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		<title>Philip Passes the Test</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Baptism is not, as it is often portrayed in the media and many of our churches, a solely personal transaction between an individual and God. It’s about entering into a community of Jesus followers bent on turning the world upside down.]]></description>
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		<title>Hucksters or Lovers?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shall people of diverse religious faiths throughout the world persist in harming one another in the name of their own particular deity? Do not our deities then become tribal gods over whom we fight? We have to pose serious questions about religious violence and interfaith relationships in our own day and time. The Good Shepherd does not just tend to his own flock of sheep and ignore or condemn all the other sheep. Instead, the shepherd continues to widen the circle, drawing others into the sheepfold.]]></description>
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		<title>The Disciples go to Bible Study</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a country, that for the most part, has a very similar attitude about the Bible that the disciples had before Jesus had this Bible Study with them. We want to believe that the Bible offers us a Messiah who will do the same things people of ancient Israeli times hoped he would do for them. We have just put it off to his second coming. Since he was killed by his enemies the first time, we have been told that the Bible is really telling us we have to wait until his second coming for Jesus to come and destroy his enemies, turning the streets red with their blood. I'm sure glad this is not the way Jesus read the Bible.]]></description>
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		<title>Hope by Lizzie Edgar (Lizzie read this at the 2012 Easter Sunrise Service)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope Hope is fragile. As the world pushes in around us With words and acts of hatred, violence, and ignorance, Hope gets lost, Buried under weight of political jargon, false accusations, and broken promises. But hope is resilient. When grief and anger and despair plague you day after day And you’re not sure how you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alive!-Really?!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet, if I peer closely at nature’s rhythm, I notice how the darkness itself invites the dawning. The barrenness fertilizes the ground of both earth and heart. The cold, stark simplicity of winter unveils the explosive beauty of the heavens. So it is with Easter morning.]]></description>
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		<title>Disruptive Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What this congregation does so well, what you do so well, is walk with others like you have walked with Mary and me. And that’s not easy. But just think how when you walk with others, when you make sure they aren’t alone, it’s like walking with Jesus during that last week of his life. “When you have done it to one of the least of these, you have done it unto me.”]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Gathering Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been leaving for my morning walks before dawn so that I can spend the last half-hour home walking straight into the sunrise. It has been spectacular and unrepeatable every day, varied by the mist and cloud cover, or lack thereof. Through the dark silhouettes of barren, wintry tree limbs at Westwood Cemetery peeks the dazzling morning light--a red and yellow fireball, seething with energy and life. As the sun rises, the sky is sprayed with combinations of pink, purple, gray, white, blue, red, and yellow. The barren tree branches of late March reveal the light behind them more clearly than hordes of leafy springtime greenery ever could. This becomes a metaphor for the wintry, exposed seasons of our lives, where, paradoxically, we can often see the light more clearly if we gaze deeply into the dawning.]]></description>
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		<title>Oberlin Community Lenten Service</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember learning about all the things we had to do to follow Jesus: love people, help the poor, feed the hungry, honor our parents, etc. etc. Something I don’t remember, though, is learning that we have to consider the cost of being a follower of Jesus, the cost of being a Christian. I remember thinking about and discussing what I was called to give up: things of the flesh, things of the world. I remember hearing stories about where Jesus told his disciples that they must be prepared for people to hate them and persecute them and even kill them because of him. I thought that was just a side effect…a truth we had to deal with. I never thought about having a choice whether or not to follow Jesus. God was just there, a given, and some people just refused to recognize God, but hey, they’d come around eventually…But as time went on and I saw that some people just weren’t going to believe…I wondered. It turns out, we do have a choice.]]></description>
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		<title>John 3:16. Then there’s 1 John 1:5. Or how about John 13:34? Or even  John 4:14? Then there’s the end of the 8th chapter of Romans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I hope we realize from our sharing is that it is hard to sum up the Gospel in just one verse or one story from the Bible. Contrary to what you often hear, the Gospel is not simple, even though there are those who would suggest that you can capsulize the Gospel in one verse like John 3:16.]]></description>
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		<title>Upending What Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  As I’ve grown older, though, I’ve come to understand “bearing false witness” and “taking God’s name in vain” much differently, while I’m still no fan of swearing. We take God’s name in vain when we attach God’s name to actions and beliefs which the Holy One would never support. We bear false witness when we utter untruths or twisted half-truths and pass them off as truth, or fact.]]></description>
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