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	<title>The Far Green Country</title>
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	<description>"...the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." (Tolkien)</description>
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		<title>If We Were Not So Closed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And truly this is the case with us all: for God would be much more liberal in his communications to us, if we were not so close; but our own scanty desires hinder him from pouring out his gifts upon us in greater abundance. In general, we are taught by this passage, that we cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith At The Water&#8217;s Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The priority, in the order, of faith to all other acts, is illustrated by the following anecdote: &#8220;In a beautiful New England village a boy lay very sick, drawing near to death, and very sad. His heart longed for the treasure which was worth more to him now than all the gold of the western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Jesus Is Still On His Throne</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=665</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It was August 1945, and the atomic bomb had just been exploded over Hiroshima. As we commuters boarded our bus, people were shaking their heads and wondering whether this new weapon would destroy the world. A sailor responded quietly, ‘No, the world won’t ever be destroyed by atomic bombs. Jesus won’t let that happen. He’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anselm to a Dying Brother</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the last words of Bernard of Clairvaux, the advice of Anselm of Canterbury is also a splendidly evangelical gem of truly catholic theology:
There is an exhortation of Anselm to a dying brother, written in the most comforting words: &#8220;When a brother seems to be in his death struggle, it is godly and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Words of Bernard</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=645</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I studied medieval church history, my professor read to our class the dying words of Bernard of Clairvaux. A recent conversation provoked me to seek out the exact citation, which my professor graciously provided to me today. I include it here in full:
When [Bernard] appeared to be drawing his last breath, as his mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking in All the Wrong Places</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=642</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are many who, like Thomas, are longing for some sensible assurance of the love of Christ, beyond the general declarations of the Bible. They want some inward token that they are born again, some sensible assurance of their acceptance, before they believe and commit their souls wholly to Jesus. They desire to be Christians, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All That The Prophets Have Spoken</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=640</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;From Jesus&#8217; statements I make an inference and form a corollary: the whole Old Tsetament bears witness to Christ; and, the Old Testament does not bear witness only to Christ. Why this corollary? Because I agree with making an extensive inference from Luke 24:27 and 44 but hold than an intensive inference is illegitimate. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No One So Disturbing</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=637</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hence, for my money, here is the premier presupposition that should undergird all our biblical interpretation: God has given his word as a revelation of himself; if then I use his word rightly, I will long to see him, and he will be the focus of my study. And so we must read Old Testament [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reformation&#8217;s Conflict With Rome</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=629</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.W.M.</dc:creator>
		
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One may infer the thesis of Robert Reymond’s The Reformation’s Conflict with Rome: Why It Must Continue! from its title. The conflict between the Reformation and Rome was, and continues to be, both real and necessary for the sake of the gospel. Reymond writes specifically for two purposes, to two different audiences.
Firstly, he writes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ&#8217;s Mess</title>
		<link>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=626</link>
		<comments>http://pipeandpint.com/blog/?p=626#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a real trouble with celebrating Christmas, but it is not the sort of thing you might expect. The trouble with Christmas is not that society says you have to keep religion to yourself (a statement usually made with a religious conviction all its own). Nor is the trouble with Christmas the fact that [...]]]></description>
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