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<title>Steve Wickham - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Steve Wickham is a Registered Safety Practitioner (BSc, FSIA, RSP [Australia]) and a qualified, unordained Christian minister (GradDipBib&Min). His passion in vocation is facilitation and coaching; encouraging people to soar to a higher value of their potential. His specific passion is divining the issues of life balance and purpose and re-creating value for living toward the discovery of the spiritual person within each of us, toward our transcendent selves. As an advocate for a fair, right and just life, he has a passion for biblical wisdom and the Psalms. A former youth worker, he is married and has three children ... ]]></description>
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<title>Love Thy Adversaries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our rapport with adversaries will create within us discomfort and the temptation of fight-or-flight. This discomfort and fight-or-flight experience is nothing, really, about the adversary at all; it's about us, and about how God has wired us. It's a vital fact to find, and to know, and to accept.]]></description>
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<title>Grace Never Fails</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:02:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is plenty of room for everybody. There is plenty of opportunity to go around. There is abundance enough for all people to feel fulfilled.]]></description>
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<title>Options - Are They A Blessing Or A Curse?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:38:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Options are okay... they're certainly not there to stress us out; but often we let them, because we don't want to let go of parts of more than one option - we want to hedge our bets. We want a bit of everything that's on offer. We even speed up our lives in order to not miss out. The irony is in seeking to gain we lose. Options, converse to how we see them, are actually a means to freedom-of-choice.]]></description>
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<title>Reconciling Sin, Guilt and Shame</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:38:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sin is a problem for everyone, but it presents a particular problem for Christians in the form of guilt and, to a lesser extent, shame. Despite the fact of grace - the unconditional forgiveness of sin - we will still struggle with memory for our past sin, thought of our present sin, machinations of the sins of our future, as well as contemplation for the price of our sin; no matter how much we are told we are forgiven there is still thought, occasionally, for what our sins might cost us at Judgment.]]></description>
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<title>The Ultimate Answer for Worldly Fear</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:38:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Life, frankly, has to be more than existence; more important than death, isolation, meaning, and freedom. The fact that we are here for but a short time - in comparison to eternity - should stand as its own evidence. There is more to life than this life, and there is more to life than quality within this life.]]></description>
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<title>Have Thine Own Way, Lord!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:37:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Experiences of God have their way of making the experience of life special, wondrous, meaningful, and even terrifying - amongst myriad others. Singing a hymn with several nonagenarians, recently, took me to that place; God's Spirit impressed upon me, transforming my languidness into a freshened gait of spiritual delirium.]]></description>
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<title>It's Not Over Until It's Over</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:37:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people give up on a project, a phase, or life prematurely. They may sense, or even predict, the end, but the end has not come until it's come. Let us resolve now not to give up BEFORE we're tempted to.]]></description>
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<title>Love In A World of Conflict</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:37:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love is what we all seek: the most generic form of harmony, which for ease of understanding we'll call "love," to ensure our passage through life is as meaningful and dignified as possible. There is, however, a nemesis: conflict. Such dissonance comes in many forms, in numerous ways, and at varying times. The presence of conflict impacts on our trust; but love rebuilds broken trust.]]></description>
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<title>Creating Happiness Now</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The straightest line is the most direct way of achieving a result: to create happiness. All of this is a matter of intent because, though such a bold and magnanimous gesture may in some ways be flawed, there is nothing much to lose and so much more to gain. Those who resolve be happy will find it, eventually. And their happiness is benevolence for others in their path; those in the corridor of their ripple.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 96 - LORD Over All Creation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:36:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This Psalm is not limited to the particular authorship of one writer; it is, rather, a beautifully composed song of praise for the coming kingdom of the LORD. It is found building from local concern - a charge for the Israelites - to the Gentile concern, before it decrees the universal Sovereignty of the LORD.]]></description>
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<title>Winning Our Well-Being</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:36:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Winning our well-being is securing peace, joy, and grace, simultaneously. We may have had it. It can be won, again. That state of mind and condition of heart centres on our desire - will we work for it?]]></description>
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<title>When the Warning Bell Tolls</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:35:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The opportunist will take such a prospect and open the imagination to what is needed. The partner that is deaf to the toll of that bell, however, stands to lose that love; as if two ships passing silently in the night.]]></description>
