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	<description>pastoral musings of an ignorant man</description>
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		<title>Not Southern Enough</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/02/21/not-southern-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers-that-be in Southern Baptist life have decided and will recommend that the convention retain its original name: Southern Baptist Convention.  However, they will also recommend for those less inclined to, hindered by or offended by the word &#8220;Southern&#8221; to use the alternative moniker &#8220;Great Commission Baptists.&#8221;  The chairman of the task force considering the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marvelous, Infinite, Matchless Grace</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/02/20/marvelous-infinite-matchless-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been waiting a long time to read something like the following selections from Tullian Tchividjian&#8217;s book Jesus + Nothing = Everything.  Of course, regular immersion in Scripture will lead to the same conclusions, but you never know what you&#8217;ll run across in some downtime reading. Expressing his disdain for &#8220;accountability groups&#8221; Tchividjian writes, &#8220;All parties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trials and the Church are Teammates</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/02/06/trials-and-the-church-are-teammates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colossians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[James]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect  (Gk. teleios) result, so that you may be perfect (Gk. teleios) and complete, lacking in nothing&#8221; (James 1.2-4). &#8220;And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is God in Hell?</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/01/23/is-god-in-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently perused a popular church&#8216;s doctrinal statement, in which the article on &#8220;Eternity&#8221; read: &#8220;Man was created to exist forever.  He will exist either eternally separated from God by sin or in union with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is Hell.  To be eternally in union with Him is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church is Messed Up&#8230;For Now.</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/01/11/the-church-is-messed-up-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/01/11/the-church-is-messed-up-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Church Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pastoral Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the church.  Jesus died for her (Eph 5.2, 25) and it&#8217;s good to love those for whom Jesus died.  But she is one messed-up group of people, in large part because I am one messed-up person. Jesus gave himself up for the church not because of who the church was but because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate Sin?  Prove it!</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2012/01/10/hate-sin-prove-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Meditations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[righteousness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord&#8221; (Rom 5.21). It&#8217;s stock language in the Christian life that we&#8217;re to &#8220;hate sin&#8221; and &#8220;kill sin.&#8221;  Sin is indeed an interloper in the Christian soul, a squatter in the Spirit-indwelled heart.  Because of Christ, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preaching Dangerously</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/12/01/preaching-dangerously/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/12/01/preaching-dangerously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pastoral Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And all [in the synagogue] were speaking well of [Jesus], and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from his lips&#8221; (Lk 4.22a-b). &#8220;And all in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things; and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross Your T</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/11/28/cross-your-t/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/11/28/cross-your-t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[repentance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference one letter makes!  Repentance is one &#8220;t&#8221; away from wholesale gospel distortion.  Without its &#8220;t&#8221; repentance is re-penance, which is often what we consider repentance to be.  However, repentance is not repeated penance,  but one&#8217;s change of mind toward sin and its empty promise of life eternal. What we often demand from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeYoung on Da&#8217; Young</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/11/03/deyoung-on-da-young/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/11/03/deyoung-on-da-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marriage & Family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Gospel Coalition published yet another great post from the insightful and provocative Kevin DeYoung.  Entitled &#8220;Dude, Where&#8217;s Your Bride?&#8221;, the article addresses what DeYoung considers a paucity of marriagable Christian men.  This trend, as DeYoung cites, is part of the larger trend among all men.  There is simply a generation of men without &#8220;substance&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers and Megaphones</title>
		<link>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/10/24/whispers-and-megaphones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bjmaxwell.com/2011/10/24/whispers-and-megaphones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bjmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Meditations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[encouragement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.  But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called &#8216;Today,&#8217; so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  For we have become [...]]]></description>
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