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	<title>Work and Worship</title>
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		<title>Worship in Ambition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you ambitious? When you examine your life or heart, where do you see yourself tending towards selfish ambition? Are you finding that God is maturing your heart motivations towards Godly ambition?
Godly Ambition is reverent activism that constantly depends on the Holy Spirit to accomplish what he wants to do through us.
Selfish ambition is striving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/worship-in-ambition/</link>
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		<title>Groaning vs. Grumbling in Suffering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever think you are groaning but you are actually grumbling? Sometimes, we mistake one for the other.
We are always suffering in some way and we are always sinning in some way. Our very nature is sinful and our interaction with the world and other sinners brings suffering into our lives, daily. Being a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/groaning-vs-grumbling-in-suffering/</link>
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		<title>God the Working Father</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often, I am consumed with my work, working out my faith, working on my home, family, tasks, whatever. My eyes are easily looking at what my job is and I lose sight of God’s work.
God is paying attention to me and is working on me.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/god-the-working-father/</link>
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		<title>Godly Confidence in Competence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My relationship with work is complicated. I don’t just work and worship. I tend to grab the glory for myself when I accomplish work and I tend to work by will power and self-sufficiency than humble dependence on God.
Just yesterday, I felt proud with all that I got done in the day. Pride sucks out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/godly-confidence-in-competence/</link>
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		<title>Worship in Your Weakness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I despise weakness&#8230;
I get overwhelmed. Relational debt, housework debt, and the dread of some procrastinated project sneak up, drain the life out of me, and leave me feeling  discouraged and flat out weak.  Those overwhelming moments reveal my true weakness. Yet too often, I deny it. Blind with ambition, I reach for my bootstraps, pull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/worship-in-your-weakness/</link>
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		<title>Resisting Independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do it&#8230; by myself!&#8221; I have heard those cantankerous words many times from my children, as toddlers. It is somehow adorable and aggravating at the same time, huh? Those words make an attempt at independence from my help.  My kids have actually pushed my hands away as I have tried to help them: pull up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/resisting-independence-2/</link>
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		<title>Break from Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March is flying by. This month we put our home of 7 years on the market. My dear husband has finished his book. It has been stressful, burdensome, and quite an opportunity to see Jesus more clearly in our lives. I can sense how God is carrying us through it for His glory.
March is also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/break-from-blogging/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for Easter (book list)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pulling out my Easter books today. Each year, I lay all the Easter Childrens&#8217; books out for the kids to read and I grab a couple that I use as my daily devotionals.
Here is the list:
Adults:
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
Cross Centered Life
Children:
Poison Cup
The Priest With Dirty Clothes
My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/preparing-for-easter-book-list/</link>
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		<title>Kids and Organization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Recently, I set down with my 6 year old son. We talked about his room and how he might &#8220;steward&#8221; his stuff better. He confessed he doesn&#8217;t like to throw stuff away and likes to keep it all under his bed. As I have watched him hoard things from small little papers to candy from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/kids-and-organization/</link>
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		<title>Contentment Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[this prayer is taken from the _Valley of Vison: A Collection of Purtian Prayers and Devotions_
Heavenly Father,
If I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is thy mercy to afflict and try me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/contentment-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Who do you Imitate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hebrews 6:11 We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. 12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
My two year old daughter has observed, enjoyed, and copied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/who-do-you-imitate/</link>
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		<title>Stewardship: The Controller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We looked at the Sloth in a previous post. The sloth, a consistent couch potato and friend with apathy. Always looking for a way out of hard work, the sloth doesn’t feel deeply or live life under discipline or passion. The Sloth is content with life as it comes, whatever&#8230;
In extreme contrast, the Controller is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/stewardship-the-controller/</link>
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		<title>Help for Haiti (video from Lacrae)</title>
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God is our refuge and is not far away from us. Lacrae&#8217;s new song written to benefit the relief effort to Haiti, is so true. God is not far away. We need to keep praying, sending money, and helping in any way possible for these hurting image bearers of God to receive help in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/help-for-haiti-video-from-lacrae/</link>
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		<title>Stewardship: the Sloth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea of Biblical Stewardship is old school. No one in our culture actually thinks that everything that they have–from: resources, health, gifts, children to- time, money, and relationships– aren&#8217;t their possessions!  And the truth is–all is from our Creator God. The notion that we are &#8220;managers&#8221; of God&#8217;s stuff is laughable to most people.
Yet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/stewardship-the-sloth/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Tender Grace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1990’s, my Bible college English professor and Advisor soon became a cherished woman of God&#8217;s grace to me. I had few Godly examples in my life at the time, and Jackina, was one of the few. A natural story-teller, she captured our hearts with her humor and her passion for God’s word. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/book-review-tender-grace/</link>
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		<title>God, my Working Father</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often, I am consumed with my work, working out my faith, working on my home, family, tasks, whatever. My eyes are easily looking at what my job is and I lose sight of God’s work.
God is paying attention to me and is working on ME.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/god-my-working-father/</link>
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		<title>Giving with Gratitude not Guilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[c
1 Corinthians 9:7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

“Devastation of Biblical Proportions”, some are calling the earthquake in Haiti. As we watch the footage and stare at the pictures –we are confronted head on with the contrast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/giving-with-gratitude-not-guilt/</link>
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		<title>Help for Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The footage and photos were taken just a few days after the earthquake as Pastor Mark (Mars Hill Church) and James MacDonald were able to go to help. We have a better idea now as to what is needed. The needs are beyond our comprehension.
Please REPOST this, copy it, play it at your church, etc. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/help-for-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Striving and Enduring</title>
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Running&#8230;.for&#8230;what? Why all this striving?
Hebrews 12:1-3 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so
closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/striving-and-enduring/</link>
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		<title>Stewardship in Your Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What “season” are you in?
As a young girl, I wanted to be an adult. When I was single I wanted to be married. When my kids were babies, I wanted them to be preschoolers&#8230; As each season changed, my ambitious heart would often covet the next season. Even in my current season, I am tempted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.workandworship.com/stewardship-in-your-season/</link>
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