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<title>A House in the Heavens</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:34:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thoughts of heaven soothe the psyche because there is a hope ahead we can't quite grasp. It will be truly wondrous compared with how we can imagine it. The perfect community, heaven will feature the absence of any form of sin. There we will be completely safe, completely free, and completely whole.]]></description>
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<title>Abiding the Word of God</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:15:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The commonest threat toward sin plaguing believers everywhere, and throughout history, is the human-created God. The rank importance of aligning our lives to the radical but truth-filled biblical plumbline is set forth...]]></description>
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<title>Turning Jonah's Four Weaknesses Into Strength</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jonah experienced the weaknesses of fear, failure, feelings, and frustration. We do too. We can learn a lot from, and be encouraged by, Jonah's humanity. Be balanced in fear. Accept failure and move on. Perform despite feelings. Patiently endure frustrations.]]></description>
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<title>Jesus' Greatest Conversion Story</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:19:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oh, the majesty of God to convert a sinner convinced of their righteousness to the Righteousness made self-evident in the light of their sin. They fall before their holy God! This is the story of a man, Saul, who became Paul.]]></description>
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<title>Quelling Anxiety's Overwhelming Power</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:02:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Creeping, crawling anxiety presents as an issue for no apparent reason, rearing its ugly head at both opportune and inopportune times, indiscriminately. It suggests we have less control over ourselves and our circumstances than we'd readily desire or settle for; it seems provocative in nature - like, "Now I'm here, what are you going to do with me?" The ball seems to be in our court but we can't see where the ball is. Quelling the power in anxiety is about what we do with the provocative element.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 78 - Historic Instruction of Israel</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:34:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Parables teach us if we listen in enough to learn. Jesus used parables to sort the true learner from the proud religious. We can and should learn a lot from history; we should carry this history forward as it has been carried forward to us. We can learn something from any message, any sermon, any lecture. When we drink with an insatiable thirst in our learning, seeking God every way we can, blessing, not just knowledge, is our gain.]]></description>
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<title>Love and the Irrelevancy of Division</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:35:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is no divine or human reason to set up, or maintain, divisions. As the LORD is a Threefold Community of One, we too are made to enjoy community as one. Division is the concept of the flesh; union in the concept of the Spirit.]]></description>
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<title>Stuck Between Warring Friends</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:49:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is a reprehensible social situation requires grace, courage, and wisdom. To be stuck between warring friends is no desirable circumstance. Our discipline will help us to resist interfering, to maintain safe boundaries, but also ensure our availability for each in their real need.]]></description>
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<title>The True Believer's Prayer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Within the Christian faith there is often much a ruckus about nuances of theology, flavours of doctrine, and variants of the way to 'true' discipleship. Whoever is right, and whoever is wrong - especially on debates, ethical - perhaps only God will know in the end. What is maybe a sad post-modern view is true to the extent of one thing: When we battle over doctrine we forget grace.]]></description>
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<title>Embracing the New You</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:42:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Isn't it strange how people comment indifferently regarding a new hairstyle, the weight we've lost, or a new regime we've committed to. It's natural that other people find change in us disarming, possibly threatening. They are used to a set 'version' of us and ideas for change are not universally, or instantly, accepted. Their reticence is no reason to feel insulted or to cast a shadow over the change we've decided for. Agreeing to live with this tension introduces us to a concept of change most fundamental. We need to have faith in ourselves enough to believe our vision so we can have a fighting chance of achieving it.]]></description>
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<title>When Love Is Anxious</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:42:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not all anxiety is bad. Love is a good example; it creates anxiety for all the right reasons. When we love, a life-enriching anxiety is born and that lifts relationships. It has its basis in care and compassion and patient nurturing. As a parent is often anxious for their child, love is anxious for all the right reasons.]]></description>
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<title>Love in Two Words</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:14:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love in a practical world can be distilled down to two words. When we say 'please' and 'thank you' - and mean them - we exemplify love. When we don't mean them we betray respect and, therefore, lose trust. It's best that we feel pleased and thankful.]]></description>
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<title>The 'Get Out' Clause</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:24:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An open mind considers all angles when situations are despairing. It doesn't reject thought of the 'get out' clause. Merely having it in our arsenal is empowering. We use it when we have to. Getting out can be both wise and life-saving.]]></description>
