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		<title>Health Care, Christianity and American Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m angry. And I&#8217;m angry because I&#8217;m frustrated.  As I write this, certain friends, members of my family, and people I know from church are in desperate need of medical care and they can&#8217;t get it.  They can&#8217;t afford it themselves, and they have no insurance. They can&#8217;t afford insurance, and their employers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Loves You. Here&#8217;s a Condom.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weird situation at church yesterday.  A group of us were sitting around talking, waiting for our weekly men&#8217;s group to begin, and there was this plastic bucket sitting on the table in front of me, filled with condoms.  All kinds of condoms. Colored, textured, lubricated, plain.  Not your father&#8217;s typical church supplies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throw Out Your Map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite all my efforts, I am not the master of the universe. And, in fact, although I can certainly influence the direction of my life, I&#8217;m not even master over my own destiny.
That&#8217;s kinda tough news for a guy. I was at a men&#8217;s bible study last night, and of the nine of us there, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book Review: Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity, by Mark Batterson  (Multnomah Books, 2009)  Hardcover, 192 pages. $17.99
Sometimes I hate reading Christian books. Often it&#8217;s because they are full of fluff and flash, trendy impulses in religious society, pop psychology or even business principles coated with the lipstick of Scripture to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Called. He says &#8220;Relax!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[End of the year hub-bub.  Last minute Christmas shopping. Projects piling up, demanding to be finished by year&#8217;s end. Commitments. Social invitations and requests. Church events.  Year-end giving solicitations streaming non-stop in the mail and email.  And stress over the mounting credit card usage over the holidays.  &#8220;Was that really a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Epiphany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago, as I was reading a note from my mom about the &#8220;joy unspeakable and full of glory&#8221; that is the heart of Christmas, I was struck by an image of the excitement in heaven over the birth of Jesus some 2000 years ago.  God himself, I suddenly realized, had looked forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Politics ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I were having lunch yesterday when he announced that he was creating a list of thought-provoking questions to challenge Christians to rethink some of their conventional and comfortable positions. The topics ranged from &#8220;who can be a Christian&#8221; to &#8220;must a Christian tithe&#8221; to social and political agendas in the church. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping out of the Boat: Taking the Risk of Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To get good at anything always means risking being bad at it at first. And one of the biggest things that separates the two stages is overcoming our fear of failing.
A while back I wrote about that famous scene in the Gospels where Jesus comes walking on the water in the midst of a storm to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Less Really is More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[( Originally written for Whosoever Magazine, this recaps and updates my continuing journey into &#8220;Radical Acceptance&#8221; )
There&#8217;s something so appealing about the story in the Gospels of the poor widow throwing her two copper coins into the temple treasury, in contrast to the larger sums donated by wealthy patrons. It&#8217;s such a simple concept, anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://CafeInspirado.com/396</link>
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		<title>Faith, Anticipation and Expectation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are the &#8220;Faith&#8221; generation. Many of us who surfed the wave of &#8220;Word-Faith&#8221; teaching that swept explosively through the Church in the 1980s and &#8217;90s have since found our balance point in life. As with any fresh movement of the Spirit, there were excesses, misunderstandings, and actions out of spiritual immaturity unchecked by the [...]]]></description>
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