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		<title>Church for a new era</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you following the life of New Oaks Church may find this story encouraging. Here&#8217;s Donnie Miller (pastor of the Trinity Family Church in Gardner, KS) telling of a change of direction:
A New Era begins for TFC 


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		<title>Could &#8220;Government is the problem&#8221; be part of the problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like so:
Government is bad,
therefore,
We should cut its funding whenever we have a chance to do so.
Of course, then &#8230;
Government agencies end up under-staffed, under-equipped, and unable to keep up (years-long immigration-hearing delays come to mind, or the Katrina response, or &#8230;)
And,
Government&#8217;s best and brightest administrators get fed up and leave, finding industry positions that ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masbury.wordpress.com&blog=89257&post=2948&subd=masbury&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monte</dc:creator>
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Hello dear friends:
Thank you for dropping by.
I am away from blogging for one month to focus on a couple of life direction questions.
Please keep me on your reader &#8211; I&#8217;ll be back about October 17.
I am so grateful for your presence on this journey!
All the best,


 
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		<title>Whose conversion is this?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story of a Christian conversion.  Can you guess who&#8217;s talking?
So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to [a church]. And I heard [a pastor] deliver a sermon &#8230;  And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masbury.wordpress.com&blog=89257&post=2935&subd=masbury&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my Nazarene friends, here&#8217;s an index to some thoughts about the &#8220;Concerned Nazarenes&#8221; DVD that was distributed at General Assembly.  CN is a fundamentalist group with strong ideas about the emergent church phenomenon and its relationship to the Church of the Nazarene.  Their DVD is reviewed by a fellow named Jeffrey at A Considered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masbury.wordpress.com&blog=89257&post=2930&subd=masbury&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder why it is that the states that most decry government spending are the ones that take the most federal money per capita to deliver their babies?  Note Huckabee&#8217;s Arkansas and Palin&#8217;s Alaska and McCain&#8217;s Arizona and Barbour&#8217;s Mississippi and Jindal&#8217;s Louisiana and Demint&#8217;s S. Carolina:











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		<title>N.T. Wright&#8217;s definition of evangelism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When the church is seen to move straight from worship of the God we see in Jesus to making a difference and effecting much-needed change in the real world;
when it becomes clear that the people who feast at Jesus&#8217; table are the ones in the forefront of work to eliminate hunger and famine;
when people realize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masbury.wordpress.com&blog=89257&post=2922&subd=masbury&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of the world-class South African runner Caster Semenva (on the right in photo).  Last week, she won the gold medal in the women&#8217;s 800 meters at the world championship games in Berlin.   And then, someone—no one&#8217;s saying who—challenged her victory on the basis of gender.  In other words, &#8220;She&#8217;s not a woman, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=masbury.wordpress.com&blog=89257&post=2903&subd=masbury&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long after midnight, some years ago, I found my son in the fetal position on the floor outside our bedroom door, in intense pain.  We rushed him to the hospital.  Pancreatitis, it was.  He received good treatment.  And in some days, he mostly recovered.




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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video! 
Keith Olbermann reveals the numbers behind those Senators and Congressmen and women who have funded their elections with health industry money, and who now deliver the goods by killing the public option.

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