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	<title>A Labyrinthine Journey &#187; church</title>
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	<description>Observations and Reflections from one Pastor's journey toward Abundant Life.</description>
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		<title>The Temptation of Whatever It Takes: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2010/02/25/the-temptation-of-whatever-it-takes-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week for Ash Wednesday, I wanted to try to help my Confirmation students understand Jesus&#8217; temptations in the wilderness. Last year I started working with my own version of Confirmation that links up with the Enneagram and some of the process perspectives that offers me. So it didn&#8217;t take much for me to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel of Invitation: A Beginning Translation Guide</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/08/21/the-gospel-of-invitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite a few years I&#8217;ve been refocusing the lens of my preaching and teaching the gospel. I am seeing it more and more as God&#8217;s great invitation to life that is full of light and wonder. One of the implications of that reshift of focus is an internal set of translating the language of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of Two Doorkeepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psalm 84 is up for the lectionary this week. Verse 10b stimulated a little parable.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God&#8230;
Doorkeeper #1: Let&#8217;s call him Frank.
Frank tends the door at the most exclusively club in town. Inside the door one can find the most exquisite decor, the most delicious food, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feasting at Care Center Communion</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/08/04/feasting-at-care-center-communion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple days it has been my turn to celebrate communion at two of our local care centers. There was a time early in my ministry, I am ashamed to admit, when I would have seen those times as impositions on my time. Yet by grace and through the Holy Spirit&#8217;s changing my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Ministering from the Best Question?</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/07/22/are-we-ministering-from-the-best-question/</link>
		<comments>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/07/22/are-we-ministering-from-the-best-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a dream last night. It was a dream that raised the very important question of what questions we ask God that guide us in mission and ministry.
In the dream, a group of young people were sent out into the community for a day. They come back to report.
One young woman comes all sad, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Love Them too. Deal with It&#8221; &#8211; God</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/07/15/i-love-them-too-deal-with-it-god/</link>
		<comments>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/07/15/i-love-them-too-deal-with-it-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working on this Sunday&#8217;s sermon on Ephesians 2:11-22. I used to read those words about the dividing wall and the strangers to the promise language as thought that God was the one who had set up the rules and boundaries. With that idea, then Jesus came to remove God&#8217;s barriers to salvation and grace.
Today, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who/What do we trust? #RethinkChurch</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/07/04/whowhat-do-we-trust-rethinkchurch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to say at the forefront that I like the United Methodist&#8217;s Rethink Church media campaign. I find it a refreshing reminder and call to the Church that it is important for us to keep reviewing and reexamining our calling to be the people of God, the followers of Jesus.
However, one of the frequent  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on Intuitive Preaching Prep</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/06/30/some-thoughts-on-intuitive-preaching-prep/</link>
		<comments>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/06/30/some-thoughts-on-intuitive-preaching-prep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: My lovely wife begins a new adventure this week. As a Supervised Certified Lay Speaker she begins serving a small church nearby as their quarter-time pastor. This means she preaches weekly, not her top choice of ways to serve the church, but she is trusting God to help her. She is also wanting help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust, Anxiety, and Fear, O My</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/05/21/trust-anxiety-and-fear-o-my/</link>
		<comments>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/05/21/trust-anxiety-and-fear-o-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 04:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a growing list of frightening things in life lately, anxiety and how to provide spiritual leadership during this time has been very much in my mind. Recently, the Alban Institute web site quoted Peter Steinke from his book Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times:
Anxiety represses human functioning by decreasing our capacity to learn, replacing our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Post on Thriving to jump to</title>
		<link>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/05/12/great-post-on-thriving-to-jump-to/</link>
		<comments>http://labyrinthine.gomorris.net/2009/05/12/great-post-on-thriving-to-jump-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 01:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RevDave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Dick at United Methodeviations has done it again with words I needed to hear and that many followers of Christ in the church need to hear. All I can say about this great post is click quick and read again and again.
Survival &#8211; Revival -Thrival
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