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	<title>Not An Idle Word</title>
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	<description>The Official Blog of Rev. Mark L. Wilcoxson, Senior Pastor, Bethesda Church</description>
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		<title>Truth and tolerance &#8230; or not, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All one need do to ferret out the myth of &#8216;tolerance&#8217; is to disagree with a proponent of &#8216;tolerance&#8217; in our world today. If and when one does dare to disagree &#8211; honestly, seriously, vulnerably, publicly; one gets a very quick and revealing and valuable lesson. &#8216;Tolerance&#8217; isn&#8217;t, so much &#8230; Just dare to say that God is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/truth-and-tolerance-or-not-part-1</link>
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		<title>Homosexuality, pluralism, and living the Biblical-Christian life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it was true the world over, or in North America, or even here in Canada, and you may or may not be glad to know that I&#8217;m not really tapped-into this world, but last Sunday was the day of the &#8220;Pride parade&#8221; in Winnipeg. [For those who may not know what that phrase -- "Pride parade" -- refers to ... [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/homosexuality-sexual-perversion-and-the-challenge-of-living-the-biblical-christian-life-of-love-and-fidelity</link>
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		<title>Terry Jones and Fred Phelps are NOT true Christians, pastors, or preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; and their &#8216;churches&#8217; are false</title>
		<description><![CDATA[        &#8220;You have heard that it was said, &#8216;An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.&#8217; But I say to you, &#8216;Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/neither-terry-jones-nor-fred-phelps-is-a-true-christian-pastor-or-preacher-of-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ-and-their-churches-are-false</link>
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		<title>Two Sundays, four churches, many differences: What did I learn? (An interim report)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR THE FIRST TIME since I started preaching, I didn&#8217;t &#8230; for three consecutive Sundays. Since April 1997, the longest I had gone without preaching was two consecutive Sundays. Even then, the two-Sunday-hiatus has only happened a handful of times. During a stretch of several years, I preached fifty Sundays per year, and the two Sundays &#8220;off&#8221; were not consecutive. This was partly because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/two-sundays-four-churches-many-differences-what-did-i-learn-an-interim-report</link>
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		<title>The dysfunction of atheism &#8212; overt and otherwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOME YEARS AGO, I had occasion to speak at length with an atheist. He was also the attending psychiatrist for one of my family members in the hospital. It was one of those bizzaro-world-where-am-I-and-how-did-I-get-here-anyway conversations. Maybe you&#8217;ve had one of these experiences, or something like it. It&#8217;s one of those conversations, when we think we&#8217;re speaking the same language; we might even be using some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/the-dysfunction-of-atheism</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s nice, but is anybody buying what we are selling?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, a small group of men graciously invited me to join them, as they had been meeting weekly for a number of years, to process life and faith together. Since then, I have met with these five other men &#8212; and they with me &#8211; nearly every Tuesday morning at 7:30am at one office or other of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/thats-nice-but-is-anybody-buying-what-we-are-selling</link>
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		<title>Providence and our cluelessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[As I mentioned, I was out of city and country earlier this week, as I attended the Desiring God Conference for Pastors for the third year. I had hoped to blog from Minneapolis. However, in the fullness of my heart and mind, the discovery of new relationships, and the going-from-dawn-to-dust, it just didn't happen. But I didn't want to lose momentum, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/providence-and-our-cluelessness</link>
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		<title>DESIRING GOD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IS GOD &#8211; knowing God, walking with God, hearing from God, obeying God, worshipping the One True and Living God, enjoying God, DESIRING GOD &#8211; the singular pursuit of your life? Of your family? Of your church? Just so you know &#8211; with George Washington, in my role as a pastor, and all that apocryphal &#8221;I cannot tell a lie&#8221; jazz &#8211; as for me and my house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/desiring-god</link>
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		<title>Navigating hazardous roads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TODAY AS I TYPE, we&#8217;re having our second quasi-snow storm of the season here in Winnipeg &#8211; my apologies to the U.S. northeast and midwest and Canadian southeast that are digging out of something  like their fifteenth REAL snow storm &#8230; of the month! We&#8217;ve gotten a bunch of snow prior to this, for sure &#8211; considerably more, in fact, than is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/navigating-hazardous-roads</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Love the one you&#8217;re with!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IN THE EARLY 1970s, some of you may remember that Steven Stills released his first solo album and a song entitled &#8220;Love the one you&#8217;re with.&#8221; This single-record became a huge hit, was &#8220;covered&#8221; by many other groups in the years following &#8211; including his own Crosby, STILLS, Nash, and Young &#8211; and still plays on the radio today from time-to-time. As it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notanidleword.ca/love-the-one-youre-with</link>
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