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		<title>Islamization??</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/512</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started writing this blog, it was my goal to make it a part of my routine.  I have failed in that regard.  But failures are simply wonderful opportunities to start over and find success the second or the twentieth time around.  So here I go again with yet another attempt to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheila</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/429</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am still at the place where I want somebody to show up at my office and tell me that this was all a wonderful hoax from Sheila.  She thought it would be interesting to see what would happen if people thought she was no longer here.  I can see her bright eyes and ADHD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Calvinism!!??</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/389</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget Calvinism?  Now that ought to get your attention.  But the line addresses both a danger and a concern.  The concern is that some who read this blog would think that Calvinism is to be associated with a theological movement that emerged in the sixteenth century that was not present before that time.  Wrong.  Calvinism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perseverance of the Saints</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/387</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perseverance of the Saints is the final petal in the TULIP.  It is the one that brings focus to all the rest and it is the one to which many Arminians or Pelagians want to hold without holding onto the rest.  Some who call themselves Arminians mean by that simply that they believe in free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irresistible Grace</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/386</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/386#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a complete misunderstanding of this tenet of TULIP that would say that we cannot resist the grace of God.  Irresistible grace does not make us into pawns in the hands of a God who manipulates us however He wills to manipulate us.  Irresistible grace is simply on the one side the logical outcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Trips</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/385</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should a church do mission trips?  Well, I suppose the best answer is the biblical one and it is simply that a church going to others with the gospel of Jesus in locations other than their own backyard is the heart and soul of what missions really is all about.  A church that is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on the way to koffman cove</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/373</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just finished up a pot-luck lunch after the worship service here this morning.  Complete with fresh halibut and smoked salmon, the lunch was delicious.  You do not know how much I love salmon.  Anne and I eat a lot of salmon at our house, so much in fact that she asked me recently if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from Ketchikan</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/371</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello for Ketchikan, Alaska.  It is July 4, 2008 and I have just stood on the streets of this little town in Alaska composed of about six thousand and watched an old-fashioned, soul-stirring, makes me proud to be an American fourth of July parade.  The people in this little town are locked in by water, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Atonement</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/370</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am about to leave Thursday morning for Alaska.  I have no idea how much posting I will be able to do from our fifty-ninth state but I will try.  Please pray for the five members of our team and particularly on July 4 as we will that day be in the port city of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconditional Election</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/369</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsflash.  The Presbyterian Church USA which is the liberal wing of the Presbyterian Church has voted this weekend to allow homosexuals to be ordained as members of the clergy.  To accomplish this goal the group had to rewrite a part of its historic confession so as to eliminate from it clear biblical references to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A More In-Depth look at TULIP</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/368</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/368#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to begin our journey through TULIP with three caveats.  First, this acrostic represents a theological system which like other theological systems is an attempt to understand and put in perspective what is revealed in the Bible.  And like any other system, it has those who understand and articulate its tenets well and those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to TULIP</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/365</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/365#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to try over the next few blogs to give an accurate biblical and theological description of the theological themes found in the acrositc, TULIP.  Rememering that these themes emerge out of the writings of John Calvin and that they are rightly and wrongly understood by many Calvinists and often pushed to extremes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are a Calvinist</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/364</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/364#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You are a Calvinist,&#8221; the man said.  He was talking to me.  I have tried the last two days to remember who said that to me, but I can&#8217;t.  It is the good gift of God&#8217;s grace of forgetting.  If you do not yet have this spiritual gift, then keep getting older and God will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Hunt as President of the SBC</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/359</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/359#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnny Hunt who is the most excellent and highly esteemed pastor of the First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia was recently elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention.  I was elated, refreshed, and relieved.  You would have do know what his election really meant in order to know why I was feeling the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin, Calvinists and Hypercalvinists</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/358</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it make sense to you that if you want to know what Jesus said, you read what He said rather than reading some modern interpreter trying to tell us what Jesus said.  Or if I want to know what Paul proclaimed, then I had best spend time and invest energy in struggling to understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stung??</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/336</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/336#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 15:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me ask a ridiculous, silly, I already know the answer question.  Have you ever been stung?  Has something ever happened to you and it hurt deeply because of the source of the sting and the nature of the hurt?  We all have had this happen to us.  If you haven&#8217;t, your turn is coming.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to Chew on for the Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/335</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/335#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 21:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A book is not known by its cover; it is known by how long it hangs around as influential.  I guess that would make the Bible a pretty influential book, right?  Well, although I would like to chase that last sentence a bit, I want you to reflect with me on some themes in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Five</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/332</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok.  I am going to wrap-up in this time the final five keys to success.  Remember, I am certain that you do; that the first five are these:  know what your priorities are and fight to keep them fixed and focused; perspective on the various contexts in which you live and work; genuinely care for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up American Evangelicals</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/330</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/330#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Check me out on this with some historians who are far more knowledgeable here than I, but if you follow the flow of our history you will find that we trend about a generation if not a little less behind England particularly and Europe generally.  In other words, whatever is happening culturally in Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And More Keys to Success</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/319</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/319#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far in this post, I have talked about the keys of priority, perspective and people.  