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		<title>Thoughts upon death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our community has recently experienced a tragedy.  Three high school seniors, foot ball players and very popular boys, died when their boat capsized in frigid waters.  One of the boys&#8217; bodies has been recovered and the other two are still missing almost two weeks later.  This even has rocked this town and found everyone asking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=43&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama the Apostate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much internet chatter about whether or not Barak Obama is a Muslim.  With a middle name like Hussein, it is easy to see how some people can come to that conclusion, especially since he was registered as a Muslim when he lived in Indonesia and attended a Muslim school there (of course [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=41&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confusing theology with self-esteem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My kids have a video from Max Lucado&#8217;s Hermie series about a stink-bug named Stanley.  Stanley is upset because God made him stinky, and no one wants to be around him.  God tells Stanley that He made him that way for a reason and he does not make mistakes.  At the end of the show, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=30&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religion in the Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has an interesting story here on whether or not one major claim of Christianity can be considered original, namely a suffering messiah who rises three days later.  The speculation comes from a not-so-recently discovered tablet with text on it, which is referred to as Gabriel&#8217;s Revelation.
Israel Kohl, who is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=26&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bad Things Happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Job lately for my devotions, and I have to confess this is a chore for me.  I&#8217;ve never liked Job.  It is too redundant for me.  Job professes his innocence, his friends call him a liar and tell him to confess so the troubles will be over, Job professes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=25&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s not dumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the bedrock core of my theology.  And every time I read the Bible, I&#8217;m reminded of that fact.  No matter how many rules we have, no matter how rigid something is, God will work around it to bring His desired effect: transformation of people.
Take, for instance, 2 Chronicles 30, Hezekiah&#8217;s re-institution of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=20&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belief matters, but so does action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently rereading Surprising Insights from the Unchurched by Thom Rainer and ran across a part of the research I had forgotten.  According to Rainer&#8217;s interviews with formerly unchurched people (those who recently made a profession of faith and joined a church), 91% of those who are unchurched believe doctrine matters.  Rainer states:
&#8220;The formerly unchurched, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=19&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening and the Gospel</title>
		<link>http://stevendbruns.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/gardening-and-the-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was preparing some of our yard yesterday morning for our garden.  This is the first time we are planting in this area, so there was a lot of prep work needed to clear it out for the tomatoes and other veggies.
As I was tilling the ground, I began thinking about the Parable of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=18&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christ the Lord Series</title>
		<link>http://stevendbruns.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/christ-the-lord-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have not yet read any of Ann Rice&#8217;s Christ the Lord books (Out of Egypt and Road to Cana), you need to.  She has an uncanny way of capturing a compelling and realistic vision of what Jesus&#8217; life was like.  It will make you think and it will make you pray.
Of course there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=15&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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