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		<title>Models of Vibrancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been spending some time pondering how the wider church could most effectively help congregations renew. The challenge is that most of us don’t even know what renewal could look like. Lets face it, most of us have grown up in and been trained in a model of church that seems to be struggling. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=936&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What If &#8211; We Trained Pastors Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryancandersen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just sitting with one of my parishioners, working on how we can rework an old website so that it can be more interactive. Before this I was visiting a parishioner who had been in hospital. Before that I was leading a bible study and before that a staff meeting. While I did use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=933&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Beginnings and Laughter</title>
		<link>http://abtrenewal.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/new-beginnings-and-laughter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Graff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=928&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death, the best invention of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Graff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading through CNN&#8217;s news page and the caption (the title of this post) under this picture of Steve Jobs intrigued me so much I had to follow it. The link led to a page with three videos highlighting Steve Jobs&#8217; life. I decided t0 watch the middle one entitled &#8220;No one wants to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=923&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Graff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve discovered &#8220;Busted Halo,&#8221; an online magazine for spiritual seekers sponsored by the Paulist Fathers. Today, like many other sites, they featured an article entitled  Think Different by Tom Gibbons and inspired by the death of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. The article highlights for me the alternate story the church is called to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=918&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Journey from Church to Neighbourhood</title>
		<link>http://abtrenewal.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/a-journey-from-church-to-neighbourhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Graff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July of 2010 I resigned from the congregation I was serving. It felt good to be out from under the pressures that characterized my ministry in that place. It was good to breathe again without someone breathing down my neck. But after a few weeks of relaxation the question of &#8220;What Now?&#8221; popped up. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=914&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>aXiom Calgary</title>
		<link>http://abtrenewal.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/axiom-calgary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce the upcoming aXiom Calgary two-day missional training event.  We&#8217;re pleased to have Karen Wilk and Cam Roxburgh in town, two seasoned practitioners in helping churches thrive in the neighbourhood.  The landscape that the church has operated in is shifting and aXiom seeks to offer fresh yet rooted insights and training for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=907&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming &#8220;Neighbourhood&#8221; Christians: Some Resources (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://abtrenewal.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/becoming-neighbourhood-christians-some-resources-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a visual thinker, here are some helpful short videos that have helped me think about becoming a &#8220;neighbourhood&#8221; Christian in my own town. Lastly, Check out the amazing work of a bunch of neighbourhood minded folks in the States.  They started a website to plot themselves in the neighbourhood, and find others who were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=895&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming &#8220;Neighbourhood&#8221; Christians: Some Resources (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://abtrenewal.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/becoming-neighbourhood-christians-some-resources-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I spent some time with several people who live out daily life as &#8220;neighbourhood&#8221; Christians.  They know their neighbours and have build deep lasting relationships with them by adopting practices of hospitality and making the persistent choice to live with and among their neighbours.  This is no easy task!  After a long day of work, church [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=890&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Convention Life (Seeing the Bible as a walking stick)</title>
		<link>http://abtrenewal.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/post-convention-life-seeing-the-bible-as-a-walking-stick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What really has changed? Some people would say that everything has changed. Questions of Biblical authority are now being discussed in many different settings and some of those conversations are convincing people that the ELCIC has departed from Section 3 of the ELCIC Constitution &#8211; &#8220;This church confesses the Scriptures of the Old and New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abtrenewal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8994217&amp;post=881&amp;subd=abtrenewal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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