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		<title>Reactions to Defeat of the Minority Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can click here for a description of the main event from Thursday at the General Assembly.
We want to know your reaction. How did you feel about the defeat of the minority report? What do you think it means for the PCA? (Please remember our guidelines for charitable speech on this forum.) If you were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/06/reactions-to-defeat-of-the-minority-report/</link>
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		<title>Request for Requests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends, would you consider e-mailing pcaconversations [at] gmail [dot] com to let us know what sort of topics you&#8217;d be interested in discussing together or hearing others address? We&#8217;re polling the people, in order to begin the work of getting some new and relevant content up over the summer. We&#8217;re interested in your interests. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/05/request-for-requests/</link>
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		<title>The Ideal General Assembly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another discussion topic: partly because Spring seems to be a tough time to get pastors and church planters to write new material and partly because we sometimes like it better this way.
Many of you have no doubt been making preparations for the 2009 PCA G.A. in Disneyworld. (It&#8217;s true!) You&#8217;ve also been hearing about all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/04/the-ideal-general-assembly/</link>
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		<title>The Incarnational Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Josh Eby
All Christians desire to become more like Jesus.  All Christians long for our world to become more like heaven.  And all Christians struggle to figure out how to live out their faith in the midst of a changing and complex world.
On the one hand, we make the mistake of identifying Christianity with our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/04/the-incarnational-church/</link>
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		<title>Notes from a Young Preacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Joshua Seth Anderson
I am a young preacher. Ordained in August of last year, I have proclaimed the word of God to the people of God as a minister of the gospel only about a dozen times. Add in my supply preaching as a seminary student and intern and my lifetime of sermons only totals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/03/notes-from-a-young-preacher/</link>
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		<title>What I wish I&#8217;d learned in seminary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve solicited your help in a discussion topic. Let&#8217;s have another try.
What are the top 3 things you wish you would have learned in seminary?
Other ways to get at the same question: What did you learn/experience in your first few years of ministry that you were under-prepared for? If seminaries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/03/what-i-wish-i-learned-in-seminary/</link>
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		<title>On Keeping a Holy Lent, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Craig Higgins
HOW CAN I (AND MY FAMILY) KEEP A HOLY LENT?
Traditionally, the Lenten season is observed in four Basic (and often overlapping) ways:
Self-examination- As we’ve discussed, this is central to the traditional Lenten observance. Use this time to ask yourself some hard questions about your spiritual life, your spiritual maturity. If you’re married, ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/03/on-keeping-a-holy-lent-part-2/</link>
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		<title>On Keeping a Holy Lent, part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Craig Higgins
People from different religious backgrounds have very different reactions to the season of Lent. Some grow up in churches where Lent is observed, but with little to no real explanation. Whether observed as a time of strict austerity or merely as a time of forgoing a few simple pleasures, Lent may seem like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/03/on-keeping-a-holy-lent-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Liturgy and Life, part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Farley
The Eucharist contributes to spiritual formation not only by nurturing the growth of virtues but also by embodying practices that train us in the ways of Christ and conform us to His image.  It is ritualized practice of life in the kingdom of God.
In their works on spiritual disciplines, Dallas Willard and Richard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/02/liturgy-and-life-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Friday Focus - Peru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last February we packed 12 large suitcases, 6 backpacks, 6 people, 1 sheepdog and 1 extra large dog crate into a minivan.  We then drove from Knoxville, TN to Miami, Fl en route to Lima, Peru.  In Miami we got lost dropping off the dog for his flight, broke his crate at customs, bought a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pcaconversations.org/2009/02/friday-focus-peru/</link>
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