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		<title>On Honouring One&#8217;s Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from a commentary on the Ten Commandments by Patrick D. Miller regarding the fifth commandment, honour your father and mother: &#8220;From my&#8230; work with the Hebrew of Exodus 20, two facts are clear to me: the first is that honor is not a synonym for obedience and the second is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=262&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Celebrating Uniqueness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child&#8217;s uniqueness.&#8221; &#8211; Mr. Rogers My family likes to laugh. We like to laugh at books and tv commercials and movies and funny stories and good jokes and the things that take themselves far too seriously; but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=254&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Naming and Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a famous and often overused passage, William Shakespeare once questioned the value of names. Essentially asking: is there any significance at all in what an object or person is called or is there more to identity than a simple title?  After all, coffee, if called by another name, would still taste just as good and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=236&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Encountering the Divine [Part 2]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Faith comes out of awe, out of an awareness that we are exposed to his presence, out of anxiety to answer the challenge of God, out of an awareness of our being called upon.&#8220; (Heschel) Learning to see the world in terms of the divine is not easy. Our minds are preoccupied with every distraction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=432&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Encountering the Divine [Part 1]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?&#8221; (Is. 40:26) What does it mean to encounter God? What does it look like? Feel like? How will I know when it happens? I confess I still struggle with these questions even this many years into my spiritual journey. We all go through times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=431&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On What it Means to Live a Life of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The expression of faith is an affirmation of truth, a definite judgement, a conviction, while faith itself is an event, something that happens rather than something that is stored away; it is a moment in which the soul of man communes with the glory of God.&#8221; (Heschel) I was wrestling my way through Romans 1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=430&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Our Need To Control Our Own Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 23:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What does a man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?&#8221; (Book of Ecclesiastes. 1:3) Have you ever found yourself wondering if the payoff is really worth all the effort? I can recall a summer a few years back when I was working long hours at a particularly harsh and dirty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=429&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Passing It On [Reissue]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 02:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Since I've been away this week at a family ministry conference in Georgia (and I haven't had the time to process the endless swirl of thoughts in my head) I thought I'd post another reissue from my old blog in the mean time. The following was posted on March 9th, 2010: ] The children are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=428&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On How We Should All Forgive Freely</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So why not let&#8217;s forgive everyone, everywhere, everything?&#8221; (mewithoutyou) Why are we as a people so reluctant to forgive? Scratch that, I already know why. I&#8217;m far more interested in pursuing forgiveness as an alternative than getting lost in a debate on how entitled we are or are not to our hurts and resentments and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=427&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Meeting God While ‘On The Road’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness, and then &#8211; instantaneously &#8211; the long inhibition was over, the dry desert lay behind, I was off once more into the land of longing, my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been&#8230; There was nothing whatever to do about it, no question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benbartosik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2554196&amp;post=141&amp;subd=benbartosik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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