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		<title>A Letter of Apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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For many years I have contemplated the times I have heard that some people have said they were harmed or wounded from their experience with Love In Action or Exodus International. More often than not my reactions have not been favorable. In my own mind I didn&#8217;t feel there was any merit to the accusations. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Hell are you doing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Hidden Feelings Come Out
 

 
I was going to Sears to check out something I was interested in but I was a little early so I was sitting in my car waiting for the doors to open. I looked across the lot and saw a young lady get out of her car. She checked out the back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hay Bales or Make Up? Who Am I?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an authentic person requires of us to know ourselves.



Who was I…apart from building and maintaining a false image of my children and marriage? That kept me pretty busy! I didn’t know!

How did I grow up?

My memory of preschool days is that I was very much a mommy’s girl. I treasured the alone time with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Your Enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:12:42 +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>Find My Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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This side of heaven, we&#8217;ll never find these children.
I have been watching two television programs lately, “Find My Family”, and “The Locator”, that bring deep passion and tears every time I watch them. Through gripping stories of choices, pain, separation, and loss my heart wrenches with sadness and ends with unspeakable joy.

They are reality shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years Resolutions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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New Year’s resolutions are not something I have ever really gotten into. However, when my wife and I celebrated our 21st anniversary this last December we made some decisions about how we wanted to spend this next year.

We love people and cherish our friends. We have been privileged to know many awesome people and really [...]]]></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>
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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>End of 2009 Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grace Rivers Ministry – 2009 Yearend Review
Now that we are closing 2009, I wanted to reflect on some things God has done over this last year. Grace Rivers has been in its formation now for over a year. This is our first full fiscal year in operation. As in any newly formed ministry there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Year Message from John</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Friends,
As we celebrate the birth of Jesus, I cannot help but be thankful for His life and transforming power in our world. It is his personal touch and intervention that brings me hope; not only for myself, but for the many whose lives He will touch deeply.

This year God has taken me deeper into [...]]]></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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