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		<title>Eight Traits of a Responsible Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaplain Mike changes a few key words and produces something truly biblical out of something John Piper said. His conclusion: Piper and others who are elevating male/female distinctions in our day not only have an insufficient view of gender but, &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2012/02/eight-traits-of-a-responsible-ministry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Egalitarianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go read Ken Schenck for a succinct, Bible-affirming defense of gender equality in the church and the family.]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare to Be Discouraged</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/12/prepare-to-be-discouraged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t want anything to upset your Christmas spirit (or your faith in humanity), please click away. A church’s decision to ban a couple from its congregation, simply because their skin color is different, has cut through the heart &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/12/prepare-to-be-discouraged/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Sermon that Might Have Been</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/11/the-sermon-that-might-have-been/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Touching (and heartbreaking) story from Chaplain Mike: At the very beginning of the pastor’s message, these thoughts came to me. If what I just described had been the sermon, in my view it would have faithfully represented a plain and &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/11/the-sermon-that-might-have-been/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus&#8217; enemies denounced him as a friend of sinners. He never denied the charge. In fact he augmented it: &#8220;I&#8217;ve come for people who are sick, not those who are healthy.&#8221; It seems to me we do a disservice to &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/11/random-thought/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Day Reading: The People and the Black Book</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/10/columbus-day-reading-the-people-and-the-black-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever else you do this Columbus Day, please read this column by Mark Buchanan. Please. &#8220;It must be hard for you,&#8221; I said to the First Nations people, &#8220;to believe that salvation has come to my house when I refuse &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/10/columbus-day-reading-the-people-and-the-black-book/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Sociology of Sunday School</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/09/a-sociology-of-sunday-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Leonard provides a wonderful brief history of and apologia for Sunday School and its influence on Protestant American Christianity. In American Grace, Robert Putnam and David Campbell report that in one 2006 survey 36 percent of Americans claimed participation &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/09/a-sociology-of-sunday-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the Day (if not the Millennium)</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/09/thought-for-the-day-if-not-the-millennium/</link>
		<comments>http://pursiful.com/2011/09/thought-for-the-day-if-not-the-millennium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want a church that includes fussy kids, old liturgy, bad sound, weird congregants  and—brace yourself—painfully amateur “special music” now and then. Why? Well, for one thing, when the Gospel story is accompanied by a fog machine and light show, &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/09/thought-for-the-day-if-not-the-millennium/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Churches Figure Out that People Need Jesus more than They Need Gimmicks</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/08/two-churches-figure-out-that-people-need-jesus-more-than-they-need-gimmicks/</link>
		<comments>http://pursiful.com/2011/08/two-churches-figure-out-that-people-need-jesus-more-than-they-need-gimmicks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[+Apostles' Teaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this iMonk post refreshing—but don&#8217;t neglect to ponder Chaplain Mike&#8217;s two concerns at the end.]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard: Forgetting to Remember</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/06/leonard-forgetting-to-remember/</link>
		<comments>http://pursiful.com/2011/06/leonard-forgetting-to-remember/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[+The Breaking of Bread]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I deeply appreciated Bill Leonard&#8217;s testimony about his mother and her advancing Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease. Each first Sunday, when the deacons bring my mother Holy Communion and read the words of Jesus: “As often as you do this, remember me,” the &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/06/leonard-forgetting-to-remember/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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