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		<title>Dad&#8217;s Moving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My youngest brother sent me a text yesterday and posted a facebook picture marking the beginning of the construction of an apartment on his house. Its where my dad will move in just a few months. It is an interesting time. With interesting emotions. I have watched others go through this season with their parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Room for Me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    After a recent Sunday service in which I spoke about the character of God we see in the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, a regular attender asked me if there was room for a universalist in our church. I replied that there were plenty of chairs but he would not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/is-there-room-for-me/</link>
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		<title>Thankful For What Really Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I read 1 Corinthians 8. You may want to refresh yourself. Paul is telling the more mature Corinthian believers to be sensitive to the less mature ones when it comes to having the freedom to eat meat which has been served at a pagan temple of a non-existent god.
Here&#8217;s a thought for this Thanksgiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We celebrated communion in our service this past Sunday. While the believers were going to the front to receive the bread and the juice from our elders, I gave an invitation to anyone who could not confess Christ as their forgiver to talk to me about it. I had a woman respond. We met in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/step-one/</link>
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		<title>Living as Missionaries Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Christians love missionaries; we love missions; we&#8217;re even willing to financially support missions. Unfortunately, we love missionaries, but we don&#8217;t really want to be like them. If we did, our churches would look less like what we want and more like what God would want as we adapt to reach people  in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/living-as-missionaries-live/</link>
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		<title>Nothing Else to Live By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When life crashes, you are laid off from work, spouses spat, rebellious children harbor grudges-it is hard to live by faith. But there is nothing else to live by. All the wisdom of the ages cannot fix the problems we struggle with. No matter how many times someone might watch Oprah, talk to someone like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/nothing-else-to-live-by/</link>
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		<title>Inefficient and Inconvenient Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a CT article this month titled &#8220;To Serve is to Suffer&#8221;, Ajith Fernando writes,
     &#8220;The contemporary emphasis on efficiency and measurable results makes frustration even harder to endure. In the past four centuries, industrial and technological development in the West made efficiency and productivity top values. With rapid economic development, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/inefficient-and-inconvenient-community/</link>
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		<title>Influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear church leaders,
Leadership is not so much your ability to influence others, as it is that others notice the influence of God&#8217;s Word and Spirit on you. It is not so much that you are able to get others to follow you, as it is that it is obvious others know who you are following.
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		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/influence/</link>
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		<title>Unique Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Never make a principle out of your own experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.
                               Oswald Chambers
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		<link>http://www.northbrookchurch.com/blog/unique-experience/</link>
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		<title>The Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The church is not a field to work in, it is a force to work with. The gates of hell will not prevail over it.
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