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		<title>God&#8230;&#8230;Why?</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/god-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I watched a video. A few Middle Eastern natives were watching it across the table from me. One of the guys himself was Syrian. All I heard was screaming, gun shots and fear. I asked them what it was about, he replied with sorrow, &#8220;Syrian&#8217;s are being shot left and right for their protests.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=175&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relishing the Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God says, &#8220;I know the plans that I have for you, they are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope. He goes further onto say, &#8221; For in those days when you pray, I WILL listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you WILL find me. I WILL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=132&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let the Fire Die</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/dont-let-the-fire-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For, finally, remember this&#8211;that a personal religion which remains individualistic and unshared soon loses its own freshness and glow and certainty; whereas a faith which goes forth witnessing confirms itself, and gathers strength and vigor and momentum. To go on holding your peace, when good good tidings are in your heart, is eventually to reach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=125&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year and a Chapped Lip</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/new-year-and-a-chapped-lip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for the past week or so I have had this chapped bottom lip. The kind thats penetrated past the first layer of the lip right down to the nerves. I&#8217;ve used several different chap-sticks and they only solve the pain and the dry little sucker for some time. Though I haven&#8217;t necessarily gone out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=107&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that light was the light of men. The light shines in darkness, but the darkness has not understood it… The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world… He was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=104&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Un-dragoned</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/un-dragoned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my 20th birthday God gave me the gift of meeting me where I was, God gave me an altar in my apartment hall, but best of all God has forgiven me. For the past three months I&#8217;ve done everything I could to be less than what I am, in the best way I could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=96&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Commodities pt. 1</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/human-commodities-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers. Insofar as we acquiesce in that replacement, we gradually but surely regress in our identity, for we end up thinking of ourselves and dealing with others in marketplace terms: everyone we meet is either a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=90&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renewing Our Passion for God</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/renewing-our-passion-for-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once  in a while a passage jumps out and stops us dead in our tracks, speaking the truth we need to hear. This passage I came across in Eugene Peterson&#8217;s book Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places is one such passage for me. I was speechless after I read it. &#8220;The Christian community is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=88&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this little excerpt on another post today and thought it was worth re-posting. It&#8217;s simple, yet pretty meaningful and profound because it runs against te tide of what we would consider leadership in our Western culture. Leaders should not seek power or status; people will not then crave power or status. If scarce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=84&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isaiah 6</title>
		<link>http://theraggedsaint.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/isaiah-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraggedsaint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8248091&amp;post=79&amp;subd=theraggedsaint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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