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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; grace</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>the furious longing of god</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/05/21/the-furious-longing-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brennan manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rich mullins]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<title>thirty-three prayer flags</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/24/thirty-three-prayer-flags/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/24/thirty-three-prayer-flags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer_flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virginia_tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as classes resumed at Virginia Tech, students gathered around a display of thirty-three white prayer flags. Thirty-three flags &#8230; one each for the thirty-three people who died the previous Monday at the hand of a lone gunman. One each for his thirty-two shooting victims &#8230; and one for him. Thirty-three lives were lost. Thirty-three [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<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>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>the healing power of forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/15/the-healing-power-of-forgiveness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/15/the-healing-power-of-forgiveness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marie Roberts is the widow of the man who entered the Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, thirteen days ago, taking ten young girls hostage and eventually killing five before taking his own life. On Friday, she released an open letter to the Amish community through her pastor. The text of her letter follows &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>much ado about nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/18/much-ado-about-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/18/much-ado-about-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been made of the missteps of the prosecution team in the trail of Zacarias Moussaoui, a confessed al-Qaeda operative. Because one of the prosecution lawyers illegally coached several witnesses, Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the witnesses could not be called, severely undermining the government&#8217;s case against Moussaoui. On Friday, however, Judge Brinkema agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no matter who you are &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/08/no-matter-who-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/08/no-matter-who-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ucc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united_church_of_christ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No matter who you are, or where you are on life&#8217;s journey, you are welcome here. The folks at my church have heard me repeat this tag line from the United Church of Christ national media campaign countless times. For me, it expresses something fundamental about the gospel to which I am called to witness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>point of no return?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/11/22/point-of-no-return/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/11/22/point-of-no-return/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[favorite posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember pulling hard and fast on the paddle, propelling my whitewater canoe forward with the accelerating current toward the brink of Wonder Falls, an eighteen-foot falls on the Big Sandy River. I remember the point of no return, when I knew there was no turning back, no turning around, when I knew that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>just enough</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/09/10/just-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/09/10/just-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[simplicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it sinful to spend money on yourself? I don&#8217;t think so &#8230; Is it sinful to spend money only on yourself? Yes, I do think so &#8230; Is it sinful to want more than you have? I don&#8217;t think so &#8230; Is it sinful to be ungrateful for what you do have? Yes, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unexpected pleasures</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/09/09/unexpected-pleasures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2005/09/09/unexpected-pleasures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simplicity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No life is entirely planned. Some of us are well-displined and well-organized, living structured and carefully measured lives. Others of us are impulsive or indecisive, living rather chaotic lives. But to all of us &#8212; disciplined or not, well-organized or not &#8212; unexpected things happen. And it is often the unexpected pleasures that are the [...]]]></description>
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