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		<title>A Ridiculously Faithful God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tyler Dykstra 2.9 million. That’s how many people live in Chicago, according to the 2010 census, which apparently, didn’t count me. But that’s another story. After four years among the throngs of the urban corridors, I headed west with my newish (10 months) bride in a ’97 Camry. Fifteen hours of yawn inducing flat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=441&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orphan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tony Robledo Imagine. You are a child, small and unnoticed, who wakes every morning to the bustling sounds, chuckles, and shrieks of other orphaned children. It’s the only kind of waking world you’ve ever known. Every morning, the lingering smell of ammonia from the night cleaning crew. Every morning, a nurse wiping up accidents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=407&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caring for the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Tennant                For the last week or so I’ve been thinking about transitions, about that inexorable movement from A to B, B to C, C to D… It’s been on my mind because I’ve just recently made one of the most important transitions in all of life: I graduated from college. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=403&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Glory of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 18:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Tully A few days ago, while driving home from an ice cream date with my wife, Tenth Avenue North&#8217;s song &#8220;Oh My Dear&#8221; began to play on our car stereo.  If you have never heard to the song before, I&#8217;d encourage you to listen to it. The songwriter recalls a difficult time when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=386&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Barrel of a Gun: How Violence Kept Him from Leaving</title>
		<link>http://thrive80.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-barrel-of-a-gun-how-violence-kept-him-from-leaving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 16:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David T. Ulrich Published in The Moody Standard 76:11. This story is adapted from interviews with a male Moody student. Names are changed to honor confidentiality. “At about 1 a.m. in the living room, I finally stood up and said, ‘I’m going to break up with Haley tomorrow, and she’s gonna blow my brains out.’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=393&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer of Confession – Isaiah 53</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vertical Lit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Tully  Father, we come before you today in humility and with reverence. You are a great God, but we are an unworthy people. We have not listened to your words, words of life and peace. We have not obeyed your instructions, instructions intended to guard us and glorify you. We have not submitted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=381&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Rest</title>
		<link>http://thrive80.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/summer-rest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 16:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Danielle Germaine Somewhere, buried deep in the snowy winter months of huddling over textbooks and furiously producing papers, was this beacon of hope that promised sunshine and empty agendas. Here, dreams could be dreamt and sandy beaches envisioned, but only for so long before the blast of the icy wind tunnel woke fantasies wide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=369&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rising Sun</title>
		<link>http://thrive80.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-rising-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tony Robledo A narrative, inspired by a prayer titled &#8220;At the dawn&#8221; written by Walter Brueggemann: A fine thing, I am: a man of my word. I won’t make you a promise I can’t keep–you can count on me. I’ll be there. Because I’m a man of my word. In fact, I think the other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=367&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spare the Rod: A Physically Abused Child Learns Righteous Resistance</title>
		<link>http://thrive80.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/spare-the-rod-a-physically-abused-child-learns-righteous-resistance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David T. Ulrich Published in The Moody Standard 76:9 This story is adapted from interviews with a female college student. All names changed to honor confidentiality: “‘Spare the rod, spoil the child,’ my mom and dad used to say. So they couldn’t risk being light on the rod. “One time I made a snack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=360&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter of Lament</title>
		<link>http://thrive80.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/letter-of-lament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 15:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Danielle Germaine Dear Friend, How are you? It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve talked. Just one year of college and our lives have torn us apart. I must say, the news I received today was pretty shocking. Things have changed. I remember this time last year where we were. Small group Bible study, learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thrive80.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20946724&amp;post=348&amp;subd=thrive80&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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