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		<title>mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the more unknown life becomes the more i realize that i’m not meant to live the known life. there is this great mystery in not knowing what is next, where God will shift things in the next moment. it’s a mystery so unique and great that it draws me in to just dwell in it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=40&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an exercise in trying to find the &#8220;sweet spot&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/an-exercise-in-trying-to-find-the-sweet-spot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[it seems to be that we, Christians and the Church, have excelled in getting a point across.  we have made it clear that we have a message that we are going to get out, even though it often only hits those sitting in the pews or chairs.  on any given sunday you may walk into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=38&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>umbrella</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/umbrella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=35</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[umbrella&#8217;s are one of the greatest inventions known to mankind.  it&#8217;s right up there with the moving hunk of steel we call the car.  i mean, here i am standing in the middle of a rainstorm and i think about the umbrella.  it&#8217;s not natural to carry something over your head to protect it from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=35&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ever get scared?</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/ever-get-scared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=31</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[when was the last time you felt the goosebumps going up and down your spine and had one of those &#8220;i&#8217;m freakin&#8217; out!&#8221; moments? mine came in the form of an old blog entry i was reading tonight.  and when i say old i mean over two years, so back when bloggers were these nuts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=31&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>mighty to save</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/mighty-to-save/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[life has a way of being brutal. sometimes it feels as though the pain is greater than you can bear, that the walls are closing in and are going to crush our hopeless souls. this week i have experienced death.  a best friend&#8217;s father passed and a friend from church left us, both too young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=30&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>jesus&#8217; maturity</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/jesus-maturity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and willingness to be led where you would rather not go i have thought of myself as being rather mature, rather wise in my ways for my age. of course i would never tell anyone else that i think i am mature and especially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=29&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>knowing the heart of God</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/knowing-the-heart-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Christian leader of the future is the one who truly knows the heart of God as it has become flesh, &#8220;a heart of flesh,&#8221; in Jesus.  Knowing God&#8217;s heart means consistently, radically, and very concretely to announce and reveal that God is love and only love, and that every time fear, isolation, or despair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=28&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the servant leader</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-servant-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is servant leadership&#8230;in which the leader is a vulnerable servant who needs the people as much as they need their leader this follows closely on the heels of yesterday&#8217;s post about the responsibility of the leader to the community and the community to the leader. a current struggle of mine is in regards to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=27&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the community and the shepherd</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/the-community-and-the-shepherd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the members of a community of faith cannot truly know and love their shepherd, shepherding quickly becomes a subtle way of exercising power over other and begins to show authoritarian and dictatorial traits&#8230; Ministers and priests are also called to be full members of their communities, are accountable  to them and need their affection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=26&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>it&#8217;s not about stunting</title>
		<link>http://aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/its-not-about-stunting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus refused to be a stunt man.  He did not come to walk on hot coals, swallow fire, or put his hand in the lion&#8217;s mouth to demonstrate that he had something worthwhile to say i think i&#8217;ve made Jesus out to be a glorified stunt man time and time again.  a man that put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aninsightintoinsanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3817380&amp;post=25&amp;subd=aninsightintoinsanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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