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		<title>Love my iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month our church talked about making your mark (what that looks like through passion, failure, etc). It was a great series! A cool thing about it was that all groups at the church used a &#8220;Make Your Mark&#8221; curriculum during the month of February. So, in our couples w/ kids group and my 9th grade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/03/love-my-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Our Children in this Digital Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our small group at church just finished Sheperding a Child&#8217;s Heart as part of our curriculum for the semester. It was challenging, refreshing, and gave us all a different perspective on the way God has called us to teach, discipline, and raise up our children. At it&#8217;s core, I felt like the book challenged me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Hit List # 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone! Here are some of my top recommended links of the week (from the blogs that I subscribe to):
FAITH:
&#8220;Unconditional Is the Ground of Conditional&#8221; from John Piper. Great thoughts.
&#8220;The Problem With Safe&#8221; from Ragamuffin Soul. Excellent reminder as I&#8217;ve been challenged with taking risks and trusting God this week.
&#8220;Pure&#8221; from Tim Challies. His blog always seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/03/weekly-hit-list-8/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m on a Horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite possibly the best commercial ever.

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		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/03/im-on-a-horse/</link>
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		<title>FREE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go to Christian Audio and you can download two free books this month: Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#8217;s The Cost of Discipleship and John Piper&#8217;s Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die.
Bonhoeffer&#8217;s classic has been on my list of &#8220;lofty titles that would be interesting/challenging to read, but when am I ever going to get around to it?&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/03/free/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Hit List #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone! Here are some of my top recommended links of the week (from the blogs that I subscribe to):
FAITH:
&#8220;All that Glitters&#8221; from Stephen Brewster. Good reminder about being honest and authentic as a leader.
&#8220;Small Groups are Dead&#8221; from Ben Reed. Interesting discussion about small groups and the church. There are 3-4 posts about it this week.
&#8220;Think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/02/weekly-hit-list-7/</link>
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		<title>California-Bound!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Our baby girl traveled to sunny California yesterday with Mom. We know she&#8217;ll have a lot of fun, but we miss her already! Turns out her flight was delayed leaving ATL 3-hours for LAX. During the delay, here was a FB post that my Grandma left on Jen&#8217;s wall:
&#8220;Thank-you for letting Olivia come to CA, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/02/california-bound/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Hit List #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone! Here are some of my top recommended links of the week (from the blogs that I subscribe to):
FAITH:
&#8220;Following God and Farming&#8221; - from Don Miller.  Intriguing thoughts from his blog this week. He asks the question, &#8220;what is my field to plow, and am I plowing it?&#8221; Challenged this week from this, in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/02/weekly-hit-list-6/</link>
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		<title>Telling the family about Sophia for the first time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 9, 2007 &#8211; I&#8217;m walking out of the delivery area to the waiting area to tell everyone if the baby is a boy or girl.

Telling the family about Sophia for the first time! from Dustin Valencia on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/02/telling-the-family-about-sophia-for-the-first-time/</link>
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		<title>Hope for Guatemala Golf Challenge</title>
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Hi everyone!  I need your help!  I have agreed to help raise funds for an upcoming event that will benefit some terrific children in Guatemala.  This is a cause that I care about deeply and you can be a part of this effort by sponsoring me in the Hope for Guatemala/Stonecreek Church Golf Challenge.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valenciafamily.org/blog/2010/02/hope-for-guatemala-golf-challenge/</link>
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