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		<title>Lent: Christ Absorbed the Wrath of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Christ Suffered and Died – Reason #1: Christ Absorbed the Wrath of God &#8220;There is a holy curse hanging over all sin. Not to punish would be unjust. The demeaning of God would be endorsed. A lie would reign at the core of reality. Therefore, God says, &#8216;Cursed be everyone who does not abide by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1652&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lent: 40 Days or 40 Hours?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Kimberly has a great piece over at Credo House titled, &#8220;A Short History of Lent&#8221;.  Most interesting is that the current 40-day period of observance may come as a result of a translation error! He suggests that the original practice in the first few centuries of the church may have been only a 40 hour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1648&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Reminder for Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people I know think of Lent as a time to fast from food. However, as I noted earlier, that is not the most important part of the season of Lent. Nancy Leigh DeMoss at TrueWoman.com has a great article to warn us about mistaken notions of what Lent is about: &#8220;Some people fast during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1645&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditating on Our Need for Christ&#8217;s Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier I posted a brief description of the threefold aim and purpose of not only Ash Wednesday but also the Lenten season [here], namely, &#8220;to meditate on our mortality, sinfulness, and need of a savior;&#8221; &#8220;to renew our commitment to daily repentance in the Lenten season and in all of life;&#8221; and &#8220;to remember with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1581&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ash Wednesday / Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from The Worship Sourcebook (Faith Alive Christian Resources [Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004] p. 541): “Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. By the fourth century the Western church had determined that the Lenten period of fasting and renewal should correspond to Christ’s forty-day fast (Matt. 4:2), and, by counting forty days back from Easter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1575&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keith and Kristyn Getty in Grand Rapids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I posted about modern hymn-writers Keith and Kristyn Getty (authors of &#8220;In Christ Alone&#8221;, &#8220;By Faith&#8221;, &#8220;Come, People of the Risen King&#8220;, and &#8220;O Church Arise&#8221; among many others). I am pleased to post that they are coming to Grand Rapids, Michigan on Thursday, February 9. For tickets and information visit here. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1558&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Abrogation of Common Honesty, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[continued from part 1] In critiquing the liberal Protestant&#8217;s misleading use of traditional Christian terms, Machen continues: &#8220;In another way also, liberalism within the &#8216;evangelical&#8217; churches is inferior to Unitarianism. It is inferior to Unitarianism in the matter of honesty. In order to maintain themselves in the evangelical churches and quiet the fears of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1547&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Abrogation of Common Honesty, part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestant liberalism was a movement that gained strength in the late 19th– and early 20th–century to bring about changes in Christianity so as to better conform to the &#8220;modern man.&#8221; Jesus&#8217; ethical teaching was emphasized while many traditional doctrines such as the virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, the resurrection, and even the deity of Christ, were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1537&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Books I Am Looking Forward to Reading in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I posted my ten favorite books for 2011. Here are five books that I have already started reading, or plan to read, that look promising for the coming year (in no particular order): G. K. Beale, New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1514&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Ten Books for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my top ten list of favorite books I read in 2011.* #10. Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle, Erasing Hell: What God Said About Eternity, and the Things We Made Up (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011). I appreciated Chan&#8217;s pastoral heart and concern and I was impressed with Sprinkle&#8217;s explanations of the biblical issues surrounding Bell&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Popular Posts of 2011</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/the-most-popular-posts-of-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/the-most-popular-posts-of-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (Friday, December 30) marks the one-year anniversary of when I began blogging in earnest. All told, I posted over 115 blog posts in the past year, averaging about a post approximately every three days. That surprises me a little since there have been several long stretches without any posts. At any rate, I thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1459&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Valley of Vision: A Minister&#8217;s Bible</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/the-valley-of-vision-a-ministers-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, I began the practice of opening every session of Bible study with this prayer: “O God of truth, I thank thee for the Holy Scriptures, their precepts, promises, directions, light. In them may I learn more of Christ, be enabled to retain its truth and have grace to follow it. Help me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1455&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Purity of the Church</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/the-purity-of-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/the-purity-of-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently studying Ecclesiology (the doctrine of the Church) for an upcoming series of sermons and came across this interesting quote: &#8220;But we must realize that not all churches will respond well to influences that would bring them to greater purity. Sometimes, in spite of a few faithful Christians within a church, its dominant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1449&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excited About the Gospel</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/excited-about-the-gospel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to talk about the Gospel. However, I must confess that I sometimes become somewhat self-conscious about it. It seems that often in my teaching – or even in my general conversations with friends and acquaintances – that I tend to come around to mentioning that Jesus &#8220;Christ died for our sins in accordance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1443&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Funny