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		<title>Hide it in your heart: James 1:2-4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have said before, I&#8217;m a big believer in the power of memorizing scripture.  We all should read it and listen to it and meditate on it, but when we &#8220;hide it in our heart&#8221; (Psalm 119:11), we tap into a special strength and power. So occasionally I&#8217;m going to share some specific nuggets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=883&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Find your own Calcutta.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This true story that Tony Campolo tells is too good not to share… A woman who had been deserted by her husband visited a pastor friend of mine one day.  Her husband had run off with a younger woman, leaving her bereft, troubled, and broken. My friend suggested that she put some time in missionary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=879&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hungry people are everywhere.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob McCord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hungry people are everywhere. One morning, years ago, I was running tight to leave for work.  I was standing at the kitchen counter drinking my morning protein shake and my five year-old son Elijah walked in from just waking up. “Dad, I want some breakfast.” Renee was still asleep from working late the night before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=847&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painting God&#8217;s portrait well</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As followers of Jesus, we are called to reflect God with our lives, describe God with our words, to point others to Him. Is the description, the image of God others are getting from us compelling enough to draw them to Him? As true today as it was nearly 50 years ago, I love what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=877&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The appreciating factor of youth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today our son Elijah turns 15. Is that even possible? It seems it was just not at all that long ago I was sliding through icy intersections getting Renee to the hospital so we could meet little Elijah Moses.  How quickly the years have gone. I suppose a father is allowed to wax a bit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=129&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What makes you weep or pound the table?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Bobb Biehl in his book, Masterplanning, if you want to idenitfy what your core drivers are and what needs God has purposed you to meet, ask yourself this question: &#8220;What makes me weep or pound the table?&#8221; The answers to this question say a lot about how God wired you, which says a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=869&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we should all take a short-term mission trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob McCord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love short-term mission trips.  I&#8217;m a big believer in them.  As a pastor, I believe they are a powerful way to help people grow and mature as believers.  As a believer, I have experienced that growth and maturing for myself. Here are just four of many reasons why I believe we should all take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=867&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Called to a &#8220;single motive&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob McCord</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In 1941, T. S. Eliot wrote: &#8216;Can a lifetime represent a single motive?&#8217; If the single motive is our own, the answer to Eliot must be no. We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime.  That way lies fanaticism or failure. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=865&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwight L. Moody is quoted as saying: &#8220;Give me the person who says, &#8216;This one thing I do,&#8217; and not &#8216;These fifty things I dabble in.&#8217;&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure if a certain level of dabbling is so bad.  I like to dabble and consider new things. But if my dabbling replaces my doing, if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=863&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Going Deep by Gordon MacDonald</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can church leaders proactively develop mature followers of Christ who are well-equipped to lead the church into the future? This is a question I spend my days and nights seeking to answer, and one Gordon MacDonald attempts to answer in this book. He summarizes his motivation to write Going Deep in its preface: When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmccord.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4888965&amp;post=970&amp;subd=robmccord&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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