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	<description>On the cross, God treated Jesus as if He had lived my life ... so he could treat me as if I had lived Jesus' life.</description>
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		<title>T4G 2012 and a few public shoutouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this from my hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky, where I&#8217;m gearing up for tomorrow&#8217;s Band of Bloggers event and the start of the Together for the Gospel 2012 conference. (Yes, the guy who posts an average of eight times a year is going to an event for bloggers. Hey, we can&#8217;t all be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2012/04/t4g-2012-and-a-few-public-shoutouts/</link>
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		<title>Should children be in the worship service?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My church is currently in the process of renovating our nursery ministry. One of the questions we&#8217;re wrestling with is the appropriate ages of children that the nursery should serve. (In a small church with limits both in terms of space and the number of volunteers, this issue becomes even more pressing!) But really, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2012/03/should-children-be-in-the-worship-service/</link>
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		<title>Introducing The Tentmaker Diaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ministry is hard, as any pastor will tell you. But bivocational ministry (sometimes called “tentmaking”, because that was the non-ministry job of the Apostle Paul, history’s best-known bivocational minister) is a beast unto itself. You have all of the pastoral duties, burdens, and responsibilities of a full-time pastor, but you have significantly less time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2012/03/introducing-the-tentmaker-diaries/</link>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Gay Marriage&#8221; Is Not a Civil Rights Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the major strategies of those advocating so-called “gay marriage” is to frame the issue as analogous to the Civil Rights movement of the mid-20th century.  They wish to equate the struggle that black Americans faced in the 1950’s and 1960’s to achieve equal protection under the law with today’s push to allow homosexual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2012/02/why-gay-marriage-is-not-a-civil-rights-issue/</link>
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		<title>My LBC sermons are now online!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;well, the text of the last two sermons, anyway. Check them out at http://littlebrownchapel.com!]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2011/09/my-lbc-sermons-are-now-online/</link>
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		<title>Moody Man Day 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Nate (age 7) and I have an annual tradition. Each summer, I take a day off work and the two of us spend the day together doing &#34;man stuff.&#34; Last year, for instance, we went to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and the year before that we went fishing. My wife christened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2011/08/moody-man-day-2011/</link>
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		<title>How I Became a Pastor (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I’m now a pastor. I still shake my head at how the whole thing came about.&#160; For a couple of years now, a group of men (myself included) have met at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Wednesday mornings for prayer.&#160; Last April, one of the elders told us of an interesting development from the previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2011/08/how-i-became-a-pastor-part-1/</link>
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		<title>TGC Travelogue, Day 0 (or, How Half a Shoe Shine Got Me to Blog Again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning at 8:30 AM, four intrepid souls set out from the parking lot of Emmanuel Baptist Church. Christian Smith – elder statesman and Starbucks addict Eric Abisror – extrovert extraordinaire and tour guide Caleb Brown – wide-eyed &#8220;newbie&#8221; and pizza vacuum John Moody – your humble narrator and uber-geek Our destination: Chicago, Illinois, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2011/04/tgc-travelogue-day-0-or-how-half-a-shoe-shine-got-me-to-blog-again/</link>
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		<title>16 Reflections on 16 Years of Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Naomi and I celebrate sixteen years of married life. In honor of the occasion, here are sixteen reflections on our life together. 16 years is a long time to be married. Many of my friends from high school and college didn&#8217;t make it that long before succumbing to divorce. One friend from college lost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2010/08/16-reflections-on-16-years-of-marriage/</link>
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		<title>A Summer Reading List for my (Pre)Teenager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer, my wife and I wanted to challenge our oldest daughter with some challenging reading material that would both stretch her mind and strengthen her faith. A few books immediately came to mind, and I solicited suggestions from Facebook friends to get more ideas. After some collating, I’ve put together the final list of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reckonedrighteous.com/2010/06/a-summer-reading-list-for-my-preteenager/</link>
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