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	<title>Giving Life Abundantly</title>
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		<title>God Restoring our Vision</title>
		<link>http://pastaj.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/restoring-the-spirits-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom Sunday is over. Eastern Hills Baptist Church&#8217;s building is paid off as God&#8217;s people worked together to remove the remaining debt. Some gave sacrificially, some gave up their indulgences, and some just gave faithfully every Sunday. It&#8217;s a time of celebration, but also a time to reset our sites on our Lord&#8217;s perspectives. Ultimately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=109&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waking Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently my wife and I have been talking about losing weight.  We both would like to look better, but I personally feel like I lack any real discipline to look the way I would actually like to.  I know that doesn&#8217;t sound very positive, and hey I said we&#8217;ve been TALKING about it, not that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=107&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did God Give Jonah Another Chance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, the last time I wrote I was feeling uncertain, feeling like Jonah, just wanting to obey&#8230;and I left it at that.
The job situation has worked out.  Despite my uncomfortableness, I&#8217;m going to work everyday and dealing daily with situations that only in the world of logistics would bring me.  God has never left my side, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=101&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Me and Ole&#8217; Jonah, Like Two Peas in a Pod</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Pastor Steve told me he would be preaching on Jonah after he wrapped up the book of Romans a couple of months ago, I had the feeling this book from God&#8217;s Word would be applying to me.  Turns out I was right.
We&#8217;re awfully hard on Jonah aren&#8217;t we.  Even non-Christians can tell us about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=99&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marked in Jail in Claremore, OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[            Mark, Chad, Zach, Johnny, RJ, Pat, Phillip, and I all have an understanding of God that we may not have had until this past Monday.  As I sat with these seven men from all walks of life who ended up in the same place by no other fault but their own, I began to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=93&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discipleship Takes Two&#8230;Especially When It&#8217;s Painful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him&#8230;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=89&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance Was Bliss&#8230;.and Now?</title>
		<link>http://pastaj.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/ignorance-was-blissand-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pastaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


 


Jesus Christ reveals things about men that we do not like to think about.  That or we simply dismiss the things he says out of hand, happy that the condemning statements he has do not apply to us, because we are of the faith, because we are saved.  I think it is a rare thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=87&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The new place&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pastaj.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/the-new-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pastaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;ve had a lot of folks ask, &#8221;How do you like the new house?&#8221;  Our answer, &#8221;We LOVE it!&#8221;  It&#8217;s new, we&#8217;re ironing out all the wrinkles that come along with moving (different bills &#8211; yadayadayada), but for the most part, it&#8217;s working out alright.  We love the central heat and air, no more cutting firewood!  Yeeehaw!  I&#8217;m only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=80&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saying &#8220;Please&#8221; to Daddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pastaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the better part of 7 years now, my wife has worked tirelessly at teaching our children manners.  Simple things, like saying &#8220;please&#8221; when they want something and saying &#8220;thank you&#8221; when they receive what they desire.  She incorporates these lessons into their everyday activities.  She&#8217;s such a good mother to my children, and rarely do I question her methods [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=78&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving closer to work&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://pastaj.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/moving-closer-to-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pastaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To those of you who keep up with this little blog&#8230;.
I haven&#8217;t forgotten about it&#8230;but right now my family and I are fixing to be in a BIG transition of life&#8230;.MOVING!  Yahoooo!  We&#8217;re all excited about it.
By the way today just happens to be Father&#8217;s Day, and with this new situation we&#8217;ve come into, it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastaj.wordpress.com&blog=1166256&post=77&subd=pastaj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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