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		<title>Jesus Was a Liberal (And Other Irreverent Thoughts About Discipleship)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emphasis on the past tense verb&#8230;Jesus was a liberal.  But that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s now a conservative either.  This is a post that&#8217;s been building for a few weeks.  Several weeks ago I had an interview at a church for a youth pastor position.  One of the questions I was asked is &#8220;Are you liberal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=683&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John is the New Elijah (Matthew 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was often told growing up that John the Baptist was the last OT prophet, which I always thought was kinda weird since he&#8217;s talked about in the NT.  Designating John as a prophet is a bit simplistic.  Matthew goes to great lengths to depict John as the Elijah from Malachi 4:5.  While John&#8217;s confrontation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=679&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Hates You (Reposted from Burnside Writers Collective)</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/god-hates-you-reposted-from-burnside-writers-collective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Burnside Writers Collective is an online magazine co-founded by Donald Miller.  The purpose of the magazine is to spur conversation and engage culture from a semi-emergent, semi-evangelical perspective.  I recently added their link in my sidebar and you can RSS them if you want &#8211; which I&#8217;ve done.  Below is the text of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=676&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Predict the Future (Or At Least Offer Some Encouragement About Where To Go)</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/i-predict-the-future-or-at-least-offer-some-encouragement-about-where-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was talking with another church planter here in Portland and the topic came up in which we both see a fairly major shift in church philosophy looming on the horizon.  For the past 20 years the goal of most evangelical congregations has been to get as big as they possibly can. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=671&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Try This Out (more on Matthew 2:13-23)</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/lets-try-this-out-more-on-matthew-213-23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After publishing my previous post and asking for input from people over Twitter &#38; Facebook, I think I may have gotten somewhere.  One friend suggested I listen to a sermon.  In itself, I didn&#8217;t find the sermon to be all that helpful, but what it did do for me is get me thinking about sermons. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=667&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little More on Matthew 2:13-23</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/a-little-more-on-matthew-213-23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m still going around in circles with this.  In a previous post, I suggested that Matthew enters into a &#8220;sub-plot&#8221; of sorts here by recounting salvation history, all in an attempt to show Jesus the second Adam who ultimately brings salvation to God&#8217;s people (i.e. the messiah).  The problem is that, while I may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=665&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Plant a Church</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/how-to-plant-a-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had several conversations over the past few weeks in which I&#8217;ve been asked, How do you start a church? There are a lot of ideas about how to start a church with virtually every well-known church planter writing a book or two about the process they went through.  I&#8217;ve read enough of these books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=663&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lifeStream Church is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/lifestream-church-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is our vision statement for lifeStream Church:
lifeStream Church is a gathering of messy people who creatively strive to love God, love others, and follow Jesus every day, in every possible way.
So far I&#8217;ve tried to make everything about lifeStream Church rooted in a solid theological, yet relevant, foundation.  That includes the name: lifeStream Church. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=659&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Blog</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/why-i-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question I&#8217;ve been asked on a number of occasions by everyone from my wife to colleagues to prominent pastors in my denomination.  I have several reasons for blogging &#8211; some good, some for rather selfish reasons.  So here&#8217;s a few of my reasons why I do this:

I love to write. Writing has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=657&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care is a Moral Issue</title>
		<link>http://devriesj.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/health-care-is-a-moral-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care is a moral issue.
Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t heard anyone say this&#8230;not even the Christian community.  I&#8217;m not trying to be original here; I&#8217;m just saying that I haven&#8217;t heard anyone talk about it this way.  Sure there are financial implications.  But ultimately, I think this is something that needs to be removed from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=devriesj.wordpress.com&blog=2082724&post=653&subd=devriesj&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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