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		<title>Making the Father&#8217;s Face Light Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading John 15 as part of my morning devotions on Tuesday when I saw that line in verse 8 about glorification.  Jesus said, &#8220;My father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.&#8221; I stumble over that word&#8211;glory, glorify, glorification.  What does that really mean?  I tend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3914&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this prayer in this morning&#8217;s devotional reading, and loved it, as I love many of William Barclay&#8217;s prayers.  Be edified. O God, we thank you for all those in whose words and in whose writings your truth has come to us. For the historians, the psalmists and the prophets, who wrote the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3911&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Time for Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength</title>
		<link>http://jimsomerville.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/making-time-for-heart-mind-soul-and-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my January 1 sermon: May I tell you about something that has been helpful to me?  Once every three months or so I try to go on a 24-hour spiritual retreat.  I just get away by myself somewhere.  In the spring and fall I often go to a state park and camp.  In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3904&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl from Kissimmee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can still remember my first real date.  It was with this girl I met at summer camp.  She had been visiting a cousin in Charleston,West Virginia, but she was from a place called Kissimmee, Florida.  The first time she said it it sounded like an invitation.  “Where are you from?” I asked, and she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3897&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the World End on December 21, 2012?</title>
		<link>http://jimsomerville.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/will-the-world-end-on-december-21-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No.  Not according to Walter T. Witschey. Dr. Witschey wrote to me after my recent sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 in which I mentioned that some people think the world is going to end on December 21, 2012, because that&#8217;s what the Mayan calendar &#8220;suggests.&#8221;  It was in that part of the sermon where I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3889&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Maturity&#8221; Checklist</title>
		<link>http://jimsomerville.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/the-maturity-checklist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother Scott has been serving as my mother&#8217;s &#8220;editor and publisher&#8221; recently, helping her sort through a lifetime&#8217;s worth of collected musings and publishing online those things that might be of interest to others.  This one was of interest to me: a &#8220;maturity checklist&#8221; designed to help me and my brothers know if we were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3880&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blushing with Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got to hand it to the members and friends of Richmond&#8217;s First Baptist Church. On the first Sunday in October I stood in the pulpit and told them we had a budget deficit of nearly $200,000.  And then I said: &#8220;In a church this size that’s not necessarily a cause for alarm, and frankly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3876&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the Fifth Commandment</title>
		<link>http://jimsomerville.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/keeping-the-fifth-commandment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Frederick, Maryland, today, honoring my father and mother by taking care of them while my brother Scott and his family prepare for his daughter&#8217;s wedding at their farm in West Virginia.  It&#8217;s been a pleasure. This morning, for example, Dad came in to breakfast with a memory about sacking oats in his boyhood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3865&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kind of World I Want to Live in</title>
		<link>http://jimsomerville.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/the-kind-of-world-i-want-to-live-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Somerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my colleague Bob Browning for this story from September 11, 2001, and for the commentary that follows: Usman Farman, a twenty-two-year-old Muslim of Pakistani descent worked in Building 7 of the World Trade Center. His office was a stone’s throw from the Twin Towers. After the second plane hit, Farman made his way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3860&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christian Way of Being Human</title>
		<link>http://jimsomerville.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/a-christian-way-of-being-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first Sunday of every month I climb the stairs to Room 243 to teach our newcomers class.  My assignment is to talk about “a Christian way of being human,” and I like to begin with an emphasis on the word way. Some people will tell you that to be Christian you have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jimsomerville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028685&amp;post=3857&amp;subd=jimsomerville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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