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<title>Isaiah 6 - Awestruck, Then Transformed</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:24:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Encounters of God are, by their nature, redemptive: the encounter produces awe within us, present before such holiness; we confess and renounce our sin; in that we worship. Immediately, we are saved. Then we are sent to serve God. No one can truly encounter God and not be transformed unto new life. God changes things, every time.]]></description>
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<title>Forgiveness and Freedom for Today</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:24:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The most vital truth presented before us is this: today is all we have; yesterday, and within it, the conflicts and unresolved tensions, is actually unreal. They no longer exist except in our minds and flailing hearts.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 85 - When Hope Wins Over Despair</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:23:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This Psalm is enclosed within the communal setting; the community, perhaps in the exilic sense, sits in the in-between place, recalling the grace of God in having saved their ancestors (verses 1-3), but not having yet realised such deliverance themselves (verses 7-9). Choosing faith opens our minds to what God can do. Nothing is impossible for God.]]></description>
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<title>Living By Salvation's Light</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:23:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It bears considering, salvation has not rectified the desires of the flesh, and a conscious effort by believers to put on Christ is ordered so that we might live according to the promise. This is a commitment to live the new way each and every day, until the Day. Putting on Christ is striving to live like the person of Jesus.]]></description>
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<title>What The Past Says About The Future</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:22:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is one of the vast beauties of life that, though we are destined to make mistakes, to fall short, the past is no set recipe for the future. We either accept our pasts, using it to massage our futures, or we don't accept it, and go 180 degrees in the other direction. Truly, our past is no prison keeping us from accessing the future we desire.]]></description>
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<title>Upholding the Sacredness of Life</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:22:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being in the lap of the will of God is a state of human destiny both elusive yet captivating. We are destined, due to the Fall, to struggle to achieve it, nonetheless we cannot escape the drive to actualise ourselves in a moral universe.]]></description>
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<title>Love and the Hatred Boomerang</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:14:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[God's Word tells us that every person is precious; a child of God. No matter their background, the colour of their skin, their sexual orientation, their religious or political preference, God loves them as much as anyone. Where, really, does hate fit? Simply, it doesn't and never did.]]></description>
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<title>Pleasant Abominations For The Heart</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:05:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The human conundrum is a riddle without answer, barring the LORD. Our nature is enigmatic and we can't work it out without God. Our sin is a mystery to us that we can't unravel devoid of the ALMIGHTY. As is explained by the process of Bunyan, herein, God gives us trials of the heart, abominations to our pride and self-sufficiency, in order that those very things will drive us back to Divine Good.]]></description>
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<title>Thankfulness, Joy and Gratitude Abounding</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:23:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remembrance is the divine quality that is gifted to all, though most, most of the time, don't avail themselves to it. We forget too often what we already know, and because we already know it, but don't make the effort to reconcile these memories, we miss the blessing that was destined for us - a divine linkage: thankfulness, joy, and then, gratitude.]]></description>
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<title>The King of Kings' Endurance</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:21:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The most inspirational act in the history of humankind was The Passion of Christ. This is a story not of defeat for one man, but of victory for all others. That he was crushed for our iniquities ensured we could be made whole. It is the definition of endurance; one for us to model ours on.]]></description>
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<title>Putting Our Focus On Trial</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:26:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Putting our focus on trial is evaluating where we put our time and effort; some of which may be wasted. Wasted time equals wasted effort and it takes us further from life satisfaction; further from joy. The more focused our lives are the more empowered, and happier, we will be.]]></description>
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<title>When Betrayal Is Bitter Satisfaction</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:48:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With some sort of sadistic annoyance we take that chalice of pain, embodied by betrayal, and we turn it into a vengeful path toward action intended to teach lessons; the person bitterly satisfied in their betrayal is one not to cross. So much of love that started in the best vein ends in the vitriolic state; the rancorous partner, until this time pleasantly dormant, when wronged, becomes Mount Vesuvius.]]></description>
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<title>God's Grace Is Abounding - When We Are Forgiven Already</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:51:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recalling visions from the Lord, I correspond with the sentiment above; one such time, in seeking forgiveness, I had the compelling revelation that the face of Jesus looked at me in bemusement - why should I be seeking forgiveness when my repentance had already redeemed it? God's abounding grace is like that; the redemptive act is lightning quick, even present eternally. It may be seen as an undercurrent through life wherever penitence, the attitude of remorse, is fervent and prevailing.]]></description>
