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		<title>Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1777</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/thanksgiving-proclamation-of-1777/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I study and read about our Founding Fathers, the more I read the words they wrote, the more entertained I am by those who insist that all of them were godless existentialists or deists. It also makes me sad, though, because I know that most people today don&#8217;t take the time to read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=347&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Redeeming Qualities of Edward Cullen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I taught a middle school girls Sunday school class, we used to play what I referred to as the Good/Bad Game. I would describe something, usually a common situation taken to an extreme, and then identify what was good and what was bad. By taking a situation to its logical end and setting things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=341&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Manhattan Declaration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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I would encourage you to read this thoughtful, compassionate, thorough, and biblically faithful document. 
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		<title>Depression and Psalm 102</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/depression-and-psalm-102/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bible Study]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[in Bible study last week I taught on Psalm 102, and our conversation drifted quickly to the struggle of depression and suffering. The following is an article I wrote to follow up our conversation. I hope it may be a helpful reminder and encouragement to those who suffer from times of depression.
First of all, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=335&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salvation: What&#8217;s in it for me?</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/salvation-whats-in-it-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read the quote in the book Making Sense of the New Testament by Craig Blomberg:
&#8220;Simply professing to follow Jesus is inadequate, especially if one does so merely for personal gain. The path of true discipleship is the road to the cross&#8211; death to self, deinal of the &#8216;triumphalism&#8217; that perverts the Gospel into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=333&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God, Gold, and Glory</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/god-gold-and-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People keep asking me what my problem is with the current administration. What’s wrong with wanting everyone to have health care? What’s wrong with the President encouraging students to stay in school? Nothing. People should have health care. Students should stay in school and excel to the best of their ability. My problem is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=328&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth is Relative</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/wealth-is-relative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The adult Sunday School classes at my church are studying James chapter five tomorrow. This chapter begins with a stern warning to rich and oppressive landowners:
1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=322&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Dungy is my Hero</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/tonydungyismyhero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who hare spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another&#8217;s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, deceives himself. Galatians 6:1-3, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=319&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who is my Neighbor?</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/who-is-my-neighbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I&#8217;m adjusting to the self-controlled schedule of online classes. I&#8217;m taking Introduction to Evangelism. I know, I&#8217;m taking an intro. class my last semester of seminary. To share with you a moment of honest transparency and confession, I put it off until the last minute, praying they might change the core curriculum for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=315&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polyamory:The Next Sexual Revolution?</title>
		<link>http://bekahmae.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/polyamorythe-next-sexual-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If this is the type of sexual confusion facing people living in Seattle, then Mark Driscoll needs to make his series on the Song of Solomon available to every household in the city. Many people have spent months blasting Mark&#8217;s series as being too blatant, too disrespectful, too graphic;I&#8217;d like to see some of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekahmae.wordpress.com&blog=2302873&post=313&subd=bekahmae&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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