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		<title>On Lenten Sacrifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Facebook, the question of the day as Ash Wednesday approached was whether or not to give up Facebook for Lent. I’ve been thinking about what we are really asking about ourselves when we consider the idea of giving up something for the 40 days of Lent. Sometimes, we seem to consider giving up something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=93&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Though we Die, Yet Shall We Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been one of those times in the life of the congregation I serve when ministry at the time of death has been mostly what we&#8217;ve been doing. I need to celebrate, affirm, and give thanks for this ministry. Some of our recent encounters with death have been unbelievably difficult.   A family that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=90&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent: Waiting for a New Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advent is about waiting. Advent waiting is for people who desperately need life-saving grace to intervene in their lives, which, if we are honest, is all of us. This waiting can be personal, and it can be corporate. A long time friend of mine has spent the better part of the Autumn and into Advent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=85&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Good and Doing Harm on Election Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[United Methodists are rightly enamored these days with a wonderful little book that is recovering John Wesley&#8217;s values for us. It is called Three Simple Rules (by Rueben Job), and it instructs us in these values for living the Christian Life. First, do no harm. Second, do good. And third, stay in love with God. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=76&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extravagant Generosity Day 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an image in today&#8217;s text that I&#8217;ve been trying to live with for a while in my life. It is the image of &#8220;getting on the balcony.&#8221; I first saw it used in literature about the model of leadership development that is taught at Harvard by Ronald Heifetz. He advises that adaptive leaders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=67&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extravagant Generosity: How To Learn to Tithe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the daily routine and the excitement of the closing days of the political campaign pulled me away from the discipline of writing here even more than last week! I don&#8217;t know if anyone is still reading or not, but I do want to think this week, especially as we face an uncertain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=65&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk Taking Mission and Service Day 23</title>
		<link>http://pastordeb.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/risk-taking-mission-and-service-day-23-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the life of North Broadway, there are two stellar examples of outreach programs that truly seek to reach people at places of brokenness and suffering. One is the relationship with the Community Resource Center, where so much is done to serve the hungry, and to meet the needs of children, families and older adults. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=63&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk-Taking Mission and Service Day 22</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though posting this a day late, I am reflecting on the question &#8220;What is the most unexpected place to which your faith in Christ has taken you in order to make a difference in someone&#8217;s life?&#8221;  In 1997, I went to Russia for three weeks with a group of seminary students and a faculty person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=60&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intentional Faith Development Day 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about practices that shape us makes me think about physical fitness.  Every time I&#8217;ve moved from one church to another, I&#8217;ve failed to integrate self care and fitness into my new place from the very beginning &#8211; then I have to play catch up. I&#8217;ve thought about it for two years. I&#8217;ve researched the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=55&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intentional Faith Development Day 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been part of the same clergy fellowship group for two years. This past summer, after we&#8217;d been together for two years, one of our members decided to leave the group. Her comment was that she had never felt like a part of the group. Her comment took me by surprise, because I thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastordeb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4938945&amp;post=51&amp;subd=pastordeb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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