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		<title>Faithful Devotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most common prayer requests that the elders receive is, &#8220;Please pray that I would be more regular in my devotions.&#8221; It is so common, in fact, that for a long time I have intended to write something in an effort to be of practical assistance in this regard. At each elders&#8217; meeting, &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/faithful-devotions/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Faithful Devotions</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI and Human Writing</title>
		<link>https://silversword.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/ai-and-human-writing/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anton Beetge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a young boy, I was intensely interested in all things tech. I think some of it came from my father, who was known by some of his friends as &#8220;Mr Gadget&#8221; because of his own love of electronic devices. I remember falling in love with computers, long before the internet entered my life. I &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/ai-and-human-writing/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">AI and Human&#160;Writing</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Better Than Before</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anton Beetge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the evening of Ascension Day, around the dinner table, one of my children asked me about the life to come. Having just explained the significance of the ascension of Jesus in a nutshell, they wanted to know more about our life with Christ after he returns. One of the questions was, “Daddy, in the &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/better-than-before/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Better Than Before</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Responsive, Not Reactionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like most boys, I sorely wanted to be a pilot when I grew up. I loved the idea of flying—the apparently limitless freedom of soaring over everyone else. I would have loved to fly like Peter Pan (and actually attempted this on more than one occasion by jumping off alarmingly high platforms with homemade wings &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/responsive-not-reactionary/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Responsive, Not Reactionary</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil, See No Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all know the disappointment and the shame of falling into sin as a believer. We readily identify with the Apostle Paul in Romans 7:24 as he grieves over his sin, exclaiming, &#8220;Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?&#8221; The truth is that God sometimes allows us to &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/speak-no-evil-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil, See No&#160;Evil</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Something is coming</title>
		<link>https://silversword.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/something-is-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Something is afoot.&#160; There is just too much going on globally right now. The west is in a mess because they have abandoned a Christian worldview. The rest of the world is in a mess because it has never held to a Christian worldview.&#160; America has been divided along ideological lines for a long time &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/something-is-coming/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Something is coming</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Good People Get Caught Up In Judgement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Judgement is a heavy topic to consider at any time. God’s wrath is not something that anyone really enjoys meditating on, not even Christians who are spared God’s wrath in Christ. Recently, I spoke to my pastor, Doug Van Meter after a morning service, where he had preached on God’s judgement against Israel from Amos &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/when-good-people-get-caught-up-in-judgement/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">When Good People Get Caught Up In&#160;Judgement</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI And The Dominion Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tech, electronics, and all things computer have always fascinated me—so much so that toward the end of high school, I seriously considered studying computer science instead of dentistry or medicine. I ultimately decided against it because a friend, who was doing his PhD in IT at the time, advised me that if I had any &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/ai-and-the-dominion-mandate/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">AI And The Dominion&#160;Mandate</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Meditation on Whispering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In life there are times when two people must discourse on a third party. If we define gossip, a negative, immoral behaviour as speaking about another person without their knowledge, then we must conclude that a large proportion of human interaction is immoral. That in, and of itself isn&#8217;t too shocking to conclude, and yet, &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/a-meditation-on-whispering/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Meditation on&#160;Whispering</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Keep Calm and Trust God</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[During the Second World War, Britain endured one of the worst bombing campaigns, both in terms of the number of bombs dropped, the damage, and the length of the campaign. During that time, a propaganda poster was created (but never actually released) to boost morale. In typical British fashion, it was plain &#8211; a simple &#8230; <a href="https://silversword.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/keep-calm-and-trust-god/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Keep Calm and Trust&#160;God</span></a>]]></description>
		
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