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	<description>Missional Exploration: Joining God in the Neighborhoods of Life</description>
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		<title>Money Velocity</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2012/04/26/money-velocity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I subscribe to a daily communique from the Emergent Village and received this today and felt this is worth reposting and our thought in these unique times. &#160; &#8220;Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.&#8221;             George Monbiot]]></description>
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		<title>Parish Collective Video</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2012/04/12/parish-collective-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Place Matters: The Parish Collective on Churches, Places, and Spaces from The Other Journal on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Inhabit Conference 2012</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2012/04/11/inhabit-conference-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Looking forward to attending the Inhabit Conference. A wonderful time learning from and meeting those engaged in their neighborhoods incarnating the gospel of Jesus Christ in tangible ways that bless and encourage various communities.  This seems to be a church expression that God is calling many to be involved in. This premiere gathering will bring together innovative missional practitioners from across the West Coast to empower, encourage, and engage each other around practicing the way of Jesus in place. Combining the resources of grassroots networks for missional exploration (Parish Collective) with a dynamic relational/incarnational pedagogy (The Seattle School of Theology &#38; Psychology), Inhabit promises to be a very unique and transformative gathering indeed.  Hope to see you there. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Five Vows for Spiritual Power</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2012/02/28/five-vows-for-spiritual-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the process of cleaning my office this afternoon I came across one of my old Bibles.  Of course I took the opportunity to scroll through it a bit.  I found on one of the blank pages I had written Five Vows for Spiritual Power by A.W. Tozer.  It was my privilege to hear Tozer preach on many occasions as teenager at the Canby Grove Conference Center.  One of my fondest memories was having Tozer come and watch my friends and I play volleyball.  As I remember he never joined us, but his smiles communicated his joy in watching us.  My friends and I were pretty much oblivious to Tozer&#8217;s stature within the larger Evangelical stream of the church, but we loved to hear him preach.  As I remember, his preaching was very straightforward and he didn&#8217;t hesitate getting to the main points of his sermons.  I always left thinking a great deal regarding his messages. One that stood out larger than others was a sermon titled&#8221; Five Vows for Spiritual Power.  I took scrupulous notes and later misplaced them.  A number of years later The Alliance Witness our denominational magazine printed a condensed version of this sermon.  I immediately copied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Grace</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2012/01/24/cheap-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Gorman in his book CruciformityPaul&#8217;s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross states that Bonhoeffer was writing for and about his beloved Lutheran (Evangelical) church in Germany during the rise of the Nazi regime. And suggests in regard to the following Bonhoeffer quote we should insert our denomination or era. &#8220;We Lutherans have gathered like eagles round the carcase of cheap grace, and there we have drunk of the poison which has killed the life of following Christ. . . . Cheap grace has turned out to be utterly merciless to our Evangelical Church. This cheap grace has been no less disastrous to our spiritual lives. Instead of opening up the way to Christ it has closed it. . . . The word cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.&#8221;  The Cost of Discipleship,  pp. 57-59]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Prayer</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2011/12/19/advent-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Christ our Advent hope, Remind us to prepare for your coming; Remind us to prepare for this time When the soles of your feet touch the ground, When you will become one of us To be a one with us. May we watch for the signs, Listen for the messengers, Wait for the good news to slip Into our world, our lives. Christ our Advent hope, Help us to clear the way for you; To clear the clutter from our minds, To sift the silt from our hearts, To move the boulders that prevents us meeting you. May sorrow take flight, And your people sing a song of peace And hope be born again. Amen. Kate McIlhagga &#160; From Emergent Village Website]]></description>
