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		<title>Church Shopping</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2011/07/church-shopping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t name names, but one day we went into a favorite Ankeny restaurant that we have eaten in about ten times before this visit. We were seated and then waited. We watched as others were seated at their tables after us. We watched as those coming in after us were asked for their beverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparing for my sermon this Sunday, I found some material I liked but will not be able to place it within the sermon.  In a statement about the Book of Judges, someone suggested that this era of Israelites had no battle experience in the art of war.  I found out the a Chinese strategist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophical Joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the insomniac, dyslexic agnostic thinking at 3 am?     Is there a dog! Or as I remember from years ago on a banner hanging in a Sunday School classroom:  Dog spelled backwards is still man&#8217;s best friend. &#8220;Come close to God, and God will come close to you.&#8221;    James 4. 8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Fool</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2011/04/april-fool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only fools say in their hearts, &#8220;There is no God.&#8221;  Psalm 14.1 Some say this is the atheists holiday, since the Christians have all the good ones.  But I am not here to pick on any one today but myself.  This probably should be called March Fool because that is where I am coming from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First this is not a complaint and it is not bragging.  One of my pet peeves is to have someone say, &#8220;I am too busy&#8221;.  Now that it is out of the way, what I believe, let me share this thought for this blog. For the past month, besides my three part-time jobs, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complaint Free Zone</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2011/02/complaint-free-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the LORD said to Moses, &#8220;Then tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.&#8221;  Numbers 16.23 I am going to greatly oversimplify this text in Numbers 14 and 16. There was a lot of complaining by the Israelites throughout their 40 year wandering in the wilderness.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Inventory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I finally read through Leviticus.  And now have entered into Numbers.  The men age 20 and older were in a census, and the count was 603,550. [Numbers 1.46]  This of course does not include the tribe of Levites and it does not include the women and children, so the guesstimate would be over 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strangest Things</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2011/02/strangest-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are they signs?  Probably not, but the strangest things have been happening.  The old dog was wandering around in the bath tub yesterday.  As far as we know she has never done that in 14 years.  Sunday I saw a fire truck going down I35 north of Des Moines, Iowa.  Of course the strange part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Out-Give God, but you can Undercut the Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2011/02/you-cant-out-give-god-but-you-can-undercut-the-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tithing is down, even in the most evangelical churches.  I&#8217;ve recently read about the tithe [10%], the gift [11% and more], and the sacrifice/painful giving [100%].  But I was wondering what you call under 10 percent &#8211; the tip?  &#8221;Here you go God, it was a good week, so let me spot you a twenty!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domino Effects</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2011/01/domino-effects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then the Lord told Moses, &#8220;Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh.  When he feels the force of my strong hand, he will let the people go.  In fact, he will force them to leave his land!&#8221;   Exodus 6. 1 The first domino was set up hundreds of years earlier.  Genesis [...]]]></description>
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