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		<title>Once more into the breach&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly forty years as a “professional Christian,” i.e., one who makes his/her living from Christian ministry, I’m no longer a vocational Christian. Twenty-three years in cross-cultural ministry provided (I had hoped) a platform for re-entry to local church ministry. I desired (and was supported – a great cost yet again – by my wife) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=381&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Brokenness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are often afraid of brokenness, their own as well as other&#8217;s. I was &#8220;chided&#8221; several months ago for using (and referring to) the term and the concept too often. Yet, my transparency regarding my own brokenness (which is significant) opened the hearts of many to reflect on and to share their own. To be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=369&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying or Doing? It Makes a Difference!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend, Ross Rohde, made this statement today and the lights went on in my heart/mind: &#8230;because we are Westerners, we misunderstand how God himself judges. Western based cultures (that is, Greek based cultures) are focused on ideas. We “judge” somebody by what they say and “believe.” But “belief” becomes what ideas we say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=366&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herding Cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Guilt vs. Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One writer suggests that a shame-bound family is a group of people who feel alone together. It may also be said that a shame-bound church is one in which the members feel alone together. Church members judge each other on a “goodness vs. badness scale.” In this system, the preservation of one’s personal “goodness” is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=360&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Find Stability in a Changing World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent guide to creating a healthy lifestyle in a topsy-turvy world. How Do We Find Stability in a Changing World Â« Godspace. Filed under: Spiritual Formation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=354&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Both/and&#8221; rather than &#8220;Either/Or&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rickcruse.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/bothand-rather-than-eitheror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Place this evocative description of &#8220;the city that&#8217;s coming in the city that is&#8221; alongside heaven can wait: the demise of escalator theology. Then, for good measure, be stretched by watching these powerful and disturbing videos. and Filed under: Family, Life's Twists and Turns, Spiritual Formation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=349&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revelation and the Violent &#8220;Prize Fighting&#8221; Jesus &#8211; Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)</title>
		<link>http://rickcruse.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/revelation-and-the-violent-prize-fighting-jesus-greg-boyd-christus-victor-ministries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another issue to raise with Mark Driscoll. Revelation and the Violent âPrize Fightingâ Jesus Â» Blog Â» Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries). Filed under: Discipleship, Life's Twists and Turns, Mentoring, Spiritual Formation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=347&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies from Heaven &#8211; thejesusvirus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blessed is the one who hears&#8230;and obeys. Pennies from Heaven &#8211; thejesusvirus. Filed under: Discipleship, Life's Twists and Turns, Mentoring, Spiritual Formation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickcruse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14821026&amp;post=345&amp;subd=rickcruse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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