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		<title>Movie Review: The Men who Stare at Goats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watched this last night on BluRay and fortunately it was only an hour and a half long. Apart from the bizarre New Age, psychic themes, which didn&#8217;t go down well with yours truly anyway, it really wasn&#8217;t much of a movie. The plot was bland, the acting OK but none of the all star cast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=177&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If God exists and he is a loving God why is there so much pain	and suffering in the world?- guest post by Katie Finch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Finch has kindly agreed that some work she did for her evangelism group can be shared here on my blog. There are a few of these essays that deal really comprehensively with real questions that those unsure about Christianity tend to ask and I’ll be posting them over the next few weeks. If God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=168&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m an environmentalist- Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this post, I gave a broad definition of an environmentalist as “someone who cares deeply about the environment, and is prepared to do all he or she can to protect and enhance it”. Interestingly, since writing that, I have come across a number of articles discussing the difference between the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=152&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m an environmentalist- Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can remember when the Green Party was considered by pretty much everyone to be a bunch of wackos. Not any more. In fact, everyone, politicians, church leaders, celebrities are all desperate to show their green credentials. What are we to make of all this? What is the biblical and Christian attitude to the environment? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=122&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Parable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isaiah 9:6- His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. One Christmas time, there was a man. He lived in a pit. He had always lived in a pit and knew nothing other than the pit. The pit was made of clay that would sink if he stood still. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=113&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nine reasons why I use the ESV for my preaching and personal devotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, I have come to really love the English Standard Version (ESV). In my journey of &#8220;preaching Bible&#8221;, I have moved from the NIV to the NASB and have now settled on the ESV. In my journey of &#8220;devotional Bible&#8221;, I have moved from NIV to NASB to NLT to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=82&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bah Humbug! Should Christians celebrate Christmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, I encounter people who think Christians shouldn&#8217;t celebrate Christmas. They make some good points about materialism and syncretism, but on balance I remain convinced that in God&#8217;s providence, we are where we are and we should seek to celebrate Christmas in a godly and Jesus-centred way. What does that look like? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=76&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer by Joni Eareckson Tada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across this prayer today by Joni, a woman who was terribly injured and handicapped following a diving accident. What a wonderful testimony to God&#8217;s sufficient grace. Lord Jesus, the weaker I am in this wheelchair, the harder I lean on you. And the harder I lean on you, the stronger I discover you to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=18&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does creation tell us about the cross? (Matthew 27:45-51)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are my notes from Good Friday message: Good Friday Service, 10 April 2009 All Creation Groans (Romans 8:22; Matthew 27:45-54)) All through the Bible, we learn that one of the ways that God reveals himself to us is through creation. In Genesis 1, as God creates, at the end of each day, he declares [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewhenderson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7319622&amp;post=4&amp;subd=matthewhenderson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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