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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>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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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 

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>A Family Gathering Miracle &#8211; Sue DeRaad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
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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		<title>A Hard Day and An Intimate Moment &#8211; Sue DeRaad</title>
		<link>http://www.gracerivers.com/a-hard-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Active Participation
 
Am I willing to put aside my own agenda to in order to listen to someone else’s heart?

Phil. 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

 


Wow, I thought as I sat looking up at the stars. It was amazing! The stars had taken over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew &#8211; Like Jesus in another country</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reaching Out Around the World
 
I recently met a man from another country through reading a magazine article written about his ministry. I am impressed with his commitment to reaching the lost and estranged with the Love of Jesus. He goes into gay bars in his city to engage in what ever the Holy Spirit is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intimacy With God by Sue DeRaad</title>
		<link>http://www.gracerivers.com/intimacy-with-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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Oh satisfy us in the morning with Thy loving-kindness, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. –Psalm 90:14
 
My soul thirsts for Thee, my flesh, yearns for thee… -Psalm 63:1b
 
My heart aches for this kind of relationship with my Heavenly Father! I have experienced this, I have taken Him in and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been thrown from the whale &#8211; back onto the beach!</title>
		<link>http://www.gracerivers.com/back-onto-the-beach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gracerivers.com/back-onto-the-beach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John, what do you want? You cannot have it both ways.
 
Jonah 1:17; 2:1-10 &#8211; But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights
 
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. He said: &#8220;In my distress I called to the LORD, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wise Man&#8217;s Question</title>
		<link>http://www.gracerivers.com/a-wise-mans-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Smid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my short stay as a car salesman I went through the week long process of internet training modules and interaction with managers and other salesmen.  I had entered into a brand new vocational experience. I discovered new people, a new environment and a totally new culture in every sense of the word. My mind [...]]]></description>
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