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		<title>Do You LOVE Your Church?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, pastors, here are some tough questions: Do you love your congregation? Do you think they’re some of the greatest people on earth? If you didn’t pastor your church, would you attend your church? Do you enjoy recreating with your church family? This is an important principle: You cannot treat someone differently than you think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6850&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thursdays With Oswald—My Spiritual Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a weekly series with things I’m reading and pondering from Oswald Chambers. You can read the original seed thought here, or type “Thursdays With Oswald” in the search box to read more entries. Spiritual Personality      When we receive the Holy Spirit, He so energizes our spirit that we are able to detect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6846&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men Of The Bible (book review)</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/23/men-of-the-bible-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the thing I especially like about Dwight Lyman Moody: He tells it like it is. He was not a pastor that tiptoed around an issue, nor did he have long flowery sermons. He always went right to the heart of the manner in such a straightforward way. So I was delighted to find the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6840&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Quotes From “I Am A Follower”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Am A Follower by Leonard Sweet turned my leadership thoughts upside down (or is that right-side up?). I would strongly encourage you to read this book, especially if you are in church “leadership.” It wasn’t east to do, but here are 15 great quotes from I Am A Follower — “The Greek noun perichoresis was the early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6835&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Utmost For His Highest (book review)</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/22/my-utmost-for-his-highest-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people probably think that My Utmost For His HIghest is the only book that Oswald Chambers wrote. Although My Utmost is a great devotional book, it should just be a launching pad to read more of his writings. I am currently in the process of reading through everything Oswald Chamber wrote. And, let me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6831&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working It Out</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/22/working-it-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, yes, Oswald Chambers always gets me thinking&#8230; You must “work out your own salvation” which God has worked in you already (Philippians 2:12). Are your speech, your thinking, and your emotions evidence that you are working it “out”? If you are still the same miserable, grouchy person, set on having your own way, then it is a lie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6807&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I Only Would Have Thought That Through&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/22/if-i-only-would-have-thought-that-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These words are usually said after we have messed up something. We look back and say, “What was I thinking?!?” The truth is: you were thinking, it was just wrong thinking. The Apostle Paul writes this: Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6826&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Service Sunday</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/21/service-sunday-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 01:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday we left our church service to go serve our great city of Cedar Springs. It was so wonderful to join with other churches in town as we weeded and planted flowers, sang at the Metron nursing home, delivered cookies to those who were working in businesses on Sundays, and provided full-service to customers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6811&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flame Award</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/21/flame-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig T. Owens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This award is recognition from our fellowship that Calvary Assembly of God is growing up. The award says that we have achieved the highest level of recognition in our fellowship. While we are extremely honored to have come this far, we recognize that we haven’t “arrived” yet. Not by a long shot! If we could paraphrase what Paul [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6802&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Temptation</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/05/21/overcoming-temptation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this video clip, Don Carson gives some practical steps in our battle with temptation. He uses the pull of pornography as an example, but the principles he shares will be helpful in battling any temptation. (Hat tip to Desiring God ministries for this video). Speaking of pornography, I am currently reading Mark Driscoll’s book Porn-Again Christian. I should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&#038;blog=5373974&#038;post=6798&#038;subd=craigtowens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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