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		<title>Reading Ideas for Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday is tomorrow! We are just about 12 hours away from beginning our 40-day journey through Lent. I have been spending the day getting ready for Ash Wednesday. We are hosting services at Word of Life Church at 7AM, Noon, &#38; 7PM in our Upper Room Prayer &#38; Worship Center. We are using the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=824&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Practice Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Vreeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a follower of Jesus for 26 years, spending all of my time worshiping in churches not known for observing the church calendar, not known for following many of the ancient traditions of the Church. The truth is that all local churches have traditions they keep. Traditions, in and of themselves, are not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=818&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merton on Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am no mystic, but I believe the human heart can encounter the heart of God. I am no master in the classic, spiritual disciplines of the Christian faith, but I am learning to pray. Meditation is one of those disciplines, one of those practices, of Christians both historic and contemporary. It seems to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=816&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrecting my Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Vreeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come to resurrect my blog. I have to make a confession. It has been (a shocking) 271 days since my last blog post. Shame. Shame. Shame. Truthfully I have not blogged much in the last two years. I want to blame my lack of blogging on my increased activity on Facebook and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=809&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love the Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 14:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primal Credo Chapter 9 If we love Jesus, then we will love what he loves. Or at least we will commit ourselves to grow in love towards what Jesus loves. What does he love? Jesus loves the church. Biblical writers are fond of playing with the groom/bride metaphor in describing Jesus and the church. Jesus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=781&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I left the Charismatic Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Vreeland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending over ten years of my spiritual journey being shaped by the charismatic renewal something began to happen to me in 2004 and 2005. I became aware that the &#8220;charismatic&#8221; label seemed not to fit me anymore. For a long time, I proudly wore the label &#8220;charismatic,&#8221; but something happened. I was no longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=778&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus is coming, just not May 21</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primal Credo Chapter 7 I wonder what Harold Camping will do on May 22 this year. Camping is a part of the group declaring the world will end on May 21 and this cataclysmic end of the world includes the return of Jesus. He gets one thing right: Jesus is coming. He just isn&#8217;t coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=775&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primal Credo Chapter 6 Death is the silent specter hovering over every human being who has ever lived. We try to shield ourselves from thoughts of death, but we have all been touched with the sting of death as we have watched the death of friends or loved ones. And our own death is looming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=772&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 19:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primal Credo Chapter 5 The death of Jesus makes it impossible to ignore him. His teachings continue amaze the masses, although the masses tend to misunderstand him. (His stories and sermons were neither common-sensical wisdom nor universal principles on how to do life. His teachings were bold proclamations that the kingdom of God had come.) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=768&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 23:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primal Credo Chapter 4 Every mother can tell you the coming-into-the-world story of each of her children. They are often unique. I have witnessed the birth each of my three boys and they each came into the world in their own unique way. Wesley, my oldest, was born early. Taylor, son #2, came late. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekvreeland.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6472183&amp;post=764&amp;subd=derekvreeland&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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