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		<description><![CDATA[Expecting:  My mind is on shepherds and angels as I prepare for this weekend’s message.  The most amazing creatures in heaven announce the incarnation to  a bunch of unsuspecting average Joe’s.  No doubt the shepherds were not “expecting” to see the heavens open up that silent night, who would?!  Regardless of their expectations, everything changed.  [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expecting! People experience disappointment when they set their Christmas expectations too high (the Clark Griswold effect!).  They might even experience despair when they set their expectations too low.  But the alternative is realistic expectations that yield the status quo.  What if all we were expecting this Christmas was God?  This weekend we launch our Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heartfelt: In John 5 Jesus asks a question that echoes through the ages.  As we daily do battle with our personal demons and struggle to hold on to hope Jesus steps into our lives and asks: “Do you want to be well?” Come hear the disabled man’s answer to that question. This weekend we conclude [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving! Heartfelt: A Heart for Outsiders is the topic for this weekend as Jesus meets the woman at the well in Sychar of Samaria.  Read John 4.  We will highlight our Mission’s Team efforts in reaching the outsiders all over the world! Thanks from Operation Christmas Child We collected 139 shoe boxes and I [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heartfelt: This weekend we encounter Nicodemus.  He is a religious leader who is fascinated with Jesus.  His fellow leaders can’t stand Jesus but Nicodemus is drawn to Him.  Jesus speaks those famous lines from John 3:16 to Nicodemus.  We think of John 3:16 as great words for someone who does not know God at all.  [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heartfelt: We begin a new series this weekend called Heartfelt based on the Gospel of John.  Read the first part of John 2.  This book of the Bible is recorded by the man who is called the best friend of Jesus.  He gives us a unique “heartfelt” perspective on the Good News of Jesus Christ. [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we wrap up our series Prayer in the Middle.  I hope you have been able to spend some extra time in prayer this past month.  It has been great to experience the healing service, prayer and praise service and Service Worship all in the same month!  I was really moved to see all [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRAYER IN THE MIDDLE: I hope you are joining me in raising our level of prayer this month.  God is doing and will do good and powerful things in and through us as we submit our lives to Him in unity.  Take a moment to pray right now and don’t miss this weekend’s message: Prayer [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS SUNDAY!!!  Crossroads Service Day We will be having our annual service day on Sunday, October 23rd – 9 AM.  We will not have Sunday morning services, but we will have a special Saturday night service on October 22 – 5:30.   Join us as we reach out to our surrounding community to show the love [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communion this weekend! We will be serving communion this weekend.  Please take some time to prepare your heart as you come before the table this weekend. Crossroads Service Day We will be having our annual service day on Sunday, October 23rd.  We will not have Sunday morning services, but we will have a special Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We Can Do Better”: If you heard this past weekend’s message and God is moving you check out: http://www.thefamilycompass.net/ or http://www.safe-families.org/ or http://www.facebook.com/SaltandLightNWI . If you missed the message download the podcast or CLICK HERE. Prayer In the Middle is the title of our new series starting this weekend! Read I Samuel 1 &#38; 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-Write: WWJD – What would Joseph do?  The bumper stickers and wristbands were popular for a while.  Christ followers tried hard to ask in every situation: “What would Jesus do?” Why? Because we want to be like Jesus.  As we read the story of Joseph there is a part of me that thinks I want [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow-up To This Past Weekend:  Celebrate with me that we received 32 volunteer interest forms: Weekend Worship 2 praise team; 1 Drama team; 3 Stage Design; 1 Tech Team/Sound; 2 Creative Team 7 Greeters; 1 Ushers; 4 Refreshments; 3 Guest Services BH Student Ministry 5   Youth Coach Sr. High;  5   Youth Coach Jr. High; 2  [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clogged Drains: Last week I had to use an “Electric Eel” twice to break through the roots in my main drain that runs through my back yard.  I sit in guck and stuff this out of control snake down my pipes.  I loathe that job!  This morning I had to do the same thing only [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The doctrine of justification by faith will eventually transform your view of justice.  You cannot be insensitive to injustice because you have been the beneficiary of being freed from the greatest injustice.” –Tim Keller  This weekend we take another look into the book of Amos and we pray that God will Aim Us in His [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No one, no one, no one, not even the greatest does not need the grace of God. And no one, not even the lowest can fail to receive the grace of God.&#8221; – Tim Keller  Come here more about the grace of God this Sunday.  