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		<title>Talking with the Angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I was having breakfast at the Skillet Restaurant early one morning when I saw Ray Harris, a family friend for many years.  He is a carpenter and a master cabinet-maker.  One time in particular Ray’s handiwork became a ministry to our family. My nephew David Kreswell Suits came into the world in October 1981, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2081&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writings from Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in seminary, I read Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl. The book chronicles his experiences as an inmate in both Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Frankl’s writing details the various ways inmates find meaning during imprisonment. Frankl’s words prompted me to pay attention to other important works [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2073&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People of the Book:  The Bible and Spiritual Renewal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk H. Neely</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sermon:  People of the Book:  The Bible and Spiritual Renewal Text:  II Chronicles 34   My wife enjoys sharing little nuggets of truth with me, and sometimes she does that by showing me comics that appear in the funny paper.  One of her favorites is Hagar the Horrible.  Inevitably, Hagar comes home from a battle, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2087&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monsters in the Closet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When our two oldest boys were six and eight years old, they shared a bedroom.  The small room featured a double closet. The sliding bypass doors, suspended from rollers, glided along a track at the top of the doorframe.  Only one side of the closet was accessible at a time. Our oldest son was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2063&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out with the Old!  In with the New!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is an excerpt from Kirk H. Neely’s new book Santa Almost Got Caught: Stories for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year.   The Romans depicted Janus, the god of doors and gates, as a deity with two faces: one looking backward, the other looking forward.  The month of January in the Julian calendar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2047&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2040&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Year and Epiphany</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sermon:  The New Year and Epiphany Text:  Matthew 1:1-11   Christmas trees have already been discarded by the roadside, left like dead soldiers waiting for the body wagon.  Artificial trees have been packed in casket-size boxes and put away in the attic, basement, or garage, along with tinsel and many ornaments.  Some people are waiting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2076&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Twelve Days after Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is an excerpt from Kirk H. Neely’s new book Santa Almost Got Caught: Stories for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year. &#160; Is there anything as over as Christmas when it’s over? Colorful wrapping paper and bright ribbons are reduced to trash as quickly as gifts are torn open. Fresh green trees that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2070&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for the Manger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is an excerpt from Kirk H. Neely’s new book Santa Almost Got Caught: Stories for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year. &#160; A little girl looked forward to her ninth birthday on December 24. For several years her parents had combined her birthday party with a Christmas Eve gathering in their home. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2029&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Nicholas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is an excerpt from Kirk H. Neely’s new book Santa Almost Got Caught: Stories for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year.   The closer we get to Christmas, the more I see of Santa Claus. I see his likeness depicted on sweaters, neckties, and billboards. Because Santa is so much a part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhneely.com&amp;blog=1742842&amp;post=2023&amp;subd=kirkhneely&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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