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		<title>The Course</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2011/05/18/the-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two elements characterized Paul’s outlook: There was a course to be run and a task to be done. He knew his task—to testify solemnly of the grace of God—but as to his course he hadn’t a clue. He had no fixed and final five-year plan. And so, on one occasion, off he went to Jerusalem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Leadership Mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership means being lower than all, washing their feet, being their “servants for Jesus’ sake” (2 Cor. 4:5).  It means preferring others, furthering their causes, seeking their good, encouraging their growth, bearing their evil (as long as it does not corrupt others), being gentle and humble—doing for others what God Himself has done for us.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of authority is a good one to raise, particularly when someone’s claim seems inflated. It’s one thing to assert authority; it’s another to possess it.  Unauthorized power goes directly to people’s heads. According to Acton’s dictum, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You see it all the time—ego-driven men and women, motivated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Were a Rich Man (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/06/04/if-i-were-a-rich-man-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we fix our eyes on mammon [material wealth], it will darken our hearts, cloud our judgment, and leave us morally confused and uncertain. It will lead us into bad decisions&#8212;choices that defy logic and cause us to deny our highest values. We will fudge, cheat, embezzle, misappropriate, pad, and pilfer. We will, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Were a Rich Man (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/06/03/if-i-were-a-rich-man-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his high position. But the one who is rich should take pride in his low position, because he will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord Is Near (part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God&#8217;s presence is not a symbol, a manner of speaking, or a virtual reality, but the real thing&#8212;as real as it gets, as real as it was in the days of His incarnation. The difference is that now He is invisible to all but the eyes of faith. In the upper room Jesus promised His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord Is Near (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/05/27/the-lord-is-near-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[God's condescension]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, &#8220;Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.&#8221; &#8212;Genesis 28:16 Jacob was on the run, fleeing from Esau&#8217;s fury, lonely, desperate, and stripped of everything that gives meaning to human life, so lost that evenGod couldn&#8217;t find him&#8212;or so he thought. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Listen (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/05/21/learning-to-listen-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening is a lost art these days. We don&#8217;t listen well, and we aren&#8217;t used to being listened to. Most of our words simply fall to the ground. I have a friend who, when he goes to noisy parties and people ask how he&#8217;s doing, on occasion has replied quietly, &#8220;My business went belly-up this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Listen (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/05/20/learning-to-listen-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/05/20/learning-to-listen-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Job]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, that I had someone to hear me! &#8212;Job 31:35 Ren&#233; Descarte, the sixteenth-century philosopher, said, &#8220;I think, therefore I am.&#8221; Sarah, our granddaughter, says, &#8220;You are, therefore I talk.&#8221; Some years ago I was sitting in our family room trying to read a Time magazine while Sarah was trying to carry on a conversation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing God (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/05/14/seeing-god-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://pastor.resourcesforyourministry.org/2010/05/14/seeing-god-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Roper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elisha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so, &#8220;As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, &#8216;My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!&#8217; And Elisha saw him [...]]]></description>
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