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		<title>Learning to Walk with a Limp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have some pretty cool scars from my childhood days, and each one tells a story.
The horizontal scar across my right knee reminds me of the day that, as a little boy, (I had to add that part so you didn&#8217;t think I tried this last week)&#8230; I decided to swing as high as I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=599&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the World As We Know It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did something yesterday I knew I shouldn&#8217;t have done. I had resisted the temptation for three whole days, but I finally gave in&#8230;
Yesterday afternoon&#8230; I&#8230; turned on the news!
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		<title>You Just Started a War!</title>
		<link>http://philpike.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/you-just-started-a-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very first words ever spoken to us as a new church were spoken by a man with more than 50 years of faithful service in the Lord&#8217;s work. We had all gathered in his home one evening to commission this new ministry, and we knew that his vast experience in church planting and missions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=490&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pastors &#8212; Wimps or Endangered Species?</title>
		<link>http://philpike.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/pastors-endangered-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 1,500 pastors leave the ministry every month.
Read that again. It is not a typo.
And if you think that statistic is troubling, you should probably stop reading this right now. I&#8217;m serious. This is not for the faint of heart. If you do choose to keep reading, you may want to go grab some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=421&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, You Want to be a Pointman?</title>
		<link>http://philpike.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/amazing-mens-retreat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday night and Saturday, the men from LifePoint Church went to Lookup Lodge for our men&#8217;s retreat to do&#8230; well&#8230; to do all the things men do when they get together in the woods. You know, dance around fires, beat drums, hunt wild animals with our bare hands, exchange recipes.
Tom Fowler was our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=389&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Did You Bring?</title>
		<link>http://philpike.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/who-did-you-bring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While you slept last night, more than 51,000 people died.
Perhaps your mind is scrambling right now trying to remember what news story I&#8217;m talking about &#8212; what tragedy could have possibly claimed so many lives. No, what I&#8217;m talking about didn&#8217;t make the news, because approximately 51,000 people die every night around the world while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=332&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Time to Serve the Lord</title>
		<link>http://philpike.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/an-inconvenient-time-to-serve-the-lord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Sunday morning a while back I was sharing some key principles with our church about serving the Lord and being obedient to His calls in our life. It went something like this&#8230;

When God&#8217;s call comes, it will never come at a convenient time.
God&#8217;s call rarely comes with all the details in place.
You will never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=298&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Deep End</title>
		<link>http://philpike.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/the-deep-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Pike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a long time coming.
People have been bugging me for years to start writing in one form or another, but with the never-ending flood of books and blogs already being pumped out, the lingering question for me was always, &#8220;Does there really need to be another voice out there?&#8221; After all, Proverbs 17:28 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philpike.wordpress.com&blog=3664075&post=55&subd=philpike&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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