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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; love</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>killing bin laden</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2011/05/04/killing-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Osama bin Laden did evil things. Yes, he despoiled the image of God that was put in him as well as in each of us. But if we allow his choices to change our choices, to make us people ready to kill &#8212; for the sake of &#8220;closure,&#8221; for the sake of &#8220;justice,&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>illegal to love your neighbor in arizona?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/23/illegal-to-love-your-neighbor-in-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2010/04/23/illegal-to-love-your-neighbor-in-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/05/21/the-furious-longing-of-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brennan manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rich mullins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></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>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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		<category><![CDATA[hate]]></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>considering the cross</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/06/considering-the-cross/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either God was not in Christ and the cross is the ultimate symbol of all the meaninglessness that can destroy us, the absence of God, the triumph of the secular powers. Or God was in Christ and the cross is the final word of a God who shares the pain and the dirt, the loneliness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on the subject of the war in iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/16/on-the-subject-of-the-war-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/16/on-the-subject-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jim_wallis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace_rally]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I reprint for you here an excerpt of the remarks Jim Wallis will make at a Christian peace rally to be held this evening in Washingon, D.C. His words are powerful and passionate and perceptive and faithful to the gospel of Jesus. As Christians, we must discern and root out the fear in our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the opposite of peace &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/08/the-opposite-of-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/12/08/the-opposite-of-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[religious language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[despair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indifference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the opposite of hope is not despair, but resignation. no hope, just emptiness, care-lessness &#8230; I think the opposite of love is not hatred, but apathy. no love, just indifference, care-lessness &#8230; Could it be that the opposite of peace is not conflict, but contentment? no longing for peace, just settling for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>living witnesses &#8230; witnesses to life</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/05/living-witnesses-witnesses-to-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/10/05/living-witnesses-witnesses-to-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s news outlets &#8230; By Michael Rubinkam: In Amish village, forgiveness lives Just about anywhere, a deadly school shooting would have brought demands for tighter gun laws and better security, and the victims&#8217; loved ones would have lashed out at the gunman&#8217;s family or threatened to sue. But after the slayings of five children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>making sense, moving forward</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/08/23/making-sense-moving-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/08/23/making-sense-moving-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[favorite posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world that is so different from the world of the generations that have preceded us. The pace of change is dizzying. The amount of accessible &#8212; unavoidably accessible! &#8212; information is overwhelming. We bear the burden of knowing too much, almost more than we can bear to know. It is not [...]]]></description>
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