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	<description>Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus</description>
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		<title>People of the Shining Face</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2013/04/people-of-the-shining-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During yesterday&#8217;s Bible study, I shared with the other ladies the same testimony I had shared at Missionary Training School this year. I became a Christian in 1999, and that spring when it was time for my church to host the 3rd annual MTS, I was working full time, so I would finish my day&#8217;s work then go to the former school building behind the church where the school was held and wash the dishes after supper. The next year I was still working full time, so I did the same thing &#8211; worked all day, then came in the evening and washed the supper dishes. The following year I was laid off from work, and I got to spend the entire week at the school helping out and sitting in on a lot of the classes. Right from the opening Sunday night service of that first year, I saw God everywhere I looked and bumped into what He was doing in the lives of the people he had gathered together for the week every time I moved. For someone like me who had not even believed there was a God for so many years, these were priceless experiences. I&#8217;ve written about some of them on the blog before. What struck me about the conversation yesterday was what our leader said to the other lady present &#8211; &#8220;Did you see her face when she was talking about coming after work and doing the dishes? It just glowed.&#8221; I said, &#8220;It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Media Bias and the Low-Information Consumer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve  lost faith in traditional mass media outlets to deliver reliable, unbiased information about what is happening at nearly any level you care to examine.  My slow, inexorable drift away from the view that the Nightly News (and its kin) was a reliable means of gathering information about the wider world probably began in college. Between a biological anthropology course in which the professor used a class exercise to allow us the opportunity to discover for ourselves how our own personal biases not just influenced but were the DETERMINING factor in the conclusions we reached regarding the data he put before us, to the introductory mass media class where the professor took great pains to demonstrate that all media comes with an agenda, and the most important question to ask when reading a news story is &#8220;What am I not being told?&#8221; it&#8217;s been a long time since I relied on any single outlet for information. Between those two classes, I learned and have continued the twin practices of looking for unstated biases and asking what I am not being told with every story I read, every sermon I listen to, every piece of information I examine. To complete the scene, continuing to examine my own biases and how they affect my ability to process the information I examine is an essential part of the mix. When I first began such explorations, the mass media still had a pretty good grip on being the only widespread source of information beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Variation on the Microwave Bread in a Cup Recipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After finding out over the last few weeks that apparently I have a significant blood sugar response to one of my favorite foods &#8211; cheese &#8211; I&#8217;ve actually been enjoying completely normal blood sugars (70s to 90s) for about 2 weeks now.  So looking around the kitchen this morning for some breakfast that didn&#8217;t involve cheese, I threw together the following variation on the microwave bread in a cup recipe. It was quite delicious. 1/3 cup shredded zucchini &#8211; excess water squeezed out. 2 eggs 16 drops liquid sucralose 1 plus Tablespoons pumkin pie spice 1 plus Tablespoon baking powder 2 plus Tablespoons flax meal 1/2 cup almond meal Use a large soup style cup for this one.  Beat eggs until well blended, then stir in remaining ingredients. Microwave on high until done &#8211; after the first 45 seconds or minute, check every 15 seconds or so to make sure the bread isn&#8217;t overflowing the cup and for doneness.  Bread is done when the top is dry and springs back when gently pushed on top.]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Sermon</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2013/02/sunday-sermon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoy it when the Sunday morning sermon kind of hangs with me all day and various things come to mind to be chewed on again and again throughout the day. Sunday was one of those days. The question of the day was &#8220;What are you doing on a daily basis to address the inner health of your soul?&#8221; On it&#8217;s face, it would be really easy to mistake that question (or today&#8217;s sermon) as a push to add one more thing to my spiritual to do list and make sure I&#8217;m checking it off every day.  But that&#8217;s exactly the prescription for hypocrisy that was warned against and entirely misses the point of today&#8217;s message. Reinforcing that idea is the very next thing that appears in my notes &#8211; the theme of my musings today &#8211; a quote from C. S. Lewis: Praise is when your inner health is made verbal. &#160; &#160; &#160; A slightly modified version of the actual sentence, which comes from C. S. Lewis&#8217; Reflections on the Psalms: But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honour. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless . . . shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it. The world rings with praise — lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favourite poet, walkers praising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disobeying Doctor&#8217;s Orders &#8211; The 2-Year Followup</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2012/03/disobeying-doctors-orders-the-2-year-followup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://partakers.net/?p=1575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a sad situation when we have to ignore our doctors’ advice in order to stay healthy. (Tom Naughton) Two years ago, I decided to chuck the advice of my then doctor, and go back on the low-carb diet I had been on for most of my 10 years as a diabetic, except for those 2 years between 2007 and 2009 when I apparently forgot I had diabetes. (Not really &#8211; I just started eating like I had been before the diagnosis.)  At that time, my hemoglobin A1c was 11.5 (it had been 9.1 when I was diagnosed in 2002), triglycerides 590, blood pressure 160/100, and weight nearly 200 pounds. In late 2010, the A1c had dropped to 7.2 (still above ADA goals, but better than 11.5), triglycerides to 118, blood pressure to 130/80,  weight to 175.  Three months later, with a hemoglobin A1c of 5.2, my doctor&#8217;s assessment was, &#8220;It&#8217;s like you don&#8217;t even have the disease.&#8221; Now, as of March 2012, my last 3 A1c tests have been 5.2, 5.5, and 5.8 (well below ADA guidelines), triglycerides still in the low 100s, blood pressure still 130/80, and weight down to 160.  