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		<title>From Madeleine L’Engle&#8217;s &#8220;Walking On Water: Reflections on Faith and Art&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. if we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Writing, Recording, and Digital Converters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recorded the first guitar tracks today for a new recording (Black Lion converters truly excel). The recording will be mostly original secular songs, some bluegrass, some acoustic whatever-it-is, with a couple gospel songs, all co-written with Rebecca Reynolds, writer of the beautifully poetic lyrics on topics various and sundry. There will be at least one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Springs in the Valley: January 28</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Thoughts on Spiritual Dryness from the Pen of Screwtape</title>
		<link>http://ronblock.com/2011/10/27/thoughts-on-spiritual-dryness-from-the-pen-of-screwtape/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://ronblock.com/2011/07/30/commandments-and-our-new-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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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