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		<title>Affluenza</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, its been a year and half since I wrote my last post&#8230; how crazy is that!I&#8217;ve been doing plenty on Twitter though&#8230; I just wanted to share some exerts from a book I have just picked up: Affluenza by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss: &#8220;Materialistic values of wealth, status and image work against close [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1314&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signs That Your Church Needs Help!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a great article on the 15 signs that your business might suck. Click HERE to check it out. It sparked off a few ideas in my head about the church and leadership&#8230; so here is me giving it a go. 1. You can&#8217;t remember when the last salvation response was made. Jesus said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1307&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Liners From The NLT Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had a real treat to go along to our ACTS Churches National Leadership Tour. We had some of the finest leaders that New Zealand has to offer. Here are a few one liners from the 6 sessions: &#8220;When the car&#8217;s oil light comes on, it&#8217;s no good getting a car-wash. Deal with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1301&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this VIDEO. Watch it and then come back and answer these questions: &#8220;What are your daily (usually subconscious) affirmations that you tell yourself?&#8221; &#8220;Would your daily affirmations horrify you if your children were to repeat them?&#8221; &#8220;How do you need to align your affirmations with what the Word of God says about you?&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1298&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck In A Rut</title>
		<link>http://clivesmit.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/stuck-in-a-rut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you living in the present&#8230; or in the past? &#8220;The man who has no vision for the future will always return to his past.&#8221; If you took stock right now and were really honest&#8230; are you repeating your past or are you trying things that you have never done before? In your marriage&#8230; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1294&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senses vs Imagination</title>
		<link>http://clivesmit.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/senses-vs-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a thought&#8230; The human body has around 100 000 000 (million) sensory receptors that enable us to see, hear, taste, touch and smell. The human body has around 100 000 000 000 000 (trillion) synaptic connections that crisscross through our brain. Mathematically speaking, our imagination is a million times more powerful than our 5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1290&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science Declares God&#8217;s Glory!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Easter everyone! I have been blown away lately as I consider Jesus. One such pondering has been over Jesus and the over 300 prophecies that were fulfilled during his birth, life, death and resurrection. Professor Stoner looked at the statistical likelihood of a man fulfilling just 8 of the prophecies and found that there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1288&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Have Better Dinner Conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hyatt is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing. He has an excellent blog that is well followed and always seems to be one step ahead. I caught this blog post when listening to a Catalyst podcast where they interviewed Michael. I am about to move to Tokoroa to lead the church there and thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1286&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dissatisfied&#8230; So Easily?</title>
		<link>http://clivesmit.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/dissatisfied-so-easily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading Mark Batterson&#8217;s book called Primal&#8230; it&#8217;s a fantastic read! I wanted to give you an exerpt from the book: &#8220; Louis Aggassiz was a celebrated 19 centrury palentologist and Harvard proffesor who introduced a teaching method that discouraged textbooks and encouraged firsthand observation. And Agassiz practiced what he preached. According to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1282&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Miracle&#8217; Perspective</title>
		<link>http://clivesmit.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/the-miracle-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.&#8221; Albert Einstein I just love the above quote from Einstein! Isn&#8217;t it amazing that 2 people can be in the exact same circumstance and from it gain 2 different experiences? Policeman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clivesmit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9073059&amp;post=1280&amp;subd=clivesmit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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