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<title>Fighting The Fear In Bravado</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:07:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Especially in men, but growing also within women, is the bravado of falsity revealing an unmanaged fear - as if flouting what is truthful about life will be an appropriate response. Of course, it isn't and can never be.]]></description>
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<title>Calm In All Circumstances</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:26:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If it is possible to pray and be thankful in all circumstances, it is also possible to be interminably calm. Such a state takes the presented moment entirely as it is - in truth - and it promises itself no scope for panic, self-consciousness, fear, or otherwise. Even in the midst of inexplicable anxiety, it rises above and redeems strength from the Spirit beyond itself. All this is done by deliberate faith; an act of the will.]]></description>
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<title>When Love Just Isn't Enough</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is downright confusing; whilst we may love someone, we cannot still - for matters of abuse or neglect - remain in the relationship. Ending something like this requires much thought, and compassion, for the other partner. Whilst some grief may be well-developed, some others' is only just now about to start.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 110 - Hail The Priest King</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:33:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It could very well be the king of Psalms; it is every bit messianic and a piece of Scripture that calls long past David to, in fact, Jesus. It is the most quoted and referred-to psalm in the New Testament. This Psalm combines two key parts of the Threefold Office of the Lord Jesus Christ: the roles of Priest and King are conjointly affixed in divine prophecy. (The other part of the Threefold Office is Jesus' role as Prophet.)]]></description>
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<title>Life IS What It HAS Become</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:23:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Truly the most blessed life has come to peace about itself. Salvation, in the practical sense, has been realised when one life has seen a vision of what it can become, from a platform of where it currently is. Peace, hope, and joy envelop the soul at home in itself.]]></description>
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<title>The Spiritual Commodity of Abundance</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:19:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Proof of the only true abundance is this - material abundance is fleeting. It lasts the majority of wealthy families, besides royalty and dynasties, less than 100 years - the equivalent of three generations. There is a better wealth to be gleaned from life; a wealth of true prosperity. It is the spiritual commodity of abundance.]]></description>
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<title>The Best and Worst of Love</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:09:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love brings out our best and worst. The best is couched in honesty, advancing trust and respect. The worst is characterised by deceit and it's a warning for betrayal. In love we best lead lightly, cautiously treading, caring uniquely for the both of us.]]></description>
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<title>Finding Time To Reflect</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:24:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It proves difficult for most of us, sown deeply into our lives, managing our relationships, busy doing the doing, to find the time to reflect - to redeem the peace that is eternally available. Indeed, we can even begin to entertain the belief that such a peace might be unattainable for us ever again. But, finding time to reflect is making time to do something that doesn't, at this time, promise repayment, but inevitably will.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 115 - Devoted To Follow God</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:24:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This Psalm, a most important Hallel Psalm, for it was the one Jesus and the disciples sung immediately prior to venturing out to the Mount of Olives (Matthew 26:30), finds its place in the haranguing of a believer in the company of idol worshippers dispelling the power and presence of the living God. It contrasts the Almighty God with useless human-made idols that the mockers, back then, placed their faith in. It is a Psalm of allegiance: of commitment to praise, and to follow, the LORD.]]></description>
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<title>Finding Emotional Rest</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:23:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Particularly pertaining to experiences of grief and adjustment, the need to escape the heightened rollercoaster emotions every now and again is real. Grief, being a process with no certain path or endpoint, needs such a relief valve - to take a necessary rest from the unsustainable burden.]]></description>
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<title>Enjoying the Vital Freedoms of Marriage</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:23:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A tenuous balance known to love affords the space that marital partners enjoy in living life together, as an intimate couple, as well as having their separate lives. Such a balance is crucial for marital survival and, indeed, growth.]]></description>
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<title>No Eye Has Seen, Nor Ear Heard</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:23:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dwight L. Moody once preached a sermon entitled, "Hell," where he related the illustration of a man many times so close to salvation, yet he died resigned to the fact he was going to hell; that he was beyond saving. Nothing the famous pastor could do would change his mind for accepting Christ. The fear that his peers may have laughed at him for becoming Christian was this man's perennial stumbling block. He desperately wanted Christ, but the approval of men, more. What has frustrated evangelists the world over is, some can never quite see, nor hear, nor conceive what God has prepared for them - the gift of knowledge of the Spirit of God - A Simple Gift.]]></description>
