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		<title>Colorado Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ So I am in Denver for the Graduation of my Godson Daniel and the room we are staying at has a neat idea.  Somehow they knew I have a bad memory and put this picture on the door along with the room number.  How they knew that I have a propensity for speeding tickets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partners in Africa -</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned a few days ago that Rev. Jameson Hardy and James Wolf are in Kenya and South Africa for the next few days.  Yesterday I received this picture of the welcome they received at Othoro Rescue Center.  Jameson sent me a note that David Chu Chu the project manager and Director of DCM Kenya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goose continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The paper is literally disintegrating. It is a letter from the Grafton circuit rider Rev. M.J.Haerther. It was written on 21 April 1952 several months before I was born. Not only is it fascinating because of the way it was written; on a typewriter and obviously mimeographed. It is interesting because of the fact it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have found another one of those hidden treasures.  One of our dear old Saints died and the family is going through all the things that she saved.  There was a yellowed piece of paper that was a report from the &#8220;Circuit Rider&#8221; on how the District assessments were going.  Each congregation was assigned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Good to Be King.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember the movie &#8220;the Lion King&#8221; and a song something like that.  The young Lion couldn&#8217;t wait to be King.  The phrase itself comes from Mel Brooks movie, &#8220;History of the World Part 1. Life in a fallen world is such that most of us &#8216;want to be King&#8221;, or at least be in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Choreography</title>
		<link>http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/the-grand-choreography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Greek word that  means to furnish upon. To furnish besides or in addition. To supply further. To add more unto.  Conveys the thought of a generous and lavish provision &#8211; give lavishly, give generously.  The root verb corhgew gives us our English word choreography which is defined as the sequence of steps and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifts – simple and otherwise…..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Father gives himself to us, with heaven and earth and all the creatures, in order that they may serve us and benefit us. But this gift has become obscured and useless through Adam&#8217;s fall. Therefore the Son subsequently gave Himself and bestowed all His works, sufferings, wisdom, and righteousness, and reconciled us to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Partners are in Africa Now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Jamison Hardy and James Wolf standing under the &#8220;tree of life&#8221; in Mombassa.  They are with 1001 Orphans and are great guys and good travel companions.  They are in Africa now or will be shortly to visit Project 24 rescue centers and to visit with our partners in the ELCK.  1001 Orphans kindly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sensitive dependence on initial conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; These lions picked this spot to hunt.  It is a little higher than the surrounding ground and gives them good sightline to game.  They are in a good ambush point for animals that went up into the hills behind them last night and will be coming down to the plain this morning.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy Suckers</title>
		<link>http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/joy-suckers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard Seter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.northerncrossingsmercy.org/?p=1170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people call them &#8216;psychic vampires&#8217;. I had a saying in a few years back, that&#8217;s the only person that could depress me was me&#8221;. I&#8217;ve learned since then I just had not met enough people.  There are people in our lives that are &#8220;Joy suckers&#8221;. A pastor friend of mine coined that phrase and it&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
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