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	<title>The Anchor Church</title>
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	<description>Bearing Witness to Christ in SE Portland</description>
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		<title>A Christmas Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Rob Fairbanks recently posted this Christmas prayer on his blog that I thought would be good to share as Christmas eve approaches tomorrow.
Sometimes we find your love in the warmth of relationship.  In the embrace of a friend or in the believing words of a parent or in the intimacy of a life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Not So)Silent Night</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/not-sosilent-night</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope this week finds you well!  The Anchor is not going to be meeting for the next few weeks, but I will try to get on here and post some thoughts and reflections in the meantime.
With Christmas Eve tomorrow night, I start to think of the story of Christ&#8217;s birth in the manger.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelism as a Function of Love</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/evangelism-as-a-function-of-love</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytise?&#8221;
Check out this video:

Hearing Penn talk about Evangelism, or as he refers to it proselytism gives a very needed challenge to our belief structures as Christians.  How many times do we avoid speaking with others about the Gospel for the very reason that Penn mentioned: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening, or Reading?</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/listening-or-reading</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/listening-or-reading#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Sittser, one of my professors from my time at Whitworth, has written a great book on Christian spirituality: Water From a Deep Well.  This book has been a very good read for me that has cause many moments of good reflection on spirituality.
I just finished reading the chapter on the Word, and am dwelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Giving Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/christmas-giving-opportunity</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/christmas-giving-opportunity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Amon recently wrote a story about growing up in Rwanda to introduce a ministry he has started.  I am going to post his story, and ask you that if you are interested in pursuing this Advent Conspiracy paradigm of giving to others instead of just spending on ourselves, to consider giving through Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John the Baptist: Repentance as Preparation for the Coming King</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/john-the-baptist-repentance-as-preparation-for-the-coming-king</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/john-the-baptist-repentance-as-preparation-for-the-coming-king#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday, Richard shared with us from Matthew 3:1-17.  This passage centers on John the Baptist, who Matthew depicts as a herald, preparing the way and announcing the coming of a King.  Central to John&#8217;s message was the message of repentance.  Specifically, Matthew notes this message that John had been saying:
You brood of vipers! Who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent and the Conspirators</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/advent-and-the-conspirators</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/advent-and-the-conspirators#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday marked the first Sunday in advent.  
Advent is a new concept for me.  The church I grew up in did not celebrate Advent in the traditional sense, though I am sure we touched on the topics.  I shared that Advent is important because our culture wants to push us straight to celebration, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Overdue Update</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/long-overdue-update</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/long-overdue-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry all, it has taken me a while to give an update on here.  We have covered some ground as a group in the last two weeks.
Two weeks ago, I shared on Jude 5-7.  Jude refers to three stories from the Old Testament(plus a bonus allusion to 1 Enoch, an apocryphal book) to say how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jude 3-4</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/jude-3-4</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/jude-3-4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we covered Jude 3-4:
Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that the Lord has once for all entrusted to us, his people.  For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Called, Loved, Kept</title>
		<link>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/called-loved-kept</link>
		<comments>http://anchorpdx.org/blog/bryan/2008/called-loved-kept#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bryan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, we started a series on Jude, and went through verse 1 and 2 of Jude, discussing what it means that as Christ Followers, we are called, loved, and kept, and how we when we understand that it is God who does the work, it shifts our focus from being about proving ourselves to [...]]]></description>
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