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<title>The Receptivity of Worship</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:23:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our highest calling is the worship of the living God - in Spirit and in truth - such that we might not simply give our Lord blessings of praise and thanksgiving, but that we may receive his abundance of grace, to every walk of life that amounts to our being. Yet, there is much confusion regarding motive for worship; we may desire deeply within us to give back to God, but unless we are prepared to receive, our worship will be pointless. We will have nothing to give if we cannot receive.]]></description>
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<title>More Than Conquerors Through Christ</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:22:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a supreme victory the victor gains ground forever indisputable. They have rights permanently fixed. There is peace to the defined requirements of their need. And there is also much safety - the full realisation of hope, notwithstanding any imagined or actual threat. This describes the Kingdom: the kingdom of God.]]></description>
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<title>Encountering God</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:22:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[That there is a system in place to check, and control, our way in this world, and that no one is beyond such a system, reveals a divine order sacrosanct to life itself. We are here, at this time, in this place, by no accident.]]></description>
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<title>Living the 'This Is Me' Dream</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:21:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we accept ourselves, and offer our world the same deal, accepting all their responses with unreserved grace, we are living the dream. If God accepts us, and unconditionally so, who is the person to us that doesn't?]]></description>
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<title>Sowing Seeds of Love In Faith</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:21:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don't underestimate the value of small things said and done. Everyone has the ability and motive to reflect. Sow seeds in love, in tolerance, in patience, all in faith. Making a difference in real lives is done in small, albeit never insignificant ways.]]></description>
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<title>The Nearness of God</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:20:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Could it be we're making the search more onerous than it needs to be? Our Lord hides in such a way so as to be found by those who earnestly seek him; he remains hidden to all others.]]></description>
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<title>Expecting and Surviving Disagreement</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:29:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are some relational situations - with family, friends, or colleagues, even acquaintances - where, no matter how much we try and convince them regarding our sensibly reasoned rationale, it will not be acceptable to them. Yet, though it remains unresolved, it's not necessarily a problematic conflict...]]></description>
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<title>Cosmically Alone With God</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:57:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One thing that stands between us, as persons, and the truth regarding life is we are cosmically alone in this world and in eternity - alone with God. We came into this world alone and alone we shall leave it - from our Maker we came and to our Maker we will go; into Divine possession again, yet, strangely, we never really left.]]></description>
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<title>The Shelter of the LORD</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:25:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we are seduced by a feel-good Christianity that serves no purpose at all in lauding God to the ends of face-down devotion. The church, it seems, has many apostates proffering the message of cheap grace - a one-sided, glorious salvation with little emphasis on Judgment. It is easy to understand; it's an unpopular message.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 101 - The Prayer of Recommitment</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:38:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recommitting to God empowers faith by our sincerity combined with God's grace. The power within grace will not delay - and it is great, that power! New life flourishes amid recommitment.]]></description>
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<title>Nurturing the Voice of Compassion</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:18:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How much better it is to sidestep hurt by simply finding the hurt that originated the hurt in the first place. So much anger is motivated by unreconciled hurt below the consciousness. Hence, our compassion feels for that distance of intimacy an angry person has with themselves. How could we be hurt when we know we are not the real source of their anger?]]></description>
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<title>The Spirit's Gentle Whispers - Part 1</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:57:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stay close to the middle. Humanity has a way of straying from the path of wise accord. It's good to remember this, daily, moment by moment.]]></description>
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<title>Building the Storehouse of Love</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:45:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Responding well in life is principally reliant on the mode of love. Building our storehouses of love is about developing appropriate responses and learning from our inappropriate responses, all the while having the grace to accept our present best.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Safety - Watching For Confidence Tricksters</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:24:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I recall as a child keenly looking through the letterbox in the hope for a letter addressed to me; for some meaningful correspondence that might satisfy my yearning for connection. That same need continues in me today; I'd venture to say most reading this now have that same yearning - to be found special enough to others that they would want to connect... And this innate motivation, one that's possibly not identified at the level of our awareness, is one precise detail that scams and confidence tricksters play on.]]></description>
