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		<title>Our great hindrance</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/our-great-hindrance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Self-dependence is the grand hindrance of our efficiency&#8230;.to lean upon human instrumentality, instead of Almighty power- is like Elisha trusting in his staff, instead of his Master&#8230;.We are ready to say of some bright momentary prospect- &#8216;This same shall comfort us concerning our work:&#8217; so that, when &#8216;we see not our signs:&#8217; or when, &#8216;as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=56&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Pagitt&#8217;s &#8220;different Gospel&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Team Pyro comes through.  Check out this as a follow up to the Doug Pagitt/John MacArthur debate on yoga.  What I said in an earlier post about emergent being today&#8217;s liberalism seems too mild once you read what Pagitt says here:  http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2007/09/different-gospels.html
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		<title>Believe and wait</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ministerial success must be viewed, as extending beyond present appearances.  The seed may lie under the clods till we lie there, and then spring up&#8230;.It often happens, that God withholds his blessing for a time, in order that, when the net is cast in &#8216;on the right side,&#8217; it may be clearly seen, that &#8216;the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=48&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How weak is your drama program?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The weak things of God have become not so much despised as ignored in much of contemporary Christianity.  Instead we look for the powerful things of the world.  And then we wonder why we get worldly results:  consumers rather than disciples&#8230;more than good acting, good sound, good staging and lighting, what we need most is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=46&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Pastor: Unceremonious spoil sport</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender&#8217;s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.&#8221;            C.S. Lewis from A Preface to &#8216;Paradise Lost&#8217;
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		<title>The liberty from methodologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another transcription I began sometime ago.  This time it of a presentation by James White and Thom Aschol.  I felt that what James White shared below hit such a nerve with me.  I could relate so well to going to seminary and then into ministry, wanting to do the will of God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=27&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machen still relevant on his comments on the irrelevancy of &#8220;revelant&#8221; church movements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a message entitled &#8220;The Issue in the Church,&#8221; J. Gresham Machen (preaching sometime before his death in 1937) said some things as relevant and important for us to hear as they were in his day.  He said:
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		<title>The Duty of Pastors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Considering what Rick Warren has been up to (see previous post) led me to Owen&#8217;s thoughts on the duty of pastors which I have posted below.  As &#8220;one who must give an account,&#8221; Owen&#8217;s comments give me pause and cause me to think deeply about the controversy surrounding Warren&#8217;s allowing Osama Barak to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=20&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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