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		<title>Be A Man!</title>
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In today&#8217;s reading from the One Year Bible Online (1 Kings 2-3:2) King David breathes his last.  In so doing, he gives his son Solomon one last piece of advise: &#8220;Take courage and be a man.&#8221;  For some the charge to &#8220;be a man&#8221; might suggest a call to be strong, or tough, or relentless, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I a Civil Servant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In comments made to the United Methodist Connection concerning the recent change in DC law allowing same sex marriages, the Rev. Mary Kay Totty, Pastor of Dumbarton UM Church, said something that really caught my attention.  She said,
“As a pastor, I take on the duel roles of civil servant of the state and spiritual leader of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=468</link>
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		<title>WYSAWYG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you just crawled out of a cave, you&#8217;re familiar with the acronym WYSIWYG; &#8220;What you see is what you get.&#8221;  Psalm 12, from today&#8217;s readings in The One Year Bible, speaks to the reality that people are rarely WYSIWYG.  We tend more toward WYSAWYG, or &#8220;What you see AIN&#8217;T what you get.
1 Help, O [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=464</link>
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		<title>When a Man Loves a Woman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s readings from the One Year Bible include Proverbs 30:18-19, which state:
18 There are three things that amaze me—
no, four things that I don’t understand:
19 how an eagle glides through the sky,
how a snake slithers on a rock,
how a ship navigates the ocean,
how a man loves a woman.
After two-three millenia, the sciences of physics and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=461</link>
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		<title>The Windshield and Rearview Mirror of Advent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you.  2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  …9 For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=454</link>
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		<title>Put Me In Coach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s reading from the One Year Bible Online reminded me of the John Fogarty song, Centerfield, which revolves around the lyric, &#8220;Put me in coach, I&#8217;m ready to play, TODAY!&#8221;  The player in today&#8217;s reading was Isaiah&#8230;
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=451</link>
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		<title>Conclusions from Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the end of the looooonnnnngggg reading of Job in the One Year Bible.  My conclusions:

 Friends don&#8217;t judge.   They care and listen.
Friends that fail step 1 aren&#8217;t friends, they&#8217;re fools.
God is gracious&#8230; even to fools!
Steadfast faith will be rewarded.

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		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=448</link>
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		<title>Look Up</title>
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That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.  For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!  So we don’t look at the troubles we can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=443</link>
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		<title>Life in the Chasm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 Then Job spoke again: 2 “You people really know everything, don’t you?  And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
Job 12:1-2
This sarcastic comment by Job was a response to his friends &#8211; yes, friends &#8211; who were there to console him in the midst of his suffering.  The well intended words each friend spoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=438</link>
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		<title>Under a Broom Tree</title>
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Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. .. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.” 1 Kings 19:3-4

Sounds like Elijah was having a bad day, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timdowell.com/?p=432</link>
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