and Creative Ad: How Sermons Work</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/funny-and-creative-ad-how-sermons-work/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/funny-and-creative-ad-how-sermons-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Congregation, Rest assured, this is not how I prepare my sermons! Here is a very funny and creative video for a recently released book on sermons and preaching HT: TC<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1438&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EURO 2012 Draw</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/euro-2012-draw/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/euro-2012-draw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I have posted on any football (soccer) stuff lately&#8230; This summer, the second-largest soccer event next to the FIFA World Cup is set to take place. The European Football Championships, known this year as UEFA EURO 2012, kicks off in June. Today, December 2 at noon EST is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1434&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Valley of Vision: Fountain of All Good</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/the-valley-of-vision-fountain-of-all-good/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/the-valley-of-vision-fountain-of-all-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My God, &#8230; Thou bottomless fountain on all good, I give myself to thee out of love, for all I have or own is thine, my goods, family, church, self, to do with as thou wilt. to honour thyself by me, and by all mine. If it be consistent with thy eternal counsels, the purpose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1429&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somewhere Between the 1st Century and &#8220;Recent Memory&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/somewhere-between-the-1st-century-and-recent-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/somewhere-between-the-1st-century-and-recent-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/?p=1420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: HarperOne recently updated their product description for Rob Bell&#8217;s response to his critics, The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide for Those Who Want to Go Deeper due to be released today. I posted a few weeks ago the original product description from the publisher which declared Bell&#8217;s controversial book, &#8220;one of the most important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1420&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calvin on the &#8220;Word&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/calvin-on-the-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calvin's Institutes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the sixth chapter of the first book of the Institutes, Calvin discusses the &#8220;The need of Scripture, as a guide and teacher, in coming to God as a Creator&#8221;. Here, he reflects on why God preserved his Word in the written word: &#8220;For if we reflect how prone the human mind is to lapse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1426&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Most Important Book Since the Bible&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/the-most-important-book-since-the-bible-survey-question/</link>
		<comments>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/the-most-important-book-since-the-bible-survey-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;At Last! What You Have Long Been Waiting For&#8221; category: The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide for Those Who Want to Go Deeper will be released in a couple of weeks (November 15, 2011). Here is the final line of the product description from the publisher (HarperOne): &#8220;Here, in The Love Wins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1403&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fountain of All Goodness</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/fountain-of-all-goodness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But although our mind cannot conceive of God, without rendering some worship to him, it will not, however, be sufficient simply to hold that he is the only being whom all ought to worship and adore, unless we are also persuaded that he is the fountain of all goodness, and that we must seek everything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1397&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>True and Solid Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/true-and-solid-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves&#8221; (Calvin, Institutes, 1.1.1.). &#8220;&#8230;it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1393&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trustworthy Translations and Hebrew and Greek in Sermons</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/trustworthy-translations-and-hebrew-and-greek-in-sermons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weeks ago, I posted a video of a Bible translation committee discussing how to translate a particular Greek word into English. I think it is a fascinating discussion that reveals the depth of work in translation that many who can readily pick up a Bible and read in their native language may never fully appreciate. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1354&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing Lines and Circles: The Interplay of Biblical and Systematic Theology</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/drawing-lines-and-circles-the-interplay-of-biblical-and-systematic-theology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much is made today of the apparent distinction between understanding the Bible as a set of propositions about God and understanding the Bible as a narrative. These are usually pitted against each other with some adherents of each camp lobbing attacks and the other. However, it is helpful to understand the interplay between these two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1382&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Danger of &#8220;Reaching People Where They Are At&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/the-danger-of-reaching-people-where-they-are-at/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timothy C. Tennent, the president of Asbury Theological Seminary in his Fall Convocation address, gave a criticism of what Ben Witherington called, &#8220;a watered-down evangelicalism.&#8221; We [Evangelicals] disguise our lack of theological reflection by our constant commitment to “relevance” or saying that we are reaching people “where they are.”  