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	<title>Elim Baptist Church&#187; &#187; Elim Refresher Newsletter</title>
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	<description>A place of spiritual refreshment in Rockford, IL</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Introduction to Bible Archaeology</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/11/01/an-introduction-to-bible-archaeology-by-howard-f-vos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corinth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our book review this month is An Introduction to Bible Archaeology by Howard F. Vos. This little paperback is divided into ten short chapters of about a dozen pages each. Topics covered by chapter include Nature and Purpose, Why Ancient Cities and Civilizations Disappeared, Geography and the Bible Lands, Organizing and Conducting an Excavation, Dating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He Calms the Storms of Life</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/11/01/he-calms-the-storms-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/11/01/he-calms-the-storms-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Pew]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Matthew 8]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A storm began to rage as Jesus Christ’s disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee. It was an excursion they had routinely made numerous times before; in fact, some of them were fishermen by trade. They knew exactly how to handle various weather conditions, yet, during this particular voyage, Scripture tells us that a dreadful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smarter Than a Cow</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/11/01/smarter-than-a-cow/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/11/01/smarter-than-a-cow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Pastor’s Pen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Giving thanks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Luke 17]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to be smarter than a cow.
Now, before I hear anyone exclaim, “Too late!” please let me hasten to explain. As many of you know, I enjoy finding and adding antique books to my library. Of course, this is for the purpose of reading those books, and every now and then I find a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Practical Exposition on the Lord&#8217;s Prayer</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/15/book-review-a-practical-exposition-on-the-lords-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/15/book-review-a-practical-exposition-on-the-lords-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elim Refresher Newsletter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[From the Church Library]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our book review this month is A Practical Exposition on the Lord’s Prayer by Thomas Manton (1620-1677), Puritan pastor from Somerset, England, who served as a chaplain for Oliver Cromwell. It is part of The Works of Thomas Manton, Volume 1.

From the author:
This prayer was formed and indited by Christ, and therefore to be highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seed, the Sower and the Harvest</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/15/the-seed-the-sower-and-the-harvest/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/15/the-seed-the-sower-and-the-harvest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elim Refresher Newsletter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[From the Pastor’s Pen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the ways even the casual observer of our world has to determine what “season” it is are decorations. Oh, I don’t mean what is sold in the stores—otherwise we would be in the midst of Christmas right now! No, I mean the decor people use on and in their homes. And the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Faith</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/01/the-nature-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/01/the-nature-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Pew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, as Pastor Pauley carefully preached through the Gospels, reaching the climax of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, I found myself mulling over the Apostle Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians, particularly the first half of the fifteenth chapter. There, Paul sheds light on the necessity for all Christians to believe in Jesus’ resurrection. Paul not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Puritan Essays on Prayer</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/01/three-puritan-essays-on-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/01/three-puritan-essays-on-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Church Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Bunyan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Puritans]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Goodwin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Shepard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Our book review is a follow-up to Meet the Puritans reviewed in the July/August edition of the Elim Refresher. The topic is prayer, published in one volume as three essays titled Prayer by John Bunyan, The Return of Prayer by Thomas Goodwin, and The Saint’s Jewel by Thomas Shepard.

Prayer, our first essay, contains the topics: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every Four Years</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/01/every-four-years/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/01/every-four-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[godly priorities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presidential election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is inevitable, I suppose, that every four years the same questions are asked. People clamor for a position to be stated and defended, and if they hold an opposing opinion, they make all the more noise so that their take on the topic might be made known. 
Hypothetical situations are bandied about. Facts, figures, statistics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Puritans</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/07/01/book-review-meet-the-puritans/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/07/01/book-review-meet-the-puritans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Church Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Keach]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Henry Ainsworth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Issac Ambrose]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Bunyan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Owen and Ralph Erskine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Henry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our book review this month is Meet the Puritans, a compilation of short biographies on over 150 Puritans from England, New England, Scotland and the Netherlands. The authors, Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson, review 700 books written by these Reformed authors. (The term “Puritan” was first used in the 1560’s to refer to English Protestants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unstained by the World</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/07/01/unstained-by-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/07/01/unstained-by-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[From the Pastor’s Pen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those who have attended our Tuesday morning Bible study in recent months have been partaking in a unique project. I’m reading aloud each of the epistles of Paul from start to finish, without additional comment until the reading is concluded. This approach has developed a great appreciation for the fullness of the arguments contained in [...]]]></description>
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