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		<title>What Zebras Taught Me About Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan and I studied Zebras yesterday as part of his homeschooling curriculum. We learned that Zebras move in families. In each Zebra family, there is one stallion (male). There are also several mares (females) and foals (kids). The stallion mates with each of the mares; they give birth to the foals; they raise the foals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1225&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Partners in Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Storyline commissioned three Partners in Mission this weekend at our Community Gathering. Partners in Mission are those who want to make Storyline &#8220;their church&#8221; by aligning themselves with Storyline&#8217;s values (dependence on God; mission; life change; genuine relationships) and practices (mission; confession; devotion; community; generosity). Partners in Mission prepare for partnership through Storyline DNA (orientation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1219&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Post-Congregational Church</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/12/20/the-post-congregational-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reggie McNeal has a new book out that I&#8217;d like to recommend called Missional Communities: The Rise of the Post-Congregational Church. McNeal&#8217;s purpose in this book is to describe from high altitude the growing phenomenon in North America he calls &#8220;missional communities,&#8221; an alternative expression of church in our time. The phrase &#8220;missional communities&#8221; suggests the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1209&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas &#8211; religious holiday or cultural holiday or yes?</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/12/06/christmas-religious-holiday-or-cultural-holiday-or-yes/</link>
		<comments>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/12/06/christmas-religious-holiday-or-cultural-holiday-or-yes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we going to do about Christmas? For the first time, I feel like I&#8217;m entering into the debate in a serious way &#8211; my own life and family rhythms are on the line. What am I going to do about it? Up to this point, I&#8217;ve gone into default mode &#8211; I do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Family Advent Tradition</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/11/29/a-new-family-advent-tradition/</link>
		<comments>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/11/29/a-new-family-advent-tradition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Advent, everyone. For those of you who didn&#8217;t grow up with the Christian calendar &#8211; I didn&#8217;t either &#8211; Advent is the four-week season starting the Sunday after Thanksgiving and culminating on Christmas day. It&#8217;s a season of anticipation and waiting for the arrival, or advent, of King Jesus into the world. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1178&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ambition for good: something to applaud or something to confess?</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/11/01/ambition-for-good-something-to-applaud-or-something-to-confess/</link>
		<comments>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/11/01/ambition-for-good-something-to-applaud-or-something-to-confess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dependence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[am·bi·tion [am-bish-uhn] noun an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues. I&#8217;m an ambitious person. For whatever reason, I&#8217;m driven to succeed. I want to be the best. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Names</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/10/25/changing-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie read me a beautiful news story a few nights ago about how a health officer in Maharashtra, India, Dr. Bhagwan Pawar, set out to help girls change their names. Dr. Pawar conducted a survey in his district and discovered that 222 girls had been named “Nakusa,” a Marathi word which means “unwanted” in English. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1161&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What motivates people to read the Bible?</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/10/11/what-motivates-people-to-read-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/10/11/what-motivates-people-to-read-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inthestoryline.com/?p=1155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guilt. Obligation. A sense of duty. A feeling within that it&#8217;s just what Christians are supposed to do. Curiosity. Desperation. Guidance. All of these answers surfaced in response to this question in our Community Gathering conversation on Sunday. I attended a Christian liberal arts university where students were encouraged to read through the entire Bible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1155&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Deep Ground</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/10/04/the-deep-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an insightful conversation recently with Randy Harris about the spiritual life. Randy, giving credit to the work of Martin Laird in Into the Silent Land, described three postures of discipleship. &#8220;The first operates from up here,&#8221; Randy said, moving his hand up by his head. &#8220;Here we work out of our brilliance, out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1135&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting the Sweet Spot in Discipleship</title>
		<link>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/09/27/hitting-the-sweet-spot-in-discipleship/</link>
		<comments>http://inthestoryline.com/2011/09/27/hitting-the-sweet-spot-in-discipleship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charleskiser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Breen and Steve Cockram, in their book Building a Discipling Culture, describe two fundamental elements of the way Jesus made disciples. 1. Invitation. Jesus was inviting and supportive of his followers. They knew he loved them. They knew he believed in him. He affirms and blesses Peter when Peter acknowledges that he is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthestoryline.com&amp;blog=2002560&amp;post=1121&amp;subd=charleskiser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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