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		<title>The Resurrection of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The message of the resurrection is that this world matters! That the injustices and pains of this present world must now be addressed with the news that healing, justice, and love have won&#8230;If Easter means Jesus Christ is only raised in a spiritual sense&#8211;then it is only about me, and finding a new dimension in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/02/16/the-resurrection-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Observation: What drew the most &#8216;amens&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enjoyed visiting the ol&#8217; alma matter for Lectures today. Something stood out to me in one of the lectures I attended. The speaker made several comments that were met with yells of &#8220;amen.&#8221; Within a minute&#8217;s time, he made two statements that each were met with an enthusiastic response.
The first statement: &#8220;We need to realize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/02/08/observation-what-drew-the-most-amens/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your focus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In the average crisis, the crisis itself gets the attention God should have had. Helmut Thielicke said that during the bomb raids on Stuttgart he used to hear two kinds of prayers rising from the bomb shelters. Most prayed, “Lord, save us from the bombs!” and only a few prayed, “Lord, save us from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/02/03/whats-your-focus/</link>
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		<title>The Presence of God in Preaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When preachers lose track of God, their sermons get pushier. Not only that, when God is most absent in their lives, they are all the more present. The quieter God gets, the louder they get.
Barbara Brown Taylor raises the same issue:
Sometimes I think we do all the talking because we are afraid God won’t. Or, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/01/29/the-presence-of-god-in-preaching/</link>
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		<title>Confederate Dollars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Christian who tries to accumulate toys, money, and possessions during life is like a Union soldier who tried to stockpile Confederate currency at the end of the Civil War.
Not only was he a traitor, he was a fool, for his prize was worthless!
Adapted from The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/01/26/confederate-dollars/</link>
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		<title>A funny thing about change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nobody wants to change until the  pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.&#8221;
Adapted from Comeback Churches.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/01/24/a-funny-thing-about-change/</link>
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		<title>The Fruit of Repentance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In reading Randy Alcorn’s The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving, I stumbled on this little realization. In Luke 3:10-14, John the Baptist is describing works that show the fruit of repentance. In this text, he interacts with soldiers, tax collectors, and all men. The advice given to each is from the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/01/08/the-fruit-of-repentance/</link>
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		<title>The Singer&#8217;s Beatitudes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Singer by Calvin Miller:
Blessed are the musical, for theirs shall be a never-ending song.
Blessed are those who know the difference between their loving and their lusting, for they shall be pure in heart and understand the reason.
Blessed are those who die for reasons that are real, for they themselves are real.
Blessed are all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2010/01/06/the-singers-beatitudes/</link>
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		<title>Motorcycle Upgrades: Turn Signal Conversion (Part 1 of NaN)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, some of you know a 1993 Kawasaki Vulcan 500 decided to come and live with us. Now that we’ve spent about 1,000 miles together, it’s time to start breaking things.
One of my bigger fears while riding is getting rear-ended. Not much I can do to prevent that one, other than pray and work on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/11/16/motorcycle-upgrades-turn-signal-conversion-part-1-of-nan/</link>
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		<title>Christian Disciplines: Devotionals and Fasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy our last two weeks of discussion from our Christian Disciplines Class.
First, Home Devotionals. God is interested not in our spiritual lives, per se, but in our lives—the whole stinkin’ thing! We discussed this concept in our lesson on home devotionals. How can we season our entire lives with his presence? How can we recognize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/11/04/christian-disciplines-devotionals-and-fasting/</link>
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		<title>Christian Disciplines: Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week’s recap of prayer – the Christian discipline.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/10/23/christian-disciplines-prayer/</link>
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		<title>Why software development scares me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developers, like me, are writing software for things that could kill me.
Did you see this news story? An error in programming gave hospital patients overdoses of radiation for 18 months before it was detected. If you read the story, it boils down to the fact that the guy in charge messed with settings he shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/10/15/why-software-development-scares-me/</link>
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		<title>Disciplines: Relationships as Disciplines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we talked about how significant relationships are. In a post-modern world, they&#8217;re our greatest opportunity for evangelism. They enrich our lives&#8211;they allow us to survive and thrive. Since our relationships with others affect and reflect our relationship with God, we should treasure them and work on them to help us mature in Christ. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/10/14/disciplines-relationships-as-disciplines/</link>
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		<title>Christian Disciplines (Session 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday night at Burns, we&#8217;ve started a class on &#8220;Christian Disciplines: Tools for Transformation.&#8221; This is a class I&#8217;m really looking forward to&#8211;I see a real need in the church here, and I see real potential.
The class has quite a bit of discussion, but there are several who are not able to join us, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/10/12/christian-disciplines-session-1/</link>
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		<title>Review: Velvet Elvis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I saw Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis in the value bin at McCay’s, I figured I could spare $2 for the potential of a book with a name like velvet elvis…
Background: Rob Bell was founding pastor of Mars Hill Church (now led by Mark Driscoll) and is the main guy in the first several Nooma [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/10/11/review-velvet-elvis/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Camp Kalos 2009 Singing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/07/20/camp-kalos-2009-singing/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Lost Letters of Pergamum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Longenecker&#8217;s Lost Letters of Pergamum, The: A Story from the New Testament World is a historical fiction designed to allow the modern reader a glimpse of life in the early church. It is formatted as a collection of letters primarily between Luke (the physician and gospel-writer) and Antipas, a benefactor of Rome who eventually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/06/14/review-the-lost-letters-of-pergamum/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Dumb: Ten Stupid Mistakes (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t yet read this book, so this doesn&#8217;t count as a review, but I wanted to explore its major thoughts before reading it. The book is Geoff Surrat&#8217;s Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing: How Leaders Can Overcome Costly Mistakes. 
Here are their ten stupid mistakes:
 

