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		<title>Love Your Enemy? But I don&#8217;t like you right now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Loving an enemy.  Hum. Who is our enemy?

Matthew 5:43-47
&#8220;You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dana Key Now With Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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Dana Key passed away June 6th, 2010

Dana loved God&#8217;s word to the point of frequent tears.  He loved sharing his heart for Jesus with all who knew him.  His music was all about reaching the heart of the 10 year old boy with the hope he would know Jesus for his lifetime.

Dana Key was part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Husband, My Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Love and to Honor… My Husband, My Friend!


 
My husband is a man with a huge heart…a heart that feels deeply…a heart that brings healing to others by the way he offers love, compassion and courage to those who are especially down trodden, weak and weary. He is a Shepard, a gatherer of people. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not in church anymore!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m through with church.

Have you felt the way I have recently?  Has church become a drag instead of a joy?  Does it seem that going to church is just something you do because you have always done it?
Have you experienced painful church splits, arguments, division like I have?  Are there questions you have been afraid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smashed My Thumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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I’ve written a great teaching on the significance of expressing our feelings. I have long touted the importance of sharing the feelings we have in order to express them, release them, and resolve them. The scriptures talk about when one part of the body hurts, the whole body hurts.

This morning as I left the fitness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Blessing for my Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s A Girl!
Look at all that hair! How could our baby be screaming and not even born yet?
 
“Okay Sue, just one more push,” I heard the doctor say. In just minutes after Roger called out our daughter’s identity, he reached over handing me a lifetime of joy!


 
Proverbs 31:29
“Many daughters have done nobly, but you excel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life?  Alone? In Despair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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Desolate, alone, no where to turn, despair…
 
So hopeless that taking his own life must have seemed like the only choice.

How does someone get to this place…we were heartbroken as we watched some 450 people came to say good-bye. They spoke of his life…A “Smile” that was contagious, a “Heart” that kept giving! The stories repeatedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Trust You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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James 5:18-20 (The Message)
My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God&#8217;s truth, don&#8217;t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God

A while back a very good friend had confessed that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Father and Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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As Iron sharpens Iron, so does one man sharpen another. Proverbs 27:17

Derek was only 18 when he learned of his father’s addiction. Sitting on the step of a stairwell in a hotel close to his college, he hung his head. First anger, then such severe grief for an 18 year old to have to endure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Family Gathering Miracle &#8211; Sue DeRaad</title>
		<link>http://www.gracerivers.com/a-family-gathering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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Ten Years Ago I didn’t know if we’d even have a family.


 
Monday morning, I marveled as I considered the past weekend. Wow God, you really did care for us as a family. You had a work to do and you used our family to show us just how big, wide and vast your love really [...]]]></description>
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