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		<title>Confessing Christianity’s Corporate Sin Against the Jewish People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A supersessionist view of the Christian covenant might have made some little sense in a mythic worldview, but never made any moral sense. The time has long since come for Christians to drop such an arrogant claim. It has contributed to extraordinary suffering and eroded any moral authority we might think we have. In that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romans IX – It’s Very Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith VIII – Meet Me in Galilee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beauty and new life emerge out of the chaos of the cross. Beauty and new life emerge from the challenges and chaos of creation itself – same thing. But how are we to live into that possibility? How are we to live with hope as we develop and evolve? The entire Gospel of Mark was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith VII – Death of the Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolution and Faith VII – Death of the Church (Audio Right Click to Download) Mark 15:33-37 The Fourth Word at the Good Friday Service When it was new, darkness came over the whole land until it was three in the afternoon. At three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabbachthani,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith VI–Evolution Happens in Stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolution happens in all facets of life, but let’s take personal growth for a moment. The shame we hide – that we all hide – keeps us from the creative love we need. Evolution and Faith VI–Evolution Happens in Stress&#160; (Audio Right Click to Download) Evolution and Faith VI &#8211; Stress Drives Evolution Luke 19:28-44; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith IV–Ethical Imperative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creative power of God is operating in the evolution of all things &#8211; Cultural Evolution, Biological Evolution, Spiritual Evolution, Moral Evolution, Economic Evolution, just to name a few. Spirit responds to stress or pain in a system and creates what is new out of the death of the old, transcending and including what went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith III – Why Care About Other People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith–Progress of Meaning</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christianityforthesbnr/2013/03/evolution-and-faithprogress-of-meaning-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Exodus texts which Matthew&#8217;s story of the Temptations alludes to, the people are learning to trust that God will provide their perceived needs. For Jesus, this training exercise is about stepping back and trusting God to give life meaning and purpose by playing our unique role in the story of God&#8217;s universe. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution and Faith–Progress of Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Evolutionary Christianity II – Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christianityforthesbnr/2013/02/evolution-and-faith-traditional-doctrine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract Building on the first sermon of the series, which claimed that the core of Christian faith &#8211; cross and resurrection – is descriptive of the evolutionary process, this sermon suggests how that might impact our theological language. It puts traditional understandings of the Doctrine of Salvation, the Doctrine of Sanctification and Eschatology side by [...]]]></description>
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