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		<title>Where Does the Time Go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost two whole months since I last blogged, so I&#8217;m sure you won&#8217;t be voting for me as the &#8220;best blogger of the year&#8221;!  It has been such a busy fall here in Owensboro &#8211; we&#8217;ve had so many things to demand our attention, and yet as I look back over the calendar, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethholmes.wordpress.com&blog=4244484&post=811&subd=bethholmes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Your Fears While Chasing a Lion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two weeks, our college Bible study group has camped out in the third session of our book, Chase the Lion by Mark Batterson.  The title of the study comes from a story in 2 Samuel 23:20-23:
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		<title>New Article on &#8220;First Impressions Count&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sorry about the little blogging break I&#8217;ve taken recently.  Things here have been quite busy, but until I get my thoughts sorted out, I have an article in the October 2009 issue of Missions Mosaic.  You can find the article about making a good impression while on a missions trip on page five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethholmes.wordpress.com&blog=4244484&post=797&subd=bethholmes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor Day weekend &#8230; the unofficial end of summer, the beginning of college football in the South, a time to rest from the routines of life.
We didn&#8217;t do a lot to celebrate the weekend.  We journeyed to Tennessee on Saturday, followed Vanderbilt football on Twitter that night (go &#8216;Dores!), went to church on Sunday, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethholmes.wordpress.com&blog=4244484&post=791&subd=bethholmes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Are You Investing Your Talents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then the man who had received one talent also approached and said, &#8220;Master, I know you.  You&#8217;re a difficult man, reaping where you haven&#8217;t sown and gathering where you haven&#8217;t scattered seed.  So I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground.  Look, you have what is yours.&#8221;
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		<title>Chasing the Lion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We began our fall Wednesday night schedule at YCBC this week &#8230; and what a schedule it is!  We begin at 5:00 with supper, and end our worship choir rehearsal at 8:30.  We pack as much as we can into a few hours!
For the next six weeks, part of that schedule will include Chris teaching a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethholmes.wordpress.com&blog=4244484&post=779&subd=bethholmes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All the Good Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Chris and I attended Magnificent Monday at Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky.  We had lots of reasons for going &#8211; the pastor of BRBC, Hershael York, was one of Chris&#8217; professors and has become a good friend.  The preacher for the evening was Don Whitney, another seminary professor and friend.
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		<title>Waiting and the Christian Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch yesterday with a good friend who was talking about the concept of &#8220;waiting.&#8221;  All our lives, we find ourselves waiting for something &#8211; waiting to finish school, to get married, to have children, to find the perfect job, for the test results, to retire, to die&#8230;
Because I was an English major (Once an English [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethholmes.wordpress.com&blog=4244484&post=765&subd=bethholmes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Answer When You Don&#8217;t Know What to Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there are just no words to say when we are faced with difficult circumstances.  Mark Hall says it best.  Take about eight minutes to listen.

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		<title>Prince Edward Island and a Little Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; it&#8217;s been three weeks since I posted anything here!  Time has really flown this summer.  School starts tomorrow, and I report to AHS tomorrow afternoon to work with the chorus classes again this year.
We took a big vacation this year to celebrate Chris&#8217; graduation with his Ph.D. and went to one of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bethholmes.wordpress.com&blog=4244484&post=753&subd=bethholmes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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