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		<title>13 Lessons I Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Thirteen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson 13: Be Real! Don’t be a Pinnochio. Don’t lie. Don’t be wooden. Don’t let anyone pull your strings. Be real . . . with real emotion, real mistakes, real life. Real people make a real difference in the lives of students. Being the real you will foster real sharing between you and the students. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons I Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Twelve</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson Twelve: Their size is a big deal. In Junior High sports, size plays a huge part in success. Many smaller players I have coached were depressed by their height because it limited their abilities. They are extremely self-conscience of their lagging growth. One player told his mom he wanted growth hormone shots. He told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons I Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Eleven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson 11:  You are who they see, not who you think they see. If you have been in ministry very long, you have probably had a few days in which you questioned your success. Maybe you doubted your effectiveness. Maybe you doubted yourself as a person. I have those days fairly often. We give, encourage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons I Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson 10: See People For Who They CAN BE. I heard a youth speaker say something like this once and it made a big impression on me. Jesus did this. He didn’t see a short, corrupt tax collector in Zacchaeus. He didn’t even see a wee little man. Jesus saw a man hungry for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons I Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson Nine: Tell YOUR STORIES, Not Someone else’s. I love stories! I love to hear and remember real personal stories that speakers and pastors tell. I can’t stand those generic preacher stories. They are like e-mail forwards; they make me want to delete them without hearing them. Kids love stories even more. Students I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons I Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Eight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen! They do! It may seem like students aren’t listening to us. I often have been proven wrong on that. Students will recite verbatim something I said in a bible study or some story I told. Sometimes I don’t remember what I said . . . but they do. I&#8217;m afraid sometimes they do a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Seven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUILD UP or Shut Up. You are in a position to do more than influence students; you can help construct&#8211;to build up&#8211;young men and women. Don’t give in to the occasional temptation to destruct . . . to tear down. Berating a student because of poor behavior or a bad attitude is easy to do. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Six</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GO the EXTRA MILE With Them, It’ll Make Them Smile. When I started in student ministry, I learned quickly that being in their world payed dividends. The church is a great place, but most active students spend around 50 hours each week at school in class, in sports practices, and at games. There are hundreds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson Five: Don’t Be a Thug; Let ’em Give You a HUG. I know this football player who used to come sprinting over after practice or during the school day to lay a vice-grip clinch around me, hugging me in front of all his peers. He wanted to give me a hug. He wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Lessons Learned From 13-year-olds, Lesson Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesson Four: Take Time to Play. It Paves the Way. Another tool in building bridges to students is to remember to enjoy life. Enjoy people. Enjoy the teaching, coaching, or parenting experience. Some of my favorite times with students have been playing a game with them . . . tennis, ping-pong, football, basketball, golf—whatever we [...]]]></description>
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