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    <description><![CDATA[// the patron Saint of reversed blessings
// the patron Saint of paint ( I love paintings fool!)
// the patron Saint of 'Holybrow' (born-again 'Lowbrow' fool!)
// the patron Saint of inverse cleverness
QUOTE: "Clever Me Bad"
CIVA member

<a href="http://sacredism.com" target="_blank">Sacredism.com </a> // East Texas Fine arts Movement
<a href="http://www.valentiger.com" target="_blank">Valentiger.com</a> // Artist Interviews
  <a href="http://mfnd.org" target="_blank">mfnd.org</a> // Ministry For Nefarious Design ~Headquarters & BLOG!
    <a href="http://holybrow.com" target="_blank">Holybrow.com</a> // Alternative/Underground Christian Art]]></description>
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      <title>Agony of st. Mars</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:16:58 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>M anyF oundN ewD emons</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1252222</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1252222"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-435588-manyfoundnewdemons.jpg" /></a><p>Again digging amongst the MFND photo archives, I found another photo during the time of the &#039;dark revival&#039;. In the photo, I believe a lust-deliverance is being performed. Ventrilvill was said to host many ungoddly persons.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 04:51:29 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Dark Revival</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1252220</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1252220"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-435584-_tentreviv.jpg" /></a><p>...digging amongst the MFND.org photo archives, I found a file with some of the &#039;dark revival&#039; photos. These date back to around the early fifties. The Ventrilvill incident was said, at that time, to be the begining of the end of the world. I believe this photo shows the &#039;firery mote&#039; which was said to encircle the revival tent; it was said to burn alive any unrepentant soul.<br />
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 04:48:36 -0700</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 03:54:12 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>R3P3NT</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1240363</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1240363"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-406073-R3P3NT.gif" /></a><p>R3P3NT</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 03:31:17 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>mArs</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1232866</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1232866"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-386853-marsport.jpg" /></a><p>st. Mars Eve</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:23:22 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>ghostVirb</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:13:43 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Hobro Force</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1207553</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1207553"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-325789-TITLEholybrow.jpg" /></a><p>Rise Up Hobros!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:14:21 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Drunken</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1205149</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1205149"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-319705-f_eye_bottle.jpg" /></a><p>Pencil on board</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:58:43 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Holybrow : Christian Lowbrow</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1205125</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/mfnd/photos/1205125"><img src="http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/Image-12951-319639-ringsideoldpage.jpg" /></a><p>Yes, it is inevitable, Holybrow : the Christian Lowbrow. Oxymoron?….kinda like a juxtapozition?  He he he….</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:11:05 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Fav Videos</title>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">OK,some of my fav online vids!!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">(...I'm linking old school...I'll get my video-scripts ready soon)</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">This is my top 4 list:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">1:Farting Preacher: <a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/C68342670A584CC5AC9D80438390DB5B/the-farting-preacher.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.livevideo.com/video/C68342670A584CC5AC9D80438390DB5B/the-farting-preacher.aspx</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">...this kills me!! I watch this whenever I need to laugh out loud!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">2:Bodies Hit the Floor:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvU-DislkI&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvU-DislkI&feature=related</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">This should have been the real video! I get glued to its creepiness!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">3:Tom Cruise Farting:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9c3YhDLpmU&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9c3YhDLpmU&feature=related</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">...farting is funny!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">4:Jake E Lee Shreds:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBzWZq4fXg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBzWZq4fXg</a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">Steve Vai Shreds:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI</a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">This is funny & not funny:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">Hill$ong:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hraz3n-e9eA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hraz3n-e9eA</a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt">st. Mars</div>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:04:03 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Make Friends, Not Drawings</title>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Make Friends, Not Drawings</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yep! I've put a nice random image/header script up to help facilitate any new MFND acrostic ideas...Every time you reload the page, the image might change.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Make Friends, Not Drawings"....OK, I love making new friends(potential enemies), but the 'not drawing' is supposed to be self reverse psychology ( I need to crack open the sketchbook!)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1st quarter of the year resolution: daily blogging for MFND & updates to the POPcalypse.com art blog!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">check back tomorrow for a new idea, art, link or inspiration!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-st. Mars</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mfnd.org/">http://mfnd.org</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">btw, MFND is the mother-hub for all other st. Mars ventures including:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://valentiger.com/">http://valentiger.com/</a> <span>  </span>over 60 artist bios & art</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://holybrow.com/">http://holybrow.com/</a> <span>  </span>underground Christian art</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://sacredism.com/">http://sacredism.com/</a> <span>  </span>local art/music gatherings</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://popcalypse.com/">http://popcalypse.com/</a> <span>  </span>art blog</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/saint_mars">http://www.flickr.com/saint_mars</a> <span>  </span>my stuff</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.virb.com/mfnd">http://www.virb.com/mfnd</a> <span>  </span>networkin'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/faithinart">http://www.myspace.com/faithinart</a> <span>  </span>more networkin'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://plasticbabyjesus.com/">http://plasticbabyjesus.com</a> <span>  </span>future band/performance art site</p>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:04:35 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Some of my Fav Music links..</title>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of my Fav Music links..</p>

