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		<title>Read a good book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 14:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the Word or Truth.” (II. Timothy 2:15) I recently completed my continuing education credits for my insurance license. Every two years, I need 24 hours of study credits to keep my license valid. I have also contracted with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You just need to ask for help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Come unto Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke and learn from Me, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28) One of my Facebook friends posted that she was ready for “her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addicted to Chap Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I use a lot of Chap Stick during the winter months. My wife thinks I am “addicted” to the stuff because I use it so much. Nearly every time she sees me I am putting Chap Stick on my lips. Such a charge is unfair because the only time I use it is during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God of all creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth and I had the opportunity to fly to Meridian, Mississippi this past week. We were able to stay at a lake house which overlooked the most beautiful lake I have seen in a long time. On Tuesday, I saw the most beautiful sunrise I had ever seen. I took several pictures with the “panoramic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God of all creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth and I had the opportunity to fly to Meridian, Mississippi this past week. We were able to stay at a lake house which overlooked the most beautiful lake I have seen in a long time. On Tuesday, I saw the most beautiful sunrise I had ever seen. I took several pictures with the “panoramic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Easter about?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not about the Easter bunny. That is such a “sweet concept” (get it….”sweet”). But Easter is not about the Easter bunny, or colored eggs or candy eggs or many of the things we associate Easter with. Easter is about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is the badge of authority for the Christian. Easter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not be judgmental</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard someone say, “You’re judging me. The Bible says you’re not supposed to judge.” Matthew 7:1 is one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible. People read “Judge not, lest you should be judged…” and stop there. A recent study tells us that the Number 2 reason why 18-25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good guilt or bad guilt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to better my health since Dec. 26, 2012. Yep. The day after Christmas, I set out to get healthy. I have changed the way I eat, enrolled in a Karate class, work out at home, walk a lot more than I used to and try to be more active. So far, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you believe, matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I wrote about our cat chasing after a red laser light that we flash on the floor and the wall and the fact that he couldn’t “catch” it. He’s really funny to watch, but he thinks he can catch the red dot. He’s running after something we would call “elusive.” I also said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the elusive butterfly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I introduced our cat, Dexter, to a red laser light this week. You know, the kind where you shine it on the floor or the wall and cats go wild? He loves it. He runs after it, spins around and tries to “catch” it. He is so funny. He runs up and down our hallway, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying must be stopped</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said, “Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying. It has to stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of bullying has seen a great amount of discussion in London and Madison County this week. The news of what happened last week has spread like wildfire through dry sagebrush. Bullying has always been around. It started with Cain and Abel back in the Old Testament, back when the world was still young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ‘all-in’ for God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. (Matthew 22:36-40) The Bible is pretty clear. When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment in the law, He answered that we should love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is still in control of what happens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in the woods the other day, waiting for a deer to come along, (it never did) and while I was there, I was able to experience the beauty of the woods “waking up.” If you have never been in a woods at 5:30 in the morning, and seen what happens when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make God your first resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me wish you a very Happy New Year. Can you believe it? We are standing in the doorway of a brand-spanking new year. And I am sure many of you have already made some New Year’s resolutions. I was looking at the sale ads in the Sunday paper and I noticed there are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘O Holy Night’ has meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christmas Hymn, “O Holy Night” was written by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877) and then translated from French to English by John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893). Cappeau, a wine merchant of Roquemaure, France wrote poems for his own enjoyment and was asked by the church to write this poem. It was later put to music by Composer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is with us at all times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday morning, Nov. 18, I preached a message entitled, “Stick With the Plan” based on the book of Esther. One of the points I made was that God has you where you are to fulfill His will in your life, to bless others and to bring honor and glory to Him. Esther was at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take your best shot life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1979, Pat Benatar sang a song entitled, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot!” Many times we realize that life isn’t easy, some days it’s just a battle to survive and in the best of circumstances life can be very difficult. You can be cooling your heels in the blue waters of the Caribbean and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the shadow of the cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the day that Jesus was born, He lived “in the shadow of the cross.” The cross was never absent from His mind, it was never far from His soul, it was never out of His heart. Jesus came into this world to die on the cross to pay our sin debt. In doctrinal terms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever felt you were overlooked?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thad Gifford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever visited a church and been overlooked? It’s an incredibly awkward and uncomfortable feeling. What’s odd is the churches that appear to be unfriendly to outsiders can be full of the friendliest people in the world…if you are an “insider.” The church needs to remember that Jesus came for the “outsiders” — the [...]]]></description>
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