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		<title>My Boy Is Here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been so long since I last posted on the site.  This is just a quick update to say how excited I am about our son Ewen.  He&#8217;s been incredible.  Still keeps us up at night but today, he smiled at me, for the first time, on his own, without gas! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where God Is Leading Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow.  The past month or so has been amazing.  I have been working with a group of 16-year-olds in an intensive leadership development program.  I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to share some thoughts with them, watch several of them make key decisions in their life about the role Jesus will play in their future and had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Fear Takes Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation with a young adult recently who talked about a sibling of theirs who was afraid to wear nice clothes or be fashionable because they were worried someone might think they were gay.  Wow.  Talk about a wake up call.  Because of my personal investment in the life of this sibling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Systems Change Behaviours</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Systems change behaviours.&#8221; &#8211; Andy Stanley That simple quote has meant a lot over the last number of weeks as the post-Drive Conference energy continues.  Over the last number of weeks our team of leaders here has been working behind the scenes on many of the systems that make up how we do ministry.  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justin Bieber Openly Talks About His Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking.  James, what are you doing posting about Justin Bieber, wait, this makes sense actually.  Well, in all fairness I&#8217;ve been a supporter of &#8216;the Bieber&#8217; for a while.  I knew that there was a story of faith there and I knew that up until now, there hasn&#8217;t been too much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Should Never Happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I read an article about a church in Florida that is planning on burning the Qur&#8217;an on 9/11 this year.  I know that there are a lot of people who are fearful of extremism, but that doesn&#8217;t mean we combat extremism with our own extremism.  As followers of Jesus we do not repay evil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engagement Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, some of our engagement photos are now up on flickr.  You can check them out in the side column here on the site or, watching the photo stream below.  Things are definitely progressing on the whole wedding front so be sure to check out the wedding site as well.]]></description>
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		<title>We Have A House!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this past Sunday, Lindsey and I signed the lease on our first house together!  We are so excited to be moving into Barrhaven and beginning our life together.  I am extra excited because the new place is just 3km away from my office and a 4 minute drive.  Only one traffic light between my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Army Of Ordinary People</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a copy of this book from Tyndale Publishers and the title really appealed to me.  The idea of stories of ordinary people having a kingdom impact was really cool.  What I didn&#8217;t realize was that this book was written by a &#8216;simple church&#8217; planter.  I was hoping for just some neat stories of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week Is Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, things just went from crazy to insane here.  There is a lot going on this weekend with the launch of our updated time and format for theadvance and when you add all the rest of the projects on my plate, it&#8217;s going to be nuts!  Things are falling into place but they&#8217;ve pretty much [...]]]></description>
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