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...this is for alternative/indie music:
<a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/</a>
& <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47446-staff-list-top-50-albums-of-2007" target="_blank">http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47446-staff-list-top-50-albums-of-2007</a>
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album art
<a href="http://albumart.org/" target="_blank">http://albumart.org/</a>

& album art history
<a href="http://sleevage.com/" target="_blank">http://sleevage.com/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">new music :
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/</a>



<p class="MsoNormal">I was digging thru the Sound Opinions site & found these cool podcasts:

best of 2007
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/121407/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/121407/shownotes.html</a>


Unsung Heroes of Rock and Roll
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2008/011808/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2008/011808/shownotes.html</a>

The Mid-Year Best of 2007
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/061507/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/061507/shownotes.html</a>

Buried Treasures
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/072707/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/072707/shownotes.html</a>

Arcade Fire
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/archive/2007/july.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/archive/2007/july.html</a>

Buried Treasures2
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/112307/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/112307/shownotes.html</a>

Best Lead Off Tracks
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/083107/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2007/083107/shownotes.html</a>

Guilty pleasures
<a href="http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2006/090906/shownotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2006/090906/shownotes.html</a>

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-st. Mars @ <a href="http://mfnd.org/">http://mfnd.org</a></span>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:15:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are a few interesting blog finds:</p>

<h2>America's 25 Most Innovative Churches of 2008</h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal"><a href="http://churchrelevance.com/americas-25-most-innovative-churches-of-2008/"><b>http://churchrelevance.com/americas-25-most-innovative-churches-of-2008/</b></a></span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal">.</span></h2>
<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt">Is American Christianity Turning Charismatic?</span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal">"<span class="bodytext">One out of every four Protestant churches in the United States (23%) is a charismatic congregation."</span></span></h1>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt"><a href="http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&BarnaUpdateID=287">http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&BarnaUpdateID=287</a></span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt">.</span></h2>
<h2>It's not "all about the afterlife"</h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt"><a href="http://revolutioninjesusland.com/index.php/2008/01/10/deep-shift/">http://revolutioninjesusland.com/index.php/2008/01/10/deep-shift/</a></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal"></span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal">.</span></h2>
<h1>Man sees 'mark,' cuts off hand</h1>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/09/hand.cut.off.ap/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/09/hand.cut.off.ap/index.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal"></span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal"> </span></h2>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:34:47 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>EPIC Year '08 Prayer</title>
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<p class="MsoNormal">EPIC Year '08</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is the first day of my family's 'Epic' year.<span>  </span>The 'Epic' is the theme of the year; I've felt that the Lord has given this to me as direction/vision for my family. I personally see it as prophetic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>  </span>OK, as for new Epic plans, my wife, the two oldest kids, and I, will be weekly choosing a letter from the word EPIC, and writing a prayer based on it, For instance, I'll go first:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">...Since today is the first day of the year, & the first scripture of the Word is, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"....</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>  </span>I will choose 'C', for create. My prayer,</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText">"Lord, let me create as you create. Let my be holy as you are holy, unique and separate.<span>  </span>Let my creativity be God-breathed.<span>  </span>Let this new Epic year be full of new creations, as I am a new creation: created in the image of Christ."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amen, st. Mars</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mfnd.org/">http://mfnd.org</a></p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:34:21 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>'And' it to me!</title>
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<h3>A great blog sermon I found by Joe Miller:</h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.ortingreunion.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=60">Joe Miller</a>'s</h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.morethancake.org/2007/12/living-in-and.html">Living In The AND</a></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: 15.5pt">Genesis 25: 20-21, 26</span></b>
Now Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean. And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> Rebekah his wife conceived... Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
<p class="MsoNormal"> Read the passage carefully. Did you catch it? The simple word <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> covers <b>20 years of waiting</b> for God to fulfill His promise and answer Issac's prayer.</p>
<b><span style="color: #000066">Can you relate to Issac's situation?</span></b>
Here is a man, the object of a generational promise from God, whose son will become the father of a great nation. At age 40 he prays to God and pleads, "YHWH, please allow my wife to become pregnant."

