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		<title>Making you life plan become a reality is even harder &#8230; (via Michael Hyatt)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realign your priorities as needed. Earlier in my life, my children were a high priority. Friends were a lower priority. Community service wasn’t even on the list. Now that has changed. This is natural. You have to adjust your priorities as circumstances change. Be flexible—while remaining true to your values. Review your life plan weekly. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1549&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a life plan is not easy &#8230; here are three first steps (via Michael Hyatt)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recruit a life plan accountability partner. If you want to finish your life plan and make sure you actually implement it, recruit an accountability partner (see Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10). The best option is a coach who is trained in life planning. The next best option is a close friend who learns along with you. Regardless, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting that we always dismiss young people &#8230; even if they might be onto someting (via Utne Reader)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s always unexpected.&#160; No one predicted Tahrir Square.&#160; No one imagined tens of thousands of young Syrians, weaponless, facing the military might of the state.&#160; No one expected the protests in Wisconsin.&#160; No one, myself included, imagined that young Americans, so seemingly somnolent as things went from bad to worse, would launch such a spreading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Spice revenues up 107%!?! Perhaps the mainline church can spice it up! (via Len Sweet&#8217;s napkin Scribbles)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[/mp3player/posterousplayer.swf via deimos3.apple.com The Old Spice shifted from a company trapped in its past (and my dad&#8217;s past) to a completely new demographics while revenues climbed 107% in the past year. The new demographics is reflected by its 1.3 million Facebook fans and 30 million views on YouTube. Leonard Sweet notes that the shift comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we defined by a generous spirit? What if we asked our friends who know us best? Thoughts on living generously.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned at other times in our life together, I was made say &#8220;thank you&#8221; by my parents long before I ever knew the true meaning of gratitude. Why? So that I would know how to respond when I finally discovered that emotion on my own. Later I helped my parents prepare to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1541&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas Willard offers spiritual wisdom in a conversation with John Ortberg (via Catalyst Podcast).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CATALYST PODCAST EPISODE 124 Dallas Willard and John Ortberg On this annual Catalyst West Roadtrip Episode, listen in on a conversation between Dallas Willard and John Ortberg from Catalyst West one year ago in 2010. Plus some helpful tips on making your Catalyst West experience a great one. RSS Feed &#124; iTunes &#124; Download Subscribe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1539&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus said where your treasure is there your heart is also. Jesus says &#8220;follow the money&#8221; &#8230; wish he hadn&#8217;t!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was listending to a conversation with Tim Sanders on his new book&#160;http://www.amazon.com/Today-Are-Rich-Harnessing-Confidence/dp/1414339119/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;qid=1305650161&#38;sr=8-1. Tim tells the story of his grandmother Billye taking him into her home and raising him as her own. In his early years Tim remembers the day a stranger happened to visit their very humble farm. He was out of work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1537&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Our Dreams Become Nightmares &#8230; thoughts on having Enough Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I took off for a four day retreat with a duffle bag, a bag of books, and another book bag with several journals and my computer. As we begin our sermon series centered around Adam Hamilton&#8217;s book, ENOUGH: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity, I have a confession to make. The stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1535&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Easter join a spiritual adventure with Gabe Lyons and the NEXT CHRISTIANS.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabe Lyons begins his new book, Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America (2010), with the startling confession that several years ago that he was &#8220;embarrassed to call myself Christian&#8221; (3). He and Dave Kinneman described the source of this embarrassment in their groundbreaking book UnChristian: What a New Generation Thinks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1533&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Bell talking about LOVE WINS with Lisa Miller (via Livestream)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Bingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf via livestream.com LOVES WINS: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, a book by Rob Bell, releases today. I am reading it now on my Kindle. Filed under: Meanderings<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allenbingham.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5045992&amp;post=1531&amp;subd=allenbingham&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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