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	<title>CHARIS SHALOM &#187; gratefulness</title>
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		<title>Heaviness All Around, Hope Can Be Found</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2011/03/heaviness-all-around-hope-can-be-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An earthquake rips open a chasm in the earth throwing the ocean over a wide expanse of the Japanese coast killing thousands and leaving the country in turmoil.  
In the aftermath several nuclear plants are on the verge of meltdown and explosions, and no one seems to know how seriously we should take it.
Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasuring Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/10/treasuring-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There we were, finally in the doctor&#8217;s office for our first official appointment for our fourth baby.  We were so excited to learn more about everything.
Our kids so looking forward to having a baby.
We&#8217;ve enjoyed joking about our &#8220;geriatric&#8221; pregnancy and treasured the faith God raised up in us to go for an addition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yancey on Legalism</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/05/yancey-on-legalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What's So Amazing About Grace?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[T]he proof of your spiritual maturity is not how &#8216;pure&#8217; you are but awareness of your impurity.  The very awareness opens the door to grace.&#8221;  
&#8220;The spiritual games we play, many of which begin with the best of motives, can perversely lead us away from God, because they lead us away from grace. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He Hearts Me!</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/04/he-hearts-me/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/04/he-hearts-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
He loves me.
Why?  How?  Doesn&#8217;t He know?  Of course He knows&#8230;
He loves me still.
Knowing my whoring after all sorts of other gods, not the least of which is me, He died for me.  
He hearts me.  His heart burst for me.  And I can now live because He purifies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling Toward Love</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/03/struggling-toward-love/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/03/struggling-toward-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever really struggle with the immensity of God&#8217;s grace and the magnitude of your own lack of love and depravity?  I mean really struggle.  I think of Paul, crying out, when will I be delivered from this body of death?  Romans 7:24.  Those things I want to do I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustrated Father</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/10/frustrated-father/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/10/frustrated-father/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regan:  I got pineapple.

Tanner:  No, you didn&#8217;t; you got tropical punch.

Keaton: Yeah, that&#8217;s tropical punch.

Regan: I got pineapple.

[Two more minutes of debate]

Daddy:  [Angrily] Stop it.  Quit arguing over nothing.  Regan&#8217;s juice has pineapple in it.  You are all right.

Tanner:  [Reading ingredients] contains apple, grape, and/or pineapple.

Daddy:  [The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Answers Prayers</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/07/god-answers-prayers/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/07/god-answers-prayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Fourth of July I found myself in a little conversation with God.  I had a yearning in my heart to have opportunities to teach, and I was talking to God about it.  I was telling Him how much I loved teaching and that I wanted to share the things He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Blessings</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/05/birthday-blessings/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/05/birthday-blessings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
	
What a day we had on May 13, 2009, Tara&#8217;s 37th birthday.  God truly blessed us richly.

First, we received an email from our realtor telling us that a potential buyer for our house in Arkansas was ready to come to terms on an agreement to purchase.  (I will write more about the many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Night Ends in Resurrection – He is Risen!</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/04/this-night-ends-in-resurrection-%e2%80%93-he-is-risen/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/04/this-night-ends-in-resurrection-%e2%80%93-he-is-risen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		

 
[B]ecause those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, &#8220;Abba, Father.&#8221; The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God&#8217;s children. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Love of a Father</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/04/the-love-of-a-father/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/04/the-love-of-a-father/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this sermon excerpt at Kingdom Grace while trying to wake up on this Saturday of Easter weekend.  
  Jesus’ coming and his death are the living expression of the unwavering and single-minded devotion of the Father to His dreams for our adoption. The reality that drives the coming of Jesus Christ, [...]]]></description>
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