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		<title>&#8220;God make me more persuasive&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/god-make-me-more-persuasive/</link>
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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>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>The priestly carnal craving for bread</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-priestly-carnal-craving-for-bread/</link>
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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;
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		<title>Where is the man for the day?</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/where-is-the-man-for-the-day/</link>
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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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		<title>How weak is your drama program?</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/how-weak-is-your-drama-program/</link>
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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>How&#8217;s The Gloom Factor in Your Life? Isaiah 58:8,10</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/hows-the-gloom-factor-in-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chris Huffman:
This is Piper&#8217;s comments on verses 8 and 10 of Isaiah chapter 58.
Then your brightness will break like dawn. (verse 8 )
Then your light will rise in darkness
And your gloom will become like midday. (verse10)
Piper says of these verses&#8230;
&#8221; It is one of God&#8217;s many paradoxes that there is more light in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=44&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Dever interview of J.I. Packer on his intro. to &#8220;The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.&#8221; Part One</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/mark-dever-interview-of-ji-packer-on-his-intro-to-the-death-of-death-in-the-death-of-christ-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Dever conducted an interview with J.I. Packer that I feel is a &#8220;must listen&#8221; (order it an others through www.9marks.com) &#8211; I figured I&#8217;d give you a taste of what you&#8217;ll find.  I hope it is helpful and that 9marks becomes a resource you will go to time and time again.
MD- You note the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=37&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>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/machen-still-relevant-on-his-comments-on-the-irrelevancy-of-revelant-church-movements/</link>
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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:
&#8220;The world of today is hoping for something new.  Things that seemed to be new have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=38&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Duty of Pastors</title>
		<link>http://synopsisblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/03/the-duty-of-pastors/</link>
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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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