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		<title>Mountains, molehills and ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether you work on staff at a church or a parachurch organization strong staff relationships are key to ministry impact and effectiveness. When relationships are  strong mountains (big issues) become molehills (little issues) and when they are weak molehills become mountains. 
I can’t help but think back to my first “staff” position in ministry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Leaders! What&#8217;s your &#8220;Get multi-PLIED&#8221; Strategy for THE Cause?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years we, at Dare 2 Share, have discovered the five common actions that are taken in every youth ministry that is thriving on both a deep and wide level. These youth ministries are guiding their teens deeper and deeper into their relationship with God and wider and wider into the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Livin&#8217; THE Cause&#8221; Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another powerful video story from Grace Church in Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Way to live THE Cause!

Nena Harvath - Livin' the Cause from Troy Hillstrom on Vimeo.

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		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/a-livin-the-cause-video/</link>
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		<title>The Lake of Fire&#8230;just outside of Cleveland?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if? What if the Lake of Fire was just outside of Cleveland? What if people went there before they died and not after? What if we could get in a car and drive to Ohio to witness the suffering of the lost firsthand? What if everyone who hadn’t believed in Jesus by the age [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/the-lake-of-fire-just-outside-of-cleveland/</link>
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		<title>10 lame excuses for not praying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1.  &#8220;I&#8217;m too busy!&#8221; (Jesus had a packed ministry schedule but he made time to pray.)
2.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to do it right.&#8221; (How about just try talking to God like you would a friend?)
3.  &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t work anyway.&#8221; (That&#8217;s not how Jesus or the early church treated it.)
4.  &#8220;Prayer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/10-lame-excuses-for-not-praying/</link>
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		<title>Conquering Nerves: 3 ways I overcome my fear of preaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it be before thousands of teenagers at a Dare 2 Share conference or hundreds of people in a church I struggle and battle nerves when it comes to preaching the Word of God. When I tell people that many of them look surprised. Maybe because I preach with intensity and passion it comes off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/conquering-nerves-3-ways-i-overcome-my-fear-of-preaching/</link>
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		<title>Failing Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to leap ahead with giant strides but instead I fail forward more often than I would like to admit. God has a way of turning my swagger into a stagger again and again. His goal is not to destroy me but to remind me. He relentlessly jolts me with the reality that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/failing-forward/</link>
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		<title>5 reasons we need to rebrand evangelism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s play a word association game. When I use the word &#8220;evangelism&#8221; what comes to mind?
-A bullhorn?
-A &#8220;Repent&#8221; sign?
-A pointed index finger (resulting in a flipped up middle finger)?
Too often, too many of us have negative views of the word evangelism. Sadly, the 2,000 year old practice of evangelism has 2,000 years worth of baggage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/5-reasons-we-need-to-rebrand-evangelism/</link>
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		<title>Leadership Lessons from 20 Years at Dare 2 Share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two decades ago my former theology professor, Jonathan Smith, and I launched what would become Dare 2 Share Ministries. Although I was a church planter at the time I had the youth ministry itch. Having graduated from Colorado Christian University with a degree in youth ministry I wanted to do something to deeply impact teenagers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gregstier.org/rants/leadership-lessons-from-20-years-at-dare-2-share/</link>
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		<title>10 lame excuses for not sharing your faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. &#8220;It&#8217;s the pastor&#8217;s job, not mine.&#8221; (According to Ephesians 4:11,12 his job is to equip you to do the work.)
2.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to say.&#8221; (There are plenty of resources out there to help you!)
3.  &#8220;I just live the gospel with my life.&#8221; (Good, now open your mouth and declare the [...]]]></description>
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