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		<title>How Did Jesus Define Greatness?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.  I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=887&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget Black Friday.  Black Friday teaches us to want what we don&#8217;t have.  Today is Thanksgiving, a day for being thankful for all we do have.  A heart filled with gratitude is a happy heart and a healthy heart, a heart that gives health to the whole body, a heart surrounded by loved ones and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=885&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Day of Prayer and Fasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Trinity School held a day of prayer and fasting for the persecuted church worldwide in response to the increasing number and severity of incidents of violence against Christians around the world.  Just as the day was coming to a close the following message was received on campus email.  I copy it here in its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=883&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Week: C.S. Lewis on Suffering</title>
		<link>http://getstarted.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/quote-of-the-week-c-s-lewis-on-suffering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is there suffering in the world?  If God is really a good God, why does He allow so much pain in people&#8217;s lives?  In his book The Problem of Pain C.S. Lewis gives intellectual answer to those who pose such questions from an intellectual standpoint.  Yet he is the first to admit that a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=881&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are the Salt of the Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.   You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.  Nor do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=870&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying Churches: Close, Renew or Re-Start?</title>
		<link>http://getstarted.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/dying-churches-renew-or-re-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running a Google search on church plants, church re-starts and renewing dying churches, what should I be directed to but today&#8217;s post from iMonk, commenting on the church-planting movement in the newly-formed Anglican Church in North America.  Dang if iMonk and I aren&#8217;t thinking along the same lines AGAIN.
His initial post is great &#8212; recommended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=867&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quotations from John Stott and Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the top of my list for this summer&#8217;s reading was John Stott: The Making of a Leader by Timothy Dudley-Smith.  Subtitled The Early Years, the over-400-page volume reads like a mini-history of Evangelical Anglicanism in England during the 1900s.  (I&#8217;ll be interested in reading Volume 2 one of these days!)
John Stott, now 88, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=862&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sermon on the Mount: Blessed Are You&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://getstarted.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/sermon-on-the-mount-blessed-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great multitudes followed Him &#8212; from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.  And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him.  Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: 
&#8220;Blessed are the poor in spirit,
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		<title>Jesus Calls His First Disciples</title>
		<link>http://getstarted.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/jesus-calls-his-first-disciples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.  Then He said to them, &#8220;Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.&#8221;  They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
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		<title>How Not to Run a Church, aka How Not To Do Missions</title>
		<link>http://getstarted.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/how-not-to-run-a-church-aka-how-not-to-do-missions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This news story is incredibly apropos our current readings in Church, Ministry and Sacraments class.  In it you will read about members of the hierarchy of The Episcopal Church soliciting contributions from lawyers to support lawsuits against individual parishes who are leaving the national church.  Notice that the lawyers&#8217; fund (The St. Ives Fund) is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=getstarted.wordpress.com&blog=1171192&post=840&subd=getstarted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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