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		<title>Don&#8217;t lose focus, Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time a presidential election rolls around, I witness fellow believers in the Lord Jesus Christ lose their focus. I’ve done it myself. We have a tendency to say and believe things like… “This election is critical.” “This is the most important election in our lifetime” (Just like the last election — and the one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1564&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace on Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something remarkable happened in December 1914. On a battlefield in France — the “Western Front” of World War I — the armies of Great Britain and France were facing the army of Germany. They had been killing one another for weeks. And yet, one night, as Christmas approached, compassion held sway. German soldiers helped French [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1557&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson from &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highly acclaimed 1993 film Schindler’s List is based on a true story — and it contains a very real, very valuable lesson every Christian ought to consider. The film begins in Krakow, Poland in 1939. The forces of Nazi Germany, led by the SS, begin rounding up Jews for relocation to ghettos — and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The blessing of&#8230; persecution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kencho Kinle is a Christian brother who lives in the mountainous kingdom of Bhutan — an area dominated by Buddhism and shamanism. And not a day goes by that he does not share the Gospel door-to-door. As a result, he and his family were cursed by a sorcerer in the area. His wife and three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1542&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christian&#8217;s Primary Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collin Hansen has written a fine essay examining how Christians ought to prioritize their limited time, treasure, and talent — it’s entitled Mission Critical and can be read in its entirety over at The Gospel Coalition. Essentially his essay takes a look at what is the primary responsibility of any Christian. While many in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1536&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Foreign&#8221; Missions</title>
		<link>http://thideology.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/foreign-missions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any missionary who has worked in a country other than his own and he will tell you that culture shock can be a serious hurdle. In our own culture we have a certain way of doing things — a way which seems correct to us, but only because we have always done things that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1525&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never prouder (and sadder)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been more proud and more discouraged at the same time. During a Wednesday evening student ministry service the guest speaker asked the group of about 50 students (both junior high and high school) to turn in their Bibles to the text he was about to read. There was very little activity — [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bless “our” troops?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase “Bless our troops” has become a fixture in American culture in recent years. It’s on signs, bumper stickers, car magnets — it’s everywhere. It’s even in our churches and in our prayers. We ask God to “bless our troops.” But, do we ever stop to consider what, exactly, we are saying? What do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1503&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Reformation still matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We think of October 31 as Halloween. But, for the believer in Christ Jesus, October 31 should always be remembered as Reformation Day, for it is the day Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenburg. Of course, many Christians dismiss this event as just another boring date in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1499&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standing against superstitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of questions&#8230; Question 1: What kinds of images do we typically associate with Halloween? Ghosts, goblins, witches, black cats, spiders, bats and the like, right? Well, these images have long been associated with Halloween. In fact, people used to have some pretty interesting beliefs about some of these things. For example… If a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thideology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=474402&amp;post=1485&amp;subd=thideology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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