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		<title>National Holidays™</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To me there is difference between a holiday, a Federal holiday and a national holiday. A holiday is a religious observation. A Federal holiday are those days the Feds take off like Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Christmas. But a national holiday is not formally recognized by either church or state. These days national [...]


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		<title>Practical Theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I read an odd convergence of things that came together to remind me about practical theology. Practical Theology  in formal education often involves subjects like pastoral care, preaching, administration, etc. The other part of theology is systematic or Biblical or something like that. But what I read this morning reminded me that all [...]


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		<title>Review: The Vine and the Trellis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I received and immediately read The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. There has been some excitement in the Reformed blogosphere (is it still okay to use that word? &#8216;Blogosphere&#8217;? &#8217;cause I still am) that I thought I should give it a shot. The snapshot answer is [...]


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		<title>Is the American Church Really in Decline?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The numbers for the American church don&#8217;t look good:

Every year more than 4,000 churches close their doors compared to just over 1,000 new church starts.
Half of all churches in the US did not add any new members to their ranks in the last two years.
At the turn of the last century (1900), there was a [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.byfarthersteps.com/?p=929' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Please Choose Your Comparisons Carefully'>Please Choose Your Comparisons Carefully</a> <small>Something I read in two articles recently bothered me some....</small></li>
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		<title>A Grace-filled Covenant of Works</title>
		<link>http://www.byfarthersteps.com/?p=949</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another name for Reformed Theology is Covenant Theology. The idea is that God relates to man through the structure of a covenant. Covenants are what structures redemptive history and even the intra-Trinitarian decision to redeem a people for God.  So when Covenant Theologians (myself included) look at redemptive history, we see an eternal covenant (Hebrews [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.byfarthersteps.com/?p=868' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Conflict Resolution, Old and New'>Conflict Resolution, Old and New</a> <small>I&#8217;ve been through the little book of Philemon a few...</small></li>
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		<title>Communion of the (Select) Saints</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to do a blog post that does nothing more than pick someone apart so I&#8217;m hoping that after I do some picking, I can actually make some helpful points. We&#8217;ll see.
Ada Chalhoun wrote a piece title &#8220;Secrets of a closet Christian&#8221; and the Chicago Sun-Times picked it up. The title and premise caught [...]


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		<title>Evangelicalism Articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading two very interesting articles that are not specifically about evangelicalism but both deal with the subject.  Since I want to end on a good note, I&#8217;ll handle my least favorite of the two first.
Why is there no joy in the Reformed camp asks Anthony Selvaggio over at the Reformation21 blog? Why it [...]


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		<title>Please Choose Your Comparisons Carefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I read in two articles recently bothered me some. The first was a report on the next Chronicles of Narnia movie, &#8220;Voyage of the Dawn Treader&#8221;. The reporter was bothered that the Christian message of the book is being toned down in the movie. She mentioned that one of the producers was gay and [...]


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		<title>Swimming in Context</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Etherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you &#8211; 1 Peter 3:15
Ever had someone quote that to you and ask when the last time anyone asked YOU about YOUR hope? As if to say that there is something wrong with the [...]


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		<title>J. I. Packer is Still The Man!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post did a brief interview with Packer. He has many good things to say and the interview is worth reading. Here&#8217;s on thing I was glad to hear:
I think that the number of lively evangelical Christians in North America is, in fact, increasing. I think that if overall statistics show that churches are [...]


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