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		<title>Don&#8217;t Blame the Evangelicals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot topic of the week: North Carolina votes to forbid same-sex marriages in their state, and President Obama publicly states that he is in favor of full recognition of marriage for those same couples. And, of course, people are all hot and bothered &#8212; for one reason or the other. Some see the passage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Ourselves Now and Then</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new year is always a good time to rethink. Re-evaluate. But not just in making resolutions or planning to solve problems that have haunted us the previous year. It&#8217;s also a good time to ask the same questions of ourselves that we may have answered years before, to guage our growth, to see how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News? What Good News?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weird thing happened last night at church. A bunch of us got together for our weekly Bible study, and, it being the night before Thanksgiving, only a handful of people showed up. And we talked, and joked, and laughed like we normally do. And then it was time to get down to business. Leading the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One word that makes all the difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There I was, minding my own business, innocently browsing through endless Facebook posts from my infinite number of friends (never been more popular in my entire life!), and I noticed that one buddy in a moment of excitement and adoration wrote out the doxology as his status. &#8220;Praise God to whom all blessings flow. Praise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God &#8212; as He Wants You to See Him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opening scenes are important. You miss &#8216;em, and you may miss the key element in everything that follows. Like an Agatha Christie mystery. The ending won&#8217;t make sense if you skipped the early pages introducing the main characters. Okay, I&#8217;ll admit I can&#8217;t recall ever having actually read an Agatha Christie novel, but I&#8217;ve seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Nobody takes the Church Seriously Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just sitting here, minding my own business, cup of coffee in hand, browsing through various news stories that posted headlines on Facebook, and an otherwise insignificant blurb made me angry. The article was about an advertising company in Australia reversing its decision to pull an HIV Prevention ad from local buses. They&#8217;d run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Dust Bowl to Your Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran&#8221; (Gen 28:10). What could be possibly one of the most boring verses in the entire Bible suddenly jumped out at me with such intensity and meaning, I just had to stop and stare at it for a while. Jacob was a weasel. He was a trickster, somebody [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://CafeInspirado.com/557</link>
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		<title>The Sabbath is Your Day. Enjoy It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up hating Sundays. (My poor mom is probably feeling all guilty about that now. Sorry, mom.) Sunday was church day. It was &#8220;the Lord&#8217;s Day&#8221;, and we were supposed to honor God by getting dressed up, sitting through tedious (to me) sermons, singing some dreary songs, spending the afternoon quietly resting (impossible for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://CafeInspirado.com/548</link>
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		<title>If You Enjoy the Fruit, Support the Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weird thing happened the other day. I was scrolling through a bunch of statuses on Facebook, glancing at comments by friends I know pretty well, some I know hardly at all, and organizations and churches that I &#8220;like&#8221; or am somehow associated with. And I ran across two or three statuses that kinda reminded me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God Who Says &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching an episode of West Wing the other day, and Toby, the sulky, dark, idealistic character, quotes an Italian proverb to C.J, the Press Secretary: Quando dio vuole castigarci ci manda quello che desideriamo &#8212; &#8220;When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.&#8221; Interesting quote. But it got me thinking: [...]]]></description>
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