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	<title>Dr. Platypus &#187; Life as Prayer</title>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m thankful for The love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit A loving, longsuffering wife A brilliant, happy, healthy ten-year-old daughter Freedom to practice my faith without anybody looking over &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/11/happy-thanksgiving-3/">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>
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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>
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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>Thought for the Day (if not the Millennium)</title>
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		<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>The Scandal of the Evangelical Imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Brandon O&#8217;Brien at Out of Ur: I don’t mean that evangelicals produce bad art (although we do), and I’m not issuing a call for more sophisticated creative engagement with culture (though we need one). Imagination is broader than that. &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/08/the-scandal-of-the-evangelical-imagination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Going to Give Johnny Cash the Last Word on Harold Camping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I usually resist it, I find there&#8217;s still a lot of Bell County, Kentucky in my spiritual pilgrimage. So here&#8217;s to Southern gospel music, heart-felt religion, the hope of heaven, and good old fashioned meat-and-potatoes spirituality. Now, &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/05/im-going-to-give-johnny-cash-the-last-word-on-harold-camping/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Disillusioned Followers of Harold Camping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 21:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Fellow Believers in Jesus Christ, I had intended to hold back this post until tomorrow morning, but since Family Radio agreed to concede defeat if nothing happened by midnight Jerusalem time (about half an hour ago, if I&#8217;m not &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/05/to-disillusioned-followers-of-harold-camping/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Coming Out&#8221; as Christian</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/05/coming-out-as-christian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a thought worth pondering: “It’s often harder for young people to come out as Christians than it would be for them to come out as gay,” she says. “Because of the vocal atheists – Dawkins and so on – &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/05/coming-out-as-christian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Case for Catechesis</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/03/a-case-for-catechesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Testament, particularly the book of Acts, indicates that the usual procedure in the first century was for recent converts to Christianity to be baptized first and then instructed in the Christian faith. By the second century (i.e., the &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/03/a-case-for-catechesis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Prostitutes and the Kingdom of God</title>
		<link>http://pursiful.com/2011/03/of-prostitutes-and-the-kingdom-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Pursiful</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors &#8230; <a href="http://pursiful.com/2011/03/of-prostitutes-and-the-kingdom-of-god/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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