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		<title>Twitter? What Happened?</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/24/twitter-what-happened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to clarify:
We had planned on doing an &#8220;experiment&#8221; in church this past Sunday, and all was well, until our filtering/display interface for Twitter hit a snag.
Apparenetly, Twitter went under some maintenance and took a heavy hit last week with the Iran Election drama. In the process of their maintance, they updated their API, and that caused a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=520&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Using Twitter At Church This Sunday</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/17/were-using-twitter-at-church-this-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Gateway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter
If you don&#8217;t have a free Twitter account yet, go to Twitter.com and sign up for free.
 Watch this 2 min video on what Twitter is.
You can update your Twitter status many different ways. If you&#8217;re at your desktop, you can update through a desktop application. If you have a smart phone, such as an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=505&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Don&#8217;t Like About Church: The Lazy Follower</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/16/things-i-dont-like-about-church-the-lazy-follower/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/16/things-i-dont-like-about-church-the-lazy-follower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church & Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate that painting of Jesus. You know, the one where He&#8217;s limp, passive, and nice looking. He&#8217;s just not like that when I read the Gospels. 
Then there&#8217;s the modern day &#8220;Christian&#8221;. The nice guy. The quiet guy. The whatever guy.
In the passage below, Paul describes the Christian life with active and forceful words such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=496&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Don&#8217;t Like About Church: No Fruit</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/04/things-i-dont-like-about-church-no-fruit/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/04/things-i-dont-like-about-church-no-fruit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bearing fruit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit of the spirit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you owned a business, would you keep an employee who doesn&#8217;t get any work done? No. If you were a gardener, would you keep a plant that didn&#8217;t produce a harvest? No. If you were an investor, would you keep an account that wasn&#8217;t growing and producing? No.
I&#8217;m ashamed to admit that I&#8217;ve known some people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=488&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/02/im-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You are never as great as you think you are, so don’t become prideful. And you are never as bad as you think you are, so don’t become crippled by insecurity. Simply give your best and be thankful that God has given you the opportunity to be a part of His great plan.
Thanks Kent.
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		<title>You Aren&#8217;t God, So You Don&#8217;t Know It All</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/01/you-arent-god-so-you-dont-know-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/06/01/you-arent-god-so-you-dont-know-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody is annoyed by the &#8220;know-it-all&#8221;. This person has a dogmatic opinion about everything. Oh, they KNOW how the world spins surely, and even worse, they have a running mouth! The know-it-all is usually against anything new, resents discipline, and refuses to be a learner.
Soloman, the wisest man who ever lived (next to Jesus of course), calls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=482&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus &amp; The Dumb Religious</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/06/jesus-the-dumb-religious/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/06/jesus-the-dumb-religious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 16:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend this morning about how Jesus often reacted to the religious.
He was very sarcastic and seemed to pick fights a lot.
My description is &#8220;the Lord is a warrior&#8221;. He&#8217;s so terrifying and manly. 
Most think of Jesus to be limp, passive, and nice.
Here&#8217;s what my friend said. It made me roll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=475&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>productive or not?</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/05/productive-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/05/productive-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was crazy. I&#8217;m not even sure what I did. But it was crazy. And by the looks of it, my clean desk was utilized heavily today.




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		<title>Giving</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/05/giving/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/05/giving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 18:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going through some old yellow legal pads of mine and found some notes I took from a sermon a friend of mine, Rick Mitchell, preached back in 2005. I actually remember that night very well. Here where some of the thoughts:
 God provides us with seed

tithe is not your seed
90% is your seed
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		<title>Heros</title>
		<link>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/04/heros/</link>
		<comments>http://blaringreason.com/2009/05/04/heros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Gateway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blaringreason.com/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These two characters were spotted on Sunday.
Being a portable church, we lost a DVI-DVI cable that is a must for our projector to work on Sunday. We discovered we were missing it about 8:00am. We searched for a while. No cable. He ran away or something.
Caleb went to Target at 8:30 to see if they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blaringreason.com&blog=1118404&post=459&subd=theworldofdrew&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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