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		<title>Reflect: First order of business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When we speak of responding to God in prayer &#8230; we do not mean an intellectual exercise of trying to discern our marching orders for the day (though he could direct us to specific actions &#8230; ). Our Father&#8217;s first order of business is not to assign tasks, but to transform hearts &#8230; His interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking a &#8216;Calvin against the Calvinists&#8217; theology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in ChristianWeek on July 18, 2008. 
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&#8220;Calvinism is making a comeback - and it is shaking up the church&#8221; according to Colin Hansen, editor-at-large with Christianity Today. The growing fascination with reformed theology is attracting a younger generation of evangelicals now taking their place in various ministry roles across the church.
Hansen publicized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/debunking-a-calvin-against-the-calvinists-theology/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a hard life - be joyful, prayerful and thankful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years earlier he had lost his favorite son, Joseph. And now, as famine stalked the land, Jacob sent his sons to Egypt where, he had heard, food could be purchased. When they returned with desperately needed food, Jacob discovered one of his sons, Simeon, had been detained.
And as if this was not trouble enough, Jacob [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/its-a-hard-life-be-joyful-prayerful-and-thankful/</link>
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		<title>Reflect: Spiritual Success &#038; Sacrifice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual success flows down a river called suffering and sacrifice and it impacts the world because . . . God uses it in a wonderful way.
[Dr. Wendell Kempton who served as President of the ABWE mission organization from 1971-2001]
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		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/reflect-spiritual-success-sacrifice/</link>
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		<title>Solid commentaries vital to biblical understanding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in ChristianWeek (June 6, 2008). 
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Christian bloggers, journalists, authors, pastors and theologians - their single-string harps playing monotonously similar tunes - lament the biblical illiteracy of Christians today. Whether or not biblical illiteracy is at its lowest point in Christian history, I cannot say, but there seems to be ample evidence supporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/solid-commentaries-vital-to-biblical-understanding/</link>
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		<title>Humble Apologetics</title>
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Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today
John Stackhouse Jr.
Oxford University Press, 2002 (hc), 2006 (sc)
ISBN: 0195138074 (hc)
ISBN: 0195307178 (sc)
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This review first appeared in FaithToday (May-June, 2003)
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I confess to having been somewhat skeptical when I first encountered the humble apologetics of John Stackhouse at a series of lectures he gave on the subject at Tyndale College &#38; Seminary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/humble-apologetics/</link>
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		<title>A Hebrew word that can save your life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I do not share his charismatic leanings, Dr. Michael L. Brown, a Jewish believer in Jesus, continues to produce significant resources for anyone seeking to understand the Jewish roots of Christianity and how to explain the gospel in Jewish terms. He has an online presence at several web sites, two of which have provided me with useful resources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/a-hebrew-word-that-can-save-your-life/</link>
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		<title>Anglicans and Same-Sex Unions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I received a copy of an email post from the Anglican Church of Canada concerning its ongoing discussions surrounding the matter of blessing same-sex unions. It is a question that is tearing this communion apart.
The Anglican Church is providing web space for Anglicans to address the following two statements:
1. The theological question of whether the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/anglicans-and-same-sex-unions/</link>
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		<title>Asking God to sort it out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was perusing the Spring, 2008 issue of BCM World, the mission publication of BCM International only to discover an absolutely fascinating story of effective prayer in a Bible Club held in an elementary school in Scotland.
The head teacher of the school did not want BCM worker, Steve Marr, to hold a Bible Club in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wisereader.com/index.php/2008/asking-god-to-sort-it-out/</link>
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		<title>Reflect - Suspicious of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All sin is rooted in the suspicion that God is not very good.
[Oswald Chambers]
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