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	<title>Chronicles of Crank</title>
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	<description>Him we proclaim!</description>
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		<title>Sing with Me..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Say to God, &#8220;How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you (Ps 66:3).
 
For many years the Church has sung of God’s greatness, but in recent years it seems that there has been an explosion of songs that extol this virtue. While we used to sing only “How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Unwise Men From the East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans (Is. 2:6).
 
                As if God needed anything else to bring judgment, Isaiah identifies Eastern mysticism as one of the reasons for it. Since the 1960s America also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Holding the Ropes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ (Eph 1:9).
 
                Some friends of mine are struggling in their marriage, and there is a possibility of divorce. It is a stain upon the God that we believe in and Who revealed Himself in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=177</link>
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		<title>The Trust Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you (Ps 31:19).
 
                Unanswered prayer is the grief of many Christians today. There are usually no answers to the questions of “Why does He delay to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Settled Institutions of Sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit (2 Kings 15:9).
 
                There were 20 kings of the Northern tribes of Israel from the time the kingdom divided until the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=172</link>
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		<title>The Anchor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near (Rev 1:3).
Theologians and Bible teachers have debated for centuries what “this prophecy” refers to. Does John promise blessing for reading the twenty-two chapters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Look After the Orphans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (James 1:27).
                The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines an “orphan” as “a child whose parents are dead.” This is an accurate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=168</link>
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		<title>Heed the Warnings!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? (Heb 2:1-3).
For the past decade or more, my wife has had a problem with her gall bladder. There is a sense in which she has not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=166</link>
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		<title>Pillar of Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God&#8217;s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth (1 Tim 3:15-16).
                I still recall the pictures in my 6th grade Social Studies book of the ruins of ancient Greece and Rome. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<title>In the Church but not of the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things (Phil 3:18-19).
                Every time I read these verses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oakridgealliance.com/blog/?p=159</link>
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