Leaders do it all
Establishing Wrong role [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/06/10/dont-be-dumb-ten-stupid-mistakes-part-1/</link>
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		<title>A Church Work Observation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the process of planning for a campaign at Burns, and it&#8217;s provided several opportunities to remind me of one particular lesson: the least important things in life always take precedence.
I may call this Matthew&#8217;s Paper Theorem, hereafter MPT. (Maybe Matthew&#8217;s Procrastination Theorem&#8230;or Matthew&#8217;s Prioritization Theorem&#8230;)
For example: in college, how many times did the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/06/09/a-church-work-observation/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Systems Bible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;ve enrolled in Harding University&#8217;s Master of Ministry program, I&#8217;m doing way more reading than I ever have before. My goal is to write up a little bit on each book I read (for school, work, or pleasure) here for your viewing pleasure&#8230; So here, I present to you, a Christian nerd&#8217;s book review!
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/06/01/review-the-systems-bible/</link>
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		<title>2008 Books and Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone&#8230;with school and church work, I end up reading a pretty decent bit. I wanted to share with you most of the books that I remember reading in 2008, along with a bit of commentary, summary, and my rating.
I hope this is beneficial!
Christian Counseling by Gary Collins (4/5)This work covers the gamut of counseling-related [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/04/30/2008-books-and-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Wishlist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just playing with this, but here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on my &#8220;2009 I&#8217;d like to read&#8221; list&#8230;
  Amazon.com Widgets
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/01/14/wishlist/</link>
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		<title>Some books you might be interested in&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Amazon.com Widgets
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/01/14/some-books-you-might-be-interested-in/</link>
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		<title>The Last Weeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a long journey, but we stuck with it! I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was going to happen, to be honest. We began 2008 with about a dozen people, and I thought that probably only 8-10 of us would be meeting together on this last Wednesday night of the year. You blew me away! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2009/01/01/the-last-weeks/</link>
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		<title>All I Want for Christmas&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve decided to compile an Amazon Wishlist this year. The main purpose: for books. So, if by chance, you want to know what books I&#8217;ve been looking to make arrive at my home&#8230;.click away!

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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/12/09/all-i-want-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Roby Christmas Party 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all of our friends at Roby &#8212; we had a great time at the annual Dirty Santa night. We look forward to the retreat!!
 
