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		<title>Moved to a new location&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your hope of fulfillment should be centered in God alone.  When you see any good in yourself, then, don&#8217;t take it to be your very own, but acknowledge it as a gift from God.  On the other hand you may be sure that any evil you do is always your own and you may safely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=587&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Enjoy the Sunset</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For let not the sun,&#8221; says he, &#8220;go down upon your wrath.&#8221; Would you have your fill of anger? One hour, or two, or three, is enough for you; let not the sun depart, and leave you both at enmity. It was of God&#8217;s goodness that he rose: let him not depart, having shone on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=582&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are in the Paschal season &#8211; the time between Christ&#8217;s triumphant resurrection and Pentecost.  It is fitting to remember what occurred during this time among the apostles and the disciples of Christ.  My thanks to Handmaid Leah for posting this quote on her blog, Christ is in Our Midst! “What we have heard, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=575&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[As iron, or lead, or gold, or silver, when cast into the fire is freed from that hard consistency which is natural to it, being changed into softness, and so long as it continues in the fire, is still dissolved from its native hardness &#8212; after the same manner the soul that has renounced the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=571&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[But again, if one is a man of violence, is this a matter of necessity? Yes, he will say, because his passion carries him away, and burns within him, and does not let the soul be at rest. Man, to act with violence is not the effect of anger, but of littleness of mind. Were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=564&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baptism &#8211; Not Just Symbolism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ did not die instead of us, so that we would not have to die. He died for us, so that we could die with Him, and in dying with Him, have life. His is the only death that leads to life. Our death, our dying to sin, apart from His, does not lead to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=546&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abased and Abound</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More from John Chrysostom and his homilies on Philippians: For I have learned, says he, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. Wherefore, this is an object of discipline, and exercise, and care, for it is not easy of attainment, but very difficult, and a new thing. In whatsoever state I am, says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=526&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I looked up a church website to find something and was startled by what I saw.  It was difficult to know if I was looking at a church website or the home page of a local chamber of commerce.  I wondered if other churches were doing the same thing with their websites [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=514&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gain and Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s back to the homilies of John Chrysostom. I&#8217;ve been reading through his sermons on Philippians. John&#8217;s audience included many of the very wealthy and materialistically-minded of Constantinople.  I think you will be surprised at the relevance to today&#8217;s Western Christians, 1600 years later. The excerpt below is a discourse on Philippians 3:7 where Paul [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nlong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2408787&amp;post=498&amp;subd=nlong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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