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		<title>Empty Chairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of the time, we like an empty chair &#8212; at the movies, in the bleachers, or just a place to rest while shopping at the mall. In many situations, an empty chair is a welcome sight. But not all empty chairs are a welcome sight. An empty chair around the dinner table can be a reminder of a loved one who has passed on. For them, the chair is a reminder that holidays and ordinary times will be missing a familiar face. For others, an empty chair in the bleachers is a painful message that a parent has missed another game. As a pastor, I see empty seats in the sanctuary and think of people. Seats are designed for people. And when a seat is empty, that is a visual reminder that someone is missing. It might be someone we know or someone we&#8217;re just getting to know. It&#8217;s also those in...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Revitalizing Declining Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two things matter the most in real estate: location and timing. We lived in San Diego during the housing bubble of the late 2000&#8217;s. Prices went down as fast as they had gone up. If you had bought at the wrong time, the results could have been devastating. As a result of the bubble breaking, a flood of foreclosures came on the market. Real estate agents began organizing &#8220;foreclosure&#8221; tours, renting buses and driving 10-15 investors around. Criminal minds found ways to scam the system. Entire cul de sacs were left vacant with perhaps one house still occupied. When a house goes into foreclosure, it&#8217;s much more than just a financial matter. It&#8217;s about memories of dinners and games and birthday parties. It might have been the living room where a child took their first steps. The walls held more than pictures; they held stories. The same is true when...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>problem with problems</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 18:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I shared the following article by Seth Godin with our staff today. And then I did the exercise below with them. I would encourage you to do the same. The Problem with Problems We have limits. There are challenges, limited resources, people or organizations working against you. Your knee hurts, the boss is a jerk, the systems are down. We have opportunities. There are opportunities, new sources of leverage and ideas just waiting to be embraced. You can share something, give something, make something better. There are always limits, and there are always opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our attitude and our actions. How many times a day do you think about or announce the limits you face, the people who cannot be trusted, the problems that are weighing you down? The problem with problems is that they always keep us from...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>what church are you a part of</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Words matter because words have meaning. We taught our daughters when they were younger to not say &#8220;I hate you&#8221; when they were simply displeased about something. Not liking a decision is much different than hating a person. Words matter. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m done with asking someone, &#8220;Where do you go to church?&#8221; Instead, I&#8217;m going to ask them, &#8220;What church are you a part of?&#8221; Now it is possible — you have the option – as a Christ-follower to waste your life. To spend it fiddling around with the mundane. You also have the opportunity to invest yourself in a movement that matters and that movement is the church. But it will require a shift in thinking for many of us. We often get asked, “What church do you go to?” It&#8217;s just like asking, “What grocery store do you go to?” or &#8220;Which recreation center do you work...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>aliens and ambassadors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Bible uses two significant words to describe those of us who follow Jesus: aliens and ambassadors. On the one hand, we are to live as aliens in a world that rebels against God. Our values are not to be determined by opinion polls or who wins the Oscars, but are to be taken from Jesus himself. Morally and ethically, we are to live as foreignors in a land that doesn&#8217;t follow Jesus. On the other hand, we are called to be ambassadors &#8212; to represent our King to those we live among. The apostle Paul puts it this way: &#8220;We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.&#8221; We live in an age when the fastest-growing religious affiliation is &#8220;none.&#8221; As aliens in a foreign land, we have an obligation to be different. As ambassadors, we have a responsibility to build bridges. Sound easy?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>mountainview mission: go</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mountainview exists to Glorify God, Grow in Jesus, and Go into the World.&#8221; This is the third installment of how our Mountainview mission breaks down. It&#8217;s about the Go. From the very beginning, Jesus expected his followers to be goers. He invited them to &#8220;come, follow me&#8221; &#8212; an invitation that required action. Once they accepted that invitation, life with Jesus was a never-ending adventure. In his most famous sermon, Jesus describes what he expects from his followers: &#8220;You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I want to be like Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Typically, the only time Facebook makes me cry is when someone posts something so outrageously funny that it brings me to tears. Or, it&#8217;s so insanely stupid that I cry tears of sorrow &#8230; for myself and whoever should have had more sense than to post that picture or goofy update. Not so yesterday. After a long &#8212; but good &#8212; elders meeting at which we discussed the mission and vision of our church, I slumped on the couch and fired up Facebook. Three or four updates down on the page was one I did not expect.  It made me cry. Still does even right now. A good friend of ours from San Diego died of brain cancer. Tonya and I first met Mike and Rita Osbourne when Tonya began teaching at the same school as Rita. Mike was an elder in a sister congregation and we had several opportunities...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>soaring with the eagles requires too much effort</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 16:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my sermon this past weekend, I shared several demotivational slogans from Despair.com. They are parodies of the motivational posters you can hang in  your office. One of my favorites was this one: &#8220;Underachievement: Because soaring with the eagles requires so much more effort.&#8221; As funny as that it is, it&#8217;s also true. Because achievement, effectiveness, and success require work, there are some who opt to underachieve. It&#8217;s easier to be average. Coaches who turnaround losing teams understand that it requires more &#8212; not less &#8212; work. Breakthrough leaders in any field have a low tolerance for quitting. Artists or engineers who pursue excellence do so knowing that it comes with a cost. As hard as it might be, when you reach cruising altitude, the view makes the hard work worth the effort.]]></description>
		
		
		
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