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<title>Your Capability IS Your Confidence</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:12:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is reasonable to doubt our abilities, but where we have proven our capability to do something we should not doubt our ability to do it again. Our capability is our confidence.]]></description>
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<title>Maximising Your Next 15 Minutes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:11:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Distilling life down into the next 15-minute chunk of existence is the power to achieve something small yet significant, or it goes toward the achievement of something larger. It creates focus, enthusiasm, passion; we redeem encouragement. As the mode for living life, one word describes it: Power - to achieve.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 66 - God Has Listened To, And Answered, Prayer</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:10:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To the redemptive genre this psalm belongs. The exhilarated mood of the psalmist ripples throughout as they consider what they've been brought through. Proof of God is never more poignant than through the answering of prayer - especially that which is bellowed from the depths of Sheol.]]></description>
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<title>The Distances of Intimacy</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:24:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The distances of intimacy are to our advantage so long as others will allow and we have the ability and mindfulness to reflect and move in the direction we wish to... Intimacy is a thing we are rewarded with due the effort we put in. Intimacy and trust cannot grow without sustained commitment, as seen via the mode of action.]]></description>
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<title>Listing the Let Goes</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:17:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our biggest problems are the things we hold onto. We can let go of these anytime; God has promised to help us. Letting go is a universal and constant human need. There is no shame in it; only liberation of spirit. Claim freedom: let go.]]></description>
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<title>Not Expecting Too Much From People</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:37:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are happiest in our human world when we pleasantly accept the fallibility of the people around us because we are continuously reminded of our own fallibility. We understand none of us can help it, though we try hard; sometimes too hard. With low expectations of them as persons we ensure we give people plenty of space to fail and, therefore, to feel they belong.]]></description>
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<title>Why Hard Work Beats Raw Talent Any Day Of The Week</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:18:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a great and worthy encouragement for all humankind; for the person, particularly, with a healthy innate desire but is short on so-called talent. And we have all derided the person, who, having their talent, squandered their opportunities that come precious rarely to others. It is why, moreover, we have come to admire those with both talent and diligence - true champions in any field.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 65 - Song of Joy for God's Blessings</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:09:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Psalms like this brighten our darkest mood. They furnish the soul with life-giving buoyancy when otherwise we are sinking. They engage our hearts for passion and joy, replacing dolour and numbness, even for one relieving moment. God speaks through them, singing to our hearts: the Song of Salvation.]]></description>
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<title>Hope When You're Broke</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:09:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Few life circumstances cripple our hope more than the capitulation of our finances; the loss of good paying work, uncertainty, reliance on piecework, and much debt. All these and more will get us down, and down we might stay, except for a vibrant hope that sits somewhere amongst the truth.]]></description>
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<title>Achieving Simplicity of Flow</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:08:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants peace - true, vibrant, reassuring, inner peace. There are few better ways there than through the achievement of simplicity of flow: true, confident decisiveness based firmly in faith that life is being lived on purpose. Peace is our reward.]]></description>
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<title>Believing God Authored The Bible</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:08:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can we agree that, though Moses, the Prophets, and the Apostles etc wrote the Bible, God is its author? That is John Calvin's thesis. It is a thesis shared by much of the Christian world, though there might always be a significant number of believers who cannot fathom God actually authoring anything through human writing. Their faith may be in God, but it's not in doctrine. But such a believing premise falls flat. The reason for this lack of conceptualisation, according to John Calvin, is there has been no testimony of the Holy Spirit to that effect in these people.]]></description>
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<title>Doing and Achieving Things Together</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:07:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Helping my father with my parents' lawns each fortnight is one way of staying connected as well as ensuring important maintenance work is done - and completed in a way that is easier in accomplishment together than alone. Without a word said, we spur each other quietly on.]]></description>
