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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 01:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Gospel of With Us and Through Us</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Something happened in the 1990s and 2000s: the old-fashioned gospel of the four spiritual laws or the bridge fell apart in the hands of the next generation. I don’t know if that collapse occurred because of generational shifts  in that the language no longer worked, or if it collapsed because biblical studies were unveiling a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Northern Seminary Announces: Nijay Gupta Joins Faculty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Northern Seminary Lisle, IL Dr. Nijay Gupta to Join Professor Scot McKnight in Northern Seminary’s New Testament Department President Bill Shiell, along with Dean Ingrid Faro and Professor Scot McKnight, are excited to announce the addition of Dr. Nijay K. Gupta to the New Testament department. Dr. Gupta has been teaching for more than a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gundrys and Me: Ruth Tucker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gundrys and Me, by Ruth Tucker Stan and Pat Smith Gundry. Where would my life be today without them? This little series began with A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Last week, I continued with Elisabeth Elliot’s influence on my life. Like Simpson and Elliot, Stan and Pat have left [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>First Sunday after the Epiphany</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2020/01/12/first-sunday-after-the-epiphany-6/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weekly Meanderings, 11 January 2020</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 06:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Keep your eyes on this blog site because in ten days or so it will move to … Christianity Today. I’m looking forward to moving there but I am grateful over the years for BeliefNet and Patheos. I’ll be providing a link when I know what it is. Fresh meals for the homeless is his calling: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>He&#8217;s Here. Now What?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2020/01/10/hes-here-now-what/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mike Glenn He’s Here. Now What? Advent, the four weeks before Christmas, is a time of waiting and preparation, of anticipation and thoughtfulness, of hope and dreams. When Jesus gets here, our lives will be different because (fill in the blank) and our world will be different because (again, fill in the blank). We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Singles Myth: The Intimacy Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 06:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Corey Farr “Wait, you’re a virgin?” she said to me. We hadn’t seen each other since high school. This isn’t exactly the kind of question you’d expect to come up in random small talk with a girl you haven’t seen in eight years and hadn’t been all that close to in the first place, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>He Will Wipe Away All Tears (RJS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces (Is 25:8) Ben Witherington III, Isaiah Old and New, sees later Isaiah 14-39 coming from the time of the historical Isaiah, the prophet in Judah through the time of Hezekiah, before the fall to Babylon. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Frozen 2 and the Divine Feminine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Frozen 2 and The Divine Feminine, by Kelly Edmiston The evolution of Disney productions over the years is a refreshing one from a feminist theological perspective. One task of the feminist theologian is to consider the traditions and practices of the Christian faith in way that honors and elevates the lived experiences of women. One [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Religious Freedom an Issue Today (or not)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite authors is Robert Louis Wilken. The first book of his I read is called The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, and it was mesmerizing combination of clarity, ideas and biography. Then out came The First Thousand Years, a global study of early Christianity. It was so good. Now we have a slender volume [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reading the Bible Fast and Slow</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[READING THE BIBLE FAST AND SLOW By David George Moore Some of Dave’s teaching videos can be found at www.mooreengaging.com and his books can be accessed at www.twocities.org. After forty plus years of reading the Bible, I have come up with one of my favorite ways, if not the favorite way, to read the Bible. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Calendars in the Sky (RJS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are looking at Michael LeFebvre’s recent book The Liturgy of Creation, and his argument that the creation week in Genesis 1 is a calendar narrative designed as a guide for faithful work and sabbath worship. He begins by looking at the calendar of the ancient world. Paul starts his letter to the Romans making [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Singles Myth: Finding Someone is Top Priority</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Corey Farr Our culture is obsessed with relationships. I’ve been in youth ministry for years, and I wish I could take back every time I asked a young boy, “So, you got a girlfriend yet?” or a young girl, “Do you like someone right now?” Now, I definitely don’t want to over-correct and send [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Elisabeth Elliot and Me (by Ruth Tucker)</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2020/01/06/elisabeth-elliot-and-me-by-ruth-tucker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where would I be today were it not for Elisabeth Elliot? Last week it was A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance whose large worldwide footprint was indelibly stamped on a northern Wisconsin farming community and inside the doors of a white clapboard church. My life in the 1950s and early sixties [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gotta Have Faith, But What is Faith?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 06:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is faith? Is it trusting someone one or something, is it cognitively knowing something, is it a general approach to life (gotta have faith), or is it what we believe (the faith)? Yes, perhaps to all. Matthew Bates, in his two books, contends faith has to be connected to allegiance and loyalty (Salvation by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Second Sunday after Christmas</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2020/01/05/second-sunday-after-sunday/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our first Meandering of 2020! A white reindeer of beauty! A Christmas miracle? We think so. A Norwegian photographer spotted a rare sight while he was hiking with friends. He captured a beautiful photograph of a white reindeer calf in the mountains of northern Norway. Mads Nordsveen, 24, from Oslo, captured the magnificent creature that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Culture of Storytellers: Pastors Podcast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Fill out the Kingdom Roots survey here &#62;&#62; bit.ly/krsurvey Telling stories is fundamental to being human. Join Scot and Chaz as they explore what it looks likes to have a culture telling the most important story in history. If a church doesn’t nurture a culture where the gospel story is allowed to form the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From the Stump of Jesse (RJS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Early Isaiah 1-12 contains three significant passages read by the apostles, the evangelists, and the early church as messianic prophecies fulfilled in Jesus. These passages vary in their context in Isaiah. For Isaiah 7:14-16 it is clear in context that the prophet had a contemporary in mind, likely Hezekiah, rather than a future messiah. