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		<title>Sen Mike Johanns (Republican) from Nebraska</title>
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		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/11/sen-mike-johanns-republican-from-nebraska/</link>
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		<title>Meet Dick and Shirley: ordinary heroes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ordinary hero is a person who quietly (pastors don’t qualify) and faithfully serves.&#160; These are people we should honor.&#160; Do you know any ordinary heroes?&#160; Send them to me at chris [at] theredbrickchurch.org 
One of the reasons that missions is happening at the Red Brick Church in the way that it is happening is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/10/meet-doris-an-ordinary-hero/</link>
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		<title>Mohler: Stop saying, &#8220;I prefer expository preaching&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first steps to a recovering of authentic Christian preaching is to stop saying, “I prefer expository preaching.” Rather, we should define exactly what we mean when we say “preach.” What we mean is, very simply, reading the text and explaining it—reproving, rebuking, exhorting, and patiently teaching directly from the text of Scripture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/09/mohler-stop-saying-i-prefer-expository-preaching/</link>
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		<title>Meet Pastor Roy Summers and Manor Park Church of Worcester, England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday is for meeting other churches and pastors
One of my concerns for the church in North America today is that local churches are too disconnected from one another. While there are several highly visible churches, many of the people in our local churches have relatively little awareness of what is going on in modest congregations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/08/meet-pastor-roy-summers-and-manor-park-church-of-worcester-england/</link>
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		<title>Can you define parochialism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Parochialism: “Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial”
I often tell our people that, “a local church is not a local church.”&#160; While we certainly should be concerned across the street, we need also to think about around the world.
Stuart Briscoe writes that parochialism is a scourge:
The vision of John recorded in Revelation 5:9 tells of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/07/can-you-define-parochialism/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Canals don&#8217;t flow; they stagnate&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s worth reading through this point from Stuart Briscoe to get to the summary statement at the end.
So great is our commitment to the thought patters of the modern world that assume every effect has a traceable, measurable, and understandable cause, that we can assume that if we get the causes right or fix them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/06/canals-dont-flow-they-stagnate/</link>
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		<title>Would you pray in a special way for the preaching of the Word in your church tomorrow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a Brick, would you come by my study for prayer at 8:30 tomorrow?
I often plead with people in our church to come pray with me before the morning services.  The reason is that in my own strength I might as well seek to part the Red Sea or raise the dead as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/06/would-you-pray-in-a-special-way-for-the-preaching-of-the-word-in-your-church-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>They might have used Styx, &#8220;Too much time on my hands,&#8221; for the soundtrack.</title>
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		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/06/they-might-have-used-styx-too-much-time-on-my-hands-for-the-soundtrack/</link>
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		<title>Prayer lessons from Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Jeremy Carr reflects on our Lord’s example in prayer.

Early in Jesus&#8217; ministry, he is experiencing great success. His fame is spreading through Galilee as he casts out demons and heals many sick people. After one particularly busy day of healing, Mark&#8217;s Gospel tells us this:
And rising very early in the morning, while it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/06/prayer-lessons-from-jesus/</link>
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		<title>You will understand neither the Bible or life if you don&#8217;t keep the overarching story in mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I often stress with the Bricks is the big picture of salvation history.&#160; I show our people different iterations of the below diagram on a regular basis.&#160; If we don’t keep the meta-narrative of what God is doing in history in mind, then we will not understand either life or the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrauns.com/2010/03/05/you-will-understand-neither-the-bible-or-life-if-you-dont-keep-the-overarching-story-in-mind/</link>
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