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		<title>Today We Are Rich (book review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Sanders has an amazing way of synthesizing business practices, thoughts from other authors, and his own personal experiences into bite-sized, readable nuggets of life-changing truths. Today We Are Rich: Harnessing The Power Of Total Confidence relies heavily on his personal experiences with his grandmother Billye, and it may be his most personally impacting book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5984&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Start It With Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastors, I wrote earlier about the idea that you have to preach your message to yourself before you preach it you’re your congregation (you may read that post here). But I want to back up a step to the motivation for that. These words from William Law are challenging — “The first business of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5971&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Commitments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jeff Hlavin wrote an article about making commitments. This is good stuff! 1. I cannot expect the strength of an emotion to turn a decision into a commitment. Confusing a crisis with a commitment is a mistake &#8212; commitment can come out of a crisis, but the two are not the same thing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5978&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thursdays With Oswald—Am I Anti-Christ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:56:58 +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. Am I Being Anti-Christ?      Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5966&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better Pray-ers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard someone that can pray really well? And then isn’t it a bit intimidating when you’re asked to pray right after that master pray-er? Or maybe you hear about people that spend extended time praying. But you think, “I run out of things to say after just a few minutes,” or “I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5960&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Is Always Doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apostle James said it this way — What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5954&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Yawning!</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/01/30/stop-yawning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A challenging quote from Oswald Chambers — We have to treat the body as the servant of Jesus Christ: when the body says “Sit,” and He says “Go,” go! When the body says “Eat,” and He says “Fast,” fast! When the body says “Yawn,” and He says “Pray,” pray! I do not run like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5933&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Pulled Back Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wrapped up our series on The Danger Of Prayerlessness by looking at a very innocent thing: just doing what seems the natural thing to do. In Luke 18, Jesus told a story about a persistent widow who would not stop approaching a judge to get justice. She had been wronged, but she didn’t take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5948&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, Marriage &amp; Fairytales</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/01/27/sex-marriage-fairytales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great word from Jeff Bethke — Another cure to the fairytale relationships that end up more like a horror story, is in Craig Groeschel’s outstanding book Love, Sex, And Happily Ever After (you can check out my review here). Tagged: love, marriage, poetry, sex<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5939&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sharper Sermon</title>
		<link>http://craigtowens.com/2012/01/27/a-sharper-sermon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a lot of work preparing a sermon (and even that is a major understatement!). So if we pastors are going to put all of this effort in, isn’t it right to believe for a great return on that investment? I’ve got good news and bad news for you… and they’re both the same. Pastor, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigtowens.com&amp;blog=5373974&amp;post=5915&amp;subd=craigtowens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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