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	<title>Been Thinking About &#187; Life in Christ</title>
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		<title>An Olympic Tribute</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2010/02/15/an-olympic-tribute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Vancouver’s opening ceremonies, organizer John Furlong encouraged Olympians to compete in honor of the Georgian athlete who died in a luge training run prior to the beginning of the winter games.
Urging the Olympians to rise to the spirit of the event, Furlong said, &#8220;You are our beacon of hope in a world so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One to One</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2010/02/02/one-to-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2010/02/02/one-to-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to an online encyclopedia there are probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. The smallest have as few as 10 million stars. The largest ones have a trillion stars.
The same summary of astronomical projections goes on to say that our own Milky Way is thought to have between 100 to 400 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>130</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Salvation be Lost?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2010/01/29/can-salvation-be-lost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2010/01/29/can-salvation-be-lost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[salvation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible offers strong warnings about the danger of “falling from grace”. But does that imply the possibility of losing the gift of salvation? This question has divided followers of Christ for centuries.
Once again we are faced with a subject that seems to offer Scriptures in tension. One side can quote our Lord’s words, “I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>207</slash:comments>
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		<title>Let There be Light&#8230; and Darkness</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/07/let-there-be-light-and-darkness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/07/let-there-be-light-and-darkness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[darkness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have been thinking that one way to understand the Bible is to see the way it tells the story of light and darkness.
The first quoted words of the God who brought something out of nothing and order out of chaos are, “Let there be Light.” Then God divided the light from the darkness in a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Are We Doing?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/16/how-are-we-doing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/16/how-are-we-doing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God and His Ways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Spiritual Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trouble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In “How the Mighty Fall,” author Jim Collins analyzes how once successful corporations cycle through predictable patterns of decline. In his analysis, problems begin when companies take their success for granted and begin to stray from what worked for them in the past.
Collins goes on to say the tendency is for managers to overextend themselves, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Wisdom of the Second Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/09/the-wisdom-of-the-second-opinion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/09/the-wisdom-of-the-second-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counsel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marital abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While thinking lately not only about some bloody 15th and 16th century periods of church history, but also about the way church people continue to bitterly divide over theological and political differences, I’m reminded how important it is to try to attach authority to no more and no less than what the Bible says.
In this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turning Good News into Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/06/12/turning-good-news-into-bad-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/06/12/turning-good-news-into-bad-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Gospel of the Kingdom begins with the good news: blessed are the poor in spirit (Matt 5:2).
In other words,
We are to be envied and congratulated if we see our spiritual need of the King who teaches us how to:

Admit our spiritual bankruptcy
Mourn our wrongs rather than defending ourselves.
Inherit the earth rather than trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Working to Rest</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/05/01/working-to-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/05/01/working-to-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Word of God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[two-edged sword]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Word of God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It takes effort to be at peace with ourselves, with our God, and with others.
That may be one reason the New Testament author of Hebrews encourages us  to work to rest in the living Word of God.
Used to think that the reference to the Word of God as a two-edged sword referred only to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pastoral or Elder Rule?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/03/18/pastoral-or-elder-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/03/18/pastoral-or-elder-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m convinced that there are few callings more honorable or difficult than that of a pastor-shepherd.
If we think the relationship between husband and wife is problematic, imagine the complexity involved in the relationship between church congregations and their spiritual leaders.
Interestingly, the New Testament likens both church and marriage to a body and discusses at length what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Pastoral Paul Cuts us Slack</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/03/08/the-pastoral-paul-cuts-us-slack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/03/08/the-pastoral-paul-cuts-us-slack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love of God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black and white]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If we read the Apostle Paul as a black and white thinker who wrote rule-filled letters to followers of Christ, we may be forgetting that his pre-occupation with rule keeping was a thing of the past  (Philip 3:3-14).
Listen, for instance, to what he wrote to the Corinthians,
&#8220;The time is short, so that from now on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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