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	<title>The Making of a Theologian</title>
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		<title>Study, Study, Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[D.A. Carson in today&#8217;s &#8220;For the Love of God&#8221; post&#8230; &#8220;There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible. Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=636&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painted Nothings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the Boy and the Butterfly by John Bunyan Behold, how eager this our little boy Is for a butterfly, as if all joy, All profits, honours, yea, and lasting pleasures, Were wrapped up in her, or the richest treasures Found in her would be bundled up together, When all her all is lighter than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=566&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Will Bear It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from Spurgeon&#8217;s For the Sick and Afflicted: No affliction from which we suffer has come to us by chance. We are not left to the misery of believing that things happen of themselves, and are independent of a divinely controlling power. We know that not a drop of bitter ever falls into our cup [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=560&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cherishing the Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gospel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need of Jesus (from the Valley of Vision collection of prayers) Lord Jesus, I am blind, be thou my light, ignorant, be thou my wisdom, self-willed, be thou my mind. Open my ear to grasp quickly thy Spirit&#8217;s voice, and delightfully run after his beckoning hand; Melt my conscience that no hardness remain, make it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=556&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gorgeous Flip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tagged: Humor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=528&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Shepherds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major problems in ancient Israel was bad leadership, bad "shepherding."  Ezekiel 34 is one of the classic texts against bad leadership.  I scanned the prophets for God's criticism of leadership and then developed these categories of emphasis...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=516&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hound of Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson (1859-1907) I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=472&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humble Orthodoxy</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/humble-orthodoxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Doctrine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When denominations change their doctrinal statements, the changes usually move away from what previous generations would have recognized as true.  In contrast, the Evangelical Free Church of America recently revised its Statement of Faith to simply reaffirm what the 1950 framers believed, but in a modern context. For example, the revision strengthens our statement about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=434&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guilt Is Good</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/guilt-is-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the classic Gordon Gekko line, &#8220;Greed is good!&#8221;  I&#8217;ve got a new one: &#8220;Guilt is good.&#8221; Why is guilt good? Answer: Because it protects us from harm. Fear works the same way.  Fear is good because when we see danger, like an angry German Shepherd, we run.  The only reason I wear a seat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=417&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading to Ripen Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short list of my favorite books on marriage: The Godly Home by Richard Baxter What Did You Expect? by Paul Tripp When Sinners Say I Do by Dave Harvey Sex, Romance and the Glory of God by C.J. Mahaney Sexual Intimacy in Marriage by William Cutler and Sandra Glahn God, Marriage, and Family by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3748290&amp;post=381&amp;subd=adamtalbott&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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