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	<description>The Church on Melrose is a small congregation meets together in Hollywood. We seek to live out our worhip of God in our everyday lives with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. The Church on Melrose strives to be a community that demonstrates our love for God in our dealings with others. We pray together and study God&#039;s Word, seeking to put its truth into practice.</description>
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		<title>James (7) The Law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In James 2, the reader comes upon the business that has caused some to marginalize or even reject this letter as Scripture.  It is the matter of the law and the believer.  And it comes up as James writes of caring for those in need.  How are we to treat people?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (6)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In James 1:26-27, James gives us the three points of his “sermon” to former members.  The three features of pure and faultless religion are a controlled tongue, caring for those in need, and personal holiness.  These are external actions in conformity with the Gospel.  Why did James select these three?  Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (5)  Religion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the modern ear, the phrase “religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless” sounds almost oxymoronic, a self-contradictory idea.  Many prefer spiritual to religious, religion having less than a stellar reputation in the public square.  What is James up to?
On some level, we should not be surprised that James throws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (4) What Did Jesus Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Did Jesus Do?
There are those who ask themselves as they live their lives, what would Jesus do?  Some wear bracelets with WWJD to remind of this perspective.  While this approach may be commended as it reflects a desire to follow the Savior, to think carefully about the actions they take, the choices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (3) Trial versus Temptation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trial versus Temptation
In verses 2-11, James deals with the matter of trials- I would add external trials as illustrated by the example of the outward circumstances of poverty and wealth (verses 9-11).  Verses 12-19 focus on internal struggles- temptations.  Verses 12 speaks of trial, verse 13 of temptation.  Both words come from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his extended introduction to his letter/sermon, James tells his readers, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God.”  This comes after he wrote, “Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”  Of all the things a Christian may lack, why is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have begun a new series on the epistle of James.  The epistle is a letter written by the head of the church in Jerusalem to members who had moved away.  This letter is really a sermon in letter form.  And in this letter/sermon we hear both pastoral affection and admonition.
The book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living as exiles in today&#8217;s world (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In making a case for the rWorld, Dale S. Kuehne asserts:  Christianity is essentially and fundamentally about relationships.  When Jesus was asked what was the most important commandment, he answered: &#8221; &#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217; 38This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living as exiles in today&#8217;s world (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A casual reading of I Corinthians might lead one to think that the church was marked by divisions.  However, there is nothing in chapters 5 through 16, in which Paul deals with a number of issues, to indicate that this was the case.  The problems dealt with were not along party lines.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of exile (5) Communion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it may take some explaining to demonstrate that baptism symbolizes the end of the exile, the other ordinance instituted by Jesus, the LORD’s Supper, seems to need no such explanation.  Consider what we read in Jeremiah 31: 31: “The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with [...]]]></description>
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