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		<title>Goldsworthy on true and exhaustive knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graeme Goldsworthy in his book Gospel and Wisdom (part of the Goldsworthy Trilogy, Paternoster, 2000), which i&#8217;m reading for a course in Old Testament Poetry and Wisdom Literature, presents the following brief and helpful discussion of the relationship between true and exhaustive knowledge, and how this applies to the Christian and non-Christian. [T]he empiricist or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=403&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at the Cross: Newton&#8217;s autobiographical hymn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This hymn by John Newton (1725-1807) must be one of the greatest autobiographical hymns ever to be penned, yet sadly it is not well known.  It speaks both subjectively and objectively of the amazing grace Newton found in Christ. In evil long I took delight, Unawed by shame or fear, Till a new object struck [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=397&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 15:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, tolerance meant respecting people and treating them well even when convinced they were wrong. It meant treating people as people, with dignity, even when one disagreed with them. In post-modern society today, &#8220;tolerance&#8221; means never regarding anyone&#8217;s opinions as wrong. Instead of tolerance for people, we have tolerance for ideas. Instead of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=392&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Baruch and &#8220;The Prodigal God&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretending or performing – two of the things that draw Christians away from a God-centred, gospel-saturated life to a self-centred life of impression management. i know i&#8217;m guilty of both. It&#8217;s so easy to keep up appearances, especially playing up to others&#8217; expectations (&#8220;You&#8217;re studying at BI? Oh, you must be such a holy Christian&#8230;&#8221;). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=388&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve, 1968: Apollo 8 mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who was alive then will remember Christmas Eve of 1968.  On that day, the Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.  The crew, Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, launched on December 21, 1968 and reached lunar orbit on Christmas Eve.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=371&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The real &#8220;happily ever after&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://marcuscollins.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/the-real-happily-ever-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sûsî Gees (my motorbike) and i had a bit of an accident yesterday evening returning from Stellenbosch when i clipped a run-off channel on a farm road. Neither of us sustained any serious injuries (i got away with just a sprained thumb, some roasties, and injured pride, while Sûsî Gees needs a little doctoring to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=363&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finito</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. i finished the last of my third-year psychology and linguistics exams two weeks ago, and have been messing around with admin and work and reading since. It will still be some time before Unisa publish the results, and there were a few exams about which i was not supremely confident, so i&#8217;m not going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=351&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collecting and organising Christian resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;ve got a lot of talks, articles, sermons, etc. that i&#8217;ve been collecting over the past few years.  i&#8217;m trying to put together a good resource library to share with others &#8212; all stuff that&#8217;s freely available on the Internet, but sometimes hard to find, and expensive to download here in South Africa &#8212; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=336&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading and studying the Bible for life</title>
		<link>http://marcuscollins.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/reading-and-studying-the-bible-for-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past couple days i&#8217;ve redeemed the time listening to a series of three talks Gordon Fee presented on how to read the Bible.  Fee, who is professor of New Testament at Regent College, Vancouver, is widely known for two books he co-authored with Douglas Stuart, How to read the Bible for all its worth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=288&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Redeeming the time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Bradley keeps exhorting me to &#8220;redeem the time&#8221; (echoing Ephesians 5:16) &#8212; something i&#8217;m trying to take to heart.  Some years back, when i first started exploring Project Gutenberg and the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and playing with text-to-speech synthesis, i discovered that i could &#8220;read&#8221; some of the classics, or articles and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscollins.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5370785&amp;post=287&amp;subd=marcuscollins&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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