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		<title>Worship preview from Pastor Mike</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Housholder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Housholder Senior pastor This weekend at worship, I&#8217;ll take you on an interesting and relevant tour of a biblical love story (and a haircut!) gone wrong between Samson and Delilah. The failed romance between these two bigger-than-life personalities points out some obvious pitfalls for anyone in a relationship. More importantly, it challenges us as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Story: Learning much from those with so little</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Behnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Mission Robin&#8217;s Nest is a Hope mission partner. Here&#8217;s a wonderful Hope Story from Byron and Marcene Culbertson on their recent experience serving at this children&#8217;s home in Montego Bay in Jamaica. We have returned from Robin’s Nest, a Christian children’s home on a mountaintop outside Montego Bay in Jamaica. Although words will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor Mike’s News and Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Housholder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Housholder Senior pastor Worship Preview: &#8220;And the Walls Came Tumbling Down&#8221; Our journey through the Bible together as a church family continues this weekend with another story from Scripture that is too often ignored, dismissed, or misunderstood (by both believers and non-believers). I’ll preach from the Book of Joshua about a courageous warrior, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s new in February? 5 things for your calendar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Behnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Suzanne Behnke Communications editor 2012 is one-twelfth over already! Does that make you pause? That&#8217;s a  slightly dramatic way of saying that February is here. The point is that there&#8217;s plenty going on at Hope if you haven&#8217;t considered getting connected or serving in some way this year. We want to point out five ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worship preview: Take on the giants!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brandt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Brandt Minister of Children and Students After Moses and the gang left Egypt, they wandered around the desert for several years before coming to the edge of the land of Canaan; the land God had promised He would give them. In this weekend&#8217;s message, Moses sent out 12 scouts to report on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning a language to live (in Paris or in Christ)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Rains</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Scott Rains Hope Ankeny campus pastor When I was in high school, I took four years of French. I learned grammar and vocabulary, I learned to conjugate verbs. I learned slang expressions (some of which were not part of the curriculum). During the spring of my senior year, I went to France with our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor Mike’s worship preview: Pharoah falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Housholder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Housholder Senior pastor This week, our Bible readings take us through the central story of the Old Testament – the exodus of God’s people from slavery and oppression in Egypt to the freedom and new life of a promised land. It is a story of good and evil, heroes and villains, mystery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stick to the path</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brandt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Brandt Minister of Children and Students &#8220;If  you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you. as he swore to your forefathers.&#8221; Deuteronomy 7:12 NIV Have you noticed how easy it is to lose focus on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.</title>
		<link>http://connect.hopewdm.org/remembering-martin-luther-king-jr</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Behnke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today as you go about your daily routine or activities, take a moment to remember the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This is a federal holiday to recognize the man who pursued justice, love and peace. If you are looking for ways to serve the church or community, please go here. Martin Luther King Jr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worship preview by Pastor Mike: Faith under fire</title>
		<link>http://connect.hopewdm.org/worship-preview-by-pastor-mike-faith-under-fire</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Housholder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Housholder Senior pastor Sometimes it’s nice to walk along the beach, warm ocean waves slowly trickling up and over our feet. Much of the Bible is like that – an easy and gentle journey with God, filled with stories of comfort and peace. Then there are times when reading the Bible feels more [...]]]></description>
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