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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; jesus</title>
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		<title>a meditation for good friday 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/04/10/a-meditation-for-good-friday-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the way they met a man named Simon, who was coming into the city from the country, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus&#8217; cross. (Simon was from Cyrene and was the father of Alexander and Rufus.) They took Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which means “The Place of the Skull.” Wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>obama&#8217;s choice of rick warren</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/12/18/obamas-choice-of-rick-warren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jesus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But Obama, I think, genuinely wants to do something new, something different, not to represent this constituency or that advocacy group, but to work hard at getting people talking with each other, not just at each other.]]></description>
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		<title>good questions!</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/12/03/good-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/12/03/good-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[follow_jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[julie clawson]]></category>

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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>on earth as it is in heaven</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/04/09/on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/04/09/on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lord's prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[n t wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[N. T. Wright is right! The separation of religion from &#8220;real life,&#8221; the separation of faith from politics, from the push and pull of the everyday decisions that impact the lives of persons and communities of persons, is artificial and contrary to the &#8220;way&#8221; to which Jesus calls his followers. Faith is not just about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ucc runs an ad</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/03/31/ucc-runs-an-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/03/31/ucc-runs-an-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jeremiah wright]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The national office of the United Church of Christ is raising $120,000 ($82,600 raised as of March 31, 12:00 noon) to run a full-page ad in Wednesday&#8217;s edition of the New York Times. The ad is a response to the furor generated by the widely-broadcast video clips of sermons preached at Trinity United Church of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a meditation for good friday</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/03/21/a-meditation-for-good-friday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/03/21/a-meditation-for-good-friday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the disciples who were with Jesus saw what was going to happen, they asked, &#8220;Shall we use our swords, Lord?&#8221; And one of them struck the High Priest&#8217;s slave and cut off his right ear. But Jesus said, &#8220;Enough of this!&#8221; He touched the man&#8217;s ear and healed him Are you surprised that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>playing it safe?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/01/24/playing-it-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/01/24/playing-it-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have been studying the parables of Jesus in a Wednesday evening Bible study at church. This week, one of the parables we discussed was the parable of the three servants &#8230; Once there was a man who was about to go on a journey; he called his servants and put them in charge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>emmanuel</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/05/emmanuel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/12/05/emmanuel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emmanuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From I Like Being Five Years Old, an entry by Debi Sanders last week on the inward/outward website: My friend Kim, who worked with Good Shepherd Ministries for the last ten years, just returned from a year in Haiti where her only â€œjobâ€ was to be with people and build friendships. The Haitians were in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a prayer for good friday</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/06/a-prayer-for-good-friday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/06/a-prayer-for-good-friday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Jesus, forgive us for all the ways we deny you &#8230; &#8230; by remaining quiet in the shadows, not daring to speak our faith in the public arena &#8230; by quietly going about our own business, while neglecting to wonder what your business might be &#8230; by being more American than Christian, more the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what i learn from jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/04/what-i-learn-from-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/04/what-i-learn-from-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The path to healing runs not around suffering, but through it. The path to life runs not around death, but through it.]]></description>
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