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		<title>what I remember from my surgery . . . and nothing I don&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently sitting on the hide-a-bed in the living room with my leg strapped to a machine that brings it up and down, pushing it to bend 50 degrees. I have already iced the leg and done my towel roll exercises. This is my life for the next week.

My dad and brother had come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/03/09/what-i-remember-from-my-surgery-and-nothing-i-dont/</link>
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		<title>Grandma can&#8217;t stop you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on MSNBC documented a movement around the country of high schools taking measures to change the way teens are dancing. There is growing concern about the sexually explicit nature of their dancing which is taking place at school dances. Parents are offended that some other person&#8217;s kids are dancing like this around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/02/19/grandma-cant-stop-you/</link>
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		<title>Habakkuk 3 for junior highers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today in Sunday school, I taught on Habakkuk and in the last part of the book, the prophet gives a piece of theological gold in 3:17-19. So to help the students understand this, I tried to adapt it to a life of a junior higher.


  Though there be not money in our wallet,
  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/02/14/habakkuk-3-for-junior-highers/</link>
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		<title>God cares about the small things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had misplaced my fountain pen that my brother had given me for Christmas and it was not sitting well on my heart. Not only did I like the pen, but it was a special gift and losing it was horrible stewardship of this great gift.

This fall I read A Praying Life by Paul Miller [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/01/30/god-cares-about-the-small-things/</link>
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		<title>Prayer for a Winter&#8217;s Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for the moonlight;
For oh what a grand sight
It is to see the frosty snow
Upon the mountains which no
Earthly hands have made
But were divinely laid.  

Thank you for the tender rays
Of the moonlight that softly says
That One above is watching near,
While we sleep on a night so clear.
Cold inside and out,
If you we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/01/30/prayer-for-a-winters-night/</link>
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		<title>praise that pops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, John Piper linked to Ray Ortlund&#8217;s blog and I have really benefitted from his posts. Tonight, he posted on how praise befits the upright. I really appreciate the tie analogy. 


  A frowning church is ugly.  A praising church is beautiful.  Think of a man wearing a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/01/29/praise-that-pops/</link>
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		<title>never see 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if I never see 2011?

What if this was my last year on this planet? 

If this was the case, how would I live in 2010?

I do not know what God has in store for me in this coming year, but I want to give everything I have to the gospel and to the glory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2010/01/11/never-see-2011/</link>
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		<title>cadillac and your soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
  &#8220;All designed to reignite the soul.&#8221;
  These were the words that closed a recent Cadillac commercial. As I watched the ad, I observed the standard highlights: professional cinematography, sharp lighting, classy new features in the vehicle, and all to the sound of a smooth narrator voice. But when the word &#8220;soul&#8221; came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2009/12/07/cadillac-and-your-soul/</link>
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		<title>how college students can love their families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some ideas on how college students can demonstrate to their family that they love them from a distance.


Say &#8220;I love you&#8221; to your family members whenever you talk to them
Pray for your family
Send cards and gifts on their birthdays
Enjoy going home to see them
Include both parents in important decisions in your life


Do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2009/10/30/how-college-students-can-love-their-families/</link>
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		<title>God&#8217;s wretched servants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was humbling to read today while I was at seminary.


  Today hardly one in a hundred considers how difficult and arduous it is faithfully to discharge the office of pastor. Hence many are led into it as something trivial and not serious; and afterwards experience teaches them, too late, how foolishly they aspired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mijah.com/2009/10/27/gods-wretched-servants/</link>
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