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		<title>Our amazing sun and our amazing Creator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 13:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s &#8220;Picture of the Day&#8221; features a breathtaking image of the sun shot in extreme infrared, and writing the short narrative that accompanies it got me to thinking about just how amazing our own &#8220;personal star&#8221; and the God who created it really are. Just image if you can the total amount of energy consumed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that each and every one of you have the merriest Christmas ever! Please click here if you are interested in reading my thoughts about Christmas and the amazing Child whose birthday we will be celebrating today. Related Posts:Merry Christmas Everyone!&#8220;The 55 days of Christmas&#8221;Gaudy Christmas displaysDecorating the house for ChristmasWhatever happened to Christmas?]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Lives by Sarah Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Sarah Young ISBN: 978-1404186958 Pages: 368 The Holy Bible is replete with words of wisdom, advice and directives for living a good Christian life, and author Sarah Young brings many of these resources vividly to life in her wonderful gift book entitled Jesus Lives. The pages of Jesus Lives contain almost 200 inspirational devotions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Christian passes into eternity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 Corinthians 5:8 &#8211; &#8220;We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.&#8221; It&#8217;s always sad for those left behind when a precious loved one passes away, but in reality the very second that a Christian&#8217;s earthly life comes to an end is actually the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ten Thousand Angels Cried&#8221; by LeAnn Rimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love listening to gospel music, and this moving performance of &#8220;Ten Thousand Angels Cried&#8221; by LeAnn Rimes is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it as well. Related Posts:&#8220;Tears of God&#8221; by Josh TurnerMystery billboard shows up in MinnesotaIs the Tea Party really racist?Amazing &#8220;chain reaction&#8221; music videoThe funniest political ad I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A falling leaf&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took Houdini for his morning walk a few minutes ago, and as we were strolling back towards the house I saw something that really caught my attention. Just a few feet in front of us a single, solitary leaf broke free from a branch on one of our huge sycamores and slowly drifted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A young Allison Krauss sings &#8220;Heaven&#8217;s Bright Shore&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison Krauss became a Bluegrass legend while still a teenager, and the video clip below features Allison and her band Union Station performing the wonderful Gospel number &#8220;Heaven&#8217;s Bright Shore&#8221;. The makeup of Union Station has changed a bit over the years, but they have always been outstanding singers and musicians  &#8211; and Allison herself is among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew 7:12 &#8211; Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. When I was a youngster, one of the first things the teacher &#8220;taught&#8221; us at the beginning of each school year was The Golden Rule. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arkansas church passes collection plate in reverse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summit Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas passed the collection plates as usual last Sunday, but this time the congregation didn&#8217;t place money inside&#8230;they took it out! It had recently come to the attention of the Church leadership that there were several needy families in the congregation, and after delivering a sermon on giving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Predestination&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.rickrouse.com/2009/08/predestination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest controversies among those of the Christian faith is the one concerning &#8220;predestination&#8221; (the belief that God has predetermined whether each and every person will ultimately go to Heaven or hell before he/she is even born). In this post I will try to explain my thoughts on the subject&#8230; God is an omniscient [...]]]></description>
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