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	<title>David Ralph</title>
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	<description>Just some thoughts and ideas</description>
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		<title>Sensitivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acts 17 records three encounters that Paul has with three groups of people who live in three different places &#8211; the Thessalonians, the Bereans, the Athenians.  In the first two encounters we find Paul in the local synagogue &#8220;reasoning and explaining and proving from the scriptures&#8221; who Jesus was and why Jesus came.  He is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2011/02/03/sensitivity/</link>
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		<title>The Storm Is Coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I drove into the church today, no matter what radio channel I listened to, it was all about the impending snow storm that is to arrive over the next 24 hours.   One radio station was &#8220;in the street&#8221; asking people what they are going to do to prepare for the storm.   There were all sorts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2011/02/01/the-storm-is-coming/</link>
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		<title>A New Metric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this quote this morning from Oswald Chambers -  &#8220;The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private time of fellowship and oneness with Him.&#8221;     Too often those of us who are teachers and leaders are guilty of measuring the value of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2011/01/06/a-new-metric/</link>
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		<title>Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of any new year the making of resolutions is pretty common.  We look back over the previous year and we discern things that need to be changed.  It might be to lose a few pounds.  It might be to eat better, get more rest, be better in some kind of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2011/01/01/resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Just Keep Fishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading through the book of Luke in my personal devotional time.  I have probably read this book more than a dozen times on top of the portions I have studied in message preparation.  I am not sure why but there are some things that I am reading and discerning and discovering that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2010/11/01/just-keep-fishing/</link>
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		<title>The Complexity of It All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the chance once again to spend a day with a group of pastors from some of the largest churches in Ontario.  I love this group of guys.  They are some of the best and brightest minds in the church world.  I’m not sure why they let me in the group but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2010/10/22/the-complexity-of-it-all/</link>
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		<title>Concerns for the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bible writer Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:28, &#8220;Besides everything else, I face the daily pressure of my concern for all the churches&#8221;.  Paul shares in the previous verses about the intensity of the suffering that he had endured as a leader in the newly formed church.  Beatings, stonings, lashings, shipwrecks, sleeplessness, hunger and nakedness.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2010/10/15/concerns-for-the-church/</link>
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		<title>The Speed at the Track</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the chance to go out with a group of professional drivers on one of Canada&#8217;s best race tracks in some of the fastest road cars available on the market.  I had a chance to go around the track in two different models from Porsche and an awesome Audi.  We traveled at times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2010/10/04/the-speed-at-the-track/</link>
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		<title>Temptation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend&#8217;s talk at Lakeside is all about facing temptation and the consequences we experience when we cross the line of temptation.  We will be looking at the life of David and his infamous affair with Bathsheba.  In my study time this week I came across a great piece by Detrich Bonnhoffer about temptation.  Because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2010/09/24/temptation/</link>
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		<title>The Words of a Saint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading the private writings of Mother Teresa over the last few days and I today I came upon the parting words her mother shared with her as Mother Teresa left home to begin her ministry as a missionary to the poor in India.  Listen to what she wrote.  &#8220;Put your hand in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidralph.ca/2010/09/23/the-words-of-a-saint/</link>
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