It will be a special Mother’s Day message from an [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heidelberg Catechism: Lord&#8217;s Day 17 Q &#38; A 45 Q. How does Christ&#8217;s resurrection benefit us? A. First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he might make us share in the righteousness he won for us by his death. (Rom. 4:25; 1 Cor. 15:16-20; 1 Pet. 1:3-5)    Second, by his power [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essence of a good story is “a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it” (Donald Miller).  This weekend we will come face to face with the central character of the grand narrative that takes us from the Garden to the City.  He is the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Wilderness is life beyond redemption but short of consummation.  The former seems ineffective and the latter only a mirage.  The promise has been spoken but who can live by words alone?  The hope has been proclaimed but the horizon keeps disappearing in the sandstorms.  And so trust in God often turns into recalcitrance and resentment.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“To receive the grace of forgiveness and to shun the grace of obedience and personal transformation is to misunderstand grace completely.” “Some elements within contemporary Christianity seem to fear effort more than complacency, as if legalism is a bigger threat than our lackadaisical lives.”  Quotes from Gary Thomas in Holy Available to prime the pump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Pastor Info Letter</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/youth-pastor-info-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Crossroads, The elders committed to pray about the decision to hire a youth pastor for the first two months of this year.  I know that our prayer team and many of you have done the same.  We set our March meeting as the day we would share how God was leading us.  It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sabbatical Info Letter</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/sabbatical-info-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Crossroads Family, As most of your probably know by now, I will be taking a sabbatical this summer.  I wanted to give everyone some specifics about the overall purpose for this sabbatical and the major stops on the journey. This is actually my second sabbatical.  The first sabbatical was in 2002 and included some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water, bread and wine.  They are such simple, common items. Yet in the context of the church they hold great promise and power!  The water of baptism marks us as buried with Christ in His death and raised with Christ in His resurrection life!  The bread and the wine are regular reminders of how Christ’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Ash Wednesday.  It is the beginning of the season of Lent.  For many it is a season to practice that ancient spiritual discipline called fasting.  It has become fashionable in recent years to give up something for lent.  The list is long of the things people give up: chocolate, ice cream, French fries, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We welcome our latest class of new members this weekend.  I just watched the video testimony of Shannan, one of those new members.  My heart was moved all over again for the work God has called me to do here at Crossroads.  I know there will be those in church this weekend who are searching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aboutccc.com/?p=1009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love NT Wright’s definition of “Virtue”.  He says virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something good and right but which doesn’t come naturally—then on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find they do what’s required “automatically.”  Wouldn’t it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book Counterfeit Gods Tim Keller describes the sinister nature of greed.  It disguises itself with ambition and success.  The more greed gains ground in our lives the more we find those with just a little more money than we have to serve as our measuring sticks.  And while greed grows deep roots in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/986/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aboutccc.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What an amazing display of the wonder and power of God’s created world.  Some would say that the snowpocalypse is a direct result of the fall and evil entering God’s good creation.  Others would say it is a beautiful blessing to enjoy (though with the pain of a sore back!).  As with so many things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aboutccc.com/?p=976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Drew and I were just cleaning up after our (leftovers) lunch today and we got started talking about Small Groups.  I asked him if he could give me any good material he had on our Sermon Based Small Groups because I was preparing to teach a group of church planters about small groups and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gathered with some of my fellow pastors in the Christian Reformed Church in NW Indiana.  We began by reading Jeremiah 29:7 which says, “seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.  Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t usually borrow my “Pastor’s Desk” thoughts but I really liked this from Donald Miller.  I thought it fit well with our Priority Pill series: “I heard a lecture recently in which the speaker talked about goals, and how powerful they are. He did say, however, that we shouldn’t share our goals, if possible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutccc.com/pastors-desk-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you take your pill?  You know, the priority pill you were prescribed last weekend.  Well, I’ve been taking my pill faithfully and I cannot believe the transformation!  It’s like I’m a new man! Okay, so there’s no pill.  I’ve just been popping Smarties like a placebo and telling myself it will make me a [...]]]></description>
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