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	<title>Mentoring Ministry - Dr. Bob Abramson</title>
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		<title>Will God speak through a Fortune Cookie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my wife, Nancy, and I were in New York City for ministry with a Chinese church. The pastors took us to dinner in a Chinese restaurant. When dinner was finished, someone opened a fortune cookie that read, “Compromise is always wrong if it means sacrificing a principle.” (Reading this fortune cookie was not done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/will-god-speak-through-a-fortune-cookie/</link>
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		<title>A New Entry in Dr. Bob&#8217;s Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the latest entry in Dr. Bob&#8217;s Journal. It is called, &#8220;The Heart of the Wise.&#8221;  Click here to read it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/a-new-entry-in-dr-bobs-journal/</link>
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		<title>Dogs, Swine and Lovingkindness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently enjoying my weekly phone call with my friend, Pastor Glenn Holderread. He mentioned that he had been meditating on Matthew 7:6. He said, it reminded him of a time when he refused to enable a drug addict to continue in his sin by giving him the money the man asked for. Pastor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/dogs-swine-and-lovingkindness/</link>
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		<title>On the Ocean at Midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1997, my wife, Nancy and I found ourselves in an open boat traveling between two small islands in the South Pacific. We were on our way to a meeting in which I was to preach that evening. It was an open boat, about eighteen feet in length. A man at the stern steered with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/on-the-ocean-at-midnight/</link>
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		<title>The Key to Refreshing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking all the people I have recently encountered who need a refreshing in their spirits. So many of us can become mentally, emotionally or spiritually fatigued from what our circumstances have offered us. We pray for those times of refreshing about which the Bible speaks, but often cannot understand why we do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/the-key-to-refreshing/</link>
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		<title>Yes I Will!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent meeting, I heard Pastor Dale Gentry say this. “The next step beyond “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”” is “I will do all things through Christ.” Of course, Pastor Dale was quoting Philippians 4:13, and then paraphrasing it to make his point. His paraphrase was a positive confession [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/yes-i-will/</link>
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		<title>The Proper Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to what we think about people, it is human nature for our prior opinions to influence our current judgments or choices. In addition, we are easily tempted to compare ourselves to others by thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. This causes us to think less highly of others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/05/the-proper-perspective/</link>
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		<title>When the Natural Conclusion Stinks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are probably familiar with the narrative in John, Chapter 11, which tells of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Do you remember Lazarus’ sister Martha’s response to Jesus when the Lord commanded that the stone be rolled away from the tomb entrance? She said, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/04/when-the-natural-conclusion-stinks/</link>
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		<title>Staying Cool when Things Heat Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to ask if you consider yourself “cool?” Here is why I ask. I was reading in my Devotionals recently and came across a Scripture that began to speak to me. It was Proverbs 17:27. In the New King James Version, it says, “He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/04/staying-cool-when-things-heat-up/</link>
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		<title>A Question for God &#8211; Text File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the text PDF file that you can use to study or teach the content of Pastor Nancy Abramson&#8217;s sermon called &#8220;A Question for God.&#8221; Be sure to listen to the audio file too. Download the text file.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mentoringministry.com/2012/04/6819/</link>
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