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		<title>WOW!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=585</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very, very encouraged when I received this email from Pastor Tammy Swanson-Draheim from First Covenant Church in Mason City, Iowa.
I am so proud of Tammy and the congregation for following through on the Veritas challenge to create a behavioral covenant.  She prefers to call it a “relational” covenant, which is a wonderful adaptation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Testing Phase</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=507</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I received a prayer letter from Blessing Point Ministries.   Their role is to help churches in the revitalization process.
What caught my attention is the &#8220;testing phase&#8221; and how this is similar to what some churches experience after they attend Veritas.
Check it out…
When a church responds to the Lord and addresses the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revitalization Lessons from G.M.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=452</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American industry will never be the same.  On Monday, G.M. declared bankruptcy.  This story is all over the media and many pundits are weighing in on what went wrong from a business perspective.
I want to turn the conversation to a spiritual one.  Now, I am not a businessman or an economist, but I&#8217;ve been wondering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for the Journey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=434</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=434#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Olson is my good friend and colleague.  In a meeting once, I heard someone ask him to describe the ministry of church planting in the Covenant.  I was intrigued by the way Dave answered the question.
Dave said, “Here are the five questions we are seeking to answer in the ministry of church planting.”  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you handle the truth?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=416</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Covenant pastor in his mid thirties designed a tee-shirt that grabbed my attention:
VERITAS ME.  I Can Handle the Truth.
I admire this pastor’s courage to let the truth come out about himself and the congregation he leads. When I see pastors and congregations willing to confront their current reality in a civil, compassionate and Christ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Coaches for the ECC</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=361</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=361#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a pastor in today’s world is complex and challenging. Dallas Willard once told our D.Min. class, “There is so much pressure on pastors to succeed.” I know. I was one for 21 years.
While serving as a pastor I sometimes felt alone and discouraged. There were times when I simply did not know how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behavioral Covenants</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=353</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=353#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journey of revitalization is both adventurous and treacherous. During the adventurous part of the journey, you can just feel the love, baby. I wish I could sing it like Barry White!
It is during the treacherous part of the journey that a Behavioral Covenant really comes into play. How do we walk in hand in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inconvenienced for the sake of the Gospel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=342</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie and I are members at Hope Covenant Church in Crystal Lake, Illinois. We started attending when we moved here three years ago. Within weeks of our arrival, the senior pastor resigned for another call, then an interim served for a year and now we have a new senior pastor. I am learning first hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moving Experience…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=324</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=324#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got a 100 year old church&#8230; what does it take to move that church?
I mean really move it?!
Check out this video…

How would you apply this to the ministry of revitalization within in the Covenant?
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		<title>The Challenge of Transformation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=314</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.covchurch.org/revive/?p=314#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few hours ago, I received an encouraging email from a Covenant pastor. He told me, “Thanks for all you are doing for the Kingdom and our movement.” That felt really good, because I do get discouraged sometimes with the state of the church.
He directed my attention to a blog entry by William Willimon. [...]]]></description>
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