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		<title>Marriage:  Where does it begin?  (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marriage, as God designed it, doesn’t begin with your spouse; it doesn’t even begin with you. It doesn’t begin with better communication, better sex or a budget. It begins with God! When Liz and I first got married over 26 years ago, we had never heard any clear teaching nor were we aware of God’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=599&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the &#8220;Priorities in Fast-Growing Church Plants&#8221; by Ed Stetzer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Priorities in Fast-Growing Church Plants by Ed Stetzer &#160; Ed Stetzer is director of LifeWay Research and missiologist in residence at LifeWay Christian Resources in Nashville, Tennessee. He holds two masters and doctoral degrees and has written dozens of respected articles and books including Planting Missional Churches, Breaking the Missional Code, Compelled by Love, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=594&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History of Christmas: The Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the final entry from my most knowledgeable friend Bill Petro on the history of Christmas.  Enjoy. The Star of Bethlehem has puzzled scholars for centuries. Some have skeptically dismissed the phenomenon as a myth, a mere literary device to call attention to the importance of the Nativity. Others have argued that the star [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=577&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History of Christmas: The Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am posting my friend Bill Petro’s “History of the Holidays” blog on Advent as our guest blog this month.  Bill’s insights into the subject of history has been a blessing in my life for years. Music early became a marked feature of the Christmas season. But the first chants, litanies, and hymns were in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=561&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History of Christmas: The Year</title>
		<link>http://steveholtonline.org/2011/12/09/history-of-christmas-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What year was Jesus really born?  I am using my friend Bill Petro’s “History of the Holidays” blog on Advent as our guest blog this month… It&#8217;s obvious that Jesus was born on December 25, A.D. 1, right? Wrong. What we do know is that Herod the Great (who killed all the babies in Bethlehem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=557&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Christmas: Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tradition of the lighting of lamps or candles leading up to Christmas is called Advent.  As we begin the Advent tradition at Mountain Springs this weekend, the blog of Bill Petro, nicknamed “Doc Rock,” is appropriate for a guest blog this month.  The “History of the Holidays” is written from Doc Rock’s historical insights. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=549&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Most Influential Books &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://steveholtonline.org/2011/11/07/my-top-most-influential-books-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Bacon once said, “Read not to contradict or confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.  Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”  The following books, along with the first five mentioned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=524&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Most Inspirational Books &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://steveholtonline.org/2011/10/31/my-top-10-most-inspirational-books-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve holt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Read to refill the wells of inspiration.” &#8211; Harold Ockenga. I never read a book until I was 10 years old. Honestly, I hated reading up to that time. Then entered Mrs. Milton, my fourth grade teacher. She didn’t care that I was the biggest cut-up, talker and comedian in the class. She was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=510&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sea of Galilee and the Voice of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the spring of 2007 and I had just finished leading a devotional time on the Mount of Beatitudes in northern Israel. As I looked out over the Sea of Galilee, the flashing light of the rising sun across the waves of the sea caught my eyes and pulled at my heart. The Lord [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=467&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downgrade Church: A Cry for the Real Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Markets Plunge as Jitters Grow: Downgrade triggers a 635 point drop in DOW,” is the headline of USA Today for August 9, 2011.  The article continues, “U.S. stocks sank in waves of stomach-churning panic selling Monday, following market meltdowns in Asia and Europe, as last week&#8217;s downgrade of the USA&#8217;s credit rating reverberated around the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=steveholtonline.org&#038;blog=3964644&#038;post=457&#038;subd=steveaholt&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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