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<title>Running the Race of Redemption</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:07:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Living life in, what I term, live time, is about understanding even a fragment of the scope and capacity of present time and our ability to act in it. We have been given this God-anointed Power to live and breathe and work and enjoy and love people. We have total freedom in that - freedom enough even to reject fanciful lifestyles in order to self-qualify for salvation living.]]></description>
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<title>A Friend - Born For Adversity</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:06:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Friendship can shatter the evils of loneliness and break holds constructed in our own minds; it warms the heart; and, it gives witness to faith - that love can redeem impossibility out of the jaws of death. Friendship: the gift of grace.]]></description>
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<title>Putting Something Aside For A Rainy Day</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6827808</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:40:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is generally thought to be a financial concept - to save for a rainy day - when finances may not flow so seamlessly as they do now - is just as much a spiritual concept; one for the protection of the emotions. How much better to know a grief-quickening circumstance could prevail any time; to be prepared, not morbidly, but wisely, for an impending dry time where the spirit is chastened and glee fizzles away.]]></description>
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<title>The Gospel Imperative of Overcoming Difficulty</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:48:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we see what is working in the midst of what is not, we see what we have to work with; what can be further honed. Our focus is acute and directed properly. We have filtered out all the destructive elements and our vision is forwardly situated.]]></description>
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<title>The Spirit's Motivating Voice</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6829381</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:13:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Spiritual Voice of the LORD: Otherwise a force that convicts us to act; any action besides the action convicted by the Spirit is probably forlorn because willpower without God's Power promises much but in the end delivers little. The Spirit's motivating Voice is generally inaudible other than what might be heard as a canticle to our hearts.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 118 - This Is The Day</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:46:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Psalm 118 is such a bright word brimming with confidence-building truth, but it is not without its testimony of distress. It commends to all who would read it: "This is the day that the LORD has made - let us rejoice and be glad in it."]]></description>
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<title>Isaiah 11 - The Peaceful Kingdom</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6825192</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:22:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This particular offering from Isaiah - the eleventh chapter - is no period piece of its own exclusive right, despite the melody of hope it would have rung for the Remnant. The Assyrian invasion would sweep through the land, but the remnant of Israel would be born again of salvation: the hope out of a branch; a new branch - the stump of Jesse - from which the Messiah would come.]]></description>
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<title>Sharpening Your Spiritual Game</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6822115</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:47:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The true spiritual life is an existence poised at the crossroads, not in indecision but for the spiritual rationale to ask, to seek, and to knock (Matthew 7:7). The crossroad is spiritual position 'A', because it resolves to stay on the ancient path; one that, in terms of time and space, is so dynamic, the path is lost the moment we go alone.]]></description>
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<title>Being Beyond Backsliding</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6824826</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:31:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What the book of Hebrews majors on, and what was a major theme in Christian spirituality in the First Century, is just as much an issue today: backsliding. Hebrews vacillates through warnings for disobedience and exhortations to go on in faith, beyond temptation to believe in old things, practice old practices, and turn backwards away from God.]]></description>
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<title>Respect's Rich Return on Investment</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6824472</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6824472</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:12:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Barbara has two teenage daughters and, like most parents, finds her role challenging though rewarding; recently she reflected that too often she causes her girls to feel guilty for the many thing she does for them. Then she resolved to do things without thought for thanks. She was later pleasantly surprised to receive an unsolicited note of thanks and apology in return for something she did. Her investment in respect was returned.]]></description>
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<title>Stop, Watch and Learn</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6824599</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:56:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To stop and watch the world in all its flurry of action is peace. Simply observing life in full flourish is nectar for learning. There is much to learn from others about ourselves. We can only learn when we stop and honestly reflect.]]></description>
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<title>The Courageous Resilience of Everyday Heroes</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6820791</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:34:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Resilience is a life choice, but it needs to be inspired. Let our inspiration be cast, then, upon the stories of everyday heroes and heroines who battled calamitous adversities and show us, today, getting through the depths of hell to a better life is achievable for anyone.]]></description>
