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		<title>A Confession of Pride</title>
		<link>http://jessemedina.com/2011/03/18/a-confession-of-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not know, I desire to someday be a pastor. I&#8217;ve wanted to be one (and have felt called to be one) for probably around ten years now.  It is what led me to obtain a degree in Pastoral Leadership Studies.  Long story short, I&#8217;m not one&#8230;not yet.  But I do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=852&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we read through the Biblical narrative we find Jesus busy at work doing all sorts of things and one of the things that we find him doing then, that he doesn’t seem to be doing much of now, is healing. Actually, that’s somewhat of a simplified statement. Often, those who travel to other cultures, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=461&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full of Crap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jeff Goins just posted a blog entry asking the reader to consider if they might not be full of crap. To be full of crap is to say one thing, but to be another.  It is hypocrisy, but not just in sinning.  Hypocrisy is present at any time our actions do not line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=362&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Tension: Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin</title>
		<link>http://jessemedina.com/2009/05/19/balancing-tension-love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Christians have many mantras that guide our lives.  Sometimes, our mantras are derived from the very petty (like bumper stickers) and sometimes from the Bible (which we consider to have a mystical authority for the believer and sometimes we use unhelpful language to describe this authority, but that will be an article I write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=330&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read this article on Wrecked.org called Spotlight Living: Learning to Lead a Quiet Life speaking to the allure of being in the spotlight as Christians and how this plays out in our lives and service to God. If, like me, you&#8217;ve ever had that sense that God has &#8220;something big&#8221; planned for you, something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=183&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short-Term Missions&#8230;Destructive?</title>
		<link>http://jessemedina.com/2009/04/14/short-term-missionsdestructive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Medina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read an article on NeueMinistry.com titled To Give or To Lend exploring the good that is being brought about in countries around the world through what is called &#8220;micro-lending.&#8221; As the article explains: &#8220;Micro-lending, it is called. It offers small loans to peasants in underdeveloped countries to assist them in growing their grass-roots businesses. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=132&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://jessemedina.com/2009/03/26/hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I were talking recently about cussing around Christians and non-Christians and we both realized an interesting dynamic: we&#8217;re both more comfortable cussing around Christians than we are around non-Christians. No, I did not mess up on that sentence. You see, around other Christians especially Christian friends, we know that we won&#8217;t be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=52&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apathy</title>
		<link>http://jessemedina.com/2009/03/25/apathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relevant Magazine is doing a new campaign of sorts called Reject Apathy.  The premise, to summarize in my own words, is that talk is cheap. Let me interrupt my own thoughts for a moment: in the past year, I&#8217;ve experienced a significant paradigm shift when it comes to my understanding of salvation, the Kingdom of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessemedina.com&#038;blog=7042953&#038;post=46&#038;subd=jessegmedina&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Tension</title>
		<link>http://jessemedina.com/2009/03/21/balancingtension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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