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	<description>...late night reflections on a gracious orthodoxy</description>
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		<title>An Evening Prayer (from The Siddur)</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusat2am.com/2010/02/04/an-evening-prayer-from-the-siddur/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA["Thou hast loved the house of Israel, thy people with everlasting love; thou hast taught us Torah and precepts, laws and judgments.  Therefore, Lord our God, when we lie down and when we rise up we will speak of thy laws, and rejoice in the words of thy Torah and in thy precepts for evermore. Indeed, they are our life and the length of our days; we will meditate on them day and night..."]]></description>
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		<title>Transformation of the Heart (Chapt. 1, Part 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To embrace the idea that love stands at the center of the Christian life is to dive headfirst into paradox.  For love - of God, self, neighbor and enemy - is commanded as the principle duty of a disciple.  And yet if love is as we have described it - not merely a moral choice (to act “as if” we loved, regardless of our feelings), but a condition of the heart (agape in all its complexity, complete with affection, passion, devotion…) – then it transcends the powers of human volition.  We cannot, by willful effort, no matter how sincere or devout, force ourselves to love what we do not.]]></description>
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		<title>And by “Love,” I Mean…Love (Chapt. 1, Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusat2am.com/2010/01/10/agape_defined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biblical love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The love of God is a love of deep affection, of raw connection and enduring attachment.  The love of God is the real deal.  And I think we must grasp this in order to know how completely we have been embraced.  And also to know the depth of the work to which we are called.  For if we are called to love our enemies – not merely do not hate them, do make moral choices where they are concerned, to act with regard, but to love as God has loved us – then we can do with nothing less than a transformation of the heart.   And suddenly we see with new clarity the work of spiritual maturity that lies before us.]]></description>
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		<title>Love at the Center  (Chapt. 1, Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusat2am.com/2009/12/18/love-at-the-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusat2am.com/2009/12/18/love-at-the-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[...when all is said and done, I have found no other explanation for the world as I know it – in all its beauty, complexity, pain, and hope - than the vision of love that I believe stands at the center of the biblical story...]]></description>
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		<title>A Blog Is Born&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.jesusat2am.com/2009/12/11/a-blog-is-born/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jesusat2am.com/2009/12/11/a-blog-is-born/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...as best I can, I hope to make this a blog about what I’d say about the Christian life at 2AM – the straight story as I see it.

If you want to ask a question, I’ll do my best to answer it.  Otherwise, the plan is to cover as many bases as I can:  the Bible, theology, church history, ethics, the life of spiritual formation…whatever else comes up.]]></description>
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