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		<title>My Favorite Taylor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I becoming a bigger Taylor Swift fan each year that goes by.  This is my favorite version of her though&#8230;
 
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		<title>Is your Small Group White?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read a fascinating discussion on the ethnicity of small groups.  The proposition is that small groups are a “white” thing.  While African American and other ethnicities find community in the flow of life, gathering on front porches, maintain ties with extended family, etc… whites need external assistance, a structure, a small group program. 
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		<title>The Power of &#8220;Together&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian hofmeister</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecclesiastes]]></category>

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Ecclesiastes 4.9-12 
9 Two are better than one,
       because they have a good return for their work:
 10 If one falls down,
       his friend can help him up.
       But pity the man who falls
       and has no one to help him up!
 11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
       But how can one keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=root48.wordpress.com&blog=2281455&post=1321&subd=root48&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Envy of Ambition</title>
		<link>http://root48.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/envy-of-ambition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian hofmeister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ambition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solomon says in Ecclesiastes 4.4, &#8220;I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man&#8217;s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.&#8221;
Does all ambition come down to envy?  Can we truly not aim for success without leaving another in failure?
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		<title>Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bridges Out of Poverty by Ruby K. Payne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ecclesiastes 4.1-3
Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:
       I saw the tears of the oppressed—
       and they have no comforter;
       power was on the side of their oppressors—
       and they have no comforter.
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       who had already died,
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Sticky Church</title>
		<link>http://root48.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/book-review-sticky-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian hofmeister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Osborne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Groups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a skim read of Sticky Church by Larry Osborne.  I hope it&#8217;s not an oversimplification of his book, but I believe his thoughts can be sumarized into one need and one solution.  The biggest need in churches, according to Osborne, is to learn how to &#8220;close the back door.&#8221;  Rather than investing in marketing or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=root48.wordpress.com&blog=2281455&post=1314&subd=root48&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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