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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>JUST WAR (5)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second standard for JUST WAR is JUST CAUSE, that is, why one wages war. While the two approaches to just war may have seemed close in the matter of authority, here we find substantial differences between the two strands of JUST WAR thinking. And while the two approaches share some of the same convictions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST WAR (4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the criteria with regard to a JUST WAR position? The first issue is that of authority: who may wage war and who determines if a particular war is just. We have seen that there are two strands of thinking regarding just war. When it comes to the question of authority, the two approaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST WAR (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If virtue and character are to guide us in our view of just war, then the Church must be in the forefront of the matter. It is the Church that Jesus has begun the work of redeeming all of creation. As disciples of Jesus, we need to recognize just war as a form of faithful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST WAR (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are at least two strands of thinking when it comes to a just war philosophy. Look on line, check with Amazon.com and you will find this to be the case. On the one hand, you will find just war as a matter of public policy; on the other hand, just war as Christian discipleship. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST WAR (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We begin a new series and though I don’t usually give a name to a series of sermons, I have chosen to entitle this one “Living Faithfully in a Time of War.” I am indebted to as well as grateful to Daniel M. Bell, Jr. for his work in the book Just War as Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fourth chapter of his letter (verses 13-17), James warns against presumption regarding the future. As he points out, when it comes to the future, we are walk in the path of humility, which our ignorance of the future, our frailty as temporal creatures, and our dependence on the Creator. We should not mistake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (16)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the same themes are found in the introduction and the conclusion, a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) shift has occurred. In the introduction, prayer is related mainly to our own welfare. In 1:5, James writes: If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (15)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last fourteen verses of the book of James serve as the conclusion to his sermon. Shorter than the extended introduction found in chapter 1, it contains the same themes we find in the introduction. Two of those themes are patience and perseverance. By patience, James points to “the self-restraint which does not hastily retaliate [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As James comes to the end of his third point in the sermon (keeping oneself from being polluted by the world), in 5:1-6 he deals with wrong views and uses of possessions. The big issue for many in understanding this passage is who is the audience? I am convinced James is speaking to believers, former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James (13)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the final section before his conclusion, James deals with three symptoms of self-centeredness, symptoms that often do not arouse suspicion or concern because that’s just the way people are. And that is precisely the point James is trying to make. He wants his readers to turn away from such thinking. The three symptoms? Arrogance [...]]]></description>
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