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    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:25:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>QUMRAN (A Brief Miniature)</title>
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      <description>Iron-gall ink spilled in profusion   
 
 
   Over the carefully curried parchment;   
 
 
   Dim candle lights dancing   
 
 
   On the stone walls of  scriptorium .   
 
 
    “ Do . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:57:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Svetlana Goryacheva</dc:creator>
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      <title>A Poor Man's Friend</title>
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      <description>And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.   
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:25:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-23T13:25:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A Man, A Plan. . .</title>
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      <description>Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.                                                                   . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:06:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-18T02:06:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Nearby</title>
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      <description>And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed,    "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-15T13:24:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Christmas Gifts</title>
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      <description>The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.  
 
 
  John 1:9  
 
   
 
 Open arms 
 
 
 Receive Christmas gifts 
 
 
 Frozen hearts 
 
 
 Reject Christ 
 
 
 Much room . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:08:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-15T00:08:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Meditation on Aspiration or Breathe In/Breathe Out. . .</title>
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      <description>Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.   
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:19:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-09T14:19:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>To Get at the Truth</title>
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      <description>Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:38:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-08T13:38:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Breath</title>
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      <description>And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   
 
 
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:17:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-06T22:17:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Divinity Rising: Reaping Fall's harvest</title>
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      <description>Hello Everyone! 
  (just a note, if you're catching this on facebook, email, or another site, You'll have to visit  http:// www.doggeddreamcreations.com/divinityrising  to see the videos/photos) 
  I . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:01:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Divinity Rose</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-04T19:01:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kindled</title>
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      <description>And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?   
 
 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:02:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-04T00:02:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>'' MY GOD ; THEY'RE IN THE WALL !!!! from The Alamo, to Fort Hood, '' cpyrt2009, Lonnie Ray Fowler</title>
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      <description>'' MY GOD ; THEY'RE IN THE WALL !!!! from The Alamo, to Fort Hood, '' cpyrt2009, Lonnie Ray Fowler 
 
 
       The  title  line  of  this  post  is  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lonnie F.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-29T19:49:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>"You Are Not There" - Postcard Reminders to the Sunday School</title>
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      <description>Seventy years ago, some scholars in the Sunday School were reminded of their attendance (or absences) by postcards sent from their Sunday School teachers or the Sunday School Superintendant. 
 Long . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:16:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Peter  Wimsey</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-29T15:16:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cut and Come Again!</title>
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      <description>He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. . .    
 
 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:48:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-26T01:48:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Giving Thanks and Thanksgiving</title>
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      <description>For each new morning with its light,  For rest and shelter of the night,  For health and food,  For love and friends,  For everything Thy goodness sends.  
 
 
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:04:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-23T00:04:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sunday School For the Infidels of Gather - Lesson V: "David Plays His Harp"</title>
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      <description>Was King Saul suffering a major depression?   Was he psychotic?  Everyone knew that he had dark moods, but no one predicted that he would throw spears at the "entertainment". 
 Did he have . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:30:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Peter  Wimsey</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-22T15:30:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Need A Lift?</title>
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      <description>And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.   
 
 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:48:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-18T12:48:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Self-Pickling?</title>
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      <description>We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely;  the cucumbers , and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. . .  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:51:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-17T00:51:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sugar Cake</title>
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      <description>Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.   
 
 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:15:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Sunday School For The Infidels of Gather - Lesson IV: "Dorcas Who Shared"</title>
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      <description>This is the fourth Sunday School lesson from the packet of materials I found at the Flea Market. 
 The lessons were developed for the Methodist Church in 1943. 
 I believe that the series presents a "snapshot" . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Peter  Wimsey</dc:creator>
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      <title>THAT DOES IT ! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE /// LONNIE RAY FOWLER</title>
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      <description>         A  few  moments  ago ,  I  finished  a  lengthy  ,  well-researched  article  to  post  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:27:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Lonnie F.</dc:creator>
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      <title>A Basket and a Stick</title>
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      <description>And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:45:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Fragmentary and Varied Ways of Thinking About God</title>
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      <description>In times past, God spoke in fragmentary and varied ways to our fathers through the prophets; in this, the final age, he has spoken to us through his Son, whom he has made heir of all things and through . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:35:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>James  Stemmle</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-11T18:35:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Online Premiere Zombies and Cowgirls video, Zombie Fashion Show by Divinity Rose</title>
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      <description>It's about time. I've been so busy, a couple months have passed without me being able to capture and upload the footage from the zombie fashion show that took place during the release party for "The Dead . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:35:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Divinity Rose</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-11T03:35:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Does God care about sin?</title>
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      <description>Good and upright is the Lord; thus he shows sinners the way.  He guides the humble to justice, he teaches the humble his way.  All the paths of the Lord are kindness and constancy toward those . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>James  Stemmle</dc:creator>
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      <title>Sunday School For The Infidels of Gather - Lesson III: "Thanks For Food"</title>
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      <description>Two weeks ago, I began publishing a series of Sunday School Lessons on Gather. 
 
 Sunday School For the Infidels of Gather - Lesson I: "A Happy Family" 
 
 
 Sunday School for the Infidels of Gather . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:48:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Peter  Wimsey</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-08T11:48:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Bridegroom</title>
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      <description>Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.   
 
 
   Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:59:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-03T12:59:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Unto My God. . .</title>
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      <description>While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.  
 
 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:44:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Sunday School for the Infidels of Gather -Lesson II: "A Happy Sunday"</title>
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      <description>Last Sunday, I published my first Sunday School Lesson on Gather. 
 
 Sunday School For the Infidels of Gather - Lesson I: "A Happy Family" 
 
 This is how I introduced the series (regular readers, unless . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:12:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Peter  Wimsey</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-11-01T11:12:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ingratitude</title>
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      <description>Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.    
 
 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Mark  M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-29T11:59:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Quality of Mercy</title>
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      <description>His mercy is from age to age on those who fear him.  Luke 1: 50 
 Does God, from age to age, have mercy on those who fear him?  
 I’m looking back over history.  Way back over the murky . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>James  Stemmle</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-10-28T15:35:26Z</dc:date>
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