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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<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>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>

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		<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>

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		<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>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>What About Praying to Pray?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/28/what-about-praying-to-pray/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/28/what-about-praying-to-pray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 11:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asking God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intercession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one said prayer would be easy.
But had I missed the obvious?
I didn&#8217;t want to repeat myself over and over like a child that won&#8217;t take &#8220;no&#8221; or &#8220;wait&#8221; for an answer. So how are we supposed to come before the Father in a meaningful way, when prayer is something we have done and tried [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wouldn&#039;t Start From Here</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/24/wouldnt-start-from-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/24/wouldnt-start-from-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 10:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rescue]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ A city guy lost his way on rural roads. Dangerously low on fuel, he came across a man on a tractor who looked like a landowner. &#8220;Excuse me, sir,&#8221; the traveler said, &#8220;but I&#8217;m lost and running low on gas. Can you tell me how to get to the nearest gas station&#8221;? The man [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>What if God Couldn&#039;t Feel?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/02/what-if-god-couldnt-feel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/02/what-if-god-couldnt-feel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 10:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God and His Ways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love of God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What if the Bible told the story of a God who was all-knowing and all-powerful&#8211;but who could feel nothing? In a relationship with such a God, I&#8217;m thinking a conversation might go something like this:
&#8220;Hello, God&#8230; It&#8217;s me again&#8230; I need to talk to you about some things that have been on my mind.
The more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>What if God Couldn&#039;t Hear?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/01/what-if-god-couldn39t-hear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/05/01/what-if-god-couldn39t-hear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[praise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unanswered prayer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if the Bible told the story of a God who could hear some of our attempts to talk to him, some of the time&#8230;but that because of his busy schedule and all of the background noise he has to deal with, he doesn&#8217;t hear everything we are trying to say to him? In that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Group or Personal Prayer?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/04/30/group-or-personal-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/04/30/group-or-personal-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Group prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[individual prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Judaism a minyan is a quorum of ten or more adults assembled for a religious obligation such as public prayer. According to the famous 12th century Jewish rabbi Maimonides, &#8220;The prayer of the community is always heard; and even if there were sinners among them [i.e., the minyan], the Holy One, blessed be He, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can We Pray a Hedge?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/04/29/can-we-pray-a-hedge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/04/29/can-we-pray-a-hedge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Spiritual Enemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the devil]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/04/29/can-we-pray-a-hedge/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can we &#8220;pray a hedge of protection&#8221; around our home, church, or city? For many of us, it&#8217;s an important question. If there&#8217;s anything we understand, it is how much a parent, spouse, or pastor would love to use prayer to create a fence of security around those we love.
I often think of the way [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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