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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>The end of exile (5) Communion</title>
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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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		<title>The end of exile (4) Baptism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coming of Jesus marked the end of exile; for both Jews and Gentiles.  In His ministry, Jesus instituted two practices/sacraments/ordinances which those who are His followers are to observe.  The first is baptism and the second is the LORD’s Supper.  While there is much disagreement about these two ordinances, one finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of exile (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the coming of Jesus marks the end of exile, those who have followed Him out of exile are in another sense exiles.  Denis Haack uses the analogy of being in Babylon.  The language of the Gospel of John is of being in the world but not of the world.  Paul speaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of exile (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>damon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	If exile has ended, why are things the way they are?  Why are things not the way they should be?  Why are we still here, in this mess of a world?  Simply put, we are here to demonstrate the reality that exile has ended; in the words of Charles Wesley’s carol: “God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of exile (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>damon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	On the last Sunday of 2009, we finished our study in the book of Jeremiah by examining chapter 52, a recap of the fall of Judah and destruction of Jerusalem.  But several issues remained.  What happened to the people of Judah- those left in the land, those taken into exile in Babylon, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us at the church this Sunday, December 13th, at 3 pm to celebrate the Christmas season by singing carols and enjoying Christmas
works by Corelli,Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, Brahms and more! Admission is FREE!]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 25th, a group of students from the Colburn School of Music will be presenting a short program for the community.  It will begin at 2 in the afternoon.  All are welcome!]]></description>
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		<title>Discussion: &#8220;Men Without Chests&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[fact]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[value]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week we discussed the first chapter of C.S. Lewis&#8217; &#8220;The Abolition of Man&#8221;, entitled &#8220;Men Without Chests.&#8221; Share your thoughts on this below as comments. 
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		<title>Sunday Discussion &#124; Sept. 27, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sunday Discussion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remembrance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have more thoughts on our discussion from this week? Share them here!]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Worship 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on Worship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of 4
Past and Present
All flesh is like the grass. We blossom, flourish and fade away. Meditating on this truth brings wisdom to our lives, and will guide us in our vocations. We are temporal, and yet we are cared for and nurtured by a God that is unchanging and unfailing in His love, [...]]]></description>
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