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		<title>Kingdom 1st is on Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Massachusetts forces schools to let ‘transgender’ boys use girls’ restrooms, lockers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our current Western culture is obsessed with tolerance.  Tolerance is, at best, a word that points to people tolerating traits, characteristics, and belief sets, about others.  At worst, there is no objective framework for how far to tolerate.  Obviously, tolerance is great when practiced toward the things that make our country great, but it seems this word&#8212;tolerance&#8212;is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2085&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you read with a highlighter, pen, or pencil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am reading this book right now, called, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, and it is just amazing.  Allan Jacobs is the name of the author.  He is an English Professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, and he has written extensively on one of my heroes&#8212;C.S. Lewis. I came across this passage [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2083&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Must Read Piece on Michael Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because ESPN doesn&#8217;t really talk about anything serious, they have provided for us a month-long special on Michael Jordan.  He turned 50 this past Sunday (Feb 17). MJ was my hero when I was a kid.  I literally had everything MJ.  When I was 9, I even went to the store and purchased his #45 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2081&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Men the Weaker Sex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article at the Harvard Business Review, Alison Beard doesn&#8217;t really come out and call men weak.  She does, however, use the word silent in her description of men today.  Her framework for this description is found in a simple and provocative message: The feminist movement has been so effective in advancing women over the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2077&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sundays are for Family Time (And 3 Other Lies)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sundays are not for family time.  I hear people say this all of the time, like it&#8217;s an automated response to an unasked question.  It&#8217;s almost as if people have this preconceived thought that pastors are going to ask them where they were when they missed their worship gathering on Sunday.  No, Sundays are not for family [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2075&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 Great Reviews on Reformational Manhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, nobody has really come out and said, &#8220;Your book should be burned.&#8221;  So, that&#8217;s a good thing, I guess.  However, in my experience, the books that people are calling for to be burned are the ones that usually change the world&#8230; or at least societal tradition.  Though I have no idea how many [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2068&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music that Points Me to Jesus Even If It’s Not “Christian Music”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good music points me to Jesus.  I mean really good music.  Not the auto-tuned, 1/8th beat crap that all sounds the same.  I&#8217;m talking about music that is well written, well melodied, and beautifully accompanied by a real instrument.  A timbered choir, if you can call it that.  A timbered choir always waters my affections [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2051&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Being Someone Who Runs From Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are one of two things.  You are either a fighter or a flee-er.  Your personality&#8211;the way God made you, coupled with your life experiences, and many other things&#8211;tends to lean towards one or the other.  No matter which one you lean towards, however, nobody really enjoys conflict.  Well, maybe some people, but they are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2044&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Kings and Carrots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, kings and carrots have nothing in common.  A king is a ruler.  He is sovereign.  He is strong, supposedly.  And he is a warrior.  A carrot, however, is a vegetable.  It is tiny.  It breaks easy.  And, in my opinion, carrots are gross. The world is full of kings and carrots. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ggblog.me&#038;blog=1274286&#038;post=2042&#038;subd=ggblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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