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		<title>Rubbin’ Off by Lance Rogers</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/09/rubbin%e2%80%99-off-by-lance-rogers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rubbin’ Off
 
1 Cor. 15:33 &#8230;&#8221;Bad company corrupts good character.&#8221; Paul’s Holy Spirit inspired way to warn the believers to not let the resurrection rejecters “rub off on them.”  A time honored principle most often used to ward us away from that which we need to be wary of its influence.
But isn’t that really what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Equal and Opposite Reaction by Greg Mcallister</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Lawrence Luckinbill’s one-man show about Lyndon Johnson, he recounted the president’s reaction to a flowery introduction: “Whenever I’m introduced like that, I always wish my parents were alive to hear it; because my father would have enjoyed it… and my mother would have believed it.”
I have a tendency to fish for compliments. Once I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Favorite Ministy Area by Rick Morris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing a staff and ministry team has probably been one of my favorite area’s in church planting. I love nothing more than to see people in our fellowship and on our staff reach their potential for Jesus Christ. A strong, committed ministry team and staff does not just happen. It takes focused attention and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building A Team That Grows Together &#8211; Jason Taylor</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/08/building-a-team-that-grows-together-jason-taylor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I moved to Yuma, Arizona to start what is now The Vertical Church, my team consisted of Jesus, me, myself, and I.  But I knew from the start that to grow as a pastor and for our church to grow, I would have to start recruiting and building a team that grows together. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Discipleship Cycle &#8211; Jay Baines</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/08/the-discipleship-cycle-jay-baines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of a model for the developing pastor, I am drawn to study the relationship and writings of the Apostle Paul and Timothy. It is very evident that Timothy had been a student of the Apostle Paul and it is in the second letter to Timothy that Paul encouraged him to teach faithful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Mature Men- By Dr. Randy Sawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing spiritually sensitive men has been the challenge of every age, none more so than today. With the moral free-fall of western society so blatant, the cry of competing truth claims so deafening, and the failure of church leaders to exemplify godliness so obvious, the community of faith has been left without a spiritual compass.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff Development (Jimmy Holbrook)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/07/staff-development-jimmy-holbrook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago when I took the pastorate of my current church I was 29 and had a lot to learn.  One of the areas that I had no experience with was staff.  At the time the church only had two full time positions and I had one of them as the youth pastor. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laymen&#8217;s Revival (Dave Thomas)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/06/laymens-revival-dave-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could, I would like to share with you all something that we did last month with some of the men at the church, that had a great impact on the whole church family, and especially on the men who participated and myself, as the pastor.  I had heard of people having a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Things (Bill Hayes)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/06/little-things-bill-hayes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[D.L. Moody said, &#8220;&#8221;There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.&#8221;
Preachers, even good ones, are a dime a dozen. Effective pastors, on the other hand, are far and few between. Being a pastor is more than sermon prep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training Teachers Takes Time (Jeff Blair)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/06/training-teachers-takes-time-jeff-blair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, the title is a bit misleading.  The truth is, training good teachers takes time.  It doesn’t take much time at all to train a mediocre or crummy teacher.  But if we want capable teachers in our classrooms (or small groups, or whatever you’re calling your thing these days) it’s going to take time.
Matt and [...]]]></description>
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