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		<title>Following and Sacrifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first thought, following Jesus seems easy. It seems a matter of changing your mind about who Jesus is, recognising and accepting him as Saviour, and acknowledging him as King and Ruler. I suppose it is easy, relatively speaking, to see ‘following Jesus’ as a ‘decision’. Western Christianity often focuses on people making ‘decisions’ to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=300&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the ads on this blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good question… I have not placed any advertising on this blog, nor have I given approval for anyone else to do so. It seems these ads are something that WordPress allow. I&#8217;ll be looking into what I might do to stop them, but I am not sure how all that will work out. For now, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=295&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Matthew 4 this morning I was again struck by how this very simple passage communicates such profound and (possibly) unnerving truths about Jesus. Jesus shows up at the Sea of Galilee, and proceeds to call his first disciples. There is no promotional tour, no bus with a banner, no advertising campaign. Jesus just shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=292&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, it&#8217;s been a while… My last regular blog post was July 1. Since that time we have said many a tear filled good bye to great friends in Brisbane, moved to the other side of the country, started ministry at Gateway Community Church in Cockburn Central (Perth). I have buried my mother, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=286&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Surrey&#8217;s 26 Thoughts on Youth Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at the EQUIP Youth &#38; Children&#8217;s Ministry Conference, Ed Surrey shared some of his thoughts on youth and children&#8217;s ministry. Well, he works in youth ministry, so it was mainly a youth ministry thing as opposed to a kids ministry thing. Ed expanded on each one of thoughts, of course, but I&#8217;ll record them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=284&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God wants you to flourish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that from within the general camp of what might be called Reformed Evangelicalism there are a number of people who view God as a stern master whose primary interest is to impose rules, expose sin, and generally fume about how bad the world is. Make no mistake: humanity is deeply and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=281&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Test yourselves&#8230; what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read: 2 Corinthians 13:5-10 I have often wondered about this verse: &#8220;Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith.&#8221; I mean, wouldn&#8217;t I know whether I am in the faith? Don&#8217;t I know my own motives, whether I really do entrust myself to Jesus? There will always be some who will say that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=279&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why you (still) need the church&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://davidgroenenboom.com/2011/06/24/why-you-still-need-the-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Apologies that my posts have been a little irregular these last weeks. Leonie and I have visited a few churches, as well as ReCharge &#8211; The CRCA pastor&#8217;s conference, we have considered a few calls from churches, we&#8217;ve decided to accept a call to Gateway CRC, and this last week we&#8217;ve out our house on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=275&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The God Who Implores: Can we contemplate worshipping a God who would beg for anything?</title>
		<link>http://davidgroenenboom.com/2011/06/16/the-god-who-implores-can-we-contemplate-worshipping-a-god-who-would-beg-for-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read 2 Cor 5:11-21 Try and remember the last time you begged for anything. I mean, seriously pleaded and entreated anyone for something. After we get past the trivialities of begging as a child for a puppy, or pleading with an adolescent son to get out of bed and go to school, we start to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=271&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God and the Live Export Beef Trade</title>
		<link>http://davidgroenenboom.com/2011/06/01/god-and-the-export-beef-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read: Gen 9:7-17 In his book, &#8216;Engaging God&#8217;s World&#8217;, Cornelius Plantinga observes that Genesis 1 opens our eyes to the core character of God. In his act of creation, God answers the formlessness of the heavens and the earth with his creative word &#8216;Let there be light.&#8217; While Plantinga does not make the point directly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidgroenenboom.com&amp;blog=4357947&amp;post=269&amp;subd=davidgroenenboom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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