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	<title>Les Somers dot com</title>
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	<description>More from Les</description>
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		<title>Gentle Freeze Prevents Deep Freeze!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Southern Florida has been experiencing some unusually cool weather this winter. (Of course this is the winter that we choose to be in the state for our sabbatical leave, but that is a bit off topic!). For a period of ten days, the temperature was hovering around the freezing point during the nights. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2010/03/05/gentle-freeze-prevents-deep-freeze/</link>
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		<title>Challenge Two of Congregational Leadership Today: Introducing leisure-loving people  to a &#039;losing oneself&#039; lifestyle.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ by virtue of His headship over the church, His example for the church and His challenge to the church, calls His people to cross-carrying commitment to His cause. This means a lifestyle of ‘losing one’s life in order to find it.’ This becomes a struggle when a congregation is formed out of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/12/14/challenge-two-of-congregational-leadership-today-introducing-leisure-loving-people-to-a-losing-oneself-lifestyle/</link>
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		<title>Challenge One of Congregational Leadership Today:Team Building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Challenge One is the building of a leadership team that enjoys cohesiveness and exudes creativity. There has been a generational shift in the predominant style of congregational leadership. The recent past witnessed dominant and sometimes dictatorial leaders who wielded control over congregations who had a limited grasp of information beyond their immediate context. The task [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/12/14/challenge-one-of-congregational-leadership-todayteam-building/</link>
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		<title>Challenges of Church Leadership Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective leadership has always been a reality that is never easily definable. Leaders throughout church history have had diverse traits and at times unplanned influence. Many times the best of leaders are those who were the least desirous of leading. There is a somewhat mysterious quality to leadership yet we may discern some essential components [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/12/06/challenges-of-church-leadership-today/</link>
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		<title>Counseling Tip:  Alignment Redirects!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One effective means of helping others as they work through difficult times or difficult decisions is to align with them. What am I suggesting? Alignment carries the idea of resetting one’s course. Alignment means something is going in an undesired direction and needs to be redirected. Alignment is seeing from another’s perspective. Hundreds of times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/11/12/counseling-tip-alignment-redirects/</link>
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		<title>Oh Brother!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17 I was privileged to have been born into a larger family. All my siblings are brothers, no sisters. My seven brothers have proven, through the years, the reality of this biblical saying that “a brother is born for adversity.” It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/11/01/oh-brother/</link>
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		<title>Fun and Church?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Papa, did you have fun at church today?” These were the words of Bethany, my three-year old granddaughter when I arrived home from “church” recently. I thought, “How wonderful!” When she thinks of “church”, she thinks of “fun”! Isn’t it great when the young generation see the things of God as a delight and not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/10/17/fun-and-church/</link>
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		<title>Shalom!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soloist Vera Lynn, in an interview I watched recently, was pleased and somewhat amazed that the song she sang sixty five years ago is at the top of the charts now in 2009. This famous song, White Cliffs of Dover, seems to capture the longing of every generation: the longing for peace, not only peace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/10/17/shalom/</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordsmiths – those who are masters of choosing the proper words and phrases to get a message across know the value of language. Remember the old adage, “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt you!” Well, I think we are now old enough to know that there is something severely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/10/05/my-favorite-word/</link>
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		<title>Family Fall Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Family Fall Festival, Sunday, October 25th is going to be one of those events that you will not want to miss. StoneRidge Fellowship is celebrating the Grand Opening of its new facilities at 85 Temple Terrace in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. This historic event begins and ends with Keltic-flavoured celebration services at 10:30 am and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://srfconnect.me/lessomers/2009/10/01/family-fall-festival/</link>
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