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		<title>Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m alone. I realized this over the past months as I reflected on my relationships and the level of closeness I felt to those in my life. I found in my heart deep feelings of aloneness. Much of it is my own doing. I&#8217;m a pastor. I know that trust is the essential ingredient to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=339&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took some time yesterday to work through some really helpful questions from this email I received from Getting Things Done: http://www.davidco.com/newsletters/archive/0112.html. I realized one large gap in my life as I reviewed the previous year. I accomplished a lot, but had little joy. If there&#8217;s one word I want others to be able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=335&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humility leads to Pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the arrogance and infinity of the appetite of man. He was always outstripping his mercies with his own newly invented needs. His very power of enjoyment destroyed half his joys. By asking for pleasure, he lost the chief pleasure; for the chief pleasure is surprise. Hence it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=330&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chesterton&#8217;s Orthodoxy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=326&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will finally be back in school this quarter after 4 quarters of not being in school. I&#8217;m happy to be studying again and I&#8217;ll be in a class with JR Woodward created by a world-known professor, Dr. Karkkainen. So I&#8217;m anticipating learning amazing things this quarter in Systematic Theology 3. Here&#8217;s the course description [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=323&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review</title>
		<link>http://dustinfjames.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/year-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Seth Godin&#8217;s blog and thought it would be helpful to write down what I accomplished in 2010 (that is before I begin to crank on 2011). Here&#8217;s a few things. I&#8217;m pretty sure I have forgotten some major moments, but this is a start. Try it yourself, it will probably encourage you. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=318&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Ahead at the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we very quickly approach 2011 we can face many emotions. Excitement about new opportunities, remorse about losses or failures from 2010, anxiety about what will happen, motivation as we sit down and make a list of goals and resolutions. Because the emotions can be overwhelming or underwhelming I&#8217;d encourage you to begin the year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=315&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What would you say to the world and would it be judgmental?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you could get up behind a mic and say anything to the world what would it be? Many of us, I would guess, would jump to pronounce judgment. Henri Nouwen gives us a moment of reflection that renews our minds to be more Christlike. This one challenged me. &#8220;To the degree that we accept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=311&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is the purpose of our body?</title>
		<link>http://dustinfjames.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/what-is-the-purpose-of-our-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday at our Sunday gathering for Kairos West LA we sat around a U-shaped table and had a great breakfast instead of our normal worship. We then discussed the incarnation of Christ and came across the question, &#8220;What is the purpose of our bodies?&#8221; This turned into some insightful and interesting answers. One was that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=308&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Incarnation of God</title>
		<link>http://dustinfjames.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/the-incarnation-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The incarnation of Christ is all at once mysterious, awe-inspiring, and revealing. It&#8217;s mysterious because Christ came by way of a virgin birth, conceived by the Holy Spirit. It&#8217;s awe-inspiring because the Lord of heaven and earth allowed himself to be born in a time when as soon as his feet hit the ground his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustinfjames.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757854&amp;post=305&amp;subd=dustinfjames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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