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		<title>Thoughts on planning for the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How did I get here? That is a question often asked. We find ourselves at a certain place, in a certain situation, even having become a certain person, and we wonder how it all happened. The thought I have is that the present I am living today, the life I have, who I am, what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/05/17/thoughts-on-planning-for-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Living on the Front Foot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living on the Front Foot! Recently Joe Frazier died. He was the world heavyweight boxing champ in the early 70’s, best known for some amazing fights with Mohammed Ali. Joe Frazier was an underweight, under-talented heavyweight, but he won the heavyweight boxing title and held on to it for more than three years. Besides a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/05/10/living-on-the-front-foot/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the National Day of Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the National Day of Prayer, a time when Christians are encouraged to pray for America. Psalm 33:12, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord”is the key Bible verse for 2012’s National Day of Prayer. The National Day of Prayer began in 1952 as a petition to Congress and was signed into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/05/03/thoughts-on-the-national-day-of-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on General Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Methodist Church General Conference began on Tuesday, April 24, and will run through May 4 in Tampa, Florida. The Methodist General Conference meets every four years and has around 1,000 clergy and lay representatives from all over the world representing 8 million Methodist in the U.S. and almost 5 million worldwide, mostly in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/04/25/thoughts-on-general-conference/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on serving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We are in a special season in the life of our church called Serving from the Heart. It is not about recruiting volunteers but about celebrating the many ways each of us serve God ? in the church, at home, in the community, in our families and in the variety of ways our church [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/04/19/thoughts-on-serving/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on what happens next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the life of the church, the Christian Easter might be the biggest celebration. Not only do we celebrate the Resurrection — the core of the Christian faith — but the weekend is typically the biggest attended worship time in churches all around the world, something certainly true at First Methodist Mansfield. We had just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/04/12/thoughts-on-what-happens-next/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Holy Week and Easter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We began Holy Week with a great Palm Sunday weekend. The children waving Palm branches and the continued telling of the story of Christ’s life and message were inspiring and meaningful. I also always enjoy the afternoon children&#8217;s program and Easter Egg Hunt at Rose Park. I would like to encourage you now to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/04/05/thoughts-on-holy-week-and-easter/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on consecrating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished running; I’m getting ready for the Son Run on April 21. I have also lost 30 pounds since last year’s Son Run. Why, you ask? Last year I ran for one of the first times in years. I had been going to the gym, mostly lifting weights — which I enjoy — [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/03/29/thoughts-on-consecrating/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on godliness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.” (1 Timothy 6:6-7) These words from the Bible not only contain a great deal of wisdom — not only are they helpful and full of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/03/22/thoughts-on-godliness/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on repentance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1889, the government opened up land for the taking in Oklahoma. It became what we call today the “Oklahoma Land Rush.” At a moment in 1889, a gun went off and thousands of people headed into the state to carve out 160 acres of the best land they could find. Five thousand settlers jumped on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mikeramsdell.com/2012/03/15/thoughts-on-repentance/</link>
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