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		<title>Deep Lent</title>
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I&#8217;ll just say I hated the text this week.  It was harsh and rough, and I couldn&#8217;t escape it.  Everything I read to prepare for preaching just lead deeper into the heart of repentance.  Everything lead to heart rending stories.   A better preacher would have been more winsome.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/03/10/deep-lent/</link>
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		<title>Jerusalem, Jerusalem&#8230;</title>
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&#8230;The father desires for all His children to be under that protecting wing.  That protecting wing that has taken care of and planned out all the necessities.  All the ultimate necessities – our sin which separated us from the Father that prevented us from being gathered, the death that results from that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/03/10/jerusalem-jerusalem/</link>
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		<title>True Story</title>
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&#8230;That lostness in our culture.  The fragmentation and the pain caused by it.  The anxiousness and distrust and conflict.  Understandable – we’ve misplaced God’s story.
But today, and this season of Lent, are your chance to reclaim it.  Find who you are in God’s story.  You are a chosen person. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/03/10/true-story/</link>
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		<title>Staying Awake &#8211; the role of Prayer and Transfiguration</title>
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&#8230;But, isn’t Peter’s experience a little like our prayer life most of the time.  We’ve been sleeping.  Not paying too much attention to the wonders and sorrows around us.  More concerned about filling our bellies, amusing away the time and getting a good night’s sleep.  But then something changes…really quick. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/03/10/staying-awake-the-role-of-prayer-and-transfiguration/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual, not religious&#8230;exactly the wrong attitude?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article by Mr. Charles Blow in the New York Times is an interesting article that confirms a longer running idea in kids or young adult ministry.  I can remember 12 years ago when the catch phrase was mystery.  Youth didn&#8217;t like &#8220;religion&#8221;, but they dug that mystery.
The opening story of the young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/02/22/spiritual-not-religious-exactly-the-wrong-attitude/</link>
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		<title>Serving Two Masters, or the Case of the Missing Moral Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article from the WSJ is not surprising but eye opening.  The jumping off point is President Obama meeting with the Dalai Lama and the Chinese response.
But China&#8217;s angry response to the news that Mr. Obama will meet with the Tibetan spiritual leader tomorrow in Washington goes straight to the point. &#8220;If the U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/02/17/serving-two-masters-or-the-case-of-the-missing-moral-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Teaching the Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article reviewing a split perception of what &#8220;Catholic&#8221; Universities do to the faith of their Catholic charges.
The money quote&#8230;
The CARA report now suggests that Catholics at non-Catholic schools tend to fare worse as far as fidelity and practice goes. But the larger issue is that Catholic higher education simply can&#8217;t bear all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/02/12/teaching-the-faith/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s standing next to you?</title>
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&#8230;The real epiphany is not that God is the creator or that his Word is active and has power, but that He is right here with us.  That God comes to be with us.  And he says stop being afraid.  Even if we didn’t get confused about God having authority or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/02/10/whos-standing-next-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Bible Translation and situation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I probably should not add this, but I&#8217;m going to write it anyway.  Read Luke 5:1-11 in your favorite translation.  When I was translating the lessons for the week what I see is a very funny moving to a very serious situation.  I want to focus on Luke 5:5, Simon&#8217;s answer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/02/03/bible-translation-and-situation/</link>
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		<title>Masculine Virtues in Religion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is from Rod Dreher and takes its jumping off point from an evangelical church that is holding mixed martial arts (MMA) viewing/fight nights.  The Fight Club for Jesus title is kind of funny, but the larger point is not just to ridicule the impulse.  Rod takes the efforts as good faith actions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saintmarkslutheran.org/2010/02/03/masculine-virtues-in-religion/</link>
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