<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>1 month goes by with no answer...
<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>6 months goes by with absolute silence...
<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>a year goes by while Rebekah remains barren...
<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>2 years pass with nothing...
<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>5 years pass with no answer to the prayer...
<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>10 years lapse yet God has not kept His word...
<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>19 years go by as Issac waits for the hidden promise...

<b><span style="color: #000066">Have you ever experienced this kind of pain? </span></b>
"God, I prayed <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> you have not healed my loved one?"
"God, my heart longs for a child <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> you have not allowed me to become pregnant?"
"God, you have promised me hope, <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> yet I live in pain?"
"God, I have failed you <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>maybe I just don't deserve your love... do I?"
"God, I pray <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>are you don't answer... are you punishing me?"
"God, I am weak <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> I pray in weakness... do I no longer deserve an answer from You?"

<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND </span></i></b>finally, after 20 years of anxious tears, the rabbit dies... the test strip turns pink... <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> Rebekah is pregnant with her promise!

So many years, so many emotions, so many questions and all we read in the Scripture is the single conjunction<b><i> <span style="color: #663300">AND</span>.</i></b>

<b><span style="color: #000066">Are you living in the</span> <i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i><span style="color: #000066">?</span></b>
This passage says nothing of a man's emotional impotence during the unresolved <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b>.
We experience no connection to a woman's heart lost in the shame of <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b>.

The silence of Scripture regarding Issac and Rebekah's 20 year struggle is not because God cares nothing for this period of their life. The Scripture simply says, "<b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b> she conceived" so that we, the reader of history, will keep our hearts focused on the absolute hope of God's promise that never falls short.

Your situation is unique. There is no passage of Scripture that can adequately describe your pain or encompass your longing, but this story of Issac and Rebekah describes perfectly God's unfailing covenant-love that will see you, and me, through the <b><i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i></b>.

<b><span style="color: #000066">God has promised you life eternal, never regreat living in the</span> <i><span style="color: #663300">AND</span></i><span style="color: #000066">!</span></b>
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I was flippin'(backwards) thru a Quran when I ran across 2:62 (the Cow):
"Those who are Jews, and Christians, and Sabaeans - whoever believeth in Allah and the Last Day and doeth right - surely their reward is with their Lord, and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve."
& I also found 5:69:
"Lo! those who believe, and those who are Jews, and Sabaeans, and Christians - Whosoever believeth in Allah and the Last Day and doeth right - there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve."
 After reading this...all the Islam hype seems dull.  When it comes down to it (I know I am under-simplifying), the Quran is just another Old School New Age text. 'Do good, try to believe in something, & you'll make it!'
I am proud that the Bible doesn't waver. It lays out precise guidelines & laws. Don't let your faith be shaken, its founded on a solid rock.
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      <title>Top Things I Hope NOT to Find Under My Tree in the Morning...&amp; Prayer from the cell</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Top Things I Hope NOT to Find Under My Tree in the Morning...& Prayer from the cell

2 great blog finds:

http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1746
&
http://mondaymorninginsight.com/index.php/site/comments/top_things_i_hope_not_to_find_under_my_tree_in_the_morning/
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...it all started with me lookin' to implement some kind of value system for my family.  I had looked at 'family constitutions' and  other family contracts....well, they all seemed to stiff for my crew. I said a little prayer; I set the idea aside.  Several weeks later, the Lord had spoke 'Epic' to me. The idea was foreign enough for me to realize that it was from God, however, at the time I wasn't quite sure what it meant. At first I actually thought it was some kind of anagram, but I felt the Lord say that 'Epic' was the theme for my family in '08.  All the concepts fell into line...this was not just a theme; it was prophetic - a vision.  Its now my turn to align my purposes, plans, and expectations for my family; align to God's vision. Its gonna be an Epic new year!
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