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	<title>Come on in &#187; Faith</title>
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		<title>Listening</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/01/18/listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m preaching in church this weekend.  I always love this opportunity.  To paraphrase Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire, ‘when I preach I feel His pleasure. ‘

As often is the case, I have little advance warning of this opportunity.  Officially, I have 7 days to put it all together, which is certainly less than I’d like.  I’m not really complaining, but at this point my brain is a jumble of thoughts.  I’m going to use my little blog this week to highlight the process that goes on inside of me as I prepare... [Click on the title above to continue reading]]]></description>
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		<title>Grinchoversy</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/12/12/grinchoversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year the keep Christ in Christmas debate has heated up anew with First Baptist Church of Dallas pastor, Robert Jeffress, new website listing businesses that are refusing to acknowledge Christmas.  He has appeared on Fox News as well as local news outlets discussing this apparently controversial site... To continue reading, please click the title above.]]></description>
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		<title>5 Keys to Reading the Bible</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/12/06/5-keys-to-reading-the-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list (by no means exhaustive) of a few guidelines to help in reading and applying the Bible to your life... To continue reading, click on the title above.]]></description>
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		<title>Critic</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/10/27/critic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the old show At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert?  It was a TV show with two movie critics who were about as opposite as they could be.  One was fat, the other thin.  One was hairy, one bald.  They even had completely different tastes in movies.  They would sit each week and review the movies that they’d watched.  They’d argue a lot, but if a movie got “two thumbs up,” you knew it would be good... (Click the title above to read the full article)]]></description>
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		<title>Back to My Nets</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/10/12/back-to-my-nets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always felt a strong bond with the biblical character of Peter, one of Jesus followers in the New Testament.  The first time we meet Peter is in Matthew chapter 4.  Peter is a fisherman, the family business.  Like all Hebrew boys, he had done his time in religious school as a small child.  During that time, he learned large sections of the Torah (the Old Testament)... (Click title to continue)]]></description>
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		<title>Indoctrination &#8211; part 2</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/09/06/indoctrination-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 in a 2 part series.  If you missed it, you can read part 1 here

What frustrates me about the indoctrinational aspect of Sunday morning worship is that so much of it is often so half-hearted.  This seems most clear to me whenever I’ve sung the song, I Could Sing of Your Love Forever.  I have to note that I have no theological, or artistic problem with the song.  I enjoy the work of Delirious? very much.  My problem is with the way we sing it (and yes, I realize that fortunately the era of singing this one to death is long past)...  Click the title above to continue reading.]]></description>
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		<title>Indoctrination &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/08/30/indoctrination-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be strange for someone who isn’t a Christian to go to a Protestant church service.  There is row after row of nicely dressed, well mannered people, standing and staring at projection screens.  We seem to be singing the words written there mindlessly.  “I could sing of your love forever…”  

We even make motions the songs tell us to.  “Oh, I feel like dancing,” they sing, and do some half-hearted side-to-side-step.  It all must seem to the uninitiated like some Orwellian indoctrination, and I’m not sure in some sense that it isn’t...  Click the title above to continue reading.]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness and Butterflies</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/07/22/darkness-and-butterflies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I got into a fight with a butterfly.  No, it isn’t as silly a sight as it sounds…well not quite.  I was doing some evening gardening and had the garage door open.  When I went in to get a rake I noticed a beautiful butterfly fluttering around, trapped inside the garage.]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmed and God</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/07/09/ahmed-and-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Ahmed at the mall.  I wasn’t looking to talk to him, but I was asking God that I be aware of anything He was doing around me.  This isn’t something I do regularly.  Its partly because I am often turned in to myself, only thinking and doing what relates to my little slice of the world. But, it is also due to the fact that God usually answers that prayer by showing me something He is doing.  He interjects me into someone else's little world, and a lot of times in my selfishness I don’t want to deal with that...(click the header to read the full article)]]></description>
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		<title>Small Miracles</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/06/25/small-miracles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite quotes comes from G.K. Chesterton.  I won’t quote the whole thing verbatim here (although I can from memory).  But basically it says that God has the eternal appetite of youth, and makes every single sunset and daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them.  “For we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is far younger than we.”... (Click the header to read the full article)]]></description>
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