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	<description>Because there&#039;s gotta be more</description>
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		<title>Why Lincoln?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, Lincoln might not appear to be the kind of community that would naturally draw young church planters and launch new and exciting expressions of church. But with the University of Nebraska and nearby schools representing nearly 30,000 college students, and in a city where over 70% of the population is under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Poop and New Adventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goodbye Butler. Today we announced to First Church, that Jenn and I are moving to Lincoln, Nebraska to plant a new church called: &#8220;Mosaic&#8220;. Holy poop. We are super excited about this opportunity and so happy to be able to partner with Aaron and Megan Loy in making a huge impact on the city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope, Faith, Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dream at night of a community of people obsessed with: Hope. Faith. Love. I believe in the reality of a people who dare to love, have the audacity to hope, and the courage to live life in faith. A people of Hope. A people defined by their hope. A community where hope is alive&#8230;in skin and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Making Excuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuses. I can&#8217;t&#8230; I won&#8217;t&#8230; It&#8217;s too&#8230; We all make excuses, for thousands of different reasons. From the big questions in life to the risky choices we have to make everyday. Excuses are a cop out. They are our chance to shrink away in ego, pride, and fear&#8230;to run away. Sometimes our excuses are to preserve our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love these thoughts on creatives from The 99% blog in response to this Business Week Article. Here are five key qualities of particularly productive creatives&#8230; 1. Communication skills. As Albert Einstein said, “If you can&#8217;t explain it simply, you don&#8217;t understand it well enough.” Whether you’re leading a team, managing clients, or training a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep The Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never felt as happy as I do now that Christ is in my life That&#8217;s what my new friend Jon told me last week. He&#8217;s been a Christ-follower for a little over 2 weeks. Before choosing to follow Christ he told me he was Pagan and a Nihilist. He told me how we hated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and My Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear. If you type &#8220;fear&#8221; into Google you&#8217;ll come up with about 190,000,000 pages/blogs/sites/videos and social media in 0.26 seconds (see fear). Wikipedia describes it this way&#8230;&#8221;Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat.&#8221; Fear tends to illicit a few responses within us. Paralysis. To be completely frozen in fear&#8230;unable to act. Flight. You run away from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death, thou shalt die.</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinmattison.com/?p=770</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Sonnet X &#8220;Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For those, whom thou think&#8217;st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A King and A Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinmattison.com/?p=691</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christianity does not equal America. If anything, Christianity in America is deeply broken. Not because a Newsweek article said so. It was dead of a long time before that. Maybe even from the beginning. In the Western world we are obsessed with degrees, position, and titles. Maybe not the entire Western world&#8230;just the white world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batter My Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.kevinmattison.com/?p=703</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Sonnet XIV Batter my heart, three-person&#8217;d God ; for you as yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise, and stand, o&#8217;erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp&#8217;d town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but [...]]]></description>
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