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		<title>Can you forgive when someone forgot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to admit it because 99.7 percent of the time … I am on time. So, I hate to admit it. I almost missed the “deadline” for this week’s article. Yep. I know when it is due. I know I am supposed to have it in by a certain time. Diana (at the Madison [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember … it’s God’s day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exodus 20:8 says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” “Remember the Sabbath.” It means, remember God’s day and don’t treat it like the other days of the week. There was a time in my life, when Sunday was just like any other day. It was a day to sleep in because I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read a good book lately?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the Word or Truth.” (II. Timothy 2:15) I recently completed my continuing education credits for my insurance license. Every two years, I need 24 hours of study credits to keep my license valid. I have also contracted with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You just need to ask for help</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/04/you-just-need-to-ask-for-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Come unto Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke and learn from Me, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28) One of my Facebook friends posted that she was ready for “her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addicted to Chap Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use a lot of Chap Stick during the winter months. My wife thinks I am “addicted” to the stuff because I use it so much. Nearly every time she sees me I am putting Chap Stick on my lips. Such a charge is unfair because the only time I use it is during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God of all creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth and I had the opportunity to fly to Meridian, Mississippi this past week. We were able to stay at a lake house which overlooked the most beautiful lake I have seen in a long time. On Tuesday, I saw the most beautiful sunrise I had ever seen. I took several pictures with the “panoramic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Easter about?</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/03/easter-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not about the Easter bunny. That is such a “sweet concept” (get it….”sweet”). But Easter is not about the Easter bunny, or colored eggs or candy eggs or many of the things we associate Easter with. Easter is about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is the badge of authority for the Christian. Easter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Jesus? Do you know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew 21:1-11 describes the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem which began the week before He was crucified. In verse 9, some of the people were shouting, “Hosanna, to the Son of David.” In verse 10, others were asking, “Who is this?” It seems there were two groups of people there that day. Some who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not be judgmental</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/03/judgmental/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard someone say, “You’re judging me. The Bible says you’re not supposed to judge.” Matthew 7:1 is one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible. People read “Judge not, lest you should be judged…” and stop there. A recent study tells us that the Number 2 reason why 18-25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good guilt or bad guilt?</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/03/good-guilt-bad-guilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to better my health since Dec. 26, 2012. Yep. The day after Christmas, I set out to get healthy. I have changed the way I eat, enrolled in a Karate class, work out at home, walk a lot more than I used to and try to be more active. So far, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you believe, matters</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/03/believe-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I wrote about our cat chasing after a red laser light that we flash on the floor and the wall and the fact that he couldn’t “catch” it. He’s really funny to watch, but he thinks he can catch the red dot. He’s running after something we would call “elusive.” I also said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the elusive butterfly</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/02/chasing-elusive-butterfly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I introduced our cat, Dexter, to a red laser light this week. You know, the kind where you shine it on the floor or the wall and cats go wild? He loves it. He runs after it, spins around and tries to “catch” it. He is so funny. He runs up and down our hallway, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying must be stopped</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said, “Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying. It has to stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of bullying has seen a great amount of discussion in London and Madison County this week. The news of what happened last week has spread like wildfire through dry sagebrush. Bullying has always been around. It started with Cain and Abel back in the Old Testament, back when the world was still young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ‘all-in’ for God?</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2013/01/%e2%80%98all-in%e2%80%99-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. (Matthew 22:36-40) The Bible is pretty clear. When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment in the law, He answered that we should love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is still in control of what happens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in the woods the other day, waiting for a deer to come along, (it never did) and while I was there, I was able to experience the beauty of the woods “waking up.” If you have never been in a woods at 5:30 in the morning, and seen what happens when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make God your first resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me wish you a very Happy New Year. Can you believe it? We are standing in the doorway of a brand-spanking new year. And I am sure many of you have already made some New Year’s resolutions. I was looking at the sale ads in the Sunday paper and I noticed there are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The meaning of Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.madison-press.com/2012/12/meaning-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe it? Christmas will be here in just four days. Where has December gone? I remember when I was a young child, the night before Christmas seemed like it took a whole year to get here and now, an entire month has flown by. Christmas … what does Christmas mean to you? For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“O Little Town of Bethlehem” is a favorite Christmas carol of many. But I wonder if we know why it was written? It seems that Bethlehem shouldn’t even be considered because it was just a small town when Jesus was born. As a matter of fact, there were about 30,000 people living in Bethlehem. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘O Holy Night’ has meaning</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christmas Hymn, “O Holy Night” was written by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877) and then translated from French to English by John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893). Cappeau, a wine merchant of Roquemaure, France wrote poems for his own enjoyment and was asked by the church to write this poem. It was later put to music by Composer [...]]]></description>
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