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		<title>Undermining Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post: In mosque controversies, some Christians undermine their own faith (Michael Gerson) I'm not terribly fond of much of Gerson's writing (stylistically, great ... merit of the content, not so much). But there's something to be said for his take here: In this debate, grace is in short supply but irony abounds. The Christian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2043&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=underming-faith</link>
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		<title>Forthcoming Linc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 28th ... new Linc. For you iTuners, the first single - "Reaching for You" - is already available for purchase. The rest of us, apparently, have to wait. On a sidenote, I did manage to pre-order the new Israel Houghton release. I think I've got it downloaded onto my laptop, but haven't gotten around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2033&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=forthcoming-linc</link>
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		<title>Retro Read: Texas Monthly on W.A. Criswell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little retro-reading to mix into the current assortment, here. This is a 1984 Texas Monthly profile of Dallas minister, W.A. Criswell. There's actually a lot going on in the article: a brief history of the theological spats that preceded Criswell at First Baptist, Criswell's own evolution on racial issues through the 50s and 60s, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2021&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=retro-read-texas-monthly-on-w-a-criswell</link>
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		<title>What About Beck?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you know me, you know I'd love nothing more than to dive into this and pick it apart. But since busy-ness wins the day, here's the keynote speech by Glenn Beck from this past weekend. Make of it what you will while I slave away with the dayjob. In my absence, some linkage for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2018&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=what-about-beck</link>
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		<title>Joel Hunter on &#8220;Obama-as-Muslim&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joel Hunter, back in the news. This time, it's commenting on polls that show a rise in the number of Americans who think the President is a Muslim. Hunter, as one of the handful of pastors who regularly meet with the President, offers a dissenting view.]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2012&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=joel-hunter-on-obama-as-muslim</link>
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		<title>Ecclessia&#8217;s New Digs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The future home of Ecclesia Houston: 1100 Elder. Click below to embiggen; or click here or here for the visual tour No idea how long renovations will take, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if we open house by mid-2011. It doesn't strike me that a lot of the work would be of the nature that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2004&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ecclessias-new-digs</link>
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		<title>New Tunes: &#8220;Love God. Love People&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New tunes from Israel Houghton to be released on 8/31. Order now and you can get a few advance tracks, with the rest available for download on the 31st. Unless I'm missing something (and maybe I am), I don't see the links on the site for the pre-order options they just emailed. Even more confounding? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=2002&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=new-tunes-love-god-love-people</link>
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		<title>Anne Elaborates on “Quitting”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A belated followup on Anne Rice ... There are moments in the interview that get an eyeroll out of me - mainly due to the interviewee. But it's worth watching to the end for Anne's explanation of whether it's worth walking away from organized religion altogether or just looking for another church. However discomforting some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1997&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=anne-elaborates-on-quitting</link>
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		<title>On Modes &amp; Harmonies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One minor little update from the recording "studio." I happened to pick up an old DVD instructional video of one of my favorite guitarists and created my own drill out of inspiration from it. This one is a bit less song-like and a lot more "drill with a drum machine in the background"-like. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1993&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=on-modes-harmonies</link>
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		<title>Sunday Night, I Hardly Knew Ya &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From teh twitterz: Dear @ecclesiahouston we will be adding a fifth service at 5pm on Saturdays (beginning 9/11) Will you come &#038; help open up seats on Sunday? Why yes, I think I will. Now if I can just patiently stick to the current Sunday night routine, I'll be fine in the interim. And yet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1988&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=sunday-night-i-hardly-knew-ya</link>
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		<title>Eat &#8216;em Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pardon the quietness on the blog lately. Usual excuse (cough*dayjob*cough). And probably didn't hurt much that even my Sunday ended up being a bit too hectic to make it to church on time. In leiu of all that, here's a commercial that I'm led to believe is airing in the Houston area for my alma [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1800&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=eat-em-up</link>
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		<title>Anne Rice “Exits”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Geertsma at ThinkChristian catches an interesting bit of news: Best-selling author Anne Rice, who most famously penned Interview with a Vampire, announced yesterday on her Facebook page that she is no longer a Christian. She wrote: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1798&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=anne-rice-exits</link>
