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		<title>Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, April 27th I will be sharing the last chapter in our Ethics class on environmental ethics.  I will ask the students what they do to help keep the earth green.   Most students have some things they do and on occasion there is one or two students who can&#8217;t think of a thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God, I Love You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an absolutely amazing God we have. We just finished the Lent into Easter season and we had a great sermon series.  I am not patting myself on the back.  If it were just me, it would have been a disaster of a series.  But God was pumping out his Word despite me.  Then we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNI Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may have given the wrong impression on my last blog about being at UNI and playing tennis.  I was not on the tennis team.  It was a PE course.  Tim Grover was my partner at class and a couple of years later I was the pastor at his parents church.  I baptized some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNI Panthers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I am an alumni of UNI in 1983.  I have had a niece graduate from there and several young friends as well.  Ran into a classmate and friend yesterday from UNI.  He and I played tennis together there. So I just have to give a shout out to UNI who won against KU last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the crossing guard corner this morning that I have worked for seven months.  I had this sense of community.  What is your idea of community? I took some kids across the street that I happen to now know by name.  I have a few details of his life and find the kid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Confused</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday was warm enough I almost had my shorts on to be outside.  It was in the sixties in the middle of an Iowa March.  I got the lawn mower out to bag up the dead leaves and things ready to get the lawn ready for spring.  Two days later, I am wearing my long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Spring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus resurrection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the signs that it&#8217;s spring?  Someone told me this week that they had some early variety flower breaking the ground.  Today we spring forward with our clocks &#8211; to arrive tomorrow morning with the sun rising an hour later, but also the sun setting an hour later.  I am still waiting for my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having a Great Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started on Thursday.  I sang a funny short birthday song to a young lady waiting for the bus.  It made her day.  Then in the Ethics class I teach at college half of the class didn&#8217;t show up.  They started spring break early.  So the half class that did show up got an extra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Missed</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2010/03/being-missed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was at Rochester Minnesota for some friends in the Mayo clinic learning about their options for cancer treatment.  It meant that I was away from my regular post. In the mornings I  am a crossing guard at NW 13th and Irvinedale.  During the harsh winter months I haven&#8217;t really had elementary kids cross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extension</title>
		<link>http://crossroadscelebration.org/2010/03/extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This word strikes me hard.  I used it a few weeks ago to begin our ascent to Easter. Jesus hanging on the cross says, &#8220;Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.&#8221;  Luke 23.34  And I suggested that Jesus words of forgiveness was an extension to the following.  Father, forgive Judas [his betrayal] [...]]]></description>
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