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		<title>An Advent Approach to People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your day-to-day life is anything like mine, then you are consistently faced with the complexities of this question that don’t make for easy answers.  People we care about deeply, and who we want to experience the freeing grace of Christ, challenge us to truly wrestle with what it looks like to practically engage people relationally in a way that actually keeps Jesus’ top priorities in the primary place.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/an-advent-approach-to-people/</link>
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		<title>Living the story / embracing the crock-pot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let him who cannot be alone beware of community.
Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils.
One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges
into a void of words and feelings,
and one who seeks solitude without fellowship
perishes in the abyss of vanity,
self-infatuation, and despair.”
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
We live in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/living-the-story-embracing-the-crock-pot/</link>
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		<title>Living the Story &#8211; practicing the presence of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness 
through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, 
so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, 
having escaped the corruption in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/living-the-story-practicing-the-presence-of-god/</link>
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		<title>living the story _ finding our place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Any religion will be judged by the story it tells about the world and our place in it.”
_Ken Wilson (Jesus Brand Spirituality)

In all of our personal and communal journeys towards a life with God, there are times when we question where our place in the grand meta-narrative of redemption actually is.  At times these questions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/living-the-story-_-finding-our-place/</link>
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		<title>everyday God _ confront</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having discussed a couple of the ways that Jesus wants to interact and encounter us in our everyday lives – let us look at one more – the type of interaction that we don’t often like Jesus to have with us.
Picture this:
***
You are preparing for a date that you have been looking forward to for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/everyday-god-_-confront/</link>
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		<title>everyday God _ call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus is active in our lives (period).  He is moving in ways that we often don’t see or understand, but He is moving nonetheless.  For all the times that we don’t see or understand, there are other times when Jesus is clear with us.
We see Jesus interacting with some of his first disciples clearly in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/everyday-god-_-call/</link>
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		<title>Everyday God _ comfort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our faith should never be something that is disconnected from life.  The seemingly mundane things that we do everyday are packed with the same redemptive potential as any of our ‘spiritual experiences.’  However, believing this doesn’t make those things feel any less mundane.
The truth is that Jesus is alive and active in every aspect of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/everyday-god-_-comfort/</link>
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		<title>Beginning Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the summer months I’m going to be talking through each week of discussion over the past semester at theCanvas.  I apologize for dropping the ball on my weekly writing, but think my failure has created a unique opportunity.  We get to explore the themes, ideas, and scriptures that we spent time with for an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/beginning-again/</link>
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		<title>Tragedy of Tragedies: Osama Bin Laden and the Christian Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something that my friend and brother, Jordan Warner, wrote today:

There is no doubt that Osama Bin Laden’s life was marked by heinous action and unspeakable terror. It is a tragedy that so many innocent lives were lost by the hate in that man’s heart. And it is a tragedy as well that any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/tragedy-of-tragedies-osama-bin-laden-and-the-christian-response/</link>
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		<title>Death and our everyday God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We see Jesus interacting with people in a myriad of ways throughout the canonical gospels.  These, now, written accounts of his life give us an account, a portal, through which to learn, study, and ultimately experience the life of this man who actually walked this earth in a body made of flesh and blood.
These same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thecanvas.org/blog/death-and-our-everyday-god/</link>
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