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		<title>illegal to love your neighbor in arizona?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from a recent report by Jim Wallis from Phoenix, Arizona. May the followers of Jesus in our own day echo the words of Peter and John and the other apostles: &#8220;We must obey God, not men.&#8221; I got up at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning to fly to Phoenix, Arizona, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/23/illegal-to-love-your-neighbor-in-arizona/</link>
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		<title>easter sunrise 2010</title>
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		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/05/easter-sunrise-2010/</link>
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		<title>full moon at dusk</title>
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		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/03/25/full-moon-at-dusk/</link>
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		<title>merry christmas!</title>
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		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/12/23/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>check out my updated recommendations page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Recommendations page includes new listings for music and books I enjoyed this summer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/10/14/check-out-my-updated-recommendations-page/</link>
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		<title>heaven can wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t expect to go to heaven. At one time I did. At one time, making myself worthy of heaven was the focus of my life. From early childhood, I learned what it meant to ask Jesus into my heart with the hope of spending eternity with him in heaven. I learned to live for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/10/14/heaven-can-wait/</link>
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		<title>a spring delight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been experimenting with our new digital camera, the camera I plan to use extensively this summer during my sabbatical. This is a photo of the phlox and daylily shoots growing at the foot of our mailbox.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/05/22/a-spring-delight/</link>
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		<title>the furious longing of god</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently invited to join the members of the TheOOZE Viral Blogger Network. You can learn more about the Ooze online community by following the link listed in my blog&#8217;s Links list. Each month, Ooze viral bloggers select from a list of books of interest to Christian thinkers and pilgrims and agree to submit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/05/21/the-furious-longing-of-god/</link>
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		<title>turning the page on torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is sad that it has taken a change in administration to begin to turn the page on torture. A categorical ban on torture is an American value, not a debatable value of one party or another. Perhaps we were in so deep that there was no way out &#8230; other than repentance. And repentance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/04/28/turning-the-page-on-torture/</link>
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		<title>easter sunrise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two photos from Easter Sunday morning one just before sunrise, and the other just after &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/04/22/easter-sunrise/</link>
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