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Myth: Singles Need to be Pitied</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 06:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Corey Farr Myth: Single people should be pitied or laughed at I have a confession to make. When I was in middle school, my science teacher’s name was Mr. Tarullo. Mr. T was in his mid-50’s, thin, bald, a bit quirky, and single. He was a loving man, a great teacher, and extremely dedicated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Prayer for New Year&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 06:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eternal Father, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Face the Differences (RJS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 11:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are a number of places in the Bible where apparently contradictory accounts are recorded. The crucifixion accounts in John (on Passover day when the lambs were sacrificed) and the Synoptics (the day after the Passover meal), the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, the withering fig tree in Matthew 21 and Mark 11,  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Temple Then, Temple Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 06:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his major — and very post supersessionist — study of the temple in earliest Christianity, Eyal Regev moves from the historical Jesus to the Letter to the Hebrews. His Anchor Bible Reference Library book is called The Temple in Early Christianity. A very good, challenging, and academically helpful study of Temple in the grid of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Humor as Theology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 06:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, no kidding, the last day of the year, IVP releases Steve Wilkens’ new wonderful full-of-fun but also full-of-insight book, What’s So Funny About God? A Theological Look at Humor. Gnostics and other dualists of a spiritual flavor degrade bodies and along with degrading bodies is the degrading of the common reality and value of humor. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Myth: Singleness is a Special Calling</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Corey Farr Myth: Singleness is a “special calling” Around the time I was 17-18(ish), I became convinced that I might be “called” to singleness and celibacy for life. I’m not sure what first stirred the idea in me, but I was zealous about it. I started wearing my purity ring (remember those?) on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 06:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Ruth Tucker Here begins a three-part series on individuals—particularly historical figures—who have had a profound influence on me. Actually, this is a good exercise for all of us—to identify public figures who made a major difference in our lives. So I ask myself: What if A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) had continued his ministry as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen (BCP)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Single Man on Gender Roles and the Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 06:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Corey Farr There’s a big debate within church circles: complementarian or egalitarian? To summarize without nuance: do husbands and wives have God-given responsibilities to specific gender roles or not? For complementarians, these roles are clear: Husband: financial provider, primary “leader” of the home, who ultimately is responsible and accountable for all final decisions Wife: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Partly Sunny, Partly Cloudy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From WGNTV: Dear Tom, What is the difference between “partly sunny” and “partly cloudy” when used in weather forecasts? Jacquie Steuer, Waukegan Dear Jacquie, For starters, “partly sunny” is a daytime term and “partly cloudy” can be used either during the day or at night. Technically, “clear” and “sunny” refer to a sky that is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mary was Brave (RJS)</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/26/mary-was-brave-rjs/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 10:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I will finish out this Christmas season with a link to a recent issue of CBE’s Mutuality Magazine: Rediscovering Mary.  The issue features a series of articles exploring Mary the mother of Jesus from a range of different angles. Mary is an interesting character – and a brave young woman. The best article in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Myth: Singles are Incomplete</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/26/myth-singles-are-incomplete/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 06:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Corey Farr Myth: Singles are Incomplete Hungry hormones aside, this anxious and sometimes all-consuming desire to find a girl to spend my life with came from what I had learned in Christian circles since I was 7 years old: sometimes special (and strange) people are “called” not to marry; but for everyone else, God [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christmas Day Candle</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/25/christmas-day-candle-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First we light the candle for HOPE because Jesus is our hope. Second, we light the candle for PEACE because Jesus is our hope and peace. Third, we light the candle for JOY because Jesus brings joy. Fourth, we light the candle for LOVE because Jesus is love. Finally we light the center candle. