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	<title>The Rambling Revs</title>
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		<title>The Price is Right!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loved to watch The Price is Right when I was younger and home from school.  (Hey, who am I kidding, I still love to watch it!)  I would always get excited for the new cars and the games like Plinko.  When I would see a new living room set or a dining room table [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Yourself from Technology&#8230;without becoming Amish</title>
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 Last night as part of our midweek Lenten series, I preached on the topic above.&#160; The basis for the talk came from a chapter of Following God without Embarrassing God by Tony Campollo.&#160; Since it seems like my life is controlled so much of the time by technology, instead of me controlling it, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jungle in the Bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the hardwork of Maureen on her recent visit, we have redecorated the bathroom for Baby Apel.&#160; We went with a Monkey/Jungle Theme.&#160; However, this does not mean that we are going to raise a monkey.&#160; 

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		<title>Review of Reaching Out in a Networked World: Expressing Your Congregation&#8217;s Heart and Soul by Lynne M. Baab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
This is a review of an excellent book that I was asked to review by the I-K Synod.&#160; I would highly recommend this book for all leaders in ministry.&#160; 
When was the last time you performed a communication audit of the congregation or ministry that you serve? I know merely mentioning the word &#8220;audit&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theapels.org/?p=52</link>
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		<title>As seen on TV!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen it on TV or advertised in the newspaper over the last few months.&#160; For Christmas, my parents surprised us with an Amish fireplace.&#160; It is wonderful.&#160; It is electric, so there is no messing around with ashes or even a vent as with a traditional fire place.&#160;&#160; We decided to purchase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason for Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to be talking about the economy these days, and no one seems to have any hope, only more doom and gloom.&#160; While I do not have some sort of false sense that we will wake up 6 months from now and everything will be great, I do have hope for the future.&#160; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#160; subscribe to the ELCA Hunger Rumblings Blog which is a great source to find out what is going on in the world to help those who are without food and other basic necessities of life both in the US and abroad.&#160; Each week I read statistics like, &#34;1 in 6 people in the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottled or Tap Water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across the this resource through the ELCA&#8217;s Hunger Rumblings Blog.  I found this simple true/false quiz to be very informative!  For instance, did you know that if the world stopped spending money on bottled water, and put that money  (100 Billion) towards infrastructure, then everyone in the world would have clean drinking water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theapels.org/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Our Phony Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not consider myself to be very knowledgeable when it comes to understanding high principles of business such as the economy.&#160; Outside of some basic classes that I took in college, much of my understanding is remedial.&#160; Since the term &#34;economy&#34; has been used so much in the news lately, I found this article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theapels.org/?p=36</link>
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		<title>New Hair-Do!</title>
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 It was time for a change.   I think I had been wearing the short bob since just after our wedding (almost 4 years ago).  I wanted to go  short for the summer, and I put my hair in the hands of Shannon at Blown Away Salon.  For the last few years I had been a [...]]]></description>
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