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		<title>Rarely Sick by Lance Rogers</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/09/rarely-sick-by-lance-rogers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m generally a pretty healthy guy.  I don’t always eat perfectly or exercise much, but God has blessed me with a strong immune system I suppose.  I rarely catch the cold or flu that “everyone is getting” in spite of the exposure. But once in a rare while, some little malady will sneak in, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Freedom of Having No Choice by Greg Mcallister</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live around the corner from the newest health club in town, which so far means exactly nothing. I have a membership. You’d think that the proximity alone would hold me accountable for going, considering that I actually can’t leave my home without passing it. It could be that I’m just lazy, but I find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Date Days by Rick Morris</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/08/192/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My amazing wife and I have four kids. Needless to say, our lives are busy. A growing church and a growing family makes things pretty hectic for us. I have to consistently remind myself that my family is my first area of responsibility. My greatest ministry role is not being the lead pastor at Mountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Try To Deal With Stress</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/08/how-i-try-to-deal-with-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stress is what I struggle with most these days.  I have a hard time shutting my mind off at night, sometimes to the point of tossing and turning for a few hours before falling to sleep.  It seems that there are two things that have affected how I deal with stress:   
Exercise 
When I am exercising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle with the Body –by Jay Baines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will never forget the Sunday I walked into the foyer of our Church just two weeks after Summer Youth Camp.  We had a western theme that year and the Junior Camp director had taken a picture of me and had it enlarged and then displayed it in the Church foyer for our camp Sunday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pastor’s Wife-by Dr. Randy Sawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-three years ago my wife and I married. Our courtship lasted two years, and though I was away at college a lot of the time, our relationship was filled with deepening respect and indescribable romance. At least that’s my side of the story.
Through these many years I’ve learned a number of important truths that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ, Family, Church- the pastor’s time (Mike Wade)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have certainly witnessed many pastors who have felt so compelled to give their all for the cause of Christ that they interpreted ‘giving their all’ to include a neglect of their wives and children all for the sake of the ministry.  I would like to put forward the idea that family and ministry do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Weeks Off (Jimmy Holbrook)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/06/3-weeks-off-jimmy-holbrook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 5 years ago I started taking 3 weeks off every summer.  I&#8217;ve been amazed at the response I get from fellow pastors about this.  Many say they could never do that. Well I am on year number 14 at the same church, which by the way is the only church I have ever served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Down the Lid (Dave Thomas)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/06/put-the-lid-down-dave-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Friday:  Date night!&#8221;  That&#8217;s what Friday means on my calendar.  I decided, when I first entered the ministry to have one night that would be a date night with my wife.  I heard a very profound pastor at a minister&#8217;s conference say that this would be a great thing to do (for the life of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Real, Be You! (Lenny Pirtle)</title>
		<link>http://pastorconnections.com/2009/06/be-real-be-you-lenny-pirtle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Authentic Pastor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Know thyself&#8221; is an ancient philosophical proposition.  Scripture gives some insight on why this is so hard, &#8220;the heart is desperately wicked, WHO CAN KNOW IT?&#8221; Couple that with this statement &#8220;all men are liars&#8221; and &#8220;we have a problem Houston&#8221;!  Authenticity is hard to arrive at as a person or as a pastor! Honesty [...]]]></description>
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