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	<title>Be Diligent... &#187; Society</title>
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		<title>Abortion</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2010/06/abortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right. This is another topic that is hotly debated and regarding which, for some strange reason, most Christians don&#8217;t want to be counted. Time after time, I have seen situations where Christians have avoided voicing their opinion because it was not &#8220;politically correct.&#8221; Maybe one of the reasons is that the average Christian knows that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Teachers</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2010/01/false-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2010/01/false-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are there people in the world who teach things not in accordance with God&#8217;s will?  Are there those who teach error that could cause one to be lost?  Are there &#8220;false teachers&#8221; in the world today?  Does it make any difference what we believe, as long as we are sincere in our belief?  The answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30-minute worship</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/11/30-minute-worship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While driving from Dallas to Austin recently, I saw a banner with that phrase on it &#8212; 30-minute worship. My reaction was, Really? So who&#8217;s this targeting? People who just can&#8217;t be bothered to give more than 30 minutes out of their busy life to Jesus on Sunday morning? I&#8217;m pretty sure Jesus didn&#8217;t respond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>41 things married people ought to know</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/11/41-things-married-people-ought-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/11/41-things-married-people-ought-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mathews</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My longtime friend Jim Martin is a minister of the gospel in Waco TX, and writes what is, according to recent stats, the #9 &#8220;Church of Christ blog&#8221;. Jim began a series of articles yesterday titled 41 Things Married People Ought to Know. In part 1 he lists the first 10, including these 5: Married [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our kids are baptized &#8212; then what?</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/07/our-kids-are-baptized-then-what/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/07/our-kids-are-baptized-then-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to search very far to find some &#8220;doom &#38; gloomer&#8221; tell you the church is dying. You also don&#8217;t have to go very far to see a church in which many of its young people &#8220;give their lives to Christ&#8221;, then a year or two after they leave home, most of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The birthday of the nation</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/07/the-birthday-of-the-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth-day of the Saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Noticer&#8221;, by Andy Andrews</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/06/the-noticer-by-andy-andrews/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/06/the-noticer-by-andy-andrews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/?p=630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of a book I started reading over the weekend. It&#8217;s actually a fairly short book, but with other things stealing my time, it&#8217;s taken me a while to finish it. Part fiction, part nonfiction, it&#8217;s taken a good bit from the experiences of the author, who lost both parents as a teenager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How readily do you accept gifts from others?</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/05/how-readily-do-you-accept-gifts-from-others/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/05/how-readily-do-you-accept-gifts-from-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[glorify God]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A post yesterday on the Christian PF blog got me thinking about a fairly common practice. Let me ask you this: When someone offers to do something nice for you or to give you something, what&#8217;s your first response? If you&#8217;re out to dinner with a friend, and she picks up the check, do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage?  Really?</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/05/marriage-really/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/05/marriage-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/?p=503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I had heard just about everything!  I was truly amazed when we, as a country, began to debate same-sex marriage.  I could not believe that a country founded on Christian principles (and we were) could ever sink so low as to even think about marriage being anything but one man and one woman.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deceitfulness of Sin:  Homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/04/the-deceitfulness-of-sin-homosexuality/</link>
		<comments>http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/2009/04/the-deceitfulness-of-sin-homosexuality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trp</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fbgtxchurchofchrist.org/blog/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sin is always a  great deceiver (Hebrews 3:13), and those who promote it are also deceivers (Romans 1:32).  Sin always promises happiness but only provides temporary pleasure while doing damage to the soul and to society. Just as fornication damages the family and its consequences of children of unwed mothers, poverty and disease affects our [...]]]></description>
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