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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; follow_jesus</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>good questions!</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/12/03/good-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At what point do we move past the description of all that we are against and actually take an active stand for something? When do we stop just talking about religion and wishing others would be more like us and instead start doing the things Jesus asked us to do? If over a thousand women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;christian hate&#8221; should be an oxymoron!</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/08/19/christian-hate-should-be-an-oxymoron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attach below an excerpt from a forwarded e mail I received the other day &#8230; &#8230; when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don&#8217;t care. When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>talking is easier than doing</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/23/easier-than-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[festival_of_homiletics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is easier to write than to do. Easier to complain than to do. Easier to rant and grieve about injustice and unfairness, than to do anything substantial to change the course of injustice and unfairness. Easier to say &#8220;No matter who you are, you are welcome here,&#8221; than to do the actual welcoming. Easier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>beauty, and life, take time</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/27/beauty-and-life-take-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/27/beauty-and-life-take-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[macrina_wiederkehr]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I really liked today&#8217;s entry at inward/outward &#8230; so I am taking the liberty of reprinting it here for you! By Macrina Wiederkehr Life unfolds a petal at a time slowly. The beauty of the process is crippled when I try to hurry growth. Life has its inner rhythm which must be respected. It cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hateful?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/17/hateful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/17/hateful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follow_jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unconditional_love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a Christian blog I read: General Peter Paceâ€™s comments calling homosexuals acts as immoral, and Senator Sam Brownbackâ€™s comments backing the General up are nothing less than hateful &#8230; Grace is not about an indifferent acceptance of everything, but about an unconditional love for everyone. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>speaking out against torture is not a &#8220;left&#8221;/&#8221;right&#8221; thing &#8230; it&#8217;s a following jesus thing!</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/13/speaking-out-against-torture-is-not-a-leftright-thing-it-is-a-following-jesus-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/13/speaking-out-against-torture-is-not-a-leftright-thing-it-is-a-following-jesus-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Evangelicals has endorsed a declaration confirming their opposition as people of faith, as followers of Jesus, to the use of torture under any circumstances, even in a &#8220;war on terrorism.&#8221; The permissibiity of &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; is not a &#8220;left&#8221;/&#8221;right&#8221; issue. It is an issue of basic human rights, of basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>not crusaders for jesus, but followers of jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/02/02/not-crusaders-for-jesus-but-followers-of-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/02/02/not-crusaders-for-jesus-but-followers-of-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[follow_jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From an editorial by John Buchanan in the February 6, 2007 edition of The Christian Century &#8230; I was representing my denomination on a visit to Croatia, not long after the shooting between Croats, Serbs, and Bosnians had stopped. The Croats are mostly Roman Catholic; the Serbs, Orthodox; and the Bosnians, Muslim. The conflict was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how the church gets it backwards</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/11/17/how-the-church-gets-it-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/11/17/how-the-church-gets-it-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[follow_jesus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus was always on the move. Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest. Jesus was always on the move, going to the people, seeking out the people. The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Jesus was always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>torture is a traditional value?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/17/torture-is-a-traditional-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/17/torture-is-a-traditional-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Louis Sheldon, chaiman of the Traditional Values Coalition, said this about Senator John McCain&#8217;s challenge to the Bush administration&#8217;s position on interrogation rules: This very definitely is going to put a chilling effect on the tremendous strides he has made in the conservative evangelical community. Because? Because no true advocate of traditional values, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>william sloane coffin</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/13/william-sloane-coffin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/04/13/william-sloane-coffin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[william_sloane_coffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. died yesterday. Rev. Coffin was university chaplain during my time at Yale, and many years later has won my admiration as a genuine person of faith and a powerful voice for truth and justice and peace &#8212; God&#8217;s truth, God&#8217;s justice, God&#8217;s peace. The stories told about him and [...]]]></description>
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