 
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/12/07/roby-christmas-party-2008/</link>
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		<title>Week 47: The Death of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We didn&#8217;t get to meet as a class this week because of the presentation from Arnold about the work in Haiti, but I&#8217;ve prepared materials anyway, and I hope you can benefit from them.
Also, if you didn&#8217;t get to hear Arnold&#8217;s presentation, I hope you&#8217;ll go over to the Burns Website. You can view his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/11/21/week-47-the-death-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Week 46: The Parables of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parables, you know, those &#8220;earthly stories with a heavenly meaning.&#8221; Sometimes they&#8217;re simple; sometimes they aren&#8217;t.
This week, we attempted to go through every parable of Jesus and extract a simple meaning. Good luck to you!
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/11/12/week-46-the-parables-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Week 45: What did Jesus teach?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting the broad-level knowledge that people have &#8212; or don&#8217;t have &#8212; about the teachings of Jesus. I asked each member of the class to rank the top three emphases of Jesus&#8217; teachings &#8212; and no two people described the same things.
Enjoy a powerpoint and handout from the teachings of Jesus.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/11/05/week-45-what-did-jesus-teach/</link>
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		<title>Week 44: The ministry of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to narrow down a week of reading like we just shared. We covered the birth of Jesus, his temptation, the calling of the apostles, his first miracles, the sermon on the mount, and his first encounters with serious opposition.
Two handouts this week:
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High Points of the Ministry of Jesus PowerPoint
Jesus Ministry Begins Word Document
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/10/29/week-44-the-ministry-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Week 43: Beginning of the New Testament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s study introduces the New Testament, the apocrypha (deuterocanonical writings) and the inter-testamental period.
When Jesus arrives &#8212; it&#8217;s a big deal!
This week&#8217;s files are zipped to include several links for further study as well as the powerpoint introduction to the new testament and a handout offering some possibilities for understanding the genealogies in Matthew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/10/22/week-42-beginning-of-the-new-testament/</link>
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		<title>Week 42: The end of an era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is our final week of Old Testament studies. I hope you&#8217;ve found this to be as encouraging and enlightening as I have! We crack open the door to information about the intertestamental period this week, and look at the last words of the prophets.
(Aside: Does anyone else get really annoyed that Microsoft Word&#8217;s built-in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/10/15/week-42-the-end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<title>Week 41: Esther and Malachi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s material covered Esther and Malachi. Esther is (in)famous for it&#8217;s avoidance of the Divine name and references to luck (lots). It&#8217;s no surprise that aporcyphal writings include a little extra material to &#8220;sanitize&#8221; the book!
Malachi is one of the great questioners of all time&#8211;and his retelling of God&#8217;s questions for man and man&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/10/08/week-41-esther-and-malachi/</link>
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		<title>Week 40 Files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Week 40 files from our discussion.
Apocalypse Now, an essay by N.T. Wright about apocalyptic literature in the Bible.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/10/06/week-40-files/</link>
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		<title>Week 39: Little Big Horn &#8212; and Other Visions of Daniel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, this is not my favorite portion of scripture. To compensate for my lack of knowledge in the nuances of different interpretations of Daniel&#8217;s (crazy) visions, this week&#8217;s lesson PowerPoint is a compilation of links to sites &#8212; some of which I agree with, some of which I don&#8217;t, that offer explanations and clarifications of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/09/30/week-39-little-big-horn-and-other-visions-of-daniel/</link>
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		<title>Week 38: Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s discussion revolved around the many questions from the book of Job. For one, why in the world is it not pronounced like it looks like it should be? :-)
We considered the problem of pain and suffering. God points out Job to Satan. Were it not for His actions, we could assume that Job&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/09/20/week-38-job/</link>
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		<title>Week 37: End of Ezekiel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we wrote cards &#8212; I hope you will too. Here&#8217;s our brief PowerPoint.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/09/11/week-37-end-of-ezekiel/</link>
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		<title>Update to Internet Filtering and Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the page under Ministry Tools for internet content filtering ideas&#8230;.I&#8217;ve added a new one using the free OpenDNS service&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/09/08/update-to-internet-filtering-and-protection/</link>
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		<title>Catching Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear faithful reader,
If you exist, I just wanted to let you know that I&#8217;m now caught up. Thanks to RememberTheMilk.com, I&#8217;ll now have a weekly reminder to put the PowerPoint files from our Wednesday night study of F. Lagard&#8217;s Chronological Bible on the site.
Sorry for the delay. I back-dated the posts to help with organization&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/09/08/catching-up/</link>
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		<title>Week 36</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end, finally, is here. Week 36 PowerPoint.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/09/01/week-36/</link>
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		<title>Week 35: Jeremiah and Ezekiel Continue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fall of the kingdom takes a long time &#8212; and there tons of great lessons. Here&#8217;s our PowerPoint over Ezekiel and Jeremiah, with hints of Daniel for extra flavor.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/26/week-35-jeremiah-and-ezekiel-continue/</link>
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		<title>Week 34: Ezekiel Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want a good working definition of strange, Ezekiel gives you one.
First, an artist&#8217;s rendering of Ezekiel&#8217;s vision from Ezekiel 1. Pretty good, if you ask me&#8230;






Second, this week&#8217;s PowerPoint introduction to Ezekiel.
Finally, thanks to the VERY good people at Crossway, the introduction to the new, upcoming ESV Study Bible that you should preorder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/20/week-34-ezekiel-begins/</link>
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		<title>Week 33</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s study notes.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/13/week-33/</link>
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		<title>Bible Bowl Quiz 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first online Bible Bowl Quiz for Crieve Hall for Sycamore Bible Bowl 2008! You&#8217;ll need a SWF player (already in most browsers) to continue. Each test is timed&#8211;you have twenty minutes to answer ten questions. The questions come from the New King James Version of the Bible.
Please enter your name (first name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/04/bible-bowl-quiz-5/</link>
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		<title>Week 32: Jeremiah&#8217;s Prophecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we had several resources. First, a YouTube video overview of the &#8220;Potter and the Clay&#8221; story:






Then a look at maps of war &#8212; The Imperial History of the Middle East.
Last, but certainly not least, our lovely PowerPoint.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/04/week-32-jeremiahs-prophecy/</link>
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		<title>Bible Bowl Quiz 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take Bible Bowl Quiz 2
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/03/bible-bowl-quiz-2/</link>
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		<title>Bible Bowl Quiz 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take Bible Bowl Quiz 3 Here
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/08/02/bible-bowl-quiz-3/</link>
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		<title>Bible Bowl Quiz 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take Bible Bowl Quiz 4
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/07/31/bible-bowl-quiz-4/</link>
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		<title>Week 31: Even More Prophecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s discussion of the major prophets.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/07/31/week-31-even-more-prophecy/</link>
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		<title>Week 31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grappling with texts like Isaiah 52-53 and the suffering servant songs really puts me in my place. Nothing is quite as potent as the words of the prophets to people so long ago who seem incredibly familiar to us.
Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s PowerPoint covering some of Isaiah and Nahum.
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		<link>http://www.happyhiatt.com/2008/07/31/week-31/</link>
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