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		<title>Thoughts on Evil: Part 2, &#8220;The Enemy Inside&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/20/thoughts-on-evil-part-2-the-enemy-inside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Demon Possession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building off some of Wink&#8217;s ideas concerning Powers, Evil, and the Demonic, I thought it a good time to say something important about humility when dealing with the issue of evil. I find the grotesque images of evil that pop-culture renders to be incredibly absurd. The images of the demon-possessed girl in &#8220;The Exorcist&#8221; come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1074&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the Bible Really Says:  Mark 8:29</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/19/what-the-bible-really-says-mark-829/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Following Jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Self Sacrifice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Cross]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s begin with the NRSV: He asked them, &#8220;But who do you say that I am?&#8221; Peter answered him, &#8220;You are the Messiah.&#8221; Wow. That&#8217;s simple. Or is it? About 2 years ago, I sat in church and listened to a sermon on Mark 8:27 &#8211; 9:1. After reading the text aloud, the preacher said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1062&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Evil: Part 1, &#8220;Demonic Powers &amp; Pop-Evil&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/18/thoughts-on-evil-part-1-demonic-powers-pop-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demon Possession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experimental Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naming the Powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Principalities & Powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Wink]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I read Walter Wink&#8217;s classic &#8220;Powers Trilogy&#8221; that has become a staple in Seminaries and Divinity programs. For me, Wink is the only scholar who can make sense of the biblical language of &#8220;principalities and powers&#8221; and the demonic. Christians have for so long now, either avoided the language of power and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Epiphany:  &#8220;The Present Form of This World Is Coming to Nothing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/17/after-the-epiphany-the-present-form-of-world-is-coming-to-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1 Corinthians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epiphany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eschatology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liturgical Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liturgy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1 Corinthians 7:29-31 7:29 I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none, 7:30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Shall Overcome&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/16/we-shall-overcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonviolence]]></category>

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		<title>Folk Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/15/folk-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Folk Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Folk Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proverbs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, at Southside, we launched our Winter 2012 Church-wide series &#8211; &#8220;Practical Christianity.&#8221; We are studying the book of James through worship and doing application of James through Life Groups. We felt it might be overkill to study James also in our Adult Bible Classes, so in the interest of &#8220;Practical Christianity&#8221; we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the Bible Really Says:  Matthew 5:3-12</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/12/what-the-bible-really-says-matthew-53-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beatitudes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matthew 5:3-12]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NRSV]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start with the New Revised Standard Version: &#8220;Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs in the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1006&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas:  The Season</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2012/01/02/christmas-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; But Christmas Day is not the whole of the Christmas season. The full scope of Christmas is only experienced in the feasts of the holy family, Mary the mother of God, the Epiphany, and the baptism of Jesus. It is to these other layers of the birth of Jesus that the Christmas season points [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=1003&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas:  The Meaning of Incarnation</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2011/12/31/christmas-the-meaning-of-incarnation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joejames</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incarnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Rohr]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The human journey is not about becoming spiritual beings nearly as much as becoming fully human beings, which is actually much harder. We are already spiritual beings from the moment of our conception; we just don’t know it yet. The Bible tries to let you in on the secret, by revealing God in the ordinary. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=999&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent &amp; Christmas:  The Question of the Year</title>
		<link>http://endsandmeans.org/2011/12/21/advent-christmas-the-question-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Advent and the Christmas season show us life in its essence. In it, we are brought face-to-face with life stripped down and effulgent at the same time, simple and radiant at once. Here in the Child is promise and meaning, purpose and potential. &#8216;I&#8217;m bringing you,&#8217; the angel says, &#8216;good news of great joy for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=endsandmeans.org&amp;blog=1113292&amp;post=997&amp;subd=endsandmeans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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