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         <title>Reflection for the Week- July 26th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lord God, we call out to you for wisdom, strength, and patience. Help us know how to love more deeply, to be courageous when so much that is wrong with us and with the world appears to be out of control, and to have endurance in serving others as we look forward to and await the glorious renewal of all things.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- July 19th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Finding an original is like looking for the first pair of Levis or the first aspirin. God is the only Being, so it seems to me, who is capable of originality. But what is breathtaking is that out of what precedes us, we can produce something new. Sedimentation therefore shrouds who we are and what we do, yet innovation persists to contribute to life in discovering more and more what can be, from what already is.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:32:06 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- July 12th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Notions of the possible should illumine our lives. God is the God of the possible. Think of creation. Reflect on humanity. Ponder the incarnation. Envision all things renewed. Strangely and mysteriously incomprehensible all, but we can know sufficiently and find ourselves known intimately. Being here and there is a wonder of imaginary ontology and representing the incomprehensible on the face of the earth.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:38:44 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- July 5th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In the midst of catastrophic destructions of the natural world, lamentable economies, and ruinous governmental policies, necessary reform seems far from being a priority on the environmental, financial, and political agendas. Maybe we just don&rsquo;t like bad news and once it arises, we do everything we can to ignore it. God is not pleased by the folly of our times. Confession, rooted in the foolishness of God expressed in Christ crucified, is a first step in moving to fresh and innovative directions. Embrace the good news of God&rsquo;s kingdom, and help bring its resources into the whole of life.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br /><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:28:02 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- June 28th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[No doubt we have much to mourn as so often we find within the church a complacency that amounts to no moral courage. Be it in Europe or some other part of the world, pride and self-assurance have become identity markers and badges that fend off valid critique. There is a real and desperate need for the confession of sins and for this to translate into convictions and actions that are reminiscent of following in the footsteps of Christ.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:54:30 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- June 21st, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Christians are to see themselves in a new way. We have a distinct character, mission, and destiny as set apart for God, through the death and resurrection of Christ. Being freed from oppressive forces opens out onto the battlefield of time. In being set apart, we have become insiders who are sheltered and protected from the territory of destruction, as we await a new heavens and earth &ndash; a dwelling place where it is safe, under the blood of Christ, to flourish and live.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br /><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:46:38 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- June 14th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Becoming aware of our limitations should be considered a virtue. Embracing our limits opens up imagination for the intrigue of God and the whole of life in all its wondrous dimensions, while wishing it was different leaves us spinning round in circles of unimaginative bliss. Some of us complain and shake our fists because everything is not all figured out. Well, I say, let it go. When the time comes, we will see as we are seen and we will know as we are known. God&rsquo;s salvific action results in our being able to see and know through an imaginative intrigue that begins now and will never end.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br /><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:46:38 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- June 7th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Dialogue animates and breathes life into ideas, which tend to stagnate into oblivion when reduced to monologue. If we take a dialogical trajectory in our thinking, we will begin to develop formulations that yield a greater credibility. This is so because we are working with a broader sphere of possibilities that combine to offer a surplus of meaning. And reality is like that &ndash; breathtaking and overflowing with meaning &ndash; which is not entirely capturable, nor however, is it anything we make it out to be.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br /><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:38:25 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- May 30th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The plight of the suffering and disenfranchised is not to be forgotten. Their reality calls forth a myriad of responses and levels of action, which should be aimed at and geared to release. Welcoming in and showing hospitality to the stranger and orphan pleases God.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br /><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 10:15:52 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- May 24th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Having significant roles to play in the drama of creation and salvation is both a task and a joy. Thankfully, God illumines the path so that we can give valid testimony to his existence and redemption as we work for and rejoice in his kingdom.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 19:15:12 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- May 17th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Being Spirit formed and shaped by Scripture will open up possibilities for us to love, forgive, and show grace. Somehow, it&rsquo;s so much easier to ignore all this as what really counts because we busy ourselves with the trivial and call it life. Each day God gives us fresh opportunities, but leaves it up to us to act upon them. Acting on what is given will help transform the world.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:37:22 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- May 10th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The lack of love that is so prominent in many church contexts is shocking. Instead of loving each other and the stranger, we only tear down and fail to build up. Pray for personal transformation and renewal in the church. Forming our own tribes of hubris and exclusivity will be a faith defeater. God calls us to be responsible and gracious.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 10:34:41 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection of the Week- May 3rd,  2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Proof-texting – taking a verse here and there from the Bible – can be a dangerous enterprise when it comes to understanding God, self, other, and world. Random reading leaves too much to chance. No doubt sometimes God can use his word in this very selective sort of way, but most of the time if we want to understand better, we need to be informed about the historical, theological, and literary context of a passage before assuming that it is speaking directly to and for us. Surely, this more careful approach is part of what it means to hold a high view of Scripture and to honor God and his revelation.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 11:34:33 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- April 26th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[When the scientific and theological communities attempt to avoid hermeneutics (interpretation) they are liable to make a mess of things. Specialists in both disciplines face the obligation to admit that they are interpreters of data and not merely assessing the bare facts. In spite of their incessant antagonism towards each other, these two communities are interdependent, and therefore need to be in dialogue in order to better understand God, the world, self, and other.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:50:38 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Reflection for the Week- April 19th, 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[There are a myriad of tantalizing temptations in the human enterprise of culture; money, possessions, and sexual infidelity, to mention a few. While culture is a valid informer to some degree, we can be carried away in imagining it to have an authority superior to what it merits. Two other informers have to be taken into consideration when deciding how to be and live: Scripture and the natural world. Combined with culture, these two will give us a more stable and far ranging vision and illumine the path towards responsible action.<br /><br /><em>Dr. Gregory J. Laughery</em><br />]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:20:02 -0500</pubDate>
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