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		<title>Gotta Get There Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been in a 3-legged race? I remember them well from growing up. One of your legs is tied to your partners leg and you run together trying to reach the finish line. The key word&#8230;TOGETHER. If you try to go separate directions&#8230;if one of you goes too fast or too slow&#8230;if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are Your Mile Markers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, I have really begun to identify with Abraham. Here is a guy that God told to just get up and go and he got up and went. no detailed vision no defined finish line He had to move in faith knowing that God would take Him from mile marker to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are You Demonstrating?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am what you call a visual learner. I love a good demonstration. Know who does that well? Vacuum salesmen. When they knock on your door, they don&#8217;t come in and just tell you about their product. They demonstrate: How it works What it does How it will revolutionize your life What makes it worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe It’s Time to Get a Divorce.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was watching the Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian movie with my family. It was an okay flick&#8230;a little less cheesy than the first in my opinion. There was one line that really stuck out to me. It was when Lucy finds Aslan and asks him why he did not come and help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When You CAN’T Do It.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most iconic movie quotes from my generation is &#8220;You can DO it!&#8221; Or, who hasn&#8217;t read or had read to them the story of the Little Engine Who Could with it&#8217;s reverberation of, &#8220;I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.&#8221; And, of course, one of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Holding You Back?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember from my youth ministry days an inflatable that I would sometimes rent for major events. It was called a bungee run. The concept was simple enough. Two people, standing side-by-side, strap themselves to a bungee cord attached to the back of a long aisle. On go, they both run as hard and fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s New?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love new things. They&#8217;re fresh. They&#8217;re exciting. They&#8217;re&#8230;well&#8230;NEW. I firmly believe we have to regularly experience new things. It both lets us know we&#8217;re moving forward and KEEPS us moving forward. If it&#8217;s always the &#8220;same old, same old&#8221;&#8230;then we&#8217;ve probably hit a rut and are in danger of becoming ineffective. Think about all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Eat the Marshmallow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A running joke for the past several years in our staff has been, &#8220;I&#8217;d eat the marshmallow.&#8221; It started when one of us read about a study that was conducted years ago by putting children in a room with a single marshmallow on a plate. They were then told that they could either eat the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Eye or Critical Spirit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the unfortunate side-effects of being human is the constant need to deal with one&#8217;s humanity&#8230;aka, the tendency to err. I recently made a statement that was less than wise&#8230;and, quite frankly, unkind. My background in theatre and event programming has taught me to look at things with a critical eye. Unfortunately, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are You Building Monuments?</title>
		<link>http://www.jacook.org/why-are-you-building-monuments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ja Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jacook.org/?p=2160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, my oldest son starting taking karate at a local dojo. A few months in, we attended his first tournament. Being so young, there wasn&#8217;t much to it for him&#8230;a simple obstacle course. But, at the end of the course, everyone who participate received a trophy. You would have thought it was Christmas. He [...]]]></description>
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