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			<title><![CDATA[Seven (Hopefully) Helpful Hints after Seven Months of Visiting Churches]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So what have I found these past seven months? I could give you a fairly extensive consultation report about the churches, but I prefer to distill my words into just a few helpful hints. Each of these issues clearly needed addressing in most of the churches I visited.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:45:31 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[No Limits, No Culture:  Portents of a Post-Christian America]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On May 7th, Delaware became the eleventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. On May 14th, Minnesota became the twelfth.  While that leaves thirty-eight states that haven't redefined marriage, we shouldn't deceive ourselves. As Rod Dreher recently pointed out in "The American Conservative," historians will one day remember our time as "a cultural revolution."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:37:37 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Syria and the War on Christians:  Should the U.S. Intervene?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's a potent reminder that while we may not be certain who the winners in the upheavals rocking Syria and the rest of the Middle East might be, we already know who the losers will be: Christians.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:44 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Spiritual Formation, Making It Stick! (Pt. 3)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Recognizing the spiritual needs of culture reveals the great need, in Christian schools, for a more focused approach to "spiritual formation" necessary.  Planning how to make spiritual formation" integral to the curriculum then is paramount.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:05:43 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[How to Know Who Is Right About the Afterlife]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Whether there is life after death is a question that humans have pondered for centuries. Today there is a great deal of interest in the subject with people curious about near-death experiences, supposed encounters with ghosts, and the claims of psychic mediums. Some scoff at the entire concept of an afterlife, while others are comforted by it.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:54:54 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Protecting Religious Freedom: A Reminder From the Ga. Bibles in State Cabins Debate]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When I served as a missionary in Asia for more than 20 years, I entered a world ripe with challenges for religious freedom. Imagine being in a world where you hesitate before saying "God bless you" to the person in line behind you at the grocery store or "I'll be praying for you" to a colleague battling a terminal cancer. I learned all too quickly what this absence of the freedom for even the simplest of religious impulses feels like.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:10 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Egypt: Hope in the Midst of Storms]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The atmosphere around that scene portrayed by Paul, and the heavy feelings felt on board that boat, are so similar to the same feelings many Egyptian Christians experience today. We open our eyes in the morning every day, and here are the reports we hear or read:]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:56:02 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[When Sons Suffer and a Nation Prays]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While sitting in his bed at Riley Children's Hospital, our college-aged son Googled "leukemia," trying to understand his recent diagnosis. Suddenly he read aloud to his friends, "It says here that two general symptoms of leukemia are anemia and being grumpy." Then he looked up, "Oh no! I think all of you have leukemia!" His sense of humor showed through again when a friend handed him a stuffed lion, and Nick immediately named it "Luke E. Mia."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:31:50 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Idol Worship Spawned the Same-Sex Revolution]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Whenever addressing a topic as misunderstood as this one, it is helpful at the outset to reaffirm the fact that God loves everyone. He loves those who struggle with this or that temptation, as well as those who feel unlovable. "God is love." (1 John 4:8)]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 06:30:33 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Light in an Oklahoma Tornado]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's strange. The worst things that happen to us become the compassion and comfort we have to treat other wounded people. Those who've been hurt become heroes of healing for others who are bleeding. As the Bible says, "We can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God"]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:45:51 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[What Happened to the Oklahoma Children Who Died?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As we watched the news coverage, many of us asked faith's hardest questions: Why did God allow such a tragedy? Why didn't he prevent it, or at least shelter these innocent, helpless children? What do we do now? And the question we'll address today: What happened to the children when they died?]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:18:52 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[10 of My Worst Sermon Gaffes, Goofs and Illustrations]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When you preach for a living, mistakes are bound to be made. Sometimes it's a sermon idea. It looks good on paper but when it passes from paper to preaching something get's twisted. Or perhaps it's an illustration that you think is going to work really well but it crashes at takeoff. Or maybe it's a gaffe you made that you wish you could retract.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:58:38 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[7 Steps to Teach Theology in the Local Church]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Evangelicals know that theology matters, and we're quick to remind others of this fact. What we're not so quick to acknowledge is the focus of this blogpost: we do a poor job of teaching the very theology we claim is so important. We think that our church members understand and believe our basic doctrine, even while those same members are learning their theology from TV talk show hosts, popular television preachers, or the latest religious novel.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:23:26 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Materialism vs. Reality:  A Worldview Just Not Big Enough]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis observed that the most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones argued, but the ones assumed. And there's little doubt that in most universities across the United States, secularist materialism, in one form or another, is the assumed and unquestioned perspective from which most subjects are understood and taught.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:53:44 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Uprising Series III: Like Father, Like Son?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had someone say: "Hey, there's your son, he looks just like you." People usually use that externally, but when they want to describe character, they say "Like father, like son."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:03:22 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Spiritual Formation, Integral to Christian Schooling (Pt. 2)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Cardus Educational Survey (CES) revealed, while graduates of Protestant Christian school registered "raw scores" which were high regarding: preparation for a vibrant spiritual life, obligation to accept church leadership authority, frequency of church attendance, biblical authority, and strong biblical values, the school's effect on these positions achieved much lower scores.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:02:04 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[How Self-Esteem Keeps People From God]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It sounds so positive and affirming. After all, everyone deserves to have a ton of self-esteem, right? With all the bullying and other belittling behavior which takes place these days, doesn't it just make sense that we should want all people to hold themselves in high esteem?]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:03:35 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[The Fearful Pastor]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[He carried with him the dirty secret that many pastors carry; the one that is so hard for a "man of faith" to admit. The dirty secret was that much of what he did was not done out of faith, but out of fear.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:31:40 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Do Christian Schools Teach Spiritual Formation?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Do Christian Schools teach spiritual formation?  Well, somewhat.  Let me be more specific: "Do Christian schools teach spiritual formation sufficiently to prepare students for engaging culture effectively?]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:03:10 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama and Nixon Scandals:  Nothing New Under the Sun (Pt. 1)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is nothing new under the sun, wrote Solomon after squeezing out all the novelty in living that he could. The alleged Obama Administration scandals prove it.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:02:11 EDT</pubDate>        
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