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	<title>Life Under the Blue Sky: The View From Below</title>
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		<title>Closed for New Life</title>
		<link>http://dangoldfinch.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/closed-for-new-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
To all of you who have at anytime visited this blog and interacted with me, I want to say thank you. Sometime next month (maybe sooner) I will surpass 100,000 hits and I am happy about that. I am no longer a paid preacher. I resigned from my church last month amidst not a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1420&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PT Forsyth on the Depths</title>
		<link>http://dangoldfinch.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/pt-forsyth-on-the-depths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1416&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DA Carson on What Destroys the Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from Carson’s book The Cross and the Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from 1 Corinthians.
The ways of destroying the church are many and colorful. Raw factionalism will do it. Rank heresy will do it. Taking your eyes off the cross and letter other, more peripheral matters dominate the agenda will do it–admittedly more slowly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1414&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Notes: Psalm 130</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Here are my notes on Psalm 130. I hope you find them to be a blessing. I relied on resources from Eugene Peterson, Walter Kaiser, JI Packer, and a couple of other commentaries. I have pasted an excerpt below. Thanks for stopping by.
Psalm 130: De Profundis
 PS 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1412&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Kind of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2009
“Faith has to do with marrying Invisible and Visible. When we engage in an act of faith we give up control, we give up sensory (sight, hearing, etc.) confirmation of reality; we give up insisting on head knowledge as our primary means of orientation in life. The positive way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1409&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skycast: Ezekiel 37: Waking the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Life Under the Blue Sky Skycast (podcast). In this episode, you will hear a sermon from Ezekiel 37:1-4. I preached this sermon to my congregation on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2009. Be blessed.
Access the sermon manuscript from box.net: Ezekiel 37:1-14, Waking the Dead
Prophesy to the Bones. And the Lord put words in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1401&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus, the World, and Us</title>
		<link>http://dangoldfinch.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/jesus-the-world-and-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
This is a sermon I preached from John 17:6-19 on May 24, 2009. My congregation has been going through some tough times lately and this sermon was a great way to put those issues in perspective. The battle we wage is not against the flesh; Jesus prayed for and prepared us for the battle that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1405&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skycast: On the Journey With and Without God: Psalm 22</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Life Under the Blue Sky Skycast (Podcast). In this installment, I will explore Psalm 22. You can access the sermon manuscript and lectionary notes here. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the sermon:
The Psalm doesn’t end with all the wavering and tossing to and fro. It doesn’t end with the ups and downs. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1398&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humor Me</title>
		<link>http://dangoldfinch.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/humor-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new preacher moves his things into his new office and comes across the former pastor, taking his items out.  The former pastor says, &#8220;I left three envelopes in your desk.  If you have any trouble, open them.&#8221;
Well, of course the new preacher thinks he will never have to use them, but in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1392&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>De-Sanitizing the Parables: The Parable of the Soils, pt 1</title>
		<link>http://dangoldfinch.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/de-sanitizing-the-parables-the-parable-of-the-soils-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This installment of the De-Sanitizing the Parables series will explore the Parable of the Soil found in Matthew 13. However, before I explore the parable itself, I&#8217;d like to give some background on the nature of the parables found in Scripture. To do this, we will listen to two different scholars who give us some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dangoldfinch.wordpress.com&blog=907514&post=1388&subd=dangoldfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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