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<title><![CDATA[Family Notes - 7/28/2010]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Trust Among Leadership | Book Notes | Quotable | Upcoming Schedule]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:27]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[The New Testament Church]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[An Advent Christian pastor writes, "I keep hearing from fellow ministers that we need to become a first-century or New Testament church. Does not the New Testament show the first-century churches to be just as fraught with problems as churches today?"]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Sunday, 25 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[What Is Saving Faith? (2)]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A gracEmail subscriber asks, "What is saving faith? What does it look like? Why is it important?"]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Tuesday, 20 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[What Is Saving Faith? (1)]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A gracEmail subscriber asks, "What is saving faith? What does it look like? Why is it important?"]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Sunday, 18 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Texas Gospel Partners Needed This Weekend]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[This weekend is critical in Texas as Costco Wholesale Stores test two new Christian books in their Texas stores and decide whether to expand them to their stores nationwide. The books are THE DIVINE RESCUE (by me), and TALKING BACK TO GOD (by our friend Lynn Anderson).]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Saturday, 17 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Family Notes - 7/15/2010]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Why Share Christ With People of Other Faiths? | Grace Digest on 'The Divine Rescue' | Extraordinary Faith | Highest Regard for Scripture | That 'Pause in the End of the World']]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Thursday, 15 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Today and Psalm 90]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Today, as my personal life-clock registers the end of Year 66 and the beginning of Year 67, I can still hear "Brother [A.J. 'Jack'] Rollings," my favorite teacher at Athens (Ala.) Bible School, quoting Psalm 90:12. The verse is a prayer: "Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." I have not always done that as I should, but I have never forgotten the prayer. Following are some of my meanderings with Moses as I reflect on Psalm 90.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Tuesday, 13 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[The Pause in the End of the World]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A gracEmail subscriber reacts to a recent column: "This line caught my attention, 'during this pause in the End of the world . . . .' With all that is happening what insights might you offer? I've always thought the Lord could come back in my lifetime."]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Sunday, 11 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Family Notes - 7/8/2010]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Welcome, Mosab, to USA | Christ Entered Once | Tip of the Iceberg]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Thursday, 8 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Speaking God's Forgiveness]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A gracEmail subscriber asks if is right to confess our sins to another human being, and whether a believer who hears our confession can speak forgiveness in the name of Christ.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Tuesday, 6 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[The Divine Rescue Now in Costco Stores in Texas]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce that THE DIVINE RESCUE is now in Costco discount stores throughout Texas. This is the perfect opportunity to buy in quantity at a good discount -- for gifts, classes, reading circles or discussion groups! (Your purchases in Texas will also encourage Costco to place this book in its stores nationwide.)]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Thursday, 1 July 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Book Notes - 6/29/2010]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Following are my brief comments concerning some recent books in which I think you might have an interest. All are available through www.amazon.com as well as from the publishers.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Tuesday, 29 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[Family Contentions]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Three gracEmail subscribers in different states share a similar problem. All three were taught from childhood that theirs was the only true church and that their subgroup within it was the faithful remnant. God has since shown them his grace in Jesus Christ and they have rejected the sectarian spirit. Each now faces hostility and perhaps rejection from family-members whose dogmatism and Bible knowledge are in inverse proportion. One subscriber is pressured by parents; another by grown siblings; the third by a spouse. All seek advice and encouragement.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Sunday, 27 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[Family Notes - 6/24/2010]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[St. Matthew's UMC Houston | Cessation Logic Critiqued | Authentic Community | Jesus 'Is' | 'The Divine Rescue' at Lifeway]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Thursday, 24 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[Encouragement to a Seeker - 2]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A friend who is not yet a Christian but who is joyfully seeking after God tells me of budding faith and of happy anticipation in the spiritual journey. Can I say anything to encourage?"]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Tuesday, 22 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[Encouragement to a Seeker - 1]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A friend who is not yet a Christian but who is joyfully seeking after God tells me of budding faith and of happy anticipation in the spiritual journey. Can I say anything to encourage?"]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Sunday, 20 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Family Notes - 6/18/2010]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[St. Matthews UMC, Houston | Palestinian Christians in Holy Land | Jesus 'Is' | 'The Divine Rescue' in Family Christian Bookstores]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Friday, 18 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Moral Choices and Maturity]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A gracEmail subscriber asks my thoughts concerning his church group whose leaders give detailed "advice" to the members regarding whom they may date, when, how often and so forth. The subscriber sometimes disagrees with such advice, but then he feels guilty and unspiritual.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Tuesday, 15 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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<title><![CDATA[Back to the Future]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[When I began writing this gracEmail, I thought it might interest only subscribers who share my own spiritual heritage in the Churches of Christ ("CoCs"). These are an association of autonomous congregations who, lacking any sort of institutional superstructure, accomplish a great deal of good nonetheless. One of three major tribes who descended from the 19th-century "Restoration Movement" ("RM") led by Barton W. Stone and the Campbells (father and son Thomas and Alexander), the CoCs traditionally tended toward isolationism and sometimes even aloofness.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Sunday, 13 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

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<title><![CDATA[God's Garden]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[As the Northern Hemisphere moves into Summer this month, an ancient metaphor for messianic blessing comes vividly to mind. "For as the earth brings forth its sprouts," God tells his prophet Isaiah, "and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations" (Isaiah 61:11). The good news of God's divine rescue is spreading throughout the world, drawing believers into faith communities that practice what is just and right.]]></description>

<pubDate><![CDATA[Friday, 11 June 2010 06:00]]></pubDate>

<author><![CDATA[Edward Fudge]]></author>

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