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		<title>Lest We Forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is our memory as long as the last media clip on the internet? Is our attention drawn to the urgent—always? Nearly 50 years ago a book was published with the title Tyranny of the Urgent. The problem? The urgent often clouds our ability to see the important. Has that changed in the last 50 years? <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/lest-we-forget/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2901&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sober Mercies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 04:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kopp, Heather Harpham. Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up With a Christian Drunk. Jericho Books, 2013. I have read thousands of books over the last 50 years, many of them very good, a few superb. And I have read more intently many in the last two years. I pay particular attention to books now because <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/sober-mercies/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2891&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts about life and death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a gripping book. Normally I read books very quickly. This one I could not. I knew some men who fought in World War I. The “war to end all wars” was not the glamorous new era, but a continuation of the reality of sin, and the depravity of humans. Groom, Winston. <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/random-thoughts-life-death/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2860&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God hears, remembers, knows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 16:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cry for Help Yesterday’s post about “hollering and whimpering” when at the bottom of the depression barrel triggered further thoughts. And then this morning I read in Exodus After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/god-hears-remembers-knows/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2829&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hollering or whimpering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I know what I needed? Not really. I could neither holler nor whimper. Heather Kopp wrote on her blog a couple weeks ago about the blahs she was experiencing. As she wrote about needing help, she related it to Jesus’ question to the blind man in Luke 18:35-43, and specifically v. 41: “What do you <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/hollering-or-whimpering/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2818&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression and the devil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am teaching a seminary course on Law and Gospel. In preparation for that I am rereading C. F. W. Walther’s Proper Distinction between Law and Gospel. This is my fifth time reading the book, yet this is the first time I recall Martin Luther’s comment on 1 John 3:8. Here is the Scripture text for <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/depression-and-the-devil/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2808&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Charts on Hebrews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bateman, Herbert IV. Charts on the Book of Hebrews (Kregel Charts of the Bible and Theology). Kregel Publications, 2012. My passion is teaching, especially the Bible. Therefore, I look for any tool that will help teach, explain, expand, and clarify. I have taught courses in congregations, college, and seminary on most of the New Testament, <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/charts-hebrews/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2801&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On reading books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catching up on my reading lists: I have been reading quite a bit lately. Up until 1998 I would read 4-5 fiction books, 2-3 historical books, plus 3-4 theological books every week. But since then have not read many historical works. Now I read 2-4 fiction books per week and always have 3-5 theological books <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/on-reading-books/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2792&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voskamp on Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Voskamp has a way with words and images. Her post from Monday looks at the need and opportunity for the Church to minister to those who hurt. She challenges the Church to be Church for those who suffer and the families who endure. What Christians Need to Know about Mental Health I once heard <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/voskamp-on-depression/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2787&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression—a pleasant surprise</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is one that I thought I would never write. Not because it is bad, but the opposite. I have battled severe depression for at least the past 30 years, always between the end of January to the beginning of April (except for 1997-1999 when it went on for three full years and three <a href="http://exegete77.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/depression-a-pleasant-surprise/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exegete77.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8166399&#038;post=2782&#038;subd=exegete77&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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