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		<title>Your chance to study Apologetics</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=211</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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Would you like to be a more effective witness?  How about a defender of the faith?  Check out the new degree program that Dr. Blakemore is involved in at Wesley Biblical Seminary.  Click on the icon above for more information.
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		<title>Obamacare &amp; Christian Faith&#8230;Yay or Nay?</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=180</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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Moses Raises the Healing Serpent in the Wilderness
 
Over the past year no issue has had more attention given to it than healthcare in America.  In the process, the various bills passed by both houses of Congress (along partisan lines), as well as the general political attempt to address the heathcare crisis in America by the President and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Believe In God &amp; Why Become a Christian?</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=162</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Here&#8217;s a transcript from a Facebook conversation between one of my friends and me regarding &#8220;proof&#8221; of God&#8217;s existence and reasons that we could provide for why someone should become a Christian. 
Thought I&#8217;d share them with you.
7:47pm  Jim &#8230;. Dr. Blakemore!
7:47pm Steve &#8230;. Jimbo!
7:48pm Jim &#8230;. hey buddy. you staying out of trouble?
 
7:48pm Steve &#8230;.I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;Science&#8221; No Longer Impresses!</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=157</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Mark Steyn, a commentator known for incisive observations about culture and politics from a conservative point of view, wrote a very good article about global warming/climate change. In it he discusses the turmoil that has erupted over the scientific research upon which those who insist that global warming is an immanent threat to our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Does Chrisitianity Cease to Be Christianity?</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=154</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anglican church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral decline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a fascinating article that is a must read for anyone who is concerned about the decline of &#8220;mainline&#8221; Christian denominations.
It is written by Mary Eberstadt who is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is writing in response to Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s historic invitation to Anglicans to become members of the Roman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Life, not Just a New Year</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=128</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baptism of the Lord]]></category>
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What are we to make of the year that has just passed?  2009 will be remembered by many as a year of tremendous economic hardship, political turmoil, angry citizens, and international threats getting more threatening.  By any measure, this past year has been a troubled time for a host of people. But not just the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fort Hood, Islam &amp; and the Poverty of Secularism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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UPDATE:  Sorry for the misspellings in the first version.
Being able to see the obvious is a virtue much under valued.  It appears that our political leaders and the media elite do not have this virtue.  It is remarkable&#8211;indeed, fascinating&#8211;that a massacre at Ft. Hood, Texas where a Muslim psychiatrist and soldier killed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ft Hood and Questions about Islam</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=90</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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The recent murderous actions on a United States military base in Texas presents us, once again, with a disturbing question. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is the Army officer and devout Muslim who went on a homicidal shooting spree at Fort Hood on Thursday November 4. In the face of what many are calling the most violent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to Believe</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=82</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Bang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the rationality of faith is no replacement for faith itself, but it is nonetheless an important part of our relationship with God. Let&#8217;s remember that the Gospel of John identifies Jesus as the Word &#8220;who was with God and was God.&#8221; The term &#8220;Word&#8221; is a translation into English of the Greek word Logos, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;Holy Saturday&#8221; on All Saints Day</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=53</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christ's death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[descent into Hell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[redemption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Very little thought is given by modern Protestant Christians to the day between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his Resurrection. Yet, this day is a crucial part of the story of our redemption at the hands of God.
For much of the history of the Church, this day was set aside to mark Christ&#8217;s descent into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Life on Other Planets?</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=73</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[exterestrial life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human intellect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vastness of the universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Food for Thought:
The other day I was asked a question that I have been asked on many occasions. Someone wanted to know whether or not I believe that there is life on other planets. My standard answer to this question is that I am an agnostic about the question. I just don&#8217;t know.
Sometimes that answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King of Kings; Lord of Lords</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose of the Church in the world?
There are any number of answers that people might give to that question in modern America. Here are just a few:

To bring people to Christ
To do the work of God&#8217;s Kingdom
To help the needy
To encourage Christians
To worship
To be the Body of Christ
To witness against injustice
To tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Pentecost Seriously</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=64</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Spirit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pentecost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power of Resurrection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last Sunday of this month will be Pentecost Sunday, and unfortunately very few churches in America will make very much of it. Allow me to share with you why that is spiritually regrettable.
Pentecost is, of course, the day when the disciples in the upper room were gathered and the Holy Spirit filled the room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of God?</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God's activity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Pul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to make of the current explosion of interest in &#8220;spirituality&#8221; in American culture?
On the one hand we should rejoice that people are looking for answers to life&#8217;s deepest questions about meaning and significance. It is always a good thing when people realize that there is more to life than the material and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of the Resurrection</title>
		<link>http://thirdmillenniumfaith.org/TMblog/?p=25</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Blakemore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apostles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basis for faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿What makes a Christian different from other persons who have a different theology? The easy answer, of course, is that Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth is both the Lord and Savior of the world. But why should we believe that?
For the early community of those who identified themselves as followers of Jesus, there were [...]]]></description>
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