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		<title>Is Worship More Than Singing?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often read or hear a servant of Christ insist that worship is “more than singing.” We are frequently told that making a meal for your family or cleaning your car or helping your neighbor are all acts of worship. When these acts are the outgrowth of our love for God and are done to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Only God Can Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t fake glory. You can’t manufacture it, or manipulate it, or manifest it at will. Only God Himself can bring glory into a church, and when He does, communities get shaken and lives get changed, and the fame of Jesus Christ curls continuously upon the shore of human hearts like a Hawaii 5-0 wave. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glory of Staying Put</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Kathy and I were in seminary in the late eighties, we began to pray, “God, we will go anywhere you want us to go, but if You would allow it, we would like to pastor one church for our ministry.” I had already been a youth pastor at a church of two hundred and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Epic Failure: Ichabod</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmacdonald.com/jamestoday/?p=1810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Jack Nicholson who famously bellowed to Tom Cruise while playing Colonel Nathan R. Jessup in the courtroom scene of A Few Good Men, “You can’t handle the truth.” I wonder if the screenwriter knew how succinctly he had summarized our culture. Individual capacity to bear the weight of truth has been mortally wounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You—Shut Your Mouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. James MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.” (Proverbs 29:11) &#160; A complex issue for ministry leaders is how to process the incredible amount of feedback that comes from so many sources, both in and outside the church. It falls into some basic levels, regardless of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wife’s Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. James MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmacdonald.com/jamestoday/?p=1796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.” &#8211; Ephesians 5:22-24 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transcendence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. James MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmacdonald.com/jamestoday/?p=1787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Transcendence is the best single word I have found to describe the attributes of God that are only found in Him and what is missing too often from our churches. We are facilitators of transcendence. Our main job is to usher in the Almighty—God forgive us when we have settled for less. When transcendence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The One Thing That Changes Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmacdonald.com/jamestoday/?p=1782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens, that moments ago seemed so big, all in their rightful place. That is what church is supposed to do and be. Not an encounter with the glory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Every Heart Longs For. What Every Church Can Be.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jamesmacdonald.com/jamestoday/?p=1778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Church was never meant to be safe. Or comfortable. Or predictable. God isn&#8217;t any of those things. Church is supposed to arrest our pride. Church is meant to crush our selfishness. Church was created to carry our heartache and comfort our affliction. Church is where we find community, express compassion and engage in mission. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust the Lord in Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. James MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your [...]]]></description>
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