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		<title>Reality (Guest Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During one dark night around 2000 years ago, the apostle Peter was sleeping in chains between two Roman guards in the depths of King Herod&#8217;s dungeon.  Peter&#8217;s friend and fellow apostle, James, had recently been executed which certainly added grief and sorrow to Peter&#8217;s uncertainty and fear.  This was the night before Peter was going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s So Good about Good Friday?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week is Holy Week, and we look forward to Maundy Thursday, then to Good Friday and finally, thank God, to Resurrection Sunday.  As we look toward Good Friday, we think about the suffering that Jesus endured, not only on the cross, but the ridicule of the people and the scourging of a Roman whip.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-winding Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My beautiful bride shared with me an Oswald Chambers devotion where he referred to God as our mainspring.  I have a “thing” for watches.  I even have a degree in watchmaking, so I know watches inside and out.  Chambers’s use of “mainspring” set me thinking.  In the day Chambers wrote that phrase everyone easily understood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defeating Church Killers &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back-biting: What church doesn’t have a little back-biting going on?  That should make it OK, correct?  But, yet, we don’t see Jesus back-biting.  Back-biting is that activity of talking about a fellow church member for the purpose of doing them harm.  It is similar to gossip but has a malicious intent.  It is like letting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defeating church Killers &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luciferic Spirit: A Luciferic spirit attempts to build a following behind the back of the existing leadership.  This is what Lucifer did in heaven when he attempted to steal the worship that was due only to God.  We see a Luciferic spirit in the church when someone gathers his/her own fan club with the intent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defeating Church Killers &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selfish Ambition: Selfish ambition promotes a personality, not a purpose.  It is the need to create a legacy.  Selfish ambition seeks bragging rights, “Look at how good we are.”  It is not just pride but working and angling to accomplish something of which to be proud.  Selfish ambition promotes self, personality, and power.  Leaders who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defeating Church Killers &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Skyland Church began a new visioning/purpose process we became aware of certain things within the church that threaten its survival.  Over the next few blogs I will share some of these Church Killers. Here are the first two of several Church Killers (presented in no particular order): Gossip: Gossip can be defined as carrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 19:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What could upstage a royal wedding?  The killing of Osama Bin Laden by US Navy Seals.  Dare we base our response to this news on the lyrics from a Hollywood musical, “Ding dong the witch is dead?”  Is this a good thing and should we rejoice because of it?  Is this a celebratory moment, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli General Consul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Monday, November 23, 2009, Linda and I had the opportunity to gather with about 25 others in the home of Ann Platz to meet and hear Barukh Binah, Consul General of Israel. The privilege alone is worth bragging about, but I will resist the temptation. General Consul Binah spoke for about 45 minutes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awake Thou That Sleepest!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I read the sermon Charles Wesley preached at Oxford University, April 4, 1742, ?Awake Thou That Sleepest.? I wish I was even half as poetic and even half as firey! Wesley said, ?Shackled by misery and chains, the sleepers dream that they are free? and ?You are sinking into the depth of damnation, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Response to the Fort Hood and Orlando Shootings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world where aggression is executed against innocent people. Some have labeled the shooting at Fort Hood, TX an act of war and the shooting in Orlando a tragedy. While both may be true there is something more tragic and more frightening going on here. Western civilization defines peace as the absence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing A Culture of Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[?Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.? (1 Kings 8:22) ? Communication is the key to most relationships.? I recently discovered the wonderful world of Google Calendar.? I found that I could still use Microsoft Outlook and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abel&#8217;s Sacrifice &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous blog I talked about the superiority of Abel?s offering as opposed to Cain?s.? How can we justify God?s harsh judgment on Cain? For Cain and for his offering [God] had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.? 6Then the LORD said to Cain, ?Why are you angry? And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abel&#8217;s Sacrifice &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hebrews chapter 11, the ?Hall of Faith? chapter begins with the sacrifices of Cain and Abel.? Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.? Other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enoch, A Man of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So little is said of Enoch but yet he must have been a great man of faith for he was ?pleasing to God.?? Genesis 5:24 says, ?Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.?? Escaping death is a rare thing.? Only Enoch and Elijah have that distinction, but how did they [...]]]></description>
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