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Rising Maternal Mortality Rates
2007-08-26 00:00:00
America Witnesses Highest Surge In Maternal Mort al ity Rate read the headline. And the muffled explanation is obesity and Cesarean section rates. But lets strip off the disingenuous placement and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Rusty Talks Branding: how to avoid getting seared by the hot iron
2007-08-24 00:00:00
At New Covenant, Rusty has some interesting posts on the topic of “branding”, a perennial interest of mine. New Covenant: Branding : how to avoid getting seared by the hot iron Consumer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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New Covenant: Elvira Arellano: Kirsten Powers gets it completely wrong
2007-08-24 00:00:00
New Covenant: Elvira Arellano : Kirsten Powers gets it completely wrong …I have sympathy for anybody who is trying to come from another country and looking for a better life. …I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Being Men of Good Will
2007-08-24 00:00:00
I sent a little business through Amazon to a fellow Christian, and it made me think about something I just don’t understand very well. When in another fellowship than the one I now attend , I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Bon Mots
2007-08-24 00:00:00
Some good words picked up from pursuing conversation @ Intellectuelle: John Piper had to say this in conclusion on his post about the Barna statistics on Evangelical immorality rates: Good Doctrine... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Rick Ianniello asks about the boundaries for Christian confrontation
2007-08-24 00:00:00
Rick Ianniello * Can one be a Christian and still be deceived and sin? * Can one publicly confront another in a graceful way? * Under what circumstances? * Who decides when the confrontation is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Wandering Heretic : Evangelical Divorce/Premarital Sex Revisited
2007-08-24 00:00:00
You may want to read this along with that Piper article. The Wandering Heretic » Blog Archive » Evangelical Divorce /Premarital Sex Revisited doctrine, Evangelical Christiansdoctrine, Evangelical... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Playing Chicken
2007-08-17 00:00:00
Looks like the market and the Fed are playing chicken. Will the Fed lower interest rates? Most hope yes, but many are thinking no. I don’t know, but I’m for holding steady in investments... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Mommy Wars
2007-08-17 00:00:00
Reposting this from Nov. 3, 2004 in the interest of defining some things about SAHM’s and some of the cultural myths that are *still* with us. Prologue: While keeping track of the election... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Just Who Are These ?Church Ladies??
2007-08-15 00:00:00
Inspired by Sarah Flashing who is doing an admirable job of providing commentary on our culture, and recently on specific Church culture, I started to think about how I define this term that I have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Keep Praying for The Korean Hostages
2007-08-15 00:00:00
This week we have seen the release of two hostages. Thank God. There still remain hostages who need our prayers. I believe God can answer our fervent prayers…let us redouble our attention to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Monetizing Your Blog
2007-08-14 00:00:00
Following the idea of “Truth in Blog ging” I thought I would say a few things on the factors that have gone into monetizing ( adding advertising ) the blog. For many years online, I had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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I guess we won?t do that?
2007-08-14 00:00:00
Planting on the baking south facing sandy border has to be heat proof, drought proof, rabbit and deer proof. I suggested a rifle and steady hand to deal with the last two and was met with a chorus... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Depending Upon The Kindness Of Strangers
2007-08-14 00:00:00
Our existence here is inter-related to others in so many more ways than we are aware of, many times because we move on through life so quickly we don’t take time to notice. That is what the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Hesed: Connecting Mercy to Covenant
2007-08-14 00:00:00
Resuming a look into the deeper meaning of God’s steadfast love, or “hesed”, now in terms of what it means to covenant and how seriously God takes this agreement. As Christians, we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Truth In Blogging
2007-08-11 00:00:00
Reading a post @true womanhood in the new millennium, there was some musing on who we are in the blogosphere…especially as Christians. I?m wondering what people think about how the truth,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Have Opinions On Women in Ministry?
2007-08-11 00:00:00
What encourages women to participate in ministry? What holds them back? What is theology of work? Is your career a ministry? Could it be? Can the traditional woman and the modern woman get along... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Thankful Thursday
2007-08-11 00:00:00
When I think of how complaining I, and people around me, often are… I realize we need to be more thankful. Yes, it’s very hot… but thanks be to God for access to air conditioning.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Upgrading Wordpress
2007-08-08 00:00:00
On my garden website I had wordpress platform, but it was an old version… so I intrepidly ventured into doing the upgrade. I experimented with a blog that didn’t matter- which is good... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Saturday Scavenger Hunt: Funky
2007-08-05 00:00:00
Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. Theme: Funky Find the Photo Hunters Blogroll, here. “Play that funky music, White Boy….” ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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New Covenant
2007-08-03 00:00:00
New Coven ant writes on the new occupation of hiring a “nameologist”… and it reminded me of how much I loved getting out baby name books and poring over all the choices and name... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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I?m sorry?but injustice makes me angry
2007-08-03 00:00:00
I don’t usually apologize for that- and I am not actually trying to with this post. I just have to explain to some of you more gentle Christians- and that is said with no trace of sarcasm or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Your Lukewarm Indifference Condemns You-
2007-08-03 00:00:00
… as you watch the sufferings of others indifferently. Wake Up. Here is a quote from one of a selection of great speeches, it was given by Elie Wiesel on April 12, 1999. The topic is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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prayer for hostages in afghanistan - day 11 « beauty and depravity
2007-08-03 00:00:00
prayer for hostages in afghanistan - day 11 « beauty and depravity In Memoriam: Sung Min was 29 years old and single. He used to work for an IT company but resigned two months ago to prepare for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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I?m Convicted
2007-08-03 00:00:00
The Silence in the Godblogosphere is Deafening -it’s true. There isn’t much to be heard on the Korean Christian aid workers plight. We should at least be calling one another to prayer.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Psalm 13- my life in a nutshell
2007-08-03 00:00:00
Psalm 13 For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Crimes Against Women
2007-08-03 00:00:00
In the depressing article,The Death of Sweden | The Brussels Journal, I find this sordid state of affairs: In an article from June 2007 with the title “Summertime ? rape time,”... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Think About This
2007-07-27 00:00:00
Excerpt from Critical Mass by Mario Murillo America is spiritually dying because God has sales reps and not channels of His glory. We feverishly do the right things, almost as a bribe to postpone... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Thankful Thursday
2007-07-27 00:00:00
If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want I don’t know where that quote came form- but it is a good one. We... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Links for 2007-07-25 [del.icio.us]
2007-07-26 08:00:00
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur Will help You to Make Money the entire site is useful- but good ideas on how to think for the blog It’s Not About the Website avoiding common mistakes http://www.hccentral.com/eller1/covsex.ht ml this precisely is to make a fool of God, to treat him as a poor devil who has been foolish enough to commit something to writing and now must put up with what the lawyers will make of it." Evangelical ethics is typically a tightly defined "rule ethic" tha
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