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		<title>Being a Godly Parent</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/03/12/being-a-godly-parent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.
—Judges 13:8
This prayer of Manoah is the earnest and often anxious prayer of every
godly parent.
The boy was Samson, Israel’s prankish Hercules, who squandered his
God-given strength. One wonders how often Manoah and his wife awakened
in the dark, sleepless hours of the night and asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanting to Run Away</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/03/11/wanting-to-run-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[desire for solitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proclaiming the Word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running away]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, that I had in the desert
a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
and go away from them.
—Jeremiah 9:2
Sometimes I think Jeremiah had it exactly right. He wanted a cabin in the
woods where he could get away from it all. He was fed up with folks; he’d
had it. He wanted out—way out—away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Counts</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/03/05/character-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forgive my hidden faults.
Keep your servant also from [these] willful sins;
may they not rule over me.
Then I will be blameless,
innocent of great transgression.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
—Psalm 19:12–14
I was fishing Lick Creek one day and cast my fly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing One&#8217;s Failure</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/03/04/facing-ones-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[godliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repentance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father.
—1 John 2:1
Only a few baseball players have ever batted .400 over an entire season,
which means they went hitless six out of ten times. Somehow that
makes me feel better about myself.
We focus too much on success stories. Christians, like the champions of
Homeric epics, always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the Body in Perspective</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/26/putting-the-body-in-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/26/putting-the-body-in-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[glorifying God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honoring God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human body]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The body is not meant for sexual immorality,
but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body . . .
Therefore honor God with your body.
—1 Corinthians 6:13, 20
In Paul’s day most philosophers believed that only the mind mattered or,
more precisely, the things on which you put your mind mattered—the
“Ideals.” The body therefore was base, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abiding in Christ</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/25/abiding-in-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abiding in Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit of the Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vine and branches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am the vine; you are the branches.
If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit;
apart from me you can do nothing.
—John 15:5
There’s an old vineyard in a canyon that I fish through now and then. It
was an effort by some Idaho pioneer to grow grapes and make sweet
wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Every Need to God</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/19/bringing-every-need-to-god/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/19/bringing-every-need-to-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dependence on God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The wife of a man from the company of the prophets
cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you
know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to
take my two boys as his slaves.”
Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you
have in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach Us to Pray</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/18/teach-us-to-pray/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/18/teach-us-to-pray/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dependence on God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished,
one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as
John taught his disciples.”
—Luke 11:1
Jesus baffles us as He baffled others. We see Him hard at work—confronting
the powers of demons and men and defeating them, vindicating widows
and orphans, directed by an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haste That Wastes</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/12/haste-that-wastes/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/12/haste-that-wastes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[busyness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-esteem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s this fellow I know who’s always in a hurry. I’ve forgotten his name, but I’ll never forget his pace.
He’s involved in everything that goes on down at the church: he’s a chairman of committees, a leader of small groups, a teacher of small children, a whirlwind of pious fervor and activity. His life is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Mouths of Babes</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/11/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/02/11/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[faith of a child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psalm 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Give me a world, to part for praise and sunder.
The brooks be bells; the winds, in caverns dumb,
Wake fife and flute and flageolet and voice;
The fire-shook earth itself be the great drum;
And let the air the region’s bass out thunder;
The firs be violins; the reeds hautboys [oboes];
Rivers, seas, icebergs fill the great score up and [...]]]></description>
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