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		<title>CPC 2010 is Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always bummed when CPC is over. I&#8217;ve lost track of how many IN A ROW I&#8217;ve been to &#8211; but it&#8217;s over 30! Since 1995 I&#8217;ve not missed a single CPC at any location! So that&#8217;s at least 30, but for awhile there, they had 3 a year so its well over 30! It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/18/cpc-2010-is-over/</link>
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		<title>The Great Adventure Cards Are BACK!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Adventure Cards Are Back!
I can not even begin to tell you how EXCITED I am to announce that the Great Adventure Cards ARE BACK on Kidology.org!
Created by our own board member and children&#8217;s pastor Dan Huffman, these amazing Bible trading cards are a wonderful way to get kids to participate at church. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/18/the-great-adventure-cards-are-back/</link>
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		<title>LIVE from CPC Plus Kidology Gathering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE AFTER CPC:


The Kidology Gathering was a great time of fellowship! Thank you to everyone who dropped by! It is always nice to put faces with e-mails, see old friends and meeting new folks. It was also nice of the restaurant to unlock the doors for us, since starting this year they closed early!

Probably the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/14/live-from-cpc-plus-kidology-gathering/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s a Lot of Agains!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing the final editing for the next DiscipleTown unit, &#8220;How to Make Good Choices&#8221; due out March 15th. Hard to believe I&#8217;ve written six of these! (and that I have 18 more to go!) I always marvel how each and every unit convicts me and how each unit seems to be exactly what I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/11/thats-a-lot-of-agains/</link>
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		<title>A New Blog in Town &#8211; iTodd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to add to your Blog Roll and RSS Reader a new blog in town: www.toddmckeever.com.

Todd McKeever isn&#8217;t a new blogger, he&#8217;s just started a new personal blog. He&#8217;s been bloggin&#8217; insightful posts on leadership and children&#8217;s ministry for years on his church website, but has decided to split them out and make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/06/a-new-blog-in-town-itodd/</link>
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		<title>Why YOU Should Go to CPC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHY SHOULD YOU GO TO THE 
Children&#8217;s Pastor&#8217;s Conference?


I attended my first CPC back in the mid 1990&#8217;s and still have my logo-themed dress shirt &#8220;Reaching New Horizons&#8221; that I bought that year. I have not missed a single CPC since, even when they have had up to three conferences a year! I&#8217;ve lost track, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/02/why-go-cpc/</link>
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		<title>If I Were a Morning Person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I wish I was a morning person like some people I know who are up before God every day by the time I roll out of bed, they are six to seven hour into their day. But there is no secret about it, I&#8217;m a night owl. I work best at night when there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/03/02/if-i-were-a-morning-person/</link>
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		<title>The Fellowship of the King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a guy in any capacity of children&#8217;s ministry who lives in the Denver area? Then READ ON!

You are invited to be a part of the Fellowship of the King!

&#8220;The Fellowship&#8221; is simply a group of children&#8217;s pastors and ministry leaders I am gathering who desire to periodically disconnect from the busyness of life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/02/24/the-fellowship-of-the-king/</link>
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		<title>Yelling Out the Window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Saturday while my wife went to a tea at church, Luke and I decided we needed to have some fun too, so we went to McDonald&#8217;s where there was a play place! The last time we were there, about a month ago, we celebrated Luke&#8217;s first basketball basket and those of you on facebook got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/02/21/yelling-out-the-window/</link>
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		<title>Mercy For My Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My four year old is destined to become a judge. He already has a keen sense of justice. Or at least a better sense of mercy than I do.
Yesterday I could not find my shoes. I had gone up and down the stairs and searched every room of the house at least three times. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/02/14/mercy-for-my-shoes/</link>
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		<title>Someday is Another Word for Never</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to almost die&#8230;
And no, I&#8217;m not referring to almost being struck by lightening in Yosemite last year! Nor am I directly talking about my near heart attack last year either &#8211; though for all practical purposes I might as well be. If almost dying twice in 2009 taught me anything (and it taught [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/02/11/someday-is-another-for-never/</link>
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		<title>To Know God? &#8211; Yes I Do!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I continue my series of posts on my solo sabbatical in Yosemite, I want to follow up on my last post, Giving Up on Knowing God. I think I freaked a few people out by some of the private e-mails I got of concerned people who thought I was denying my faith! I let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/02/11/to-know-god-yes-i-do/</link>
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		<title>Giving Up On Knowing God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: Click on any image to view much larger
These are images and journal entries from my Solo Sabbatical to Yosemite in January 2010. (Pictures are all from Day One, two more days yet to come.)
Day 1 &#8211; February 1, 2010 
Knowing God.
Started thinking about this topic this morning &#8211; so been mulling it around all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/02/07/giving-up-on-knowing-god/</link>
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		<title>Thank you Pastor Jeff Griffin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 2006 I reached a breaking point. I was last person to admit I could no longer handle being a full time pastor, a full time &#8220;kidologist&#8221; (whatever that is!) &#8211; run a non-profit ministry while writing, speaking, training, etc. and be a husband and then over-night I became a father. Six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/31/thank-you-pastor-jeff-griffin/</link>
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		<title>Luke Turns Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luke is now four years old!

