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		<title>Not the Lover I Ought to Be {Lent Reflection}</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loving the Way Jesus Loves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To help me think more deeply on Jesus during this season of Lent, I reading Loving the Way Jesus Loves by Phil Ryken. I&#8217;ll be reflecting on that reading here&#8230;you are invited to join along. (The book is available on &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/not-the-lover-i-ought-to-be-lent-reflection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1825&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lent: Making Space for God to Fill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today begins Lent&#8211;a 40-day season of reflection in preparation for Easter. It&#8217;s a time for Christians who practice it to self-evaluate, to fast, and to be more intentionally focused on the life of Christ and how well His life is &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/lent-making-space-for-god-to-fill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1820&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Trying to Pin Down Everything {Pinterest, The Want-To-Be World, and Grace}</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/stop-trying-to-pin-down-everything-pinterest-the-want-to-be-world-and-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Edwin Moore created the pushpin in 1930 it’s fair to assume he had no idea how wildly popular his innovation would be. The convenience of holding something in place with a simple push of the thumb has transformed the &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/stop-trying-to-pin-down-everything-pinterest-the-want-to-be-world-and-grace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1813&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer for Prop 8 {And Other Times When Politics Make Us Ugly}</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/a-prayer-for-prop-8-and-other-times-when-politics-make-us-ugly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prayer for us&#8230;by William Barclay (A Barclay Prayer Book, 1964) &#8220;Let us ask God to give us this love. Love is patient and kind. O God, help us to be patient with people even they are foolish and silly &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/a-prayer-for-prop-8-and-other-times-when-politics-make-us-ugly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1806&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Question {About Church Diversity}</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/great-question-about-church-diversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son informed me today that one of his friends asked if he could join us at church tomorrow. {Something tells me this conversation was sparked by my son bragging about being able to get his &#8216;potluck&#8217; on. Few things &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/great-question-about-church-diversity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1802&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suspicion {Quotable}</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/suspicion-quotable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I saw this quote from Spurgeon: ‎&#8221;Suspicion is the death of fellowship. The moment one Christian imagines that another thinks hardly of him, though there may not be the slightest truth in that thought, yet straightway the root of &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/suspicion-quotable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1794&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Confession: I Don&#8217;t Get It</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/a-confession-i-dont-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. There are a lot of times that I read the red letters and I have absolutely.no.idea what they mean.  When I read in the gospel stories how Jesus rolls his eyes and shakes his &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/a-confession-i-dont-get-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1790&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power, Pride, or Radical Humility</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/power-pride-or-radical-humility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott on his site just posted this really great post on the current state of discipleship in American churches. Please, really, you must go read it because if we are not awake to the temptations of prestige, power, and possessions, &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/power-pride-or-radical-humility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1787&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tozer on Unity {Quotable}</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/tozer-on-unity-quotable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/tozer-on-unity-quotable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1782&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Points of Interest {This Week&#8217;s Must-Reads}</title>
		<link>http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/points-of-interest-this-weeks-must-reads-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Chance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I made a commitment to read less &#8220;stuff&#8221;&#8211;be it blogs, twitter, newspaper. I knew I was getting overloaded with information and it was slowing down the transformation process. So this week&#8217;s &#8220;must-reads&#8221; are really not reads at all. &#8230; <a href="http://onceuponatruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/points-of-interest-this-weeks-must-reads-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=onceuponatruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10091177&amp;post=1774&amp;subd=onceuponatruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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