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		<title>The Butterfly and the Stone</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2011/10/19/the-butterfly-and-the-stone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again there is a book that is truly worth reading for a particular segment of our population.  The individuals I&#8217;m referring to are those of us who have a child who is a prodigal.  A &#8220;prodigal&#8221; is a son or daughter who leaves home and behaves (living recklessly and extravagantly) with life&#8217;s resources to such a degree that life has become dis-functional to the extreme.  They are those who have yet to come to their senses regarding life.  Sometimes stuck in addiction and/or behavior that becomes seriously harmful to them and all that are close by. The book I&#8217;m referring to is The Butterfly and the Stone: A son. A father. God&#8217;s love on a prodigal journey  written by Dan Mayhew.  If you have a prodigal you will resonate with the author throughout these pages and find your read to be one of emotion, inspiration, renewed encouragement and hope.  As a wordsmith Dan shares the reality of a long time struggle with his son Ben (not his real name) living in a way that is not just difficult for him, but his family and those who know situation. The chapters are short three to four page vignettes of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Life With Jesus&#8221; Conference</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2011/09/30/life-with-jesus-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://pilgrimguide.com/2011/09/30/life-with-jesus-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Community of Adsideo&#8217;s annual &#8220;Life with Jesus&#8221; seminar wrestles with the greatest question of our collective lives: &#8220;Why live life with Jesus?&#8221;  Each year, this seminar focuses on a specific figure of the faith whose life and teaching confront us with that very question.  We will examine thinkers, teachers, martyrs and practictioners who have demonstrated great sacrifice to Christ&#8217;s call as we contemplate why they have given their lives for such a purpose.  This year Adsideo will host Scott Kjos, a teacher from Church of the Servant King in Gardena, California the weekend of October 20,21,22,23.  Scott will be teaching about the life of Jesus as told in the Scriptural narrative, and we will be contemplating portions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#8217;s work throughout our time together in small groups and directed readings.  Registration for this time together is $50 (includes contintental breakfasts).  We will sandwich this time with a day of service to our city on Saturday, October 22.  Women will facilitate a spa day at the Rescue Mission for women who are experiencing homelessness, while our men BBQ on the street and have conversation with those who live in the out-of-doors.  Consider joining us this year!]]></description>
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		<title>Taking A Class</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2011/09/15/taking-a-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the perks of being a graduate of George Fox Evangelical Seminary is that they allow you come back and audit courses.  I love the academic challenge so I enrolled in a class titled Paul and the Law.  The course study seeks to understand Paul&#8217;s letters by focusing on his relationship to the Law. The issues surrounding Paul and his understanding of the law impact how believers are expected to live in relation to the Old Testament law (is the law still required?), how grace and moral responsibility are to be balanced in the Christian life, and how we understand salvation in relation to other religious traditions (especially Jewish-Christian relations).  Our class will spend a good deal of time looking at the so-called “new perspective on Paul.” Looking forward to another challenge in the academic realm. The &#8220;New Perspective on Paul&#8221; is a significant shift in the way Protestant scholars, interpret the writings of the Apostle Paul.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Evangelicals should not Evangelize</title>
		<link>http://pilgrimguide.com/2011/07/27/why-evangelicals-should-not-evangelize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pointed to this article by Floyd McClung who is a missionary in South Africa.  The article below can be found here. This article was written by Carl Madearis an international expert in Arab-American and Muslim-Christian relations and is author of the book Speaking of Jesus: The Art of Not-Evangelism. Let’s do an exercise. I want you to fill in the blank on what you think you know about me based on what I’m about to tell you. Here goes: Twenty years ago, I became a missionary. My wife and I left our home in Colorado Springs, Colorado to move to Beirut, Lebanon. Our job description was to plant churches and evangelize to Muslims. Based on what I just said, Carl Medearis is a ______________ . Depending on your background, the blank may look something like this: Carl Medearis is a&#8230; hero of the Christian faith, a saintly super-man willing to sacrifice the comforts of home in order to share the love of Jesus Christ with those who have never heard the gospel. Or this: Carl Medearis is a&#8230; right-wing extremist who destroys cultures, tears apart families and paves the way for neo-colonialist crusaders to invade, occupy and plunder the resources [...]]]></description>
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