It&#8217;s hard to believe, but my little boy that entered my life rather suddenly four years ago, is now a little man.

It was a very special birthday &#8211; as we had both sets of grand parents in town. My dad and his wife live in Colorado, and Sara&#8217;s parents flew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/27/luke-turns-four/</link>
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		<title>I finally solved it, but can you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had this framed poster hanging in my home or office for over TEN YEARS (I think much longer!) and have offered a cash reward for years to whoever was the first to &#8220;find the identical pen men&#8221; if only to solve it for me! I have starred at it and wasted much of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/18/i-solved-it-can-you/</link>
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		<title>The Last $1000 Needed for Leukemia Research!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TONIGHT AT 7pm Eastern you can watch (Live via U-Stream) the LAST $1000 BEING RAISED FOR  LEUKEMIA RESEARCH!
Cam is the son of a woman I met at CPC last week:
I first &#8216;met&#8217; Heather when she e-mailed me via Kidology.org and told me about the amazing and moving testimony on YouTube by her pastor&#8217;s 19 year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/15/last-1000-4-leukemia/</link>
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		<title>DiscipleTown Table Talker Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on writing DiscipleTown Table Talkers all day, for the fifth unit due to come out soon, and one of my favorite parts of this curriculum is the Table Talker family devotional component.

Download a Sample TableTalker (PDF, 185k)
So I thought I&#8217;d put a sample on my blog to give my blog readers a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/12/discipletown-table-talker-taste/</link>
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		<title>CPC &#8216;10 Nashville Report &#8211; Cool Dudes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For this year&#8217;s CPC Report, I&#8217;m going to do a series of reports, and this first one will feature some of the COOL DUDES of CPC! And of course, it is not an exclusive list! (Sorry if you got left off!) Next will be the GROOVY GIRLS of CPC and I&#8217;m sure it will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/09/cpc10-cooldudes/</link>
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		<title>When Teaching a Large Age Range</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a discussion over on the Kidology.org forums about how to teach to a wide age range and there were some comments suggesting different age ranges to aim for. Some were suggesting &#8220;aiming for the middle&#8221; or &#8220;targeting the older kids&#8221; so as not to bore them, whereas others thought it better to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/09/teaching-large-age-range/</link>
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		<title>LIVE FROM CPC &#8211; NASHVILLE 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I have arrived in Nashville, TN and will be volunteering in the DiscipleLand booth to represent DiscipleTown. I will be posting LIVE updates via twitter.

KIDOLOGY GATHERING INFO:
WEDNESDAY EVENING (9:30 p.m. &#8211; midnight)  We&#8217;ll be meeting during and after the &#8220;Let&#8217;s Make A Deal&#8221; event and concert.  Our meeting place will be meeting in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/04/live-from-cpc-nashville-2010/</link>
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		<title>2010 Snuck Up On Me!</title>
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It seems like just yesterday I was blogging about how I hoped 2009 would be better. And here it is 2010! Aren&#8217;t we supposed to riding around on hover boards and beaming from place to place by now? I read that post, and instead of writing a post about my New Year&#8217;s Resolutions, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2010/01/02/2010-snuck-up-on-me/</link>
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		<title>Bastian Christmas Letter 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the Bastian Christmas Letter 2009:
Dear Family &#38; Friends,
It’s hard to believe, but it was during Christmas last year that I said to Sara, “by this time next year, we won’t be in Illinois.” And here I am, writing to you from Colorado, looking out my window at prairie, cattle &#38; mountains! It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2009/12/28/bastian-christmas-letter-2009/</link>
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		<title>Baby Manny the Reason for the Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You gotta love those ad lib moments that become memorable and meaningful! At a family advent event I was speaking at this month, my theme was the name Immanuel and the significance of &#8220;God with us.&#8221; My ever-present helper, Gus from ChildrensMinistryPodcast.com, suggested that maybe Mary and Joseph nickname Jesus &#8220;Baby Manny&#8221; &#8211; short for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2009/12/21/baby-manny-reason4season/</link>
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		<title>The Email That Made My Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the midst of a REALLY busy week. I don&#8217;t have time to blog. I have several deadlines looming, I&#8217;m behind on other projects, several events this week to pull me away and put me further behind, and I&#8217;m trying to get both caught up and ahead before the holidays arrive so I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kidologist.com/2009/12/14/email-that-made-my-year/</link>
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