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			<title><![CDATA[Court Grants Pastor Right to Sue Oklahoma Over Native American License Plate]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An Oklahoma pastor has been given approval by a federal appeals court to sue the state over its license plate depicting the image of an Indian "rain god" made famous by a Native American artist.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:24:44 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[City Transplant John Piper Unsure He's Suited for Country Silence]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Living for a short while in his new home in Tennessee, Desiring God founder and theologian John Piper observes that there is a still quietness in his new locale, so much so that at times he can hear his wife breath. And he's not sure he can get used to it.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:35:04 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA['God Does Not Care if You Smoke Weed,' Says Pastor Against War on Drugs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Gary, Ind., pastor speaking out against what he believes is the country's unjust war on drugs not only says drugs should be decriminalized, but also believes that "God is not that petty" to care if Christians, or anyone else, smokes marijuana.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:31 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Evangelical Organizations Partner to Fight Bible Illiteracy Among Hispanics]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and the American Bible Society have teamed up to fight Bible illiteracy among Hispanics by promoting September as Mes de la Biblia, the Month of the Bible.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:59 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Interview: Frank Page Speaks Candidly About Suicide, Loss of His Daughter]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, spoke with The Christian Post at the SBC's annual meeting about the impact suicide has had on his family, following the death of his eldest daughter, Melissa, in November 2009. Page exposes the process of grief, hope and healing survivors of suicide experience in his newly released book, Melissa: A Father's Lesson from a Daughter's Suicide.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:38:21 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Evangelical Presbyterian Church's General Assembly to Have Record Attendance]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Evangelical Presbyterian Church is set to have the record number for their 33rd General Assembly, which will be held at Cherry Hills Community Church in Colorado.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:51:58 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Founding Pastor of Va. Megachurch Caught in Sex Scandal Gets $115K Salary, Housing in Severance Deal]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Richmond Outreach Center founding pastor Geronimo "Pastor G" Aguilar, who resigned with three other pastors from the church amid an explosive sex scandal on June 5, will continue to receive his $115,930 annual salary and reside in the church's half-million dollar parsonage until December.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:44:18 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Assemblies of God Reaffirms Partnership With Wycliffe After 'Son of God' Controversy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Assemblies of God USA, the largest Pentecostal body in the world, has expressed its continued support of Wycliffe Bible Translators USA after the organization promised to act in line with recommendations made by a World Evangelical Alliance panel over its usage of "Son of God" and "God the Father" in Muslim contexts.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:05:56 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[LifeWay Launches Ministry Grid Online Training Tool to Reach New Believers in Christ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thom Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources, unveiled Ministry Grid, an Internet-based online ministry training tool for pastors, church staff and volunteers that he believes will better equip pastors in training new leaders to become disciples of Jesus Christ.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:52:22 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Greg Laurie Shares How Men Can Be a 'Superhero']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With the much-anticipating "Man of Steel" film hitting theaters this past weekend, Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Church in Southern California used the opportunity to share how men can be a different kind of a "superman," who is called dad.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:30:35 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[In 'The New Abolitionist Movement' to Stop Sex Trafficking, Christians Are Still Key Players]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today, a new abolitionist movement is emerging in New York, this time to abolish the global trade of women and children for sex, and committed Christians are centrally involved key players.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:14:58 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[So. Baptist Woman's Mission Union Works to Eradicate Porn From Families' Lives]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[he Woman's Mission Union made a bold proclamation at this past week's Southern Baptist Convention in Houston, Texas, by announcing the partnership between the WMU, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and Pastor Jay Dennis of First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland, Fla., to eradicate the poison of pornography that is destroying marriages, hurting children, and fracturing the mission of the church.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:51:42 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Dr. Charles Stanley as Dad: A Father's Day Reflection on Pastor's Kids, Prayer, and Parenting]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Becky Stanley Brodersen, Dr. Charles Stanley's daughter who now resides in Dallas, Texas, also shared a heartfelt testimony of his love and support over the years and emphasized how he taught her to pray and listen to God as a young child.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:15:03 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[John MacArthur Takes on Charismatic Movement With 'Strange Fire' Conference]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[John MacArthur, influential author, pastor and seminary president, has organized what has already proven to be a controversial conference, as he and several other evangelical Christian ministers will gather in October at his Sun Valley, Calif., church to take a corrective stance against what he describes as "strange fire" practices in the charismatic movement.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:13:33 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA['Cessationists Are Wrong' About Speaking in Tongues, Says Pastor Mark Driscoll]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Wash., recently spoke on the gift of tongues as described in the New Testament as part of his "Acts: Empowered for Jesus' Mission" sermon series. The conservative Reformed, or New Calvinist Christian minister laid out his arguments as to why he believes the gift of speaking in tongues did not end with Jesus' apostles in the first century.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:28:36 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Over 1,300 Commit to Christ at Will Graham's Kenya Evangelical Festival]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While speaking this past weekend in Kisumu, Kenya, Will Graham, grandson of evangelist Billy Graham, preached the Good News of Jesus Christ to over 21,000 people over a three-day period, with 1,350 witnesses committing themselves to Jesus by the end of the weekend.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:16:22 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Willow Creek Community Church Unveils Massive $10M Care Center]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Willow Creek Community Church, founded nearly 40 years ago by Senior Pastor Bill Hybels as an "Acts 2 church," has opened the doors of its new 60,000 square-foot, $10 million Care Center in South Barrington, Ill., to provide thousands of local families continued access to a grocery store-styled food pantry, car repair and donation services, dental and optometry clinics, legal assistance and a whole lot more.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:55:06 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Suicide, Mental Health at Forefront of Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Southern Baptist church leaders voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a resolution on "Mental Health Concerns and the Heart of God" that affirms the denomination's support for people suffering from mental illness, as well as families that are impacted by the loss of loved ones to suicide.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:15:36 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[So. Baptists Vote for Members to 'Prayerfully Assess' Boy Scouts of America Relationship]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention voted Wednesday to approve a resolution that expresses the denomination's "opposition to and disappointment in the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to change its membership policy" to allow openly-homosexual members. The resolution does not require churches and families to sever their ties with the BSA, though it does ask that they "prayerfully assess their continued relationship" with the organization, and to "work toward a reversal of this new membership policy."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:32:03 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Texas UMC Body Mulling Over Lesbian Clergy Candidate]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Controversy has erupted over the Southwest Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church's decision to not certify a clergy candidate allegedly due to her being a lesbian.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:44:33 EDT</pubDate>        
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