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	<title>The Briefing</title>
	
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		<title>Why be afraid of fear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evangelism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/?p=17341</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The day of the guest service has arrived: the culmination of weeks of planning, prayers, and many nervous “Hey, our church is holding a guest service this Sunday, and I was wondering…” type of conversations. To your joy and terror, a number of your friends said yes.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>As good as it gets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 02:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“This is as good as it gets” the man assured me. I was initially shocked, but then deeply saddened by his statement. It was an astonishing statement—but there was no doubting the sincerity with which he was speaking. (more…)<br/>
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		<title>→ “A traditional institution”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From The Australian:

The main lobby group promoting gay marriage yesterday distanced itself from polyamorists demanding to be included in the proposed reforms, saying marriage involving more than two people would undermine a traditional institution.

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		<title>→ Context is your friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bible insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Context is important: in this post by Robert Jones we&#8217;ve got both an interesting example of using God&#8217;s word to talk through hardships in life, along with a look at what the &#8216;good&#8217; is in Romans 8.28.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>→ Spoiler alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Your favourite character dies in the end.

But trust me, it&#8217;s still a good story.<br/>
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		<title>The day I took Matthias Media’s money to the casino</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sin]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was in the precinct of Sydney’s main casino on Saturday, and, with the full knowledge and approval of several of my Matthias Media colleagues, I trotted off to the casino with $140 of MM’s money in my pocket.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>Why you shouldn’t memorize Bible verses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[flickr: chefranden

Well, actually, you should. But I got your attention, didn&#8217;t I? And I want to suggest there is something even better than memorizing Bible verses. Here it is: memorizing Bible passages.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>Cynicism and God Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/author/marty-sweeney/</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Christianity]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Other than in God’s Word, I haven’t recently come across something that exposes me for who I am as much as this quote:  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>→ What shall I preach on next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preaching]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[John Percival at Unashamed Workman asks 7 questions during the process of deciding on the broad shape of a preaching program—useful thoughts for anyone putting together a teaching series, whether it&#8217;s a congregational preaching programme, a youth group series, what to look at together in a...<br/>
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		<title>Building new engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Stewart | Tony Payne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church planting]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In his recent Briefing article ‘What is church for?’, Phillip Jensen suggested that we are “somewhere between everywhere and nowhere as to the importance of church”.1 The same could be said about church planting.  (more…)<br/>
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