Doctor&#8217;s words this time:  &#8220;You&#8217;re the picture of health!&#8221;  I&#8217;m glad she thinks so, but my guess is she would frown disapprovingly if she knew too many of the specifics of my diet, especially my liberal use of eggs and saturated fats, and my complete lack of &#8220;healthy whole grains.&#8221; Got a call from the doctor&#8217;s office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hero Worship Part II</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2011/06/hero-worship-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten days ago, I wrote about Hero Worship.  In the process of writing that post, I linked to Michael Card&#8217;s web site.  When I arrived there to get the correct url to link to, I found that he was coming to Ohio with a conference called Biblical Imagination Series.  A little whisper in my mind said, &#8220;go there.&#8221;  So I went. Beginning Friday night, the next 26 hours were quite a journey through Luke &#8211; the Gospel of Amazement -  as we all learned a little bit about how to engage with the Scriptures in a way that is both biblical and that bridges the gap between heart and mind.  One thing I discovered in the process is how that bridge has been made in my life &#8211; it is the visual picture that is formed in response to either the words of scripture, or more often when the right question is asked about the scriptures.  If I don&#8217;t have a picture, I don&#8217;t really understand in my heart.  I also realized how powerful these pictures are &#8211; not just for me, but for those I share them with.  This is something I&#8217;ve been hearing for years &#8211; every time I hear Mark Gostlin teach on Word Pictures. (I&#8217;m starting to think I&#8217;m the slowest student on the planet since I have to keep retaking the class!)  In fact, a lot of the scriptural pictures I have that bridge the gap between my head and my heart came out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Happy Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2011/06/a-happy-fathers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First up &#8211; a little baseball Last stop &#8211; a trip to the flying club with a couple of planes. Haven&#8217;t seen George for a long time. Then some flying between the raindrops This is what happens when you fly upside down a little too low Not to worry &#8211; preflight check for the little biplane No more dodging raindrops Raindrops on one of our trees Hope you all had a wonderful Father&#8217;s Day.]]></description>
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		<title>Finishing Well</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2011/06/finishing-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://partakers.net/?p=1503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions from this week&#8217;s Bible study asks: Who do you respect and admire as someone who &#8220;finished well&#8221;?  What is it about their life that you respect the most? Without question, the first person who comes to mind is my Aunt Mimi.  On a long drive from Atlanta, Georgia, to Independence, Missouri, when I was 14, she and I had a lot of time to just talk.  Right at that critical time when I was already rebelling against God and was starting to bring some very destructive things into my life, she told me that God had a plan for my life.  I had forgotten about that until I saw her last January take the face of one of the next generation and hold it in her hands right in front of her own and tell him the same thing &#8211; &#8220;God has a plan for your life.&#8221;  How many other kids that she adopted as her own did she encourage that way? Lots, I&#8217;m sure. Last January when she was still recovering from a broken pelvis, my sister and I had the opportunity to spend some time with her.  While she was still in quite a bit of pain, the thing that bothered her the most was not being about to participate in her Bible Study Fellowship group.  She was determined to get back on her feet and serving the Lord as quickly as she could (and she did).  She didn&#8217;t like being sidelined one little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hero Worship</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2011/06/hero-worship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://partakers.net/?p=1481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the ladies&#8217; Bible study tonight, the question was asked, &#8220;How do you define success?&#8221;  There were a lot of answers &#8211; no right or wrong on that one.  I said that my definition of success is to be like Christ, and I&#8217;m a miserable failure.  To my mind, if I were actually like Christ, I would have arrived.  There&#8217;s nothing more I could hope to achieve.  Not going to happen in this life, but it&#8217;s actually not an entirely hopeless ambition as John states in his first letter: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2) There is coming a day when I will have my desire, and maybe along the way, I can have it in small measure. I&#8217;ve been thinking all evening about what it actually means to be like Christ, and a number of things are coming to mind: He was filled with the Holy Spirit without measure. He was truly humble. He always did the Father&#8217;s will, always said what the Father told him to say.  He was obedient to the point of death. He willingly served those who should have served him, those who never thanked him, and even those who hated him and betrayed him. He loved without reservation, without self-interest, and sacrificed everything for those he loved. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A House of Prayer</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2011/05/a-house-of-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 05:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my husband and I came back from Marion to live in our own house again, I was pretty sure that rather than slip back into the comfort of my old church, I was now supposed to get to know some of the people and churches closer to home.  During our previous years in this house it had occurred to me more than once that if I was ever talking to one of my neighbors about Christ, I had absolutely no idea if there were any churches nearby that I could recommend to them if they didn&#8217;t want to travel 15 miles to go to church with me.  Suffice it to say that I now know there are at least 2 Gospel preaching churches in my own little one-stop-light town. But on a similar note to my post in 2009 about looking for a church in Marion, I think I&#8217;ve found the place where God is going to park me for a while, and for a lot of the same reasons that I was attracted to my church in Marion.  The overwhelming impression after barely a couple of months there is that this is a house of prayer.  That&#8217;s because every time I turn around these people are praying for each other.  Both my first pastor and my pastor in Marion would also gather the church around individuals to pray for specific ministries or needs.  In fact, the church in Marion sent me out with just such a prayer when [...]]]></description>
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