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		<title>Deconstructing The Great Commission &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>http://gracerules.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/deconstructing-the-great-commission-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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‘To be a witness means to offer your own faith experience and to make your doubts and hopes, failures and successes, loneliness and woundedness, available to others as a context in which they can struggle with their own humanness and quest for meaning.’   --Henry Nouwen (Spiritual Direction)
I didn’t get a lot of response to my previous post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=999&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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(A friend sent these to me via email today)
1. I think part of a best friend&#8217;s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you&#8217;re wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn&#8217;t want to nap when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=991&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing The Great Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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As many of you know I’ve been doing a lot of deconstructing of Christianity over the last few years – examining what I&#8217;ve been taught, what I believed about God, Jesus, and scripture, and what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.  
Let me tell you…it is a very, very, very long process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=981&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singing Horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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I could play with these singing horses all day.  Go here and click on each horse to hear them sing to you and harmonize with each other.
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		<title>A Labor Of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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My husband and I participated in this last year and it was great.  Unfortunately we were not able to participate this year but plan on joining in again next year.  It is truly a labor of love.
A group of volunteers gave four Haltom City homes a makeover. In just 24 hours, some 1,600 volunteers completed home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=972&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh: Mindreader</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh got all worked up Friday by this fake quote attributed to the Columbia University thesis of President Barack Obama.
 “… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=968&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change &#8211; Asking The Right Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is for Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change


In 1988 “Beds Are Burning”, Midnight Oil’s infectious rocker, brought the issue of reparations for indigenous peoples to the global spotlight, and now Time For Climate Justice has gathered musicians and movie stars to transform the song into an anthem that demands action for the upcoming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=944&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Never Recover Until We Forgive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catching up on all the great stuff in my google reader this week and just had to share this great video I found over at Missio Dei where Jonathan Brink wrote a great post about True Justice.  The video is about forgiveness with Mary Karen Read&#8217;s last words in her journal entry before her death at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=963&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Modern Telling Of The Beatitudes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Rob Bell recently tweeted a modern telling of The Beatitudes and my friend Jonathan Blundell (@jdblundell) gathered them up and posted them on his blog &#8220;Stranger In A Strange Land&#8220;. Here they are:
Blessed are those who don’t have it all together.
Blessed are those who have run out of strength, ideas, will power, resolve, or energy.
Blessed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=959&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Flawed Opposition To A Public Healthcare Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it has become common for people who are against a public healthcare option to use everything they don’t like about the government as their defense.  Just yesterday I heard a radio personality on some Christian radio station say that because he didn’t like the way the speed limit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gracerules.wordpress.com&blog=3944975&post=934&subd=gracerules&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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