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		<title>Dear Noah: My prayer for you on your 3rd birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Noah, As you grow older and learn about some of the heroes of the Christian faith, you&#8217;ll probably not find many people whose conversions were as dramatic as John Newton&#8217;s was. Newton was quite a scoundrel in his younger days, and an evil, godless man. He was profane and vulgar, mean and cruel. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2011/12/dear-noah-my-prayer-for-you-on-your-3rd-birthday/</link>
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		<title>The one that got away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Daniel and I were just at one of the most thrilling World Series games in history. After playing incredibly sloppy baseball for most of it, the Cardinals tied it in the ninth, tied it again in the 10th and won it on a David Freese walk-off homer in the 11th. And I’m sitting here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2011/10/the-one-that-got-away/</link>
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		<title>My sanctified dog, Gus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I’ll miss our morning conversations the most. Every morning, I’d go outside to see my dogs. While they were both happy to see me, Gus expressed his joy in a much more vocal way. It was almost as if he were singing to me, with a “roo roo roo” type of sound that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2011/09/my-sanctified-dog-gus/</link>
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		<title>Dear Emmalee: My prayer for you on your 5th birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Emmalee, Sometimes the smallest things in life can be the most special. That was certainly the case when Corrie discovered an ant living with her. Normally ants are a pain and we try to get rid of them, but for Corrie, this ant was something to be celebrated. You see, Corrie was living in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2011/08/dear-emmalee-my-prayer-for-you-on-your-5th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Dear Daniel: My prayer for you on your 8th birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Daniel, David Brainerd spent his 25th birthday in a most unusual way. Instead of eating birthday cake or lunch at his favorite restaurant, instead of spending the day with his friends and family, the young man went into the woods to be alone with God for the entire day. Here’s what he said about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2011/06/dear-daniel-my-prayer-for-you-on-your-8th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Dear Noah: My prayer for you on your 2nd birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 30, 2010 Dear Noah, One of the characters I enjoy most from C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia series is Reepicheep, the tiny mouse with an enormous heart. He may be small in stature, but Reepicheep’s size is no indication of what lies beneath the surface. His valor and his skills as a swordsman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2010/12/dear-noah-my-prayer-for-you-on-your-2nd-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Dockery&#8217;s top 25 books of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Union University President David S. Dockery has compiled a list of his top 25 books published in 2010, in no particular order: BONHEOFFER: PASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY, by Eric Metaxas.  Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010. CONDOLEEZZA RICE: A MEMOIR OF MY EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY FAMILY, AND ME, by Condoleezza Rice. New York: Delacorte Books, 2010. FIRST FAMILY: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2010/12/dockerys-top-25-books-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>Dear Emmalee: My prayer for you on your 4th birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 29, 2010 Dear Emmalee, I can&#8217;t imagine how difficult the decision was for Ruth when she vowed to leave her home and everything she&#8217;d known to follow Naomi back to Bethlehem. Ruth&#8217;s life had already been hard enough, with the death of her husband at such a young age. Now she was facing another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2010/08/dear-emmalee-my-prayer-for-you-on-your-4th-birthday/</link>
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		<title>The Treehouse Diaries, Vol. 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I was able to step outside today without immediately passing out from the heat, I figured I&#8217;d spend the day working on the treehouse. I already had part of the frame in place (see details in Vol. 1), and my goal for the day was to complete the frame. To do that, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2010/08/the-treehouse-diaries-vol-2/</link>
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		<title>The Treehouse Diaries, Vol. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we moved into our new house last year, I knew I wanted to build the kids a treehouse. I never had a treehouse myself, but always thought it would be awesome if I did.  So I began thinking about where the best place would be for such an edifice. We have lots of trees, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timellsworth.com/2010/07/the-treehouse-diaries-vol-1/</link>
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