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	<title>On the Road to Emmaus</title>
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		<title>Religion is Not a Bad Word</title>
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“Christianity is not a religion, its a relationship,” is a mantra I occasionally hear. The more I hear it, the more I am taken aback, wondering what exactly people mean. Whatever they specifically intend, the implication is that “religion” is something negative which we would not want to be in any way associated with. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confronting the Sin of Despair &#8211; Hope as a Theology of Resistance</title>
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It is not so much sin that plunges us into disaster, as rather despair (John Chrysostom)
Revelation 21:7-8 – “The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8But as for the cowardly (timid, fearful), the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/confronting-the-sin-of-despair-hope-as-a-theology-of-resistance/</link>
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		<title>A Biblical Concept of God Gives Rise to Lament Not Apathy</title>
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In the atmosphere of contemporary Western Christianity, when someone voices a lament with the intensity frequently found in the Psalms, it is not uncommon for them to be looked at aghast or derided for their deficient faith and concept of God, which has produced such a so-called absence of trust. &#8220;If you really knew who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/a-biblical-concept-of-god-gives-rise-to-lament-not-apathy/</link>
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		<title>Asking God the Right Question</title>
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Whenever there are times of great difficulty, pain or suffering, we naturally ask God questions. I once heard someone remark that in a certain instance people were &#8220;asking God the wrong questions.&#8221; The notion of asking God the &#8220;wrong question&#8221; struck me, so I made a quick breeze through the Psalms exploring what the God-inspired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/asking-god-the-right-question/</link>
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		<title>Being a Prophetic Voice in Times of Disaster</title>
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The most significant aspect of being a prophetic voice is deeply knowing and clearly articulating the heart of God.
From the time when a major natural disaster strikes, one can hold their breath until people have quickly announced that such a tragedy (which incidentally, happened in a place far, far away and did not remotely touch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/being-a-prophetic-voice-in-times-of-disaster-2/</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Contemplative / Meditation / Soaking CD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you like music to meditate, pray or simply rest to, this is the best one I&#8217;ve found. It is simple and serene, a masterpiece by one of the twentieth century&#8217;s greatest (IMHO) classical composers, Arvo Pärt. He is an Eastern Orthodox believer from Estonia and spent a long season of his life in contemplative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/the-best-ever-contemplative-meditation-soaking-cd/</link>
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		<title>The Ability to Love is Within Each of Us</title>
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Love of God is not something that can be taught. We did not learn from someone else how to rejoice in light or want to live, or to love our parents or guardians. It is the same – perhaps even more so – with our love for God: it does not come by another’s teaching. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/the-ability-to-love-is-within-each-of-us/</link>
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		<title>The Coming Justice of God &#8211; The Great Reversal</title>
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Scripture speaks repeatedly of a coming &#8220;great reversal&#8221; when God will right all wrongs and heal all hurts &#8211; the justice or &#8220;righteousness of God.&#8221; This will affect all areas of life and society &#8211; ecological, agricultural, economic, political, physiological, relational, etc. The New Testament tells us this time of God&#8217;s favor, though remaining future, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/the-coming-justice-of-god-the-great-reversal/</link>
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		<title>The Baptism of Christ &#8211; He Comes to Bury Sinful Humanity in the Waters&#8230;and Begin a New Creation through the Spirit and Water</title>
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Christ is bathed in light; let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptised; let us also go down with him, and rise with him.
John is baptising when Jesus draws near. Perhaps he comes to sanctify his baptiser; certainly he comes to bury sinful humanity in the waters. He comes to sanctify the Jordan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/the-baptism-of-christ-he-comes-to-bury-sinful-humanity-in-the-waters-and-begin-a-new-creation-through-the-spirit-and-water/</link>
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		<title>Why Use Written Prayers? (A series explaining the logic and reasons behind Christian liturgy and worship)</title>
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Among Evangelical and Charismatic Christians, reactions to liturgical aspects of worship and prayer vary greatly from intrigue, to delight, to bewilderment, to straight up scoffing. This series will attempt to explain some of the reasons behind liturgical prayer aimed at people with little or no (positive) experience with it, though ideally it will also be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/why-use-written-prayers-a-series-explaining-the-logic-and-reasons-behind-christian-liturgy-and-worship/</link>
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		<title>New Years Resolutions, Industrial Holiness and the Spirituality of Life</title>
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I am personally not a fan of new-years resolutions, because most never get accomplished. However, I&#8217;ve decided to take some time to reflect on what it might mean to &#8220;sanctify&#8221; the coming year to God. My thoughts here are following Jurgen Moltmann&#8217;s book Spirit of Life.
Moltmann takes issue with popularized conceptions of “spirituality.” Sometimes spirituality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/new-years-resolutions-industrial-holiness-and-the-spirituality-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Emotions Commanded in Scripture</title>
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The Scripture does not only command us to do certain activites. We are also commanded to feel certain emotions. Thus an emotion-less obedience is not in fact full obedience. God calls us to follow and obey him with our entire selves &#8211; all of our bodily, sensory, emotional, spiritual, and relational existence. This might seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardliantonio.com/blog/2010/01/emotions-commanded-in-scripture/</link>
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