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		<title>The Death of Church Discipline?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this CT article, Marlin Jeschke asks &#8216;Who killed church discipline&#8217;? The first suspect: the mega-church, where the members &#8212; insofar as they deserve that description &#8212; scarcely know one another, a fact that renders the idea of submitting to discipline absurd. However, small churches fail to exercise discipline, too.  The truth of the matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Excommunication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Scripture seems to bind us to the practice of excommunication (cf. 1 Cor 5.11; 1 Tim 1.20; Titus 3.10), as ordained by the Lord (Mt 18.15-18). But in the Protestant traditions, one finds little agreement on when, how, and why churches should &#8216;cut off&#8217; offending members. In his comments on Matthew 18, Hauerwas writes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cewgreen.com/?p=1906</link>
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		<title>Basil the Great on Life in the Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cewgreen.com/?p=1943</link>
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		<title>Happier than an Archangel: Eckhart on Human Joy in the Nearness of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In similar fashion our salvation depends upon our knowing and recognizing the Chief Good which is God Himself. I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonheffer on the Need for Daily Meditation on Scripture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following are excerpts from one of Bonhoeffer&#8217;s lectures to his Finkenwald seminary students. The text is drawn from Bethge&#8217;s notes. Bonhoeffer begins with a question: &#8216;Why do I meditate on Scripture?&#8217; He provides a four-fold answer. First, Because I am a Christian. Therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Importance of Testimony for Christian Life and Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his books, including Thinking in Tongues, Jamie Smith attempts to do justice to that peculiar act of Pentecostal spirituality and worship: testimony. Smith explains his thinking: I wanted to try to have a philosophical and theological methodology that honored the importance and distinctiveness of testimony in pentecostal/charismatic spirituality. So in the &#8220;Introduction&#8221; to Thinking in Tongues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hauerwas on Speaking Christian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent opinion piece, Hauerwas explained what it means to &#8216;speak Christian&#8217;, and why such speaking is necessary. This is a selection: &#8230;the most important part of writing and speaking Christian is what is not said. To speak Christian is an exacting discipline. It has taken the church centuries to develop habits of speech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cewgreen.com/?p=1901</link>
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		<title>Robert Louis Wilken on Memory and Martyrdom in Early Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heresy and Faith: How Early Christians Decided and Why it Matters from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cewgreen.com/?p=1895</link>
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		<title>John Cecil Cadoux on Christian Attitudes to War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the conclusion to Cadoux&#8217;s 1919 book, The Early Christian Attitude to War. The testimony of the early Church in regard to the participation of Christians in war will naturally vary very considerably in the strength of the appeal it makes to different types of Christians to-day. In view of all that we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cewgreen.com/?p=1877</link>
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		<title>Imagine the Loss of Christian Holy Living; or, If You Need an Example of How to Think (Non-) Christianly&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagine the Loss of the Christian Holy Places&#8221; In this recent First Things blog post, Novak worries (not without reason [but perhaps without faith]) about the future of Israel, and about the possible consequences the annihilation of Israel&#8217;s holy places &#8212; including the mount of our Lord&#8217;s famous sermon &#8212; might have on the future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cewgreen.com/?p=1879</link>
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