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Three Collects for Christmas Day</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/25/three-collects-for-christmas-day/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2019 06:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, may with sure confidence behold him when he comes to be our Judge; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christmas Eve Candle</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/24/christmas-eve-candle/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the eve of our Christmas celebration, Jesus’ birthday, we light all of the candles of the Advent wreath. First we light the candle for HOPE because Jesus is our hope. Second, we light the candle for PEACE because Jesus is our hope and peace. Third, we light the candle for JOY because Jesus brings [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Light of the World Became Flesh (RJS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Jn 8:12 I recently began to read a new book, The Liturgy of Creation by Michael LeFebvre. The central premise of this book is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Tree Ornament that Moved</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/24/the-tree-ornament-that-moved/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Awesome!: A Georgia family got a special holiday surprise last week after finding an owl hiding inside their Christmas tree. The discovery came last Thursday evening when Katie McBride Newman and her two children, India and Jack, were finishing dinner. India, 10, had started to clear the table and was in another room when Newman [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Millennials Not Coming Back?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/23/millennials-not-coming-back/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[538: Millennials have earned a reputation for reshaping industries and institutions — shaking up the workplace, transforming dating culture, and rethinking parenthood. They’ve also had a dramatic impact on American religious life. Four in ten millennials now say they are religiously unaffiliated, according to the Pew Research Center. In fact, millennials (those between the ages of 23 and 38) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paul and Theosis</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/23/paul-and-theosis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Michael Gorman’s Inhabiting the Cruciform God appeared I read it and even assigned it for a class at Northern and it was there that I began tracking more closely the rather fresh use of “theosis” as a NT category for what is sometimes called “union” with Christ or “participation” in Christ. An Orthodox friend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>St Francis: A Kidnapping and a Creche</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/23/st-francis-a-kidnapping-and-a-creche/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St Francis: A Kidnapping and a Creche, by Ruth Tucker If there had been an Assisi Inquirer, the story would have been the headliner: “Thirty-year-old homeless man kidnaps seventeen-year-old girl.” The date was pre-dawn Palm Sunday, 1212. My segment on Clare in Extraordinary Women of Christian History begins thus: Just when it seems it would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fourth Candle of Advent</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/22/fourth-candle-of-advent-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2019 14:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today we relight the first three candles of the Advent Wreath — the candles of HOPE, PEACE and JOY. Now we light the fourth candle of Advent. This is the candle of LOVE. Jesus demonstrated self-giving love in his ministry as the Good Shepherd. Advent is a time for kindness, thinking of others, and sharing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fourth Sunday of Advent</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/22/fourth-sunday-of-advent-3/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2019 06:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation,that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen. BCP]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weekly Meanderings, 21 December 2019</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/21/weekly-meanderings-21-december-2019/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2019 06:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Advent week 4 How long should the sermon be? It depends. NEW YORK (AP) — How long should a sermon be? The major branches of Christianity in the U.S. have sharply different traditions, with sermons at historically black Protestant churches lasting — on average – nearly four times as long as Roman Catholic sermons. Related [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Word in Edgewise</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/20/a-word-in-edgewise/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 06:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mike Glenn I have a friend who drives a tour bus for several big-name rock groups. He’s gone for weeks at a time, driving the band from gig to gig. Every night, it’s the same thing. Loading out about midnight. On the road anywhere from 1am to 2am, and then, driving all night to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Generosity in Church Culture</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/19/generosity-in-church-culture/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Culture of Generosity (Pastor Paul Series) – KR 144 What a community does with its financial resources reveals what they value. Scot unpacks the Apostle Paul’s vision for generosity and caring for the poor. Generosity was a staple in the early church and is still essential for God’s Kingdom to continue to take root today. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>By the Power of the Holy Spirit (RJS)</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/19/by-the-power-of-the-holy-spirit-rjs/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14 Taken up again in the Gospel of Matthew All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christmas Gift Guide for Women in Ministry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 06:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Becky Castle Miller A friend who was working on Christmas shopping asked me for gift basket recommendations for a woman called to theology and pastoring. I had fun putting together a list for him. If you are a woman in ministry, what would you like to find in your gift basket? Earplugs to block [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Love Seeking Union</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/18/love-seeking-union/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Kelly Edmiston My middle son turns 5-years old this week. For his birthday he got a new scooter and on the first day he got it, we loaded up a back pack, put the baby in the stroller and we took the new scooter to the park. While he was riding it there his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For To Us a Child is Born (RJS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This time of year we can’t look at the book of Isaiah without considering the messianic prophecies in chapters 7 and 9. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. He will be eating curds and honey when he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Three &#8220;R&#8217;s&#8221; of Justification</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/12/17/the-three-rs-of-justification/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a deep and abiding drive to reduce justification to a legal, forensic act by God for the grace-receiving human. Thus, it becomes double imputation: Christ’s righteousness imputed to us and our sinfulness to Christ. That’s it. No minimization here of the importance of God doing for us what we can’t do and God’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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