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	<title>Rants of a Deranged Youth Minister</title>
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	<description>Shawn Snider, Callaway Christian Church</description>
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		<title>Wednesdays – What are You Missing?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years the youth and children’s ministries have been revamped, reshaped and re-invigorated.  We have put a lot of time and effort into making these programs optimal for seeing spiritual growth for those age four through graduation.  If you are someone who has thought about bringing your kids to Wednesday night programs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=99&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Waiting Room</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life seems like a waiting room for the triage unit.  If you take the time to look around, you find yourself surrounded by hurt, broken, suffering people.  And much like when we wait for the emergency room, we too often choose to just keep our head down or focus on our own pain.  Maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=93&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Don’t Want to be the Cool Minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Tony Jones once.  That means nothing to just about everyone who is reading this.  But there I was at a youth minister’s conference in a class taught by Tony Jones &#8211; a church leader in his early 40’s.  Jones has been at the forefront of a fairly recent movement in Christendom called “emergent.”  Emergent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=80&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Religious</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any of you who listen to Christian Radio may know the name “Wally.”  He’s the loveable and laughable radio host of “Total Axxess.”  Wally has a good sense of humor and doesn’t hesitate to make fun of himself (sounds like someone I know).  He heckles guests and loves his Savior all at the same time.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=75&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yo Abba Abba!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss my morning SportsCenter.  It was the ritual at one time.  I would wake up, wipe the sleep from my eyes, brew a pot of coffee, and drink the first cup watching the previous days’ highlights.  Dan Patrick or John Anderson would crack jokes while bringing me up-to-date on my favorite sports show.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=69&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pursuit of Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States is a country founded on the pursuit of happiness.  Have you ever considered what this means?  Right there in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence is the statement we’ve all heard: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=62&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s All About Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can&#8217;t read them.&#8221; – Mark Twain  I was never someone who enjoyed reading.  I actually detested reading.  I cannot remember ever completing a reading assignment while I was in school.  In eighth grade we were assigned the book Flowers for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=57&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seen and Heard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a day that started like so many others.  It was a Tuesday, and on Tuesday mornings I did the sports report for the campus news channel.  We met early in the morning and shot the show.  As we were preparing to leave for classes, someone called our attention to the news feed.  There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=55&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No More Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been more of a summer games man.  The idea of the Winter Olympics just doesn’t resonate with me.  I have a hard time merging the idea of the Olympics being a world competition with the fact that the winter games are completely elitist.  Only the richest people in the richest counties have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=53&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>86,400</title>
		<link>http://derangedym.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/86400/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day it’s credited to your account.  No matter how hard you work, you can’t earn more.  No matter how much you squander it will be there again tomorrow (hopefully). I have heard a lot of meditations and even more sermons on stewardship; enough that I know the three “t’s” by heart.  We’re each given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derangedym.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9209561&amp;post=48&amp;subd=derangedym&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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