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		<title>&#8220;God make me more persuasive&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;Eloquence may dazzle and please, but holiness convinces.&#8221;   
                                    Dr. Doriani quoting R. L. Dabney at the Westminster Seminary Preaching Conference

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		<title>Leap to Hell over my body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they perish, let
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and unprayed for.&#8221;
Charles Spurgeon
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		<title>Martin Luther on preaching as the channel of forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from Martin Luther&#8217;s handling of Matthew 9:1-8- the healing of the paralytic.  Luther discusses forgiveness with great skill and beautiful imagery that is worthy of meditation, but this section should be of particular interest to pastors as a reminder of the importance of our role as preachers of the Word.  Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=59&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Henry on Proverbs 17:7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Henry has this to say about Proverbs 17:7 (Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend):
&#8220;This is designed, 1. To recommend to us this expedient for sharpening ourselves, but with a caution to take heed whom we choose to converse with, because the influence upon us is so great either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=57&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our great hindrance</title>
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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>Good and useful men</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this this morning from the Founders Ministries Blog (www.founders.org/blog) and it was very encouraging to me so I wanted to share it with you.
For the full blog entry, go to   http://www.founders.org/blog/2007/09/in-praise-of-bivocational-pastors.htmlIn his Lectures on the History of Preaching (50-51), John Broadus quotes a passage from John Chrysostom &#8220;in which he bestows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=54&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The priestly carnal craving for bread</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Would you follow that course of life, if there were no settled establishment belonging to it, and if you were to preach under the cross, and in danger of persecution?  For till you arrive at that, you are yet carnal, and come into the priesthood for a piece of bread.&#8221;
Bishop Burnett quoted in Charles Bridges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=52&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No just cause for faintness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparing for the Sunday&#8217;s message, I came across an article in a Christian woman&#8217;s magazine dealing with depression.  In identifying the problem the article says:  &#8220;What is surprising is  how quick we are to accept another person&#8217;s judgment and how serious our lack of faith in ourselves can become.&#8221;  Is a lack of faith [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=51&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money?  Think again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The lack of scriptural knowledge is the source of all evils in the church.”     John Chrysostom
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		<title>Where is the man for the day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thom Ascol (founders.org/blog) highlighted this quote from a book that has become one of my favorites-The Forgotten Spurgeon.  Read what Spurgeon had to say here and be courageous:
We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years ago . . . but such a man today is a nuisance, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=49&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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