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		<title>Christian Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2010/10/christian-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched this video with interest, especially given the work I did at Oxford three and a half years ago, entitled 'The idols of death and the God of life'.  Perhaps I should have emailed it to Rowan back then!!  Of course with hindsight, everything is clear..]]></description>
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		<title>The Message for the Broken</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2010/02/the-message-for-the-broken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2010/02/the-message-for-the-broken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[tim keller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus' teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsider Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communities of Grace</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2009/04/communities-of-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have frequently thought about the relationship between the uncompromising ethical stance of much of the New Testament (not least the Sermon on the Mount), and salvation as the free gift of God, through the cross, while we were still God's enemies. With the help of various theologians (John Calvin, Karl Barth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Sermon?</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2009/03/a-good-sermon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2009/03/a-good-sermon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes a good sermon?  We are having a preachers' meeting this evening at church, and at our staff meeting this lunchtime we discussed the kinds of things we look for in a good sermon. We suggested things like: Bible-based Applied, relevant to everyday life Good illustrations Authoritative Passionate Appropriate length (!) Transformational / affirming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin on Ceremony</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2009/02/calvin-on-ceremony/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2009/02/calvin-on-ceremony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bcg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calvin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obedience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on John 4.20, Calvin writes that error lies in 'the confusing of different ages': Later generations devote themselves to the examples of the fathers, not thinking that a different law of action has been enjoined on them by the Lord.  We can ascribe to this ignorance the huge mass of ceremonies with which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New prophecy?</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/08/new-prophecy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/08/new-prophecy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had an interesting comment by the preacher in church today.&#160; He was saying that whenever he preaches, he tries to have something fresh, something new and prophetic to say. Now I whole-heartedly agree that preaching should be prophetic.&#160; It should challenge people, show them what God is saying to them through the Bible, feed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAFCON</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/07/gafcon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/07/gafcon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the troubles in the Anglican Communion at the moment, and ahead of the Lambeth Conference in a few days' time, a number of archbishops, bishops, clergy and laypeople gathered in Jerusalem for the first meeting of what they have called GAFCON: Global Anglican Future Conference. The move has met with many different reactions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/05/christian-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/05/christian-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obedience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read this verse this morning: Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. 1 Peter 2.16 (ESV) The kind of freedom won for us in Christ is not that we can do anything.&#160; The word translated by the ESV as 'servants' [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and works</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/05/faith-and-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/05/faith-and-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 07:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bcg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[james]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read James 2 this morning, the almost infamous passage which apparently contradicts Paul's theology that we are saved only by faith, that there is nothing we can do to earn our salvation.&#160; I don't think it does say that, however.&#160; Here is the passage in full, from the ESV: 2.14&#160;What good is it, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assurance</title>
		<link>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/04/assurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kerrins.co.uk/blog/2008/04/assurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bcg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a long conversation last night with a good friend about various theological topics.&#160; Some of them will find their way on here, in time.&#160; The first of them is the doctrine of assurance.&#160; How can we be confident that we are saved?&#160; Is such confidence possible? For Methodists, 'assurance' historically refers to a [...]]]></description>
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