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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>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:
&#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>Impropriety&#8217;s Shame- Wesley Is Turning Over in His Grave This Christmas Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post, Sunday, December 10, 1006  &#8220;And to All a Raucous, Rollicking Good Night&#8221; by Anita Huslin

The Washington Post reported on a ladies-only &#8220;Christmas Pageant&#8221; held by Smith Island United Methodist Church in Ewell, Maryland.  Apparently this has been an annual event at this church for upward of 40 years now.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=30&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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		<title>Responding to Katharine Jefferts Schori</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Schori is the new leader and first woman head of the Episcopal Church.  She answered a few questions for the New York Times Magazine, November 19, 2006 issue.  They titled the piece &#8220;State of the Church.&#8221;
First the good.  When asked about Ted Haggard&#8217;s stepping down from the National Association of Evangelicals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=synopsisblog.wordpress.com&blog=545473&post=13&subd=synopsisblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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