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      <title>Israel Tour: July 6th - 16th, 2024</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Israel Tour 2024</description>
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      <title>Who Is In Your Ceiling?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The ceiling of one generation should be the floor of the next.</description>
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      <title>The Forgotten Question</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The tendency for those in “full-time ministry” is to subconsciously think that all is well because we are serving the King on a daily basis.</description>
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      <title>The Simple Biblical Design</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>As I read the Bible, I noticed words like “everyone,” “all the people,” “church,” “the entire community”, etc., and I automatically thought “every generation.”</description>
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      <title>This Generation is Ready</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The emerging generation is positioned for leadership and so many are waiting for the opportunity to lead their generation and the generations coming after them.</description>
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      <title>The Big “HOWEVER!”</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Let’s raise the next generation knowing nothing but small group as the ecclesia where they are prepared to be the generation who go in the spirit of Elijah to the desert places of this earth and cry, “Repent, make way for Jesus the Messiah is coming!”</description>
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      <title>Ten Great Reasons WHY</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Here are 10 great reasons WHY we need to include the emerging generation in the Small Group vision and strategy.</description>
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      <title>Such is Encouragement</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Let's take a look at the different characteristics of encouragement.</description>
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      <title>Take Care of the Shepherd</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Many leaders feel guilty taking time out to relax, have a hobby, and spend quality time with their families. In this post we discuss how to effectively combat that guilt.</description>
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      <title>Talk, Talk, Talk! Silent, Silent, Silent. An Opportunity for Change!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>... every small group member may be quiet for a few meetings or over talk for others, but when there is a persistent challenge, it must be dealt with in a loving way.</description>
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      <title>Remove YOUR Filter!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>May I encourage you today to make a list of those you consider “weak” and “foolish”?</description>
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      <title>Reach Out With Relationships</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How can a small group be a small group if it is not winning those He died for? He commanded us to go and make disciples. Now is the time.</description>
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      <title>Provoke Action, Transparency, and Growth</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When people take our small group-based training called “Fire For the Nations,” if they are not taking action in at least some area, they are not allowed to continue. I value their hearts too highly.</description>
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      <title>Preparing A Generation… To Be Done?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>... I was bemusing the fact that if Jesus had grown up in most churches He would be separated from the adults, His abilities would not have been recognized, and He would have not been given a place for making a difference until He was well into adulthood.</description>
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      <title>Our CREATOR Passes On Creativity to His CREATION</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Worship touches the heart of the Creator and allows people to express themselves in ways that might be more personal to them.</description>
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      <title>My “Aha!” Moment</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Surely one of the most important aspects of discipleship is to help people identify how God created them to express worship.</description>
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      <title>My Growing Concern</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I believe it is time to empower our small groups’ members to study the word and to be secure in hearing God for themselves.</description>
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      <title>Love or Church Planting?</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When planting churches becomes the motivation - when it becomes the goal – passion can dim. When passion for Jesus and His heart for people propels us, church planting is a result.</description>
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      <title>Learning to Reach the Next Generation</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Never underestimate what God can do through children and young people; there are very clear Biblical references to the huge impact they can make on adults.</description>
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      <title>His Mighty Power Will Roll On</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Imagine a church where “each member” of any age is helped to identify his or her spiritual gift and then use those gifts inside and outside of the group.</description>
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      <title>Let’s Say It Again</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How are your children and young people using their gifts and becoming the priesthood of all believers in their children’s, youth, and multi-generational small groups?</description>
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      <title>Hearing His Voice: Three Questions and Two Checks for Every Generation!</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>So often people are too quick to “hear Him” in order to rush off and “obey.”</description>
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      <title>Flying High, Flying Strong</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>If with two wings we can fly, then the emerging generation needs two wings to fly, too.</description>
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      <title>Developing The Next Generation Through Multiplying Small Groups</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The responsibility of developing a generation in healthy small groups can be equated to the responsibility of raising them in healthy families.</description>
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      <title>Dream the Impossible Dream</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When people think the impossible, they reach for the impossible and join with the God of the impossible.</description>
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      <title>And So Does Jesus</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Some are willing to be hospitable when it’s comfortable and not costly. However, there’s another group with a different attitude.</description>
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      <title>“As For Me…”</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The concept of whole families, whole households, meeting in homes seems to have been lost.</description>
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      <title>A Small Group of Cheerleaders</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Be a small group of cheerleaders. Be a small group who recognizes every step forward.</description>
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      <title>Generation 2 generation</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>From the beginning of man, Christ has been building from generation to generation towards His coming again.</description>
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      <title>Jesus The Ultimate Youth Leader</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>As we try and identify some of the qualities of a Youth Leader, what greater model could we have than Jesus who took 12 young men and developed them into Nation Changers?</description>
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      <title>Let Go And Let God</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When we realize that we cannot be “God,” that we cannot reign sovereign over every interaction and every circumstance, and surrender to the Lordship of Christ, life will be less stressful.</description>
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      <title>Your Heart For the Bridegroom</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Before hearts get engaged on earth, let's have them consumed with the greatest Love of all, the greatest Bridegroom of all...</description>
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      <title>Fire For The Nations</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Equipping this generation for the unreached.</description>
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      <title>I Wonder!</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I wrote the following after I had met with a Pastor who had been imprisoned for speaking about Jesus to young people and children during the Communist rule of the Ukraine.</description>
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      <title>Discipling The Next Generation</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Discipleship is a lifestyle on a day-to-day basis. It is not a class, a book, or a program. Only parents can disciple in this way through their own lives as well as through words (like Jesus with His disciples).</description>
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      <title>Music Missions</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Discipling nations through music.</description>
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      <title>Fire For the Nations</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Great Commission can be fulfilled in the life of this generation of young people and children.</description>
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      <title>Tough Love (Gutter Evangelism)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>God needs us to be willing to forsake earthly ease for a life of suffering for the Kingdom.</description>
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      <title>Leadership for This Generation</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>God is raising up a radical, prophetic, passionate generation of children and young people such as has never been seen in history.</description>
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      <title>CHRISTmas to the Cross.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>As this time of the year has hit me, I have come to realize I need to be more willing to give my life for those around me.</description>
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      <title>Every Member in Ministry</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>This is a wakeup call to the body of Christ to mobilize this army of little people (our children), to bring us all to the fullness of Christ as a complete body.</description>
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      <title>Loving Those Lost to the Father</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>If a child is lost from home, no one considers who is called to the task, who has been appointed, or who feels led. A whole community turns out.</description>
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      <title>Loving One Another</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When we hear the command of Jesus to love one another, I wonder who immediately comes to our mind?</description>
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      <title>As with Adults</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Small group leaders often think that having children in the group will cause difficulties that can only be resolved by having an "expert" on hand... I want to give you a simple tool that will enable you ... to include children naturally.</description>
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