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	<title>CHARIS SHALOM &#187; Hope</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>On Turning Forty</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2011/03/on-turning-forty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this week, on March 18, 2011, at 3:26 a.m., to be precise, I will turn forty years of age.  
Reaching this milestone raises numerous questions inside my noggin.  I have to laugh, because I suppose it would actually be abnormal not to think about what it might mean to turn forty, and, [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Gentleness]]></category>
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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>Time and Again</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/03/time-and-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find I magnify myself and my problems to the point where God seems small or nonexistent in my life.  I will get caught up in the fact that I was prideful or got upset because someone else is succeeding.  Or I will dwell on my fleshy desires and the times I notice [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1383</guid>
		<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>Life Is Meant To Be . . .</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/01/life-is-meant-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fun.
Yes, you heard me say it.  Life is meant to be fun.  
Think about Genesis 1 and 2, before things got out of whack.  Imagine Adam and God, exploring the garden, intrigued, amazed, in wonder, overjoyed, and awestruck by the beauty and variety of animals, naming each one together.  
Imagine what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sin and Separation?</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/01/sin-and-separation/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2010/01/sin-and-separation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
So, does sin separate us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Purpose Through Poverty</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/12/finding-purpose-through-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/12/finding-purpose-through-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love how God invites us to deliberate with Him, not just talk to Him or about Him or only say good things to Him.  He calls to us to share our hearts.

&#8220;Come now, let us reason together,&#8221; says the LORD. &#8220;Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Success?</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/12/what-is-success/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/12/what-is-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Harold Finch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/?p=1326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Dr. Harold Finch visited the University of the Nations.  In his 20s he obtained the NASA contract for the company he was employed by for the Apollo spaceship.  At the time it was the plum project for scientists everywhere.  He then switched careers to education and planted a new Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compelling Love Found in Olivia Ray’s Life and Death</title>
		<link>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/10/compelling-love-found-in-olivia-ray%e2%80%99s-life-and-death/</link>
		<comments>http://charisshalom.fjministries.com/2009/10/compelling-love-found-in-olivia-ray%e2%80%99s-life-and-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Fayetteville, Arkansas, at Central United Methodist Church, on this day, Thursday, October 8, 2009, Olivia Ray will be buried.  A celebration in her honor will take place – a celebration of God&#8217;s endless love and of Olivia&#8217;s eternal life in Jesus Christ.  In this time of grieving and celebration, Tara and I [...]]]></description>
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