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		<title>Resetting Boyd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, a bit of repetition with the classics is a good thing. Here's a repeat posting of Greg Boyd's interview with Charlie Rose, discussing his book, "Myth of a Christian Nation." A fair amount of what Boyd outlines is derivative of John Howard Yoder's thesis. There's two books by Yoder that I've been meaning to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1795&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=resetting-boyd</link>
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		<title>Philemon: Commandment vs Free Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week's sermon at Ecclesia was on Philemon. A whole sermon devoted to an entire book of the Bible. Good for all involved that it's also among the shortest "books." One of the points Chris brought up was that of Paul offering his instruction as a request instead of an instruction: free will, rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1791&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=philemon-commandment-vs-free-will</link>
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		<title>A Wieseltier Reset: “Under God and Over”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An oldie, but a goodie in that it's stuck with me ever since reading this column. A full read is well worth the time spent, but here's a "Reader's Digest" version if I dare try to condense it ... &#187; New Republic: Under God And Over (Leon Wieseltier) As I watched the Supreme Court discuss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1788&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-wieseltier-reset-under-god-and-over</link>
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		<title>Back to Barton for a Moment &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving on, ever so slowly, I've got one and a half extra points to add to the David Barton catalog from last week. The recent item comes from a recent radio show of Barton's, where he compared today's Tea Party activists to Jesus Christ Himself. The paranoid demonization of "the media" is added for good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1785&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=back-to-barton-for-a-moment</link>
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		<title>Deconstructing Barton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to get the ball rolling (ever so slowly) on the topic I've now threatened to devote a bit more time and attention to, here's two backgrounders on David Barton of Wallbuilders. Both are from 2006 - the first by Texas Monthly magazine; the second from the Texas Freedom Network, a group devoted to tracking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1778&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=deconstructing-barton</link>
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		<title>A Little Harmony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've posted any tunage. Just as well ... it's been a while since I've spent some quality time with either guitar or recorder. In this week's episode, I've added a new toy to the playpen and the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone effect pedal was in use. I went with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1768&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-little-harmony</link>
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		<title>Two Things You Never Talk About At the Dinner Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I've been very reluctant to spend an exorbitant amount of time blogging despite having an acute interest in: faith &#038; politics. Yes, I've dipped an occasional toe into the subject matter. I've read quite a bit. But I've also avoided going into any great depth here in terms of the historical understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1765&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-two-things-you-never-talk-about-at-the-dinner-table</link>
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		<title>Free Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One side benefit to having Saturdays open on the calendar since switching churches, I have the option of seeing one of my all-time favorite entertainers this weekend. Sadly, this is the most "church-friendly" song of his I think I could put up here without offending someone. Someone who isn't Amish, that is. Granted, I usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1761&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=free-time</link>
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		<title>New for the Reading List: &#8220;Everything Must Change&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New (to me) &#038; on the way: Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide by Brian McLaren. The book is actually around three years old now. But I just ran across some reference that mentioned the book and how McLaren highlights the religious groups of the first century Jews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1754&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=new-for-the-reading-list-everything-must-change</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Non-political&#8221; Steve Austin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments from the individual who described his message to a Lakewood ministry as "non-political" despite instructions on the type of candidate to vote for and dropping two partisan group names as guides for people to inform them. Safe to say, I feel even more secure in my decision to walk away from a church that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1756&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-non-political-steve-austin</link>
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		<title>Big Bad Nam (Is Sweet Naaman Now) [+ update]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I'm already falling behind on my grand design to keep closer tabs on the weekly sermons. So a brief highlight and shoutout for the time being. Last weekend, it was Gideon Tsang swinging by from Austin. I'm not 100% sure, but it may be the first sermon I've witnessed from someone involved with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1750&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=big-bad-nam-is-sweet-naaman-now</link>
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		<title>Warming Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dublin Dr. Pepper + Sound Check = Great way to relax before service starts. We actually had Dublin Dr. Pepper at Lakewood, it was just locked up for the kiddos (and I'm pretty sure they fail to appreciate it as much as most grown-ups would). At 2115 it runs freely ... well, after you buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1745&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=warming-up</link>
