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		<title>Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel a Lot Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best musicians and songwriters you&#8217;ve never heard of is Steve Taylor, a Christian recording artist who had his heyday in the late 1980&#8217;s. During the years before indie rock and iTunes, when &#8216;Christian music&#8217; meant K-Love-style crooning, Taylor was a counter-cultural fly-in-the-ointment. His specialty was using his considerable lyrical genius to satirically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;To Change The World&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By far the most thought-provoking book I’ve read so far this year is James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World. I finished this book about a month ago and have been ruminating on it ever since, trying to discern how exactly to pen an adequate review/summary. So if you’re not going to read on, I’ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2345</link>
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		<title>Christian Pastor Shot Dead in Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brother in Christ and a partner in ministry, Pastor Rashid Emmanuel, was shot dead in Faisalabad, Pakistan, yesterday, after being exonerated from accusations of blasphemy against the prophet Muhammad.
 
AP  report
BBC report
We are grieving Rashid&#8217;s death and praying/hoping for the safety of other Christians in Pakistan. The country is 97% Muslim, and though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2339</link>
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		<title>Please Pray: Lead 2010 Conference in New England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As previously mentioned, I have been invited to travel to northern New England this fall to speak at a conference on the centrality of the gospel. This is a cool opportunity for me and a significant chance to plant gospel seed in some of the hardest soil in north America.
Lead 2010 Conference Website
Any cultural observer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2337</link>
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		<title>Moving Day</title>
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Today Coram Deo says farewell to the converted house on south 87th Street that has been our ministry headquarters for the past three years.
For the first 18 months of Coram Deo&#8217;s existence, we officed in the back corner of an office building owned by our mother church. And when I say &#8220;officed,&#8221; I mean that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2331</link>
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		<title>Help Me Write a Talk: What is the Gospel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This fall I am speaking at a conference in New England on the subject of gospel-centered church planting. My task in the opening keynote talk for the conference is to address the question: what is the gospel?
I thought it would be interesting &#8211; and helpful in my preparation &#8211; to invite blog readers to give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2329</link>
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		<title>How We Raise Up Church Planters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks I&#8217;ve listened to two sermons by aspiring church planters here in Omaha. In both cases these men tell personal stories of how God has used the Acts 29 Network &#8211; and our process for training, assessing, and developing future leaders &#8211; as a key resource in their own development.
People ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2326</link>
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		<title>Surge Network: A Vision for the Spiritual Future of Phoenix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from 3 days in Phoenix, where I did some teaching and training for church leaders through the Surge Network. Surge is a local coalition of gospel-centered church planters and pastors who want to see the gospel transform the city of Phoenix. They hail from many networks and traditions: Acts 29, Sovereign Grace, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2322</link>
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		<title>Eight Characteristics of False Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EIGHT CHARACTERISTICS OF FALSE TEACHERS
[from Coram Deo's eldership training class]

