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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>In Defense of &#8220;God Damn!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/10/19/in-defense-of-god-damn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I’ve gotten your attention, yes I am talking about the epithet, but no, I am not really defending the curse.  Actually, I would just like to discuss language in general and why it seems to me like we are damning the wrong curse while completely ignoring its far more dangerous cousin... (For the rest of the article, please click on the title above.)]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts from Taiwan -part 6</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/03/22/thoughts-from-taiwan-part-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peichi’s Amma must have decided to put all of the events I mentioned in my last blog entry behind her, though, as she was very welcoming to me as we showed up for Chinese New Year.  She didn’t even keep much of a watchful eye over me, as I might have expected.  I cannot be sure that she hadn’t carefully noted the home’s entire inventory and each item’s place prior to my arrival.]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts from Taiwan -part 5</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/03/15/thoughts-from-taiwan-part-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[n Tainan, I met Peichi’s grandmother for the second time.  “Amma” is “grandma” in Taiwanese, which is exclusively spoken in most of southern Taiwan.  It is far different than Mandarin Chinese, sounding a lot like Thai would if it weren’t nasal.  Short staccato sounds punctuate each word.  Peichi and her immediate family of origin speak both languages fluently.  I don’t.  I barely speak some Mandarin, but know only a couple of Taiwanese words.]]></description>
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		<title>Contextualizing the Gospel -Part 2</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2009/06/27/contextualizing-the-gospel-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neither of these church responses is appropriate, of course.   When a missionary takes the message of Jesus into a completely unreached people group, he must find a way to connect that message to their cultural and world viewpoint.  This is no easy task for the missionary.  Much of the way the life of Christian faith is lived out in a particular culture is not actually essential or biblically derived...]]></description>
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		<title>Contextualizing the Gospel -Part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2009/06/26/contextualizing-the-gospel-part-1-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my most-discussed topics on this blog has been the life of faith in a post-Christian America.  The most read section of this blog is the Church Tech section, about the use of communications technology within the church.  These two topics are not disconnected, though.  Any new culture necessitates new ways of communicating the message of Jesus.  Radical societal changes create a new culture.  Thus, the Christian message must be re-contextualized.  In order to understand the methods of communicating that, we must first truly understand the basic reasons behind this...]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways that Churches can Improve Communication</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2009/04/08/10-ways-that-churches-can-improve-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-158" title="communicate" src="http://ryanshinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/communicate.jpg" alt="communicate" /> It seems that the Information Age has been one of the most aptly named epochs in history.  The popular meme may be true, that the average American accesses more information every day than was accessed by our grandparents in their entire lifetimes.  But even if it isn't, no one can deny that everywhere we turn some advertisement, announcement, print ad, or electronic message is vying for our attention.  The advent of the Internet has done nothing but make matters worse.  Now, instead of a couple dozen pieces of junk mail in my mailbox, I have an email box full of "cheap replica watches," "free iPods" and unmentionable others.  Unfortunately, the church is doing a worse job at communicating that most of these spammers in my inbox.  Here are 10 ideas for your church to improve communication.]]></description>
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		<title>Peichi-isms</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2009/04/01/peichi-isms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peichi has her own words and phrases that are just her own.]]></description>
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