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	<description>Provoking Believers To Think Outside The Confines Of Religion</description>
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		<title>Brass and cymbals &#8211; When Love Is Not Present</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetEveryone remembers the dedicated, loyal and faithful member of the church, they are the ones that remind you of their loyalty, dedication and faithfulness, and the pastor reminds you too.  They never missed a prayer meeting, never missed a shut in, they wouldn&#8217;t be  caught dead in any place else on Sunday (but the church), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right There</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetThings can be very frustrating from time to time. It&#8217;s amazing how trials and difficulties seem to drive us from God and Prayer instead of to God in Prayer. It seems the guilt is overwhelming and that God is quite upset with us for not attending church and praying as we should. Believer, God is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place Of Refuge And Source Strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetWhile more and more people lose their jobs and the threat of unemployment looms on the horizon for many other, people are stressed and equally discouraged. What can one do and where does one turn in times like these? Churches seem to have their share of problems and it seems that even many believers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Salvation &#8211; Are You Saved?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is salvation?  Christian salvation has a few characteristics that seem universal - as far as I know.  Here are some thoughts on what salvation really is.]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Questions</title>
		<link>http://GoingAgainstTheGrain.org/tough-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, here is the twist, if we would study to show ourselves approved unto God, a workman that needs not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth ( 2 Timothy 2:15 ), you would have your answer and you probably would not need to ask.]]></description>
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		<title>Go Saints!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetI couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to root for the saints on this particular day. I realize that many of you might not be sports fans but I wanted to acknowledged the fact that we contend with many issues during the day but in the end we win and before it starts, we&#8217;ve won because of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to consider before speaking your mind.</title>
		<link>http://GoingAgainstTheGrain.org/things-to-consider-before-speaking-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetYou&#8217;ve heard it said countless times by many&#8230;&#8221;I speak my mind&#8230;&#8221; It&#8217;s like a badge of honor, if you don&#8217;t like what someone says, you speak what’s on your mind. So many free thinkers and out spoken people are passionate about speaking the truth (relative to them) about a matter. How unfortunate for those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silence of the&#8230;sheep.</title>
		<link>http://GoingAgainstTheGrain.org/the-silence-of-the-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some leaders are young, and what they do lack is experience, while it is true that many leader were called to their position and many were appointed by man and others just went into the ministry. People of God, you still have that spirit that God gave you and the Bible that you examine daily, use the both in your discernment and approach in simply encouraging someone to teach, speak and conduct themselves in the manner that exemplifies life in Jesus Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>How to please God.</title>
		<link>http://GoingAgainstTheGrain.org/how-to-please-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetThere are many articles and blogs on how to please God. How do I or you please God? As if God is angry and we need to  appease Him before being zapped.  Many time a sermon will be deliver with such emotion and intensity its as if Gods people are being scolded or reprimanded by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swerves, Broken Promises, a Forgotten Oath.</title>
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		<comments>http://GoingAgainstTheGrain.org/swerves-broken-promises-a-forgotten-oath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nlewis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leader of a prominent church had his motto quoted on his website; "Be faithful unto God and He will be Faithful unto you".  Faithful implies unswerving adherence to a person or thing or to the oath or promise by which a tie was contracted.]]></description>
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