I want to turn in this entry to what some may quibble over as &#8220;playing politics&#8221; or &#8220;gaming,&#8221; but at the end of the day everybody who is successful in any endeavor, including ministry; finds this factor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Keys to Success</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/316</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/316#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first post on keys to success, I addressed the two issues of priorities and perspective.  Let me continue with the third issue:  People.  Whatever it is that you do, it is important that you care about people.  This issue is of particular importance in ministry.  One wag has written that the church would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keys to Success</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/315</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/315#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 20:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked recently to speak to a group of students who either we already in the early stages of ministry in the church or were headed in that direction.  My assignment was to talk to them about life in the real world of the church.  As I prayed and stewed over that subject, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various and Sundry Items</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/310</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man told me many years ago that one of the keys to life in the church is that we learn how to disagree without being disagreeable.  My understanding of that is simply that the first has to do with issues and concerns which are of importance to us while the second has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on &#8220;Family of Faith&#8221; First</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/299</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often think that I was born in the wrong era.  I love the era of the Reformation in the sixteenth century and the Puritans of the seventeent and eighteenth century.  One of the reasons that these two eras are so fascinating to me is that this discussion about family of faith and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family of Faith First??</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/292</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/292#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to spend some time exploring this whole idea of the family of faith taking priority over our own biological family.  Some of the words in the above sentence show some of the issues.  The sentence sets up a distinction between our family of faith and our own biological family.  Both the teaching of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Depression</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/276</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/276#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So many &#8220;diseases&#8221; have only come into being in the twentieth century, many of them, in fact; since the end of World War II.  It is very common for us to hear today about ADD, ADHD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Bipolar disorders etc. that have not been around for long.  Now I know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revival</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/273</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/273#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What a week! I must admit to you that coming into revival this week I had a keen sense that the church at 853 Liberty was already in the early stages of revival. We had seen such wonderful response in our FAITH ministry and particularly to the Prayer walking and packet distribution over the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellany</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/264</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/264#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Please don&#8217;t hear this as a complaint, it isn&#8217;t.  I love what I do and quite frankly have to make myself take a break from it.  But I have been so swamped lately that taking any kind of break was just out of the question.  It wasn&#8217;t all because of &#8220;church work&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/262</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/262#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the Puritans. Used to think that they were prudish people. I imaged them as the Amish of Pennsylvania on prunes. It wasn&#8217;t an inviting image. But then at the urging of some of my mentors, I began to read them. Now I devour the puritans. I am reading right now a book by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggles in the Journey</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/261</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/261#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is your biggest issue in your journey with Jesus? I started thinking about this the other night when Don and I were talking about the &#8220;Spanish Church.&#8221; It is not growing. So many Spanish speaking people in our county and this church is not growing. I immediately began to think of ways that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Keys to Life</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/246</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/246#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A little sheet of paper stays inside my desk drawer. I pull it out about twice a month and read it. It has proven to be a much needed instrument of God in my life. From time to time I share this little sheet with Don and Mike as well as our bodies of elders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/242</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/242#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so glad to read that somebody else is posting here, and I am SO VERY GLAD that you are reading and for what you are reading. Wow, Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress. Probably the greatest book ever written outside the Bible. I have the audio version if you would like to borrow it. Audio books bore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Speck Trio</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/240</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/240#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mike Speck Trio was such a blessing to us last night. It was a wonderfully joyous night of encouragement as we together brought glory to God and exalted the wonderful name of Jesus. I had just been with this group just over a week ago at Woodstock. They sang and led the worship for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading List</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/238</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I want to do in this blog is to share with you what I am reading. I want you to do the same for me. Reading has always been an important part of my life. I do not remember a time when I was not reading. Even when I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are you coming from?</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/237</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/237#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody I know begins any kind of conversation in a vacuum. We open our mouths with some kind of suppositions and assumptions about what the world is and how the world works. As soon as I say, &#8220;God created the heavens and the earth,&#8221; I have let you know where I am coming from. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More about change in the Twentieth Century</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/236</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to say just a few more things about change in the twentieth century. Please understand that what I am addressing here are the ways that the church accommodated herself to the culture in ways that she did not know while she was doing it. That ought to concern all of us because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging??</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/235</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/235#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I stand corrected.  But I must defend the term &#8220;bloggin&#8221; from my own personal copy of Gramatically and Syntactically Appropriate Phrases as used in the South.  Although it could be true that &#8220;blogging&#8221; is the appropriate spelling and is pronounced with the distinctive &#8220;ing&#8221; sound at the end for those who presume to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change in the Twentieth Century</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/234</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/234#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. I know that we are now in the 21st century, at least most of us are. But I think a lot about the major kinds of changes that have happened in the life of the church during the 20th century, most of them coming after WWII. Unfortunately, most people I meet have little or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/229</link>
		<comments>http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/archives/229#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Al</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here we go. But before we even begin, let me make a few suggestions about what would be good for this blog&#8230; First, I will be talking about a variety of issues and concerns; some serious and some not so serious. Some that will make us laugh, some that will make us cry, some [...]]]></description>
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