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		<title>Final post</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 4.5 years and 270 posts — including 30 podcasts and more than 60 pieces of original reporting — MethodistThinker.com is being discontinued. The archive will remain intact, but this site will not be updated, except for occasional new material in the ThinkerTwitter field at right.- I invite you to subscribe to a radio program/podcast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=20315&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A prayer of hope for the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Apostle Paul pronounced this blessing on the Church at Rome: &#8220;May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, until, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you overflow with hope&#8221; (Rom. 15:13). LORD God, give followers of Jesus such a full measure of joy and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3160&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas prayer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father, we stand in awe of what we celebrate. How can it be that the all-sufficient God of the universe became a helpless child resting in a feed trough? How can it be that the divine Word reduced Himself to unintelligible sounds? How can it be that the hands that once sculpted mountain ranges, now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3094&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the pastor on your Christmas gift list</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? Consider Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn&#8217;s 2008 book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, published by Bristol House. The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and missionary) know how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=3046&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas and the Holy Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Holy Spirit plays a key and prominent role in the Christmas story, as detailed most fully in the Gospel According to Luke. Yet the outbreak of the Spirit&#8217;s activity that surrounds the birth of Jesus Christ receives relatively little attention in contemporary preaching/teaching about Advent and Christmas. The sudden stirring of the Holy Spirit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=15939&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communion of Saints: December in Christian history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 6, 345 (traditional date): Nicholas, bishop of Myra (right), one of the most popular saints in the Greek and Latin churches, dies. Eventually, stories of his generosity and cheer became part of the Christmas tradition, and St. Nicholas became the basis for Santa Claus. December 18, 1707: Charles Wesley, who founded the Methodist movement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=9801&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Mack B. Stokes: Holiness in human sexuality</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2012/11/27/bishop-mack-b-stokes-holiness-in-human-sexuality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[United Methodist Bishop Mack B. Stokes died last week just shy of his 101st birthday. Below are insights from Bishop Stokes on the topic of human sexuality, offered from the standpoint of Christianity&#8217;s historic teaching and the particular emphasis of Wesleyan believers regarding on holiness of heart and life. The material is excerpted from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=20234&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Thanksgiving prayer</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2012/11/19/a-thanksgiving-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This classic prayer of thanksgiving is adapted from the Book of Common Prayer: Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you’ve done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love. We thank you for the blessing of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=20225&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What will the bishops do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Dr. William R. Bouknight, associate director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. It first appeared in a slightly different form in the October 2012 Confessing Movement e-newsletter. Bill Bouknight is the author of The Authoritative Word: Preaching Trust in a Skeptical Age (Abingdon, 2001) and If Disciples Grew Like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19992&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Party platforms and the UMC, part two</title>
		<link>http://methodistthinker.com/2012/10/29/party-platforms-and-the-umc-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This the second of two posts comparing the United Methodist &#8220;platform&#8221; (i.e., language from the UM Book of Discipline) with the official platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties. This post focuses on two issues: marriage and national security. As noted in part one, for Christians living in a democratic society electing government leaders is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=20064&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Party platforms and the UMC, part one</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Christians living in a democratic society, electing government leaders is a stewardship responsibility, presenting followers of Christ with an opportunity to influence government in the direction of policies that promote virtue and restrain evil. In deciding how to cast their ballots, Christian voters should consider reflect on how the positions of the major political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=20003&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 1, 1509: Birth of John Calvin (below right), French Protestant reformer, in Noyon, France. In 1536 he published his first edition of his classic Institutes of the Christian Religion (Google Books preview), which became the most systematic Protestant doctrinal statement of the Reformation. October 6, 1536: English reformer William Tyndale, who translated and published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=8739&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worth reading: &#8216;Forgetting How to Blush: United Methodism&#8217;s Compromise with the Sexual Revolution&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following book summary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC&#8217;s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference), and he has been a delegate to five UM General Conferences. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19886&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Labor Day prayer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prayer appropriate for Labor Day, from the pen of 16th-century church reformer John Calvin: My God, Father and Savior, since you have commanded us to work in order to meet our needs, sanctify our labor that it may bring nourishment to our souls as well as to our bodies. Make us constantly aware that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=404&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Group of clergy, laity calls for censure of Bishop Talbert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of more than 70 United Methodist clergy and laity is asking the Council of Bishops to censure retired Bishop Melvin Talbert for encouraging UM clergy to disobey the Book of Discipline’s prohibition on officiating at homosexual-union ceremonies. The request came in a July 19 open letter (reproduced below) sent to each bishop. That letter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19757&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The UM position on marriage and sexuality is stronger than anything Dan Cathy said</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Dr. William R. Bouknight, associate director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. His comments below about homosexual activists and Chick-fil-A first appeared in a slightly different form in the August 2012 Confessing Movement newsletter. Bill Bouknight is the author of The Authoritative Word: Preaching Trust in a Skeptical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19671&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communion of Saints: August in Christian History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 6, 1801: Revival hits a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky (as pictured in sketch below). Within a week, 25,000 were attending the revival services. Cane Ridge became the largest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening. Although the revival at Cane Ridge grew out of a Presbyterian gathering, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=13815&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing away young people by being faithful to the gospel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post is by the Rev. Rob Renfroe, president of Good News, the flagship renewal ministry of The United Methodist Church. He is also the pastor of discipleship at The Woodlands UMC, a 9,300-member congregation in The Woodlands, Texas. From 2007 to 2009, Rob Renfroe served as president of the board of The Confessing Movement Within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19603&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Communion of Saints: June in Christian History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 3, 1905: Hudson Taylor, English missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission, dies. &#8220;China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women,&#8221; he once said. June 9, 1834: William Carey, often called &#8220;the father of modern Protestant missions&#8221; dies, having spent 41 years in India without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=6433&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is at stake in the battle over marriage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (May 8) voters in North Carolina will decide whether to approve a state constitutional amendment that says &#8220;Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in [North Carolina].&#8221; The commentary below is by the Rev. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methodistthinker.com&#038;blog=4447145&#038;post=19444&#038;subd=methodistthinker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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