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	<description>Our aim is that you know and follow hard after Jesus.</description>
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		<title>&#8230;there&#8217;s a new kind of courage in town.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Facebook Song
I love this video. It illustrates something that Ben and I have been discussing for a while now. We often get e-mails and various other messages from people concerning different happenings in our church or in their lives and many times people say things that we are both quite sure they wouldn&#8217;t say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/08/14/theres-a-new-kind-of-courage-in-town/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;the Michael Jackson worship needs to stop.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one should need to be convinced that Americans worship famous people. To be famous means &#8220;to be widely known and honored.&#8221; While the world has been weeping over the death of Michael Jackson, the earth beneath our feet and the sky above our heads has been weeping for glory to be given to their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/07/03/the-michael-jackson-worship-needs-to-stop/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;the family room is where theology should start.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next seven weeks, we will be studying the biblical pattern of the family. God has a very specific plan for men, women and children in Scripture and he calls us to obedience and ultimately to joy as we discover his plans are far better than ours.
It is clear by now that we aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/05/15/the-family-room-is-where-theology-should-start/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;ingredients matter.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my wife and I were first married, I decided to cook for her one evening. I made a garlic stir-fry that she said was very good, but when we cooked it again later, she said it wasn&#8217;t nearly as potent in terms of the garlic flavor. I had misread the recipe and put 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/03/24/ingredients-matter/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;at least A-Rod was honest.</title>
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Lately, I&#8217;ve heard a lot about the steroid controversy in baseball and I can&#8217;t help but equate that to the Christian steroid controversy. My wife and I went into a local Christian bookstore last night and found many examples of Christian steroids. For example, there was a book on understanding and applying every book in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/02/21/at-least-a-rod-was-honest/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;they will know we are Christians by our apathy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; &#8230;as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.&#8221; Philippians 1:20-21
How does someone get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/01/09/they-will-know-we-are-christians-by-our-apathy/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;Lessons From A 2 Year Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can learn a great deal about life, from the honesty of a toddler.... This glimpse into a little boys heart, illustrated for me the profound reality in most churches and at times in my own life. ]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2009/01/06/lessons-from-a-2-year-old/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;a thank you note to God&#8217;s people.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Body of Christ:
Pessimism, Repentance, and Gratitude
By: Benjamin Leonard
 
I must confess I have in the past been quite pessimistic about people, especially church people.  I have to constantly fight the desire to think less of people than I should and rarely give the benefit of the doubt.  Jeremy has told me how great of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2008/12/16/a-thank-you-note-to-gods-people/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;change your T.V., change your life? Really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the &#8220;all you need is lots more stuff&#8221; theme, I saw a commercial today for a television that was the newest, clearest, thinnest thing on the market. I have to admit, the thing looked really cool. The problem I had was at the end of the ad when the tag line appeared. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2008/12/09/change-your-tv-change-your-life-really/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;happiness waits at the Stuff Mart.</title>
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So I&#8217;m watching Veggie Tales with my daughter yesterday and providentially she chose Madame Blueberry which talks about greed. The line in the video that stood out to me was the line, &#8220;Happiness waits at the Stuff Mart, all you need is lots more stuff.&#8221; This became even more glaring when I got my paper this morning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://staffblog.heartlandbaptistchurch.com/2008/12/06/happiness-waits-at-the-stuff-mart/</link>
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