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		<title>Shake It Up: a Personal Narrative on Preaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I was regularly preaching I&#8217;d occasionally shake it up by replacing the sermon with a story that I&#8217;d just launch into with no preparation, no set up, and no warning. The first time I did it was on Passion (Palm) Sunday. Anticipating Good Friday and Easter, I imagined myself to be a Roman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of Vision in Church Vitality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be great if there existed a single set of discernment or action steps which, if followed, would produce new vitality and numerical growth for congregations. Sadly, that’s not likely. We are a culture in which the fastest growing segment of “religious” people is the category, None. Nones are those who claim no religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Reasons Youth Leave Church, and What to Do About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably no surprise to hear that children drop out of church in their teens or early twenties. It might be more surprising to learn that the drop out rate is significantly greater for mainline Protestant and Catholic churches than for ethnicity-based, conservative Protestant, and more liturgical congregations. There are a variety of reasons young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Your Pastor Deal with Ministry Stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, leading a church is hard on clergy. Former pastor Andy McAdams, the founder of Pastor to Pastor Ministries posted a blog entry which started this way: Many authors condense pastor burnout causes down to four or five. I’m afraid I can’t even get close to that. I started writing and all I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Promote Sermon Excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vital churches scored high on measures of Worship Service quality and preaching quality in the 2001 and 2008-09 U.S. Congregations Study conducted by Deborah Bruce and Cynthia Woolever. When they asked newer members what brought them back to their church for a second time 36% percent said it was the quality of the sermon, 32% [...]]]></description>
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