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		<title>Springs in the Valley: January 28</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. (1 Kings 19:11)
A rebuke is often a blessing in disguise. Elijah needed this form of address in order to arouse him to an understanding of his causeless fear. Such a one has no right to be fitful and repining. If he will go forth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need Armor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two quotes, the first by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Chapter X, The Voice of Saruman:
&#8220;Suddenly another voice spoke, low and melodious, its very sound an enchantment. Those who listened unwarily to that voice could seldom report the words that they heard; and if they did, they wondered, for little power remained in them. Mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Reynolds: Let Nothing You Dismay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post by Rebecca Reynolds, one of my favorite writers. We&#8217;ve been co-writing a lot of songs lately. This blog post is Christmas courage in a tight spot. Check out the other articles on her site as well. Click here: Let Nothing You Dismay or cut and paste http://littlebootsliturgies.blogspot.com/2011/12/let-nothing-you-dismay.html
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		<title>Thoughts on Spiritual Dryness from the Pen of Screwtape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis, writing as the Senior Tempter Screwtape:
“Humans are amphibians &#8211; half spirit and half animal…As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commandments and Our New Identity, Part III: Fruit Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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I walked down our gravel drive along the fence and saw a little fruit-pod on a vine. God started me to thinking about it.
A tree grows in good soil. It produces fruit. The fruit carries the seeds. The fruit hangs over other ground. It falls, and bursts open. If the ground is receptive, another tree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commandments and Our New Identity, Part II: Sons of Self-Effort or Sons of Promise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Genesis 15, God speaks to Abram and says “I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward. Abram says, “What will you give me, seeing I have no children? At this point my servant Eliezer is my heir!” God then reiterates the promise made to Abram in chapter 12 of making him a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commandments and Our New Identity: Part I</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my dialogues with others about grace, forgiveness, and our new identity in Christ, the question is often raised, “What about the commandments? Don’t we have to keep the commandments?” Let’s look at the Ten Commandments for a moment:
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make any carved images to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hudson Taylor: The Secret of Rest</title>
		<link>http://ronblock.com/2011/07/26/hudson-taylor-the-secret-of-rest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secret of his (Hudson Taylor&#8217;s) rest of heart, amid such tempests of hate, was his refusal to look at second causes. His times were in God&#8217;s hands. He believed that it was with God, and GOD ALONE, he had to do. This is strikingly brought out in his article entitled &#8221;Blessed Adversity.&#8221; With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Action of Faith</title>
		<link>http://ronblock.com/2011/07/25/the-action-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader writes in response to my last article, “Saying that we only trust Christ and everything will happen by some kind of spiritual osmosis is not reality.&#8221;
To &#8220;only trust Christ&#8221;: what does that look like? Well, if I really trust that there is a Person living me who is love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rule-Keeping + Grace = Heresy</title>
		<link>http://ronblock.com/2011/07/18/rule-keeping-grace-heresy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An idea prevalent in the Church today is that we work to keep the Law and have forgiveness when we fail.
This “rule-keeping + grace” position is the very thing the Apostle Paul was getting so upset about in Galatians, and likewise, the Hebrews writer. It was the addition of “The sacrifice of Jesus plus your [...]]]></description>
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