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<title>Believing the Spoken Power in Prayer</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6822316</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6822316</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:53:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges any praying person is faced with is to believe without doubt. There are always intermittent times of doubt. Faith wouldn't be or require faith without it. But the prayer we can be sure is to be answered has been spoken deeply into our hearts - it has become our driving purpose.]]></description>
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<title>Enduring A Partner's Habits Gracefully</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6817944</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6817944</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:22:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Coffee is one of my last sensual loves of the physical taste variety, yet my wife loathes the smell of it - whether it's in the house or on my breath. Such a habit, however, hasn't caused any marital sticking points yet, though there are many habits that rock households in exasperation. (What is clearly not the scope of this article are habits of addiction.)]]></description>
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<title>Honouring Each Family Member's Identity</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/6816691</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:33:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There may be no better gift a family, and each of its members, can be given than the freedom to develop identity without coercion. Honouring the formation of identity is the greatest parental task; it's a key responsibility and a joy to behold as it is unveiled.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 75 - The Humble Will Rejoice Forever</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/6821908</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:22:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This psalm could just as easily be titled, The Boastful Will Be Judged... What more fundamental a theme could we find as an undercurrent through all divinity and Scripture than that of rebuke over boasting - the setting up of a personal exaltation? It is an abomination of the first degree; the replacement of God, against the First Commandment; the placement of one creation over the Creator.]]></description>
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<title>Is It Reasonable To Fear Death?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:12:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If there is even one finalising fear within a human being it is fear of death; so awesome a reality, no end of reflection will demystify it... fear of death manifests itself in so many ways, from the pain we might suffer, to uncertainty over eternity, to the finish of our lives, amongst a plethora of others. But, do we have anything to FEAR regarding death?]]></description>
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<title>Sharpening Your Emotional Game</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:01:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Controlling our emotions is the key to making the most of our moments in order that we retain a logical mind for making good decisions. When we feel in control of ourselves life is abundantly better; peace and joy abide.]]></description>
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<title>Why We Trust Liars and How Not To</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:38:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lying destroys relationships and leaves people hurt every day. Nobody wants to be betrayed and our lives move better when we trust people. Wisdom commends us to trust wisely and, when we do, without condition. There is, however, no obligation to trust dishonest people.]]></description>
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<title>Making the Best of Our Moments</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We wonder why we didn't make the most of the great moment had - a holiday or vacation time, the day off, a family reunion or such; we knew it then; it should've been enjoyed, but wasn't as much as we had hoped. And we know it now, if now is one of those moments we can't seem to grasp all the satisfaction out of. It's a tenuous thing, enjoying a pleasing moment to its fullest...]]></description>
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<title>The Deafening Silence Of Praise</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:22:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The shape of praise is formed by thankfulness; it might be considered the product of gratitude. Being thankful forms the ever-mouldable attitude of heart as it conjures thought for what might be praised. Praise and thankfulness, therefore, are a chicken-or-the-egg scenario; which comes first, and why, are irrelevant. They must just be entered into for the best of life to be achieved.]]></description>
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<title>Why Religious Intolerance Has No Place</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:23:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Intolerance has no place in the Christian's armoury of opinion. What people believe, regarding God or any other thing, is up to them. A Christian's love respects such a space as another person's belief-realm. That is the unconditional Christian premise.]]></description>
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<title>Psalm 143 - Hope In The Winter Place</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:58:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This psalm, the last of the seven penitential psalms, is found perfect for the disconsolate mood that is, also, home to the subdued heart of humbly honest reflection. In such a mood, we just read; allowing the words, the lines, and indeed the whole psalm, to seep into our spirits; God speaks... Patience is the practice driving the soul from the grips of oblivion into the hands of grace; and seeking the LORD, lifting our souls high to his stead, is the way there.]]></description>
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<title>Sharpening Your Mental Game</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:38:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we imagine all our actions are based on thoughts sent from the distribution centre (our minds) we can understand the supervisor (our decisions) giving approval to the truck (the action) leaving the warehouse and making its delivery...Sharpening our mental game is pausing to stop the process in full swing, to reflect for one logical moment, and to weigh our plans. We ask: is this the right thing to do; the right time; or, the right way?]]></description>
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