They turn secondary issues into primary ones (1 Tim 1:1-7, 2 Tim 2:23)
They cause division &#38; dissension (1 Tim 6:3-5, Romans 16:17-18)
They prey on the weak (Rom 16:17-18, 2 Tim 3:1-9)
They talk a lot but say little (2 Tim 2:16, Titus 1:10)
They have un-Christlike character (Titus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2320</link>
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		<title>Vox Church and Cape Town</title>
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It was a great privilege this morning at Coram Deo to have JD and Michele Senkbile back with us. The Senkbiles were an integral part of the original team that founded Coram Deo. They moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in December of 2008 to oversee Acts 29&#8217;s church planting work on the African continent. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2315</link>
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		<title>AW Tozer: Why We Must Think Rightly About God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite spiritual writers is A.W. Tozer. He begins his master work The Knowledge of the Holy with a chapter entitled &#8220;Why We Must Think Rightly About God.&#8221; I used the following quote in a Bible study on biblical eldership this weekend to emphasize the importance of sound theology, and thought I&#8217;d post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2313</link>
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		<title>The Five Best Quotes from Acts 29 Pastor&#8217;s Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every summer, Acts 29 lead pastors and their wives from across the country gather in Colorado for 3 days of rest, refreshment, and reconnecting. At these retreats we dive in deeply with each other and often hear &#8220;off the record&#8221; from some of the key leaders and influencers within the Acts 29 movement. Here are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2309</link>
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		<title>Radical Womanhood Audio Now Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month the women of Coram Deo (along with guests from many other churches around Omaha) welcomed author and filmmaker Carolyn McCulley for the Radical Womanhood Conference. The audio from Carolyn&#8217;s sessions is now uploaded and available either on the Resources page or on the Coram Deo podcast.
If you weren&#8217;t there, you can catch up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2307</link>
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		<title>Video Post: Porterbrook Overview</title>
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Porterbrook Promo from Coram Deo Church on Vimeo.
For more information on Porterbrook or to download a curriculum sample or an application, please go to this post
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		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2303</link>
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		<title>A Gospel Approach to Evangelism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from the &#8220;Gospel and the Heart&#8221; study, Harbor Presbyterian Church, San Diego CA
The liberal/pragmatist approach to evangelism is to deny the legitimacy of evangelism altogether. By contrast, the conservative/moralist person does believe in proselytizing, because “we are right and they are wrong.” Such proselytizing is almost always offensive.
The gospel is a &#8220;third way,&#8221; different from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2299</link>
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		<title>The Purpose of Pornography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from Tony Woodlief in WORLD magazine, June 19, 2010 //  link to original article
Several weeks ago I was in a bookstore, where I noticed a boy of 10 or  12 thumbing through the most recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. His mother stood nearby, her boy and his newfound  reading material in full sight. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2297</link>
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		<title>Power Tie Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erick Whigham has been serving as a volunteer intern with us at Coram Deo this spring. He and his wife moved here from South Dakota to be part of a missional church and to finish some master&#8217;s degree work. Erick has been trying to get a job to help transition his family to the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2292</link>
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		<title>Redemption Stories: Randi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The point of the Redemption Stories video series is to narrate how the gospel is changing the lives of actual people within the Coram Deo Church Community. Randi&#8217;s is one of my favorite stories yet: a great tale of God&#8217;s providence with an interesting back-story involving a sermon I preached in the Douglas County Jail. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2289</link>
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		<title>The End of Poverty?</title>
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Being a culturally engaged church means seeking common ground with the broader culture on issues of “common grace.” Our good friends over at inCOMMON modeled this well last Tuesday night. They brought together many of the city’s nonprofit leaders as well as the indie-film crowd by collaborating with FilmStreams to show the documentary The End [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2281</link>
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		<title>Just Another Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just another day at the Coram Deo headquarters&#8230; staff birthday party, kids invited

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		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2275</link>
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		<title>David Fairchild on Developing Potential Leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best kept secrets in the Acts 29 Network is David Fairchild, lead pastor of Kaleo Church in San Diego. At the first Acts 29 bootcamp I ever attended, David went off on a room full of dudes about why they needed to LOVE theology&#8230; and I immediately realized, &#8220;This is a tribe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2272</link>
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		<title>Elders and Deacons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The leadership of Christ’s church is a matter of crucial theological importance. Scripture cautions us to be on guard against church leaders who teach false doctrines, promote controversies, and turn aside to meaningless talk (1 Tim. 1:3-7). In spite of these warnings, we live in a day and age when the average Christian’s understanding of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2265</link>
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		<title>Fingerprints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you. Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2254</link>
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		<title>Doxology: A Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Steve McCoy was kind enough to post a thorough and very complimentary review of our album Doxology over at his well-read and highly-respected blog. Here is an excerpt:
Coram Deo Church has added it&#8217;s name to the growing  list of churches and artists who love the richness of older hymns and  long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2244</link>
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		<title>This Sunday: Church on the Lawn</title>
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This Sunday, May 30, there will be no 9 AM worship gathering at Coram Deo. We will have one worship service, at 11 AM, on the lawn just west of Suckau Chapel. Our whole church family will come together for this event &#8211; parents, kids, both services&#8230; everyone.
This will be a significant Sunday for our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cdomaha.com/blog/?p=2234</link>
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