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	<description>Greg is a principal of Blue Ocean Ideas, one of the fastest-growing creative agencies in Baltimore, MD.</description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Fearless by Max Lucado</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world that seems to have a lot of reasons for fear and worry I found Fearless to be reassuring, comforting, and refreshing compared to where my mind is much of the time. While the economy has gone on a major roller coaster and many are fearful (including me at times for sure) Lucado [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my struggle with church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a hard time explaining to people why I struggle with Christians and the organized church so much. This article by Richard Rohr really explains it better than anything I would write: &#34;Historically, religion has more often been a belonging system or a belief system, than an actual system of transformation. When belonging and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bono on Rebranding Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m loving the Sunday morning at the beach. It is beautiful out. First one up. Here is a great article on Rebranding Africa: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10bono.html?_r=3&#038;ref=opinion&#038;pagewanted=all]]></description>
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		<title>The Change (or lack of change) Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until about 5 years ago I didn&#8217;t really believe I could change. I knew I could improve in certain aspects and I knew I could get better at certain skills. But deep down inside in places you don&#8217;t share with other people often, I believed that there was some junk in my life that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good reasons not to invite friends to church</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/05/09/good-reasons-not-to-invite-friends-to-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 19:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February, our church brought in a consultant named Paul Borden to take a peak at how we were doing as a church. Borden recommended a number things to the leadership that needed to be addressed. Among the shortlist of the major issues were the following (this is my paraphrase not exactly what was said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>keep moving forward reframed</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/05/02/keep-moving-forward-reframed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was really encouraged by this post by Blaine Smith: http://nehemiahministries.com/keepingmotion.htm Ryan Smyth (see his comments under this post). should take a look at that one and see what he thinks. Keep moving forward, Greg]]></description>
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		<title>On the water&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrittler.com/2008/09/01/on-the-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a great time this summer spending time with the Lord in the mornings on the lake. The routine has been getting up around 6:30-7:00am getting on the water quickly, Arrowhead for coffee and a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, and then off to a spot to read, pray and memorize. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;nobody cares about you after 25&#8243;</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrittler.com/2008/07/05/nobody-cares-about-you-after-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a big statement. Honestly it disturbs me. I have this understanding that I think is how followers of Jesus are to operate and this doesn&#8217;t fit. This was a statement that Trent said while we were talking Tuesday night. I got a lot out of our time with Trent. He&#8217;s a great example of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An amazing woman.</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrittler.com/2007/12/16/an-amazing-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my image of Mary, Jesus mother, was of a shy schoolgirl dressed in the classic church play costume. The girl was usually a little ackward and undercomfortable in her own skin and was scared looking even in the play carrying a cheap baby doll Jesus. I often wish the images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desire and our Story</title>
		<link>http://www.gregrittler.com/2007/12/01/desire-and-our-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Rittler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been struck a lot lately by the amount that our desire and deciding what our story will be determines where we go and what we do with our lives. Two thoughts that I ran into this week made me stop dead in my tracks and think about what kind of a man I [...]]]></description>
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