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		<title>What I Want My Sabbatical To Look Like</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/what-i-want-my-sabbatical-to-look-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have told many professionals I have counseled they should take a sabbatical about every 7-10 years. That is not only good psychological advice, it is great career advice. Anyone involved in helping people or educational endeavors gets stale and routine because of working with people so much. Yet in all of my advice-giving, I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1702&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Rob&#8217;s best Driscoll Imitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bombastic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark driscoll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misogyny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pat robertson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many different ways to become well-known in this world. But for a preacher, the number of acceptable means to get your name in the public eye is smaller than with other people. Or at least, it should be. But there is a growing coterie of preachers/bible teachers/&#8221;evangelists&#8221; who have chosen a tried-and-true formula [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1691&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20 Signs You Have OLD Geek Cred</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/20-signs-you-have-old-geek-cred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geek cred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heathkit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because you need to know there is a world of difference between the geek cred of the baby boomers and that of today&#8217;s generations, here is a list that shows you were there before the Internet exploded. You Grokked before you could flirt. In fact, you still grok and can’t flirt You punched cards to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1688&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solving Procrastination Today (Not Tomorrow)</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/solving-procrastination-today-not-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 02:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satisfaction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am distractible, impulsive, mildly lazy, and&#8230;..something else (I had it in my mind, but I thought about something I wanted to say later and then forgot it). Did I say distractible? These qualities/handicaps are a perfect storm when it comes to procrastination. Not only do I secretly want to postpone everything until after I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1682&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption As An Evangelical Problem?</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/adoption-as-an-evangelical-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthy living]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adoption As An Evangelical Problem? Ed Stetzer helps to address a problem that may not be a problem. To summarize: 1. According to writer Kathryn Joyce, some adoption agencies use their auspices to traffic third-world children. 2. Evangelicals adopt children overseas more than the average population. 3. Joyce sees connections between those two items; others [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1676&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Look at Suicide: An Outsider&#8217;s View</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-look-at-suicide-an-outsiders-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthy living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[causes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[understanding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By age 12, I thought about a lot of morbid things and, regrettably, these included thoughts of suicide. I was both depressed and full of anxiety, and the thought of ending my life gave me a sense of power over events and a promise of relief from my inner turmoils. I even made a few [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1668&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exercises That Will Help When You&#8217;re Offended</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/exercises-that-will-help-when-youre-offended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthy living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marital Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to forgive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal offense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I was counseling a woman who had severe depression marked by suicidal tendencies. After a month of counseling, most of the depression had lifted. But every time we made progress, she would return to issues regarding her sister. She could not let go of the pain her sister had caused. She refused [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1657&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Wasn&#8217;t Worth It</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/it-wasnt-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthy living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quick mistakes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was playing golf on one of the more challenging courses in our area. My partner hit his ball over the water (almost) and it skipped off the surface into the weeds under a foot bridge. From my angle, I could see much more accurately where it came to rest, so I offered to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1650&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Can Help you With Money</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/god-can-help-you-with-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reflective Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's help]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[saving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now come to the two most popular posts in the past 10 years on this blog. This one (#2) was posted just last year , but already it has been viewed over 15,000 times. The truth is this: Knowing God will change your finances. In a nutshell: He doesn’t help us with our finances, if by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1645&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repost: Movies that Teach the Value of Hard Work</title>
		<link>http://natomaschurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/repost-movies-that-teach-the-value-of-hard-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in our series on the ten most read posts on this blog, we come to #3. I love good movies and because I also love lists, I often put the two together. This list hit a nerve somewhere. It has been reprinted about a dozen times on other websites. It is helpful at times [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=natomaschurch.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3825393&#038;post=1642&#038;subd=natomaschurch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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