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<title>Riding the Rollercoaster</title>
<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;You tend to overestimate what you can accomplish in one year; but you underestimate what you can do in five years&mdash;if you really focus.&rdquo; I don&rsquo;t know who first said this or even where I first heard it. I know it has been true at International Missions.

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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/mcpeak/2009/04-17/riding-the-rollercoaster</link>
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<title>The Younger Generation</title>
<description><![CDATA[I don&rsquo;t know when it happened. I&rsquo;m not even sure when it first dawned on me, but I am coming to terms with being viewed by younger guys as an older minister. Granted, many preachers are older than me, but more and more are younger. The same is true with mi...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/simpson/2008/11-12/the-younger-generation</link>
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<title>Faith and Fear</title>
<description><![CDATA[Did you hear what the president said regarding the nation&rsquo;s economic crisis?

    &ldquo;Values have shrunken to fantastic levels;&hellip;our ability to pay has fallen;&hellip; the savings of many years in     thousands of families are gone. More important, a host of unempl...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/mccullough/2008/10-24/faith-and-fear</link>
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<title>Filling the Empty Spaces</title>
<description><![CDATA[Do you hate conflict? Do your insides get all tangled up in knots when you see someone you think is mad at you? Have you been wounded deeply by words spoken in anger? Do you regret the relationship damage you&rsquo;ve done to other people &ndash; those you&rsquo;re supposed...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/mcpeak/2008/10-10/filling-the-empty-spaces</link>
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<title>One Weekend</title>
<description><![CDATA[My wife, Sheila, and I had been married less than a year when we found ourselves as parents of eight children.  That&rsquo;s right&hellip;eight.  We had joined the staff at the Free Will Baptist Home for Children in East Tennessee as house parents. 

As newlyweds wit...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/gilliland/2008/09-03/one-weekend</link>
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<title>Restoration of Creativity</title>
<description><![CDATA[Creativity pours from God in multiple ways&mdash;from creation past to daily displays of wonder in nature and humankind. Created in His image, human beings have been endowed with a good measure of the same creativity. The arts, like all cultural endeavors, are a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/turnbough/2008/08-06/restoration-of-creativity</link>
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<title>Get Off the Sidewalk</title>
<description><![CDATA[The house I grew up in was probably less than 500 square feet. It was so small we had to go outside to just change our minds.  From the back door of our little gray-shingled house were four steps that emptied onto a little sidewalk that inched its way past...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/gilliland/2008/05-27/get-off-the-sidewalk</link>
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<title>Enough!</title>
<description><![CDATA[I could not speak Portuguese; he could not speak English. About the same age, we stood there nervously, looking at each other, trying to find a way to communicate. Eventually, one of our former missionaries to Brazil came close. Finally. A translator.

W...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/forlines/2008/04-16/enough</link>
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<title>Unity in Diversity</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve been serving at the mission for a little over 14 months. The learning curve has been, and still is, rather steep. My wife Jena and I are still adjusting to the change in the rhythm of our lives. At the risk of sounding self-serving, I don&rsquo;t think the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/simpson/2008/03-14/unity-in-diversity</link>
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<title>Warts and All</title>
<description><![CDATA[Our old friend was sick&hellip;very sick.

To say, he was an old friend is anemic; he was our confidant and mentor. Even more, our old friend Dan Cronk was our hero. And now he was very sick. We knew the time for him to transition from the temporal to the etern...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/gilliland/2008/01-18/warts-and-all</link>
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<title>What matters most...?</title>
<description><![CDATA[As the air is turning cooler (finally!) and we are adjusting our schedules to get my son to and from basketball practices and games, I am reminded of my younger years growing up in Indiana where we lived for winter because winter meant basketball.  Hoosier...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/conley/2007/11-13/what-matters-most</link>
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<title>On A Winter&apos;s Morning</title>
<description><![CDATA[I love the early mornings. I think better. And it seems the Lord speaks to me more clearly at 5:30 a.m. than He does the rest of the day. It was a cold morning in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the Lord spoke. I wrote what I heard and I am still trying to li...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:33:26 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/gilliland/2007/10-30/on-a-winters-morning</link>
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<title>Change</title>
<description><![CDATA[Change is a challenge for all of us. We have a desire for the familiar. Some people have a greater capacity for ambiguity and can tolerate change with greater ease, but these people are rare.

I read an interview with a man who had been held in a gulag i...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:29:53 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/forlines/2007/09-19/change</link>
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<title>Trust</title>
<description><![CDATA[My predecessor at IM worked under the title &ldquo;director of public relations.&rdquo; When I took the job, we changed the moniker to &ldquo;director of communications.&rdquo; Over the last couple of years, I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion the name should be changed to &ldquo;director of t...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:04:35 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/mcpeak/2007/08-31/trust</link>
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<title>Brazil...</title>
<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to travel to Brazil for some meetings with our Latin America regional missionaries. The meetings we had were very productive and we traveled to visit several of the mission works in the state of S&atilde;o Paulo, Brazil. Following a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:27:39 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/conley/2007/06-26/brazil</link>
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<title>Just Another Prayer Meeting</title>
<description><![CDATA[It was just another prayer meeting with the usual number of attendees. 

Our Wednesday night prayer meetings at New Hope are held in a Sunday school classroom so that the choir can practice in the sanctuary. Many years ago, we changed our Wednesday eveni...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:39:36 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/simpson/2007/04-13/just-another-prayer-meeting</link>
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<title>Lessons from Alan</title>
<description><![CDATA[My wife Jennifer and I have two children, 13-year-old Austin and 10-year-old Alan.&nbsp; Austin is a great kid: very intelligent, athletic, and quite the typical 13-year-old middle-schooler in many ways.

Alan is anything but typical.&nbsp; We learned Al...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:21:04 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/conley/2006/12-01/lessons-from-alan</link>
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<title>Loss</title>
<description><![CDATA[All of us experience loss.  We lose our keys. We lose our glasses.  Some lose hair and/or teeth. We lose the vigor we had in our youth and try to muster enough energy to get through the day. We lose friends when we move.  We lose loved ones in the shadows ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:23:50 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/gilliland/2006/10-03/loss</link>
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<title>Blunt Force Trauma</title>
<description><![CDATA[My first overseas missions trip changed my entire perspective of life.  At the time I pastored a local church.  I supported missions financially each month.  I led our church in increasing our missions support.  We prayed for missionaries.  Nothing I had e...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:26:31 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/forlines/2006/09-01/blunt-force-trauma</link>
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<title>Mysterious Ways</title>
<description><![CDATA[A missionary friend recently told an amazing story from North Africa about God&apos;s powerful and mysterious workings. A couple came to know Christ in a Muslim country where conversion is strictly forbidden and the population closely monitored.

Overwhelmed ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://new.fwbgo.com/blog/mcpeak/2006/07-09/mysterious-ways</link>
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