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		<title>Ed Dobson: WWJGTC?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, just to demonstrate my "glutton for punishment" bonafides, I've been digging around ye olde internet for a number of sermons delivered on July 4th. Without fail, the holiday gets mentioned in just about every one. I click on Woodland Hills and listen to Greg Boyd give a very brief opening rant about idolatrous patriotism. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1740&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ed-dobson-wwjgtc</link>
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		<title>Feels Like the First Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Erickson blogs a bit about his sermon from last weekend at Ecclesia. Interestingly enough, I loved his description of how his presentation evolved over the multiple times it was delivered on Sunday. One of the things I loved about Saturdays at Lakewood was that it was the rawest presentation of the three weekend services. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1737&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feels-like-the-first-time</link>
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		<title>What Matters More &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little light reading from the past weekend here. The first excerpt (taken from the Message interpretation) is taken from Luke 9. I think it captures a bit of the human experience that goes into how we often distort the real meaning that Jesus brought. The start of this excerpt begins with what seems like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1730&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=what-matters-more</link>
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		<title>Reports from the Gulf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, there's the tweet updates, but since I'm a news junkie ... &#187; NOLA: BP's Gulf oil spill is a sin, visiting clergy say after touring the coast Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy leaders from around the country cruised through the oil-fouled upper reaches of one of the nation's richest seafood nurseries Wednesday, and some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1727&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=reports-from-the-gulf</link>
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		<title>Greg Boyd: Judas Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pretty fair highlight here of a recent Greg Boyd sermon that still echos with me. This is from his sermon, "Judas Christianity" on Feb. 7, 2010. In it, Boyd covers the story of Judas' betrayal as he runs through the book of Luke. And in the process, the story serves as something of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1725&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=greg-boyd-judas-christianity</link>
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		<title>Home, Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Seay .... "not in the despair of where we're at, but the hope of where we can be." So, I've been rooting around for a few more online datapoints on Chris Seay and I think it's sufficient to say there's been a few points of personal confirmation along the way. It's a little odd, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1722&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=home-again</link>
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		<title>Things I Wish I Didn&#8217;t Have to Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a part of Eugene Peterson's "Practicing Resurrection" that I've been meaning to transcribe here on the blog. It involves a reference in Ephesians 1:15 where Paul refers to the church of Ephesus as "saints." Ephesians, of course, is a wonderful letter (usually attributed to Paul) where the author tries to convince a fractious church [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1718&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=things-i-wish-i-didnt-have-to-write</link>
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		<title>Chris Seay: Longing for the Kingdom of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Fourth of July, folks. I don't think many of us would have to look far for a friend or acquaintance who doesn't look forward to Thanksgiving or Christmas for any number of reasons (say, involving family or lack thereof). For me, I guess that time of year is Independence Day. That would have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1714&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=chris-seay-longing-for-the-kingdom-of-god</link>
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		<title>Skye Jethani: Tortured By Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally register a bit of a grumble when I realize that one of my preferred podcast preachers is having a substitute fill in for the weekend. After quickly getting over that sentiment, I'm obviously in love with this message enough to want to share a snippet of it: That's Skye Jethani filling in for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1707&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=skye-jethani-tortured-by-books</link>
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		<title>Boyd on Idolatrous Patriotism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those times of the year that I really appreciate Greg Boyd. Here's his latest offering in Relevant magazine on "Idolatrous Patriotism." ADD-ON: Boyd offers a few more thoughts on the Fourth of July over at the Q blog.]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1700&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=boyd-on-idolatrous-patriotism</link>
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		<title>Midweek Video: &#8220;Falling in Love With Jesus&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A belated recap of my Sunday: wake up late - around the crack of noon; head to the office for work and what's left of webcasted church services at Lakewood and elsewhere; land at work and realize there's people twittering and facebooking about Jonathan Butler and Sheila E. being at Lakewood ... which I missed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1692&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=midweek-video-falling-in-love-with-jesus</link>
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		<title>Time for a New Toy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something new for bookworms like me: Kindle for Android. I've been putting off purchasing a Kindle ever since they came out due to my selection in reading differing slightly from the offering available for the device. Since then, they've offered free versions of the device for PC &#038; Mac, and then iPhone &#038; Blackberry. Great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://faithbasedblog.com/?p=1690&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=time-for-a-new-toy</link>
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