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		<title>What I Should Have Said&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathon Mitchell Yesterday, two brothers stopped by the church saying that they were looking for a new church in the area.  I intentionally didn&#8217;t ask a lot of questions as to why, as often that will elicit responses that border on church gossip and I really didn&#8217;t want to go down that road. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/08/26/what-i-should-have-said/</link>
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		<title>Pizza Parties = Youth Ministry?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathon Mitchell Last week I read an article in the USA Today entitled &#8216;Forget pizza parties,&#8217; Teens tell Churches.  I read it, and didn&#8217;t put any thought into it.  Later that same day, I was reading one of the youth ministry blogs that I try (key word &#8220;try&#8221;) to keep up on by youth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/08/16/106/</link>
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		<title>Be the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by: Jonathon Mitchell A few weeks back I had the privilege to take 6 of our high school students to CIY MOVE in Holland, MI.  If I&#8217;m honest, I was looking forward to this trip, but with little hope of there being any change in our group &#8211; much less any change in our church.  The year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/08/03/be_the_church/</link>
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		<title>Negative Answers to Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever think about the fact that not all of the prayers that Jesus prayed received a, “Yes”? This fall our church is going to be doing a study on prayer and in preparation for that I read a book called “Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?” by Philip Yancey. As part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/07/28/negative-answers-to-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathon Mitchell Two things before I start.  1) An apology.  I&#8217;m going to ramble.  2) A confession.  I&#8217;m not that good at prayer. I&#8217;m excited about this fall when we as a church take a long, hard look at the practice of prayer as it pertains to us personally, and I hope as a body as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/07/14/prayer-3/</link>
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		<title>The First of Many&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathon Mitchell Today I was working on some database stuff for our children&#8217;s and youth ministry.  I was moving kids out of junior high into high school; outof 6th grade into junior high; out of pre-k into kindergarten; and new little ones into the pre-k (Maliki Land).  This last one is what caught my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/06/01/the-first-of-many/</link>
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		<title>At-Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At-Risk Lately I’ve been planning and organizing for our “mission trip” to Good Samaritan Mission in Gary, IN. Usually when I’m working on a mission trip it’s to faraway places like Russia, Mexico, Belize or Mongolia, so this trip feels a little strange. I’ve kind of felt like we were wimping out, until I heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/05/19/at-risk/</link>
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		<title>Face It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was playing with Haley (my 10 month old) on our living room floor. We were playing with a red cowboy hat. I would put it on her, she would rip it off, and then throw it, or try to crawl accross the room with it. Then I would put it on, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/05/11/face-it/</link>
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		<title>Trust Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wonderful husband, John, just celebrated a significant birthday and I was asked to write something about what my experience has been in knowing him all these years. As I thought about what to write a smile came to my face and the words “Trust Me” came to mind. It’s kind of a joke between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2010/02/24/trust-me/</link>
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		<title>Forgiving at Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew 18:21-22 (NIV) Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?&#8221; [22] Jesus answered, &#8220;I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. Christmas is highly overrated. Not the original reason for the season, but the man made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.connectatgrace.org/2009/12/28/forgiving-at-christmas/</link>
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