a place that we fixed up ourselves, and it's going to be a pleasure to live where all the decor is hand picked by us! Happy moving day! I'm off to pack. Here's some before and after pictures. The apartment...

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Look at that, my very first blog. If all goes well I plan on posting what it is like being an admin of the best forum ever. Hopefully if will give some of you an insight of what goes on behind the scenes here at Online Baptist. Being an admin here has its ups and downs, but the ups are way better than the downs.
I have gotten to know quite a few people and hopefully one day I will meet may of them here...

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I missed a few xanga posts but I just posted tonight so I'll go ahead and put that one in here:

I love teaching. One of my students told me last night that I was his best friend.
I love being able to build these kinds of relationships with my students. I can't wait until I can get to Korea and...

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On just about every message board the admin at some point will have to deal with banning a member. I must say that this is one of the hardest things to do as the admin of an online forum. Members are usually banned for the following reasons, these are in no particular order.

1)Spam
2)Breaking rules
3)Heresy
4)Bad fit for OB

Let's break down each one and see what we get.

Spam
Members that come to Online Baptist (OB) just to spam us with...

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