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	<title>Elim Baptist Church</title>
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	<description>A place of spiritual refreshment in Rockford, IL</description>
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		<title>This Week @ Elim: 10-11 thru 10-17-2008</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/09/this-week-elim-10-11-thru-10-17-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This Coming Lord&#8217;s Day:
9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from the Scriptures.

Ages 3-5: Meet in the large Nursery Room
Grades 1-3: Meet in the Fireside Room
Grades 4-6:  Meet in the Upper Room (over the church offices)
Youth: Meet in the Youth Room
Adults: You have a choice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week @ Elim: 10-4 thru 10-10-2008</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/03/this-week-elim-10-4-thru-10-10-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/10/03/this-week-elim-10-4-thru-10-10-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		
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This Coming Lord&#8217;s Day:

9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages. We begin a new quarter in Sunday school! Kids who have moved up in grade levels may have a new class! Please check the bulletin boards at each of the building entrances to make sure you go to the right class. Also, the adult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week @ Elim: 9-27 thru 10-3-2008</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/26/this-week-elim-9-27-thru-10-3-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/26/this-week-elim-9-27-thru-10-3-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		
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This Coming Lord&#8217;s Day:

9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from Leviticus. Youth &#38; adult: &#8220;Demolishing Strongholds,&#8221; a study in developing a Christian worldview, how to witness to friends and family, and having the confidence found in God’s Word to withstand the “cultural brainwashing” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week @ Elim: 9-20 thru 9-26-2008</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/18/this-week-elim-9-20-thru-9-26-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/18/this-week-elim-9-20-thru-9-26-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[This Week @ Elim]]></category>

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This Coming Lord&#8217;s Day:

9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from Leviticus. Youth &#38; adult: &#8220;Demolishing Strongholds,&#8221; a study in developing a Christian worldview, how to witness to friends and family, and having the confidence found in God’s Word to withstand the “cultural brainwashing” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit from our Missionaries in the Philippines</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/10/a-visit-from-our-missionaries-in-the-philippines/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/09/10/a-visit-from-our-missionaries-in-the-philippines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[We shared a wonderful time with some truly devoted servants of Christ over Labor Day weekend. Elim enjoyed a report from the field in Sunday school, a message from God&#8217;s eternal Word during the morning service, a delicious potluck picnic and softball tournament, followed by a Monday morning send-off breakfast. How glorious is the fellowship [...]]]></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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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>Elim at the Rockford RiverHawks</title>
		<link>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/07/24/elim-at-the-rockford-riverhawks/</link>
		<comments>http://elimbaptist.org/2008/07/24/elim-at-the-rockford-riverhawks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[river city rascals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rockford riverhawks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On July 18th, Elim members went to see the Rockford RiverHawks play against the River City Rascals. In spite of a home team loss, we had a great time!
]]></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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