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		<title>Why We Need to Persevere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modeling Perseverance is one of the most powerful forms of spiritual influence. We don’t seem to use the word perseverance very often. Maybe because it has the word severe in it. Or maybe it seems a bit old-fashioned, like King James Bible English. There is no question that other words roll more easily off the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/05/15/why-we-need-to-persevere/</link>
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		<title>John Stott&#8217;s Final Public Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I have given copies of this to many leaders, and have had leadership groups listen to the audio in groups. This is a seminal address. Every Christian leader should read this!] John Stott Address at Keswick Dr. John Stott – ‘The model – becoming more like Christ.’ Sermon delivered at the Keswick Convention July 17th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/05/14/stottaddress/</link>
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		<title>One Large Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One large truth keeps dropping in front of my face ever since the death of philosopher and author Dallas Willard last week. I&#8217;ve read numerous tributes by friends and associates of Willard&#8217;s and they keep bringing up this one large truth. I had just one conversation with Dallas Willard years ago, but it confirmed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/05/13/one-large-truth/</link>
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		<title>Learn to Follow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stories of Influence: Learn to Follow Learning to follow is an essential characteristic of life, work, and leadership. It helps us to influence others for the right reasons. &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/05/11/learn-to-follow-2/</link>
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		<title>Facing Treachery, Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Psalm 25 says “they will be put to share who are treacherous without excuse.” In the aftermath of the terrorist bombing in Boston, we may pray other words from the same psalm: “To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.”]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/04/16/facing-treachery-again/</link>
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		<title>Waiting &#8211; the Day in the Tomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate&#8217;s permission, he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/03/30/waiting-the-day-in-the-tomb/</link>
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		<title>Good Friday &#8211; Crucifixion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They came to a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/03/29/good-friday-crucifixion/</link>
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		<title>What is &#8220;Maundy Thursday&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said, &#8220;Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/03/28/what-is-maundy-thursday/</link>
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		<title>A New Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Announcing&#8230; a new initiative this year, which we are calling &#8220;In Search of Dignity.&#8221; I&#8217;d like to tell you about a new initiative this year, which we are calling &#8220;In Search of Dignity.&#8221; I have come to believe that dignity, and its opposite, indignity, sum up the heights and the depths of what our lives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/02/17/in-search-of-dignity-2/</link>
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		<title>What Can Be Done About Violence? An Open Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shootings in schools, movie theaters, shopping centers, and elswhere have traumatized the nation. But the face of violence is not just about shootings. Bullying in the schools, domestic violence, elder abuse, sexual abuse and other forms of violence are rampant. Does a Christian/biblical worldview offer special insights on violence? What can we understand about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/02/14/what-can-be-done-about-violence-an-open-forum/</link>
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		<title>In Search of Dignity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join us this year for a discussion of the question of human dignity and the gospel. So many roads, so much at stake So many dead ends, I&#8217;m at the edge of the lake Sometimes I wonder what it&#8217;s gonna take To find dignity. Bob Dylan A small group of children see me taking photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/02/14/in-search-of-dignity/</link>
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		<title>I Believe in God, the Creator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is where faith begins. &#8220;I believe in God the Father almighty, creator&#8230;&#8221; You are not an accident. You are not merely the best mutation in the neighborhood. You are not merely a species who is really good at avoiding getting eaten by another species. You can seek design and purpose in your life because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/01/15/i-believe-in-god-the-creator/</link>
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		<title>What Do You See in the Mirror?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you really see when you look in the mirror? You probably notice the lines that were not there a year ago. The scar just beneath your chin from when you went head-first over your bicycle when you were a kid and they stitched you up with little thought to &#8220;cosmetic&#8221; effect. Your eye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/01/08/what-do-you-see-in-the-mirror/</link>
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		<title>New Year, New Door</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many doorways of the Roman Empire there was a depiction of a god with two faces pointing in opposite directions. Janus was the god of transitions. He looked ahead and he looked behind&#8211;to the past and the future. He was a kind of doorkeeper, a minder of the gate. And so our calendar&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2013/01/01/new-year-new-door/</link>
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		<title>Meditation for a Fallen Police Officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Christmas Eve in Wauwatosa. In the early hours of the morning. Most of the citizens were asleep in their beds, warm, comfortable, safe. The Wauwatosa Police Department was on the job patrolling and protecting. A solitary squad car made its way on quiet streets past the Christmas lights and the Santa signs, a lone officer at the wheel. Jennifer Sebena, 30 years of age, two years on the force had wanted to be a cop for as long as she could remember and when she set her mind to something she pursued it with diligence. No surprise she graduated top of her class at the academy. She was on patrol.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebrooknetwork.org/2012/12/29/thoughts-for-a-fallen-police-officer/</link>
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