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	<title>The Making of a Theologian</title>
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		<title>The Making of a Theologian</title>
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		<title>Of the Boy and Butterfly</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/of-the-boy-and-butterfly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold, how eager this out 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 a feather.
He halloos, runs, and cris out, &#8220;Here, boys, here!&#8221;
Nor doth he brambles or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=566&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Will Bear It</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/i-will-bear-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from Spurgeon&#8217;s For the Sick and Afflicted:
&#8220;I bear whatever thou wilt put upon me; I have borne it, I still bear it, and I will bear it, whatever thou mayest ordain it to be. I submit myself entirely to thee, and accept the load with which thou art pleased to weight me.&#8221;
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		<title>Cherishing the Cross</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/cherishing-the-cross/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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 alive to evil&#8217;s slightest touch;
When Satan approaches may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=556&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Let You Hunger</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/he-let-you-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us need to fire god.
Some of us believe in a pretend, small god who is mostly uninvolved with our lives.  Life gets hard and we don&#8217;t know what to do.  Where is my god?
We should fire this silly god.  In reality, the Bible tells us about the one, true God who is intimately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=542&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gorgeous Flip</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/gorgeous-flip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<title>Bad Shepherds</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/badshepherds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the Bible talks about leadership, it often uses the image of shepherding.  A shepherd with his flock implies all the things we normally associate with leadership (like management, authority, and so on), but it also implies aspects of relationship that are unique to the church (provision, protection, and intensely personal care).
One of the major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=516&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Justice Roll Down</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/let-justice-roll-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Justice is one of the great themes of the Bible.  God&#8217;s concern for justice is especially clear in the Old Testament where the prophets railed against the shallow religious environment of the Divided Kingdom.  We should ask ourselves today: Is God glorified by how we take care of the downtrodden, or should we be disturbed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=484&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hound of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/the-hound-of-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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 I sped;
And shot, precipitated,
Adown Titanic glooms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=472&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expressions of Faith for Killing Sin (Pt. 3)</title>
		<link>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/expressions-of-faith-for-killing-sin-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://adamtalbott.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/expressions-of-faith-for-killing-sin-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In four posts we&#8217;re exploring four expressions of faith for killing sin.  Many Christians don&#8217;t know what to do about sin, never finding the freedom and victory in Jesus that the Bible talks about.  This series explains a biblical process for killing sin.  As John Owen said, &#8220;Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you.&#8221;
This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=441&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=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>
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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 the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamtalbott.wordpress.com&blog=3748290&post=434&subd=adamtalbott&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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