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		<title>Telling the Story of God, or a Long-Winded Invitation to Connect on Substack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Check out the new publication at Substack...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Way of Cain and the Way of Jesus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Reagor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genesis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ours is the way of peace as we follow the way of Jesus knowing the way of Cain leads only to death and continued exile...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Living on “Eternal Time” with the Help of the Sabbath</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Reagor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eternity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sabbath-keeping is an invitation to experience “eternal time” this side of eternity, to come further up and further in to God’s redemption plan for this world, for us to see the familiar sights of our world through the perspective of new creation, with the depth of meaning that Christ’s redemption makes possible in an old world that is still being made new...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Wisdom of the Torah</title>
		<link>https://brandonreagor.wordpress.com/2023/09/14/the-wisdom-of-the-torah/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Reagor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[...the Torah, being much more than a rule book, is an invitation into a particular way of seeing the world...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gospel-Shaped Living: People of Presence in an Age of Distraction… Following Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The biblical narrative reveals to us that we have the capacity to use human creativity and our various technologies in both God-glorifying, neighbor-loving ways...and in self-glorifying, destructive ways...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lent: An Invitation into the Wilderness</title>
		<link>https://brandonreagor.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/february-21-2023/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Reagor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lent]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[...sometimes, it takes a wilderness season to remind us of this grand reality. We might say that the Lenten season is an invitation into a better kind of wilderness than the synthetic one we've made for ourselves...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Miraculous Healing and a Compassionate, Praying Community</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Reagor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If God’s people are living in response to the compassion of God and in faithful confidence of God’s power at work in the world, why would they not both seek to relieve suffering through ordinary means when they can and pray for God to move in miraculous ways that would bring glory to the resurrected King?...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Indiana Jones, Imagination, and the Psalms</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brandon Reagor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[...these inspired prayers and songs [the Psalms] help God’s people both envision a story that is not always apparent and consider what it means to live as a part of this story in the here and now. This is “imaginative play” of the best kind...]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Testament Reflections on Isaiah’s Servant Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 23:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looking to the Servant Songs and such New Testament reflections on these songs can be especially beneficial for us in the Lenten season...Through the ultimate servanthood of Jesus, we find hope and healing in the midst of brokenness and a model to follow in our own servanthood...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking and Feeling with the Prophets, Part 3 &#8211; The Emotions of the Prophet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 23:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is certainly danger in letting the gamut of human emotion run untamed, especially without deference to the unchanging truths and promises of God. Yet, there is an equal danger in ignoring the spectrum of human emotion as if our experience of life with God is meant to be some myopic thing, devoid of our actual feelings about God, life, relationships, and all the messiness we face each day...]]></description>
		
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