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		<title>What is a true local church?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many students and families, now more than ever, are asking &#8220;What is the point of church anyway?&#8221; A lot of people get the importance of knowing God or honoring God, and many even understand the point of trusting Jesus to pay for your sin and give you forgiveness. Those individual commitments are all very biblical, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/12/21/what-is-a-true-local-church/</link>
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		<title>what Brugess Cellars vineyard taught me about John 15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I doubt if anyone read this thing since all the feedback emails I get are spam&#8230;.but if you&#8217;re curious my wife and I took a trip to San Francisco for our 10 yr anniversary to Burgess Cellars Vineyard in St Helena CA. The big thing that spoke to me is that the vine has to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/11/15/what-brugess-cellars-vineyard-taught-me-about-john-15/</link>
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		<title>Life, liberty and the pursuit of righteousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I did change the words of the Declaration of Independence, but with a point&#8230;I have become increasingly frustrated with modern America&#8217;s (and the modern church&#8217;s) definition of true &#8216;happiness&#8217; or &#8216;joy&#8217;.  Joy in the New Testament, especially for the first followers of Jesus was found in obeying and following Jesus, even if it meant following [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/08/08/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-righteousness/</link>
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		<title>Hot and sticky Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our students have been an awesome example of humility and joy in hard circumstances. Record highs and humidity, but through it all I&#8217;ve seen simple things like these middle school guys serving the young women and the group taking care of each other and being mindful of our purpose&#8230;to serve northeast MPLs for Jesus and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/07/18/127/</link>
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		<title>uncovering the common theme of God&#8217;s Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bottom line, in doing 'biblical theology' the Bible is one long story we are all a part of! ]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/06/21/uncovering-the-common-theme-of-gods-word/</link>
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		<title>epic summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dont know about you, but I get excited when the weather gets above 60 degrees in MN!  Thats summer!  People are out of their houses, finally talking again with one another, bonfires, house parties&#8230;I love it.  Let&#8217;s remember that as Christ-followers this is a great season to pull together with friends we&#8217;ve missed, neighbors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/04/28/epic-summer/</link>
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		<title>Izmir Recap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, a quick recap from our trip now that my jet lag is a little bit tolerable.  Weve been up at 3am the last couple nights but were starting to get back on the MN time schedule.  Thanks so much for praying and thinking of us as our family has been traveling and ministering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/03/23/izmir-recap/</link>
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		<title>Izmir.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of a great trip&#8230;many good byes today and a very special one to end the day.  K was with us in our hotel room and we were able to pray for him and his girlfriend S.  He is a very cool guy, and we were able to spend some final moments talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/03/20/izmir-10/</link>
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		<title>Izmir.9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pilicmatik&#8230;yum.  The word means &#8216;chicken-o-matic&#8217; and if you know Anna and I at all, you know every trip to Izmir needs a stop at this incredible one of a kind restaurant.   We are friends with the family that runs it, and tonight when we showed up they were closed and cleaning up.  The family, sister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/03/19/izmir-9/</link>
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		<title>Izmir.8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another shorter update tonight, because of another long day!  After some other long days of outreach and ministry, (if you&#8217;re confused see my earlier posts) we were able to start the day and get some shopping done in Kemeralti in the district of Konak of Izmir.  Basically that means we were harassed for a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lakecommunity.net/jeff/2011/03/18/izmir-8/</link>
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