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	<title>Been Thinking About &#187; Prayer</title>
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	<description>with Mart De Haan and Friends</description>
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		<title>Praying Like a Broken Record</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/06/praying-like-a-broken-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/06/praying-like-a-broken-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back, it seems that life is full of answered and unanswered prayers.
It&#8217;s clear that, as a wise Father who for our good thinks in ways far beyond our ability, our God has every right and responsibility to say &#8220;Yes,&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; or &#8220;Not Yet.&#8221;
But how, as we live with unanswered requests, can we express our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>In the Name of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/06/17/in-the-name-of-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/06/17/in-the-name-of-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the public trauma of 911, religious leaders gathered for an interfaith public prayer service. While Muslim clerics prayed for the United States in the name of Allah, some Christian leaders did not begin or end their prayers in the name of Jesus.
I remember a well known author and pastor who, in a 2002 college [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keeping Secrets With God!</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/05/23/keeping-secrets-with-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/05/23/keeping-secrets-with-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith-based]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secrets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Go public with faith-based actions. Hide them. Which is it supposed to be?
Jesus taught his disciples to do both:

To go public with the good that they did.
To keep their good actions as a secret between themselves and God.

How are we supposed to sort that out?
In the Lord&#8217;s Sermon on the Mount he first taught his [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Lord&#8217;s Prayer and the Devil</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/05/10/the-lords-prayer-and-the-devil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/05/10/the-lords-prayer-and-the-devil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 15:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Spiritual Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual battle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lord's Prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul&#8217;s strategy for spiritual battle ends with a call to intercede for one another in prayer (Eph 6:18).
It&#8217;s a humbling thought&#8230; to realize that we are dependent not only on God, but on each another-even to the point that, while being accountable for our wrong thoughts and choices, we cannot take credit for the best [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Passover Inventory</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/04/05/passover-inventory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/04/05/passover-inventory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaven]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer went down yesterday. Tried to fix it myself. Made things worse. Now can&#8217;t even boot it up. Am hoping I didn&#8217;t lose a bunch of photos and articles I haven&#8217;t backed up. Using my wife&#8217;s now just to stay in touch.
Real smart. Wasn&#8217;t doing back-ups. Then too impatient to wait a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Prayer for the End of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/08/28/a-prayer-for-the-end-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/08/28/a-prayer-for-the-end-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love of God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our Father,
At the end of another day, we come to you not just by ourselves&#8211; but together.
Many of us will readily admit that you have given us again today far more than we deserve. But some of us find ourselves reeling with news that we have not yet been able to understand or even to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Prayer for a New Day</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/08/27/a-prayer-for-a-new-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/08/27/a-prayer-for-a-new-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We recently talked about the fact that there is a logic to faith even as there is also a mystery. According to the disciple who not only walked on water for a few seconds, but later denied that he ever even knew Jesus, faith expresses itself first in a desire and choice for virtue&#8230;rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is God Asking for Something in our Prayers?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/06/27/is-god-asking-for-something-in-our-prayers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/06/27/is-god-asking-for-something-in-our-prayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Jesus teaches us to pray, &#8220;Our Father, who is in heaven&#8230;,&#8221; he is encouraging us to bring our daily needs to his Father. The second half of this brief model prayer teaches us to say, &#8220;&#8230; give us, forgive us&#8230; and lead us&#8230;&#8221; (Haddon Robinson gives the most helpful summary explanation I have ever [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Case for Short Prayers</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/06/26/a-plea-for-shorter-prayers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/06/26/a-plea-for-shorter-prayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frequency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus' example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[length]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to prayer, less can be more.
A few words expressed from the heart, can be far more meaningful and timely than an hour spent covering a long list of praises, confessions, requests, and intercessions.
Who hasn&#8217;t been bored to death by long prayers that are less than heart to heart communication?
We&#8217;ve been told otherwise. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/06/26/a-plea-for-shorter-prayers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does Anyone Have Faith to Move a Mountain?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/29/does-anyone-have-faith-to-move-a-mountain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/29/does-anyone-have-faith-to-move-a-mountain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 09:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miracles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said that by faith his disciples could move trees and even mountains (Luke 17:5; Mark 11:22-23).
His words remind us of other things we find in the Bible.
If we start with Genesis and read through to Revelation, we see some pretty amazing miracles. Moses lifts a stick, and the Red Sea parts. The people of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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