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	<title>Life Under the Blue Sky: The View From Below</title>
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		<title>Living Under the Blue Sky with Kids in Junior High</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Next week I will be literally living under the blue sky as I play dean for a group of local junior high students at our local church camp, Blue Rock Christian Camp. That said, I will be on break from LUBS until at least the following Monday. I hope you will keep reading and replying, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Case You Ever Wondered&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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In case you ever wondered what I look like&#8230;

Thanks Odgie!
jerry
HT: The Simpson&#8217;s Movie
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		<title>Fundamentalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
We recently (my family and I) took a trip to Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania. After an enjoyable afternoon of hiking, eating, swimming, and more we stopped at a small parking lot to watch a bunch of turtles sunning on a log in the middle of a pond. This is one of those rooftop carriers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Kind of Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
A while back, I was assured by several readers that a certain House Bill H.R. 1592 and its Senate companion S.B. 1105 would in no way infringe upon the free speech rights of Christians who believe homosexuality is a sin and preach in accordance with the Scriptural (Old &#38; New Testament) teaching prohibiting such activity.
One such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Garland on Desperation &#38; Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Yesterday I came across that stunning quote by the late Mike Yaconelli. Today, during some more preparation, I came across this quote by David Garland in the NIV Application Commentary on Mark&#8217;s Gospel (5:21-43):
&#8220;Faith is impelled by desperation that Jesus is sufficient to meet whatever need one has. The ruler and the woman did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlighting Blogs for Fun: Eternity Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
I realize the blog world is huge and so, at the risk of diminishing your constant support of my own blog, I have decided to step out a little bit and begin to highlight some other blogs that I happen to come across here at wordpress. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll get to it every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Yaconelli on Spirituality and Desperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
I read this book a couple of years ago. I saw it on the shelf today while preparing lessons for my week of deaning junior high church camp next week. I saw one of those small green post-it flags attached to a page so I turned to it to see what had caught my eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Explains Why All Things Must be Made New, Matthew 9:14-17</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Here is text from a sermon I preached in July 2005. I see a lot of themes in this sermon that I am only just beginning to understand. In particular, this series of sermons was titled &#8220;ALL THINGS NEW.&#8221; I had no idea at the time where this would eventually lead, but now I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reformed Revival: Critiquing a Short Paragraph Uttered by Uber-Evangelical Paul Washer</title>
		<link>http://dangoldfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/a-reformed-revival-critiquing-a-short-paragraph-uttered-by-uber-evangelical-paul-washer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Paul Washer is a preacher. I hear about him seemingly everywhere. Many hail him as the latest in a long line prophetic preachers who are going to change the world with their powerful voice by calling the church to reform. He is hailed as being extremely orthodox, although others have pointed out some inconsistencies  (see, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revelation 4-5, Worship as Response: Remembering the Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends, This is actually the second sermon I preached in a series of four in January 2008 that dealt with worship. The other three are here:
Worship as Proclamation 1 Corinthians 10-11 (Preaching the Cross)
Worship as Possibility: Hebrews 9-10 (Facing the Cross)
Worship as Sacrifice: Romans 12:1-2 (Displaying the Cross)
As you can see, the cross is at the center of [...]]]></description>
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