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		<title>Wanted: My Definition of Calvinism</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/03/27/wanted-a-definition-of-calvinism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an email which stated: From time to time I lurk on your blog.  Interesting thoughts.  From what I read, however, I think there might be some weaknesses in your arguments.  It’s not that your logic is off, but I question some of your starting assumptions. So here’s a challenge for you:  Define [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=688&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 103rd Birthday, Gramma!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Get Up and Go Has Got Up and Went (source unknown) How do I know that my youth is all spent? Well, my get up and go has got up and went. But in spite of it all I am able to grin. When I think of the places my get up has been. Old age [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=644&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humility &#8211; Is There an Easy Way to Learn It?</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/01/30/humility-is-there-an-easy-way-to-learn-it/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/01/30/humility-is-there-an-easy-way-to-learn-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brittle Bone Disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Osteogenesis Imperfecta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Phil 2:3 in my NIV says, &#8220;Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.&#8221; No doubt humility is an important Christian virtue and it would appear that my good friend and able chess warrior, &#8220;Dr. J&#8221;, believes I need just a teeny weeny bit more humility in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=653&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If God Can Be Surprised by His Creation, Can Calvinists Really Claim Unconditional Election?</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/01/07/if-god-can-be-surprised-by-his-creation-can-calvinists-really-claim-unconditional-election/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/01/07/if-god-can-be-surprised-by-his-creation-can-calvinists-really-claim-unconditional-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently indicated his doubt as to whether God is suprised by anything. I&#8217;d previously come across Gen 6:6 which says, &#8220;The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain.&#8221;  My only consideration of this verse and passage was that God knew what was going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=593&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divergent Thought (Calvinism, Arminianism, Open Theism); It&#8217;s Everywhere &#8211; Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/01/03/divergent-thought-calvinism-arminianism-open-theism-its-everywhere-happy-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2011/01/03/divergent-thought-calvinism-arminianism-open-theism-its-everywhere-happy-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Facebook friend recently posted this comment, “We may cast the die, but the Lord determines how it falls.” I couldn’t resist a little prodding for some details and asked the question – “So, even if we &#8216;think&#8217; we&#8217;re &#8216;doing&#8217; something, the outcome of that something is already predetermined by God?” I liked Tom’s response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=581&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature and Effect of Grace in the Life of the Christian</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/29/the-nature-and-effect-of-grace-in-the-life-of-the-christian/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/29/the-nature-and-effect-of-grace-in-the-life-of-the-christian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob George]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with an atheistic Facebook friend about the nature of grace. By his own account, &#8220;JH&#8221; isn&#8217;t too keen on Christianity in part because of the hypocrisy he sees between the stated views of many Christians and the observable actions of those same Christians. If Paul&#8217;s contention is correct wherein, &#8220;It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=552&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Absolute Truth; My &#8220;Relatively&#8221; Feeble Attempt</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/29/identifying-absolute-truth-a-relatively-feeble-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/29/identifying-absolute-truth-a-relatively-feeble-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Absolute Truth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I while ago I responded to an atheist friend’s Facebook comment about blaming Republicans for (at the time) the failure of congress to pass the 911 first responder’s (Zadroda) bill allocating money to those first responders experiencing continued health issues from the response and clean-up efforts on the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=549&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Digital Age and the Christmas Story</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/23/the-digital-age-and-the-christmas-story/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/23/the-digital-age-and-the-christmas-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re not alone if you&#8217;d never wondered how Joseph &#38; Mary might have managed with Google, cell phones and all things digital.  I hadn&#8217;t either.  But I find this is quite original, humorous and entertaining.  Enjoy! Filed under: Humor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=540&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all Brethren of Christian Clarity Review, come in please, over.</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/22/calling-all-brethren-of-christian-clarity-review-come-in-please-over/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/22/calling-all-brethren-of-christian-clarity-review-come-in-please-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[dit dit dit dahhhh    dit dit dit dahhhh    dit dit dit dahhhh CQ CQ CQ (that&#8217;s ham radio jargon for, &#8220;Anyone listening on this frequency?&#8221;) CQ CQ CQ Brethren of Christian Clarity Review, come in please &#8211; over. CQ CQ CQ Brethren of Christian Clarity Review, this is Martin&#8217;s Mercurial Musings, come in please &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=469&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Food Court Flash Mob: The Hallelujah Chorus</title>
		<link>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/13/christmas-food-court-flash-mob-the-hallelujah-chorus/</link>
		<comments>http://martinsmercurialmusings.com/2010/12/13/christmas-food-court-flash-mob-the-hallelujah-chorus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I understand it, a lunchtime crowd at a Canadian shopping mall food court was surprised and delighted when over 100 members of a local choir participated in something called a “Christmas Flash Mob”.  This really is a must see and so I&#8217;m doing my part to help this video go &#8220;viral&#8221;. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinsmercurialmusings.com&amp;blog=3022373&amp;post=440&amp;subd=martinsmercurialmusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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