Of course, who would deny that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1368&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bible Translation: The Word of God</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/bibletranslation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted about the great care and prayerful scholarly work that goes into Bible translation. It is very easy for us in the West to under-appreciate that we actually have the Word of God in our own language. I was reminded again about the wonderful blessing that the Scriptures are to us when watching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1363&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No &#8220;Secret Decoder Ring&#8221; in Bible Translation</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/no-secret-decoder-ring-in-bible-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the cereals you would eat as a kid? Not only were they often heavily laden with all manner of sweeteners and flavorings – both natural and artificial – that would appeal to the sugar-high addictions of kids, they would also have various prizes, toys, and game pieces as well. I remember one of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1335&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One Another&#8230;&#8221; Passages in the New Testament</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/one-another-passages-in-the-new-testament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of the various “one another” passages in the New Testament: A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. (John 13:34). By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1302&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The One Who Knows&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/the-one-who-knows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Bell’s co-teaching pastor has broken his silence with some measure of support for his colleague’s controversial book, Love Wins. In a recent blog post on his newly updated site, Shane Hipps, teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, has a very interesting take on the issue of heaven, hell, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1304&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Important Book</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/a-very-important-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert team up to address the debate regarding the task that the church has been given in the their newest book What is the Mission of the Church?: Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011). Here are a few quotes: &#8220;We believe the church is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1298&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bellevue &#8211; EP</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/the-bellevue-ep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I was a middle-school pastor at a church outside Chicago. There was a student in our ministry that was exceptionally talented in many ways. This tall, slender 7th grader wanted to learn the bass and eventually join our middle-school youth ministry band. He did just that and much more. Now, he has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1289&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Present from Amazon on My Porch: A New Copy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/a-present-from-amazon-on-my-porch-a-new-copy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon I found a special present on my front porch: a new copy of John Stott&#8217;s The Message of Acts in The Bible Speaks Today commentary series. This is an very good commentary on Acts. D. A. Carson, in the 6th edition of his New Testament Commentary Survey, has characterized Stott&#8217;s &#8220;modelling of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1272&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acts, Reflection 3: &#8220;Jesus Only Began His.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/acts-reflection-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of reflections on the book of Acts. The first two posts can be found here and here. In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1242&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Christianity</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/basic-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently asked me what would be a good book or resource for someone who isn&#8217;t a Christian &#8220;but really wants to understand what being a Christian means.&#8221; My mind started scanning through my mental library. The search results of my gray matter quickly yielded several quality titles that would fit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1257&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machen, part 2: What Christian Doctrines Can We Abandon?</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/machen-part-2-what-christian-doctrines-can-we-abandon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted in an earlier posts (here and here), J. Gresham Machen was confronting the Protestant liberalism of his day. This movement among mainline denominations in the early decades of the 20th century sought to accommodate Christianity so as to align with the progress of science at the time. Its supporters were on a quest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1235&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stott on Substitution (revisited)</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/stott-on-substitution-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been a flood of blog posts offering tributes to the beloved John Stott since his passing last week. Stott authored over 50 books, including eight New Testament commentaries. Many bloggers and Christian leaders have offered their favorite and most formative Stott book. But what is perhaps his most notable work is the classic, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1216&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John R. W. Stott (1921–2011)</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/john-r-w-stott-1921%e2%80%932011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, July 27, 2011, saw the passing of John R. W. Stott, age 90. John Stott has been one of the most influential evangelical leaders of the 20th century. Christianity Today has an obituary on their website. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1211&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machen, part 1: Doctrine or Life? Orthodoxy or Orthopraxy?</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/machen-part-1-doctrine-or-life-orthodoxy-or-orthopraxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I mentioned some of the books for my Summer Vacation reading. One of them was Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1923). Machen was a professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary and later at Westminster Theological Seminary in the early part of the 20th-century. He was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1161&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Announcement</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/a-big-announcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies to all of you for the lack of posts recently. The last month has been a pretty busy time for me and for my family and has not afforded as much time to writing as I would have liked. My wife was the one who actually pointed this out. The other night she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1181&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Vacation Reading</title>
		<link>http://diligentsoul.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/summer-vacation-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Meares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of my summer vacation and, with the help of a few rainy days, I have been reading quite a bit. It has been very fun! I thought I would pass along and update on what has been going on. I (finally) finished Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas. Very good. As I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diligentsoul.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14765853&amp;post=1167&amp;subd=diligentsoul&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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