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		<title>On the balance between scholarship and discipleship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since starting seminary over a year ago, I have often wrestled with this question: How do I merge the scholarly world of intellect and information with the &#8220;real world&#8221; of faith and discipleship? In some traditions, talk of seminary and intellect has such negative connotations that anyone taking an interest in such things is deemed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewjmcclure.wordpress.com&blog=4010784&post=548&subd=matthewjmcclure&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer of St. Fursey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this great prayer in a book on prayer I am presently reading.
The arms of Christ be around my shoulders,
The touch of the Holy Spirit upon my head,
The sign of Christ&#8217;s cross upon my forehead,
The sound of the Holy Spirit in my ears,
The fragrance of the Holy Spirit in my nostrils,
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		<title>Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Prayer is the breath of the soul, the organ by which we receive Christ into our parched and withered hearts.&#8221;
Ole Hallesby
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		<title>Book list for fall quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished 3 courses over the summer term- Missional Church, Special Issues in Pastoral Counseling, and Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere- and now have begun the fall quarter at Ashland Theological Seminary. Below is a list of the books I will be reading for each of this term&#8217;s courses:
Christian Theology II with Dr. Allan Bevere

Michael [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewjmcclure.wordpress.com&blog=4010784&post=541&subd=matthewjmcclure&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NINES conference 9.9.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if you could sit down across your desk with some of the best leaders in today&#8217;s church and hear what they would say to you? That&#8217;s the idea behind THE NINES. It is a free one-day event that will take place totally online. 
Leadership Network asked some of the church&#8217;s greatest communicators: &#8220;If you had nine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewjmcclure.wordpress.com&blog=4010784&post=536&subd=matthewjmcclure&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing for or being with?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two days thousands of students will arrive on campus here at Kent State. Members of our church will be creatively introducing ourselves to these students and seeking to be the church on mission during this crazy yet fun season of year. In preparation for some long days, I took a little break today to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewjmcclure.wordpress.com&blog=4010784&post=531&subd=matthewjmcclure&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great resource sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today while surfing through my favorite blogs, I found two excellent sites that provide a collection of free web resources on missional church, including book reviews, interviews, blog lists, websites, audio/video links, etc.
The first is a page on a blog authored by Jonathan Dodson, a missional church planter in Austin, TX. His site is worth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewjmcclure.wordpress.com&blog=4010784&post=526&subd=matthewjmcclure&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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