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		<title>The Best of thechurchblog&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I haven&#8217;t written anything new in awhile (even while Crossroads Church continues to develop and thrive) &#8212; I&#8217;ve compiled a new category of posts for thechurchblog consisting of the &#8220;best-of&#8221; everything that has been written over the past five years.  You can jump to it by clicking here.
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		<title>First Sunday of Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first Sunday of Advent. What is a Southern Baptist/Independent church blogger doing writing about Advent, you ask? Well, I&#8217;ll tell you if you want to keep reading&#8230;

I grew up going to a United Methodist Church here in Las Cruces. As a kid, Advent meant candles, singing, and counting the days to Christmas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossroads Church Honored by the Red Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southwestern New Mexico Chapter of the American Red Cross honored Crossroads Church today by inducting us into the &#8220;Clara Barton Society.&#8221;
Earlier this month, the local Red Cross chapter in Las Cruces announced that they were going to close due to lack of funds.  This would leave our community (and most of the Southern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Crossroads Church</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/10/16/update-on-crossroads-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/10/16/update-on-crossroads-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am completely embarrassed by how long it has been since I&#8217;ve posted anything here.  For those of you who have frequented thechurchblog in the past, let me assure you that the dreams, visions, plans, and progress reported to you previously has continued, and that Crossroads Church is healthy and vibrant.  I guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam Bombing!</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/06/18/spam-bombing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived at my email this morning with over 300 &#8220;bounced&#8221; messages which appear to have originated with random people emailing from our thechurchblog.com domain.  Let me assure you that these emails are most certainly spoofs &#8212; no email has originated from our servers, nor are any of these addresses actual email accounts on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossroads Church Website</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/04/02/crossroads-church-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it isn&#8217;t the best way to break a blog lull, but I had to post the news that Crossroads Church has a fully developed website.  Check out www.crossroadsplace.org when you get the chance. . .
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		<title>Insights From a Friend at Work</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/01/20/insights-from-a-friend-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2007/01/20/insights-from-a-friend-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re been following the story of Crossroads Church, you&#8217;re familiar with our vision to be the church for the portion of our population that has forsaken all things &#8220;church.&#8221;  These are people who would be out of place in a &#8220;normal&#8221; church &#8212; even one as dynamic and open as some truly are. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/12/21/avoiding-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/12/21/avoiding-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best of thechurchblog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame on you.  Shame on me.  Yes, we&#8217;re all sinners in a fallen state, so shame shame SHAME!!  Actually, one of the coolest things that Jesus did (besides providing for our eternal salvation and fellowship with God the Father in heaven) was take away our shame (see Romans 9:33).  Shame is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking it to the streets</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/12/01/taking-it-to-the-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the goals of Crossroads Church is to be able to take the church to the people, not just wait for the people to come to the church.  We do that by being ministers at our jobs, at school, in coffeeshops, etc.  Jesus regularly held meetings where the people were.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new church has a name!</title>
		<link>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/11/21/the-new-church-has-a-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/11/21/the-new-church-has-a-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, November 11, the core members of the new church got together for an all-day retreat to do some planning, visioning, and organizing of the new church.  Perhaps the most significant event of the day was the development of the name for the new church.  We are now officially calling ourselves CrossRoads [...]]]></description>
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