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		<title>The Golden City of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jerusalem, thou city fair and high, Would God I were in thee! My longing heart to thee would gladly fly; It will not stay with me. Far over vale and mountain, Far over field and plain, It hastes to seek its fountain And leave this world of pain.&#8221; — &#8220;Jerusalem, Thou City Fair and High,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14459&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lutherans in Siberia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this world, we often see the powerful becoming more powerful, and the downtrodden being trodden down even more.  But Jesus said to his disciples: Not so with you.  Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.  For even the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14491&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Dangerous Words: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Girl&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video focuses mostly on China and India, but the problem of lack of respect for life is worldwide. This weekend in the United States, we observe and protest the infamous Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.  In the United States 53 million boys and girls have been intentionally killed through abortion.  53 million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14480&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of Concord Pocket Edition Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have some extra copies of the Christian Book of Concord, pocket edition from Concordia Publishing House, and thought I&#8217;d try to give away one of them here on Light from Light.  This is the small, regular soft-cover paper-back edition without the annotations or graphics.  The condition is new, never used. If you would like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14361&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O winter snow, there you are!</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/o-winter-snow-there-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote the previous post, &#8220;O winter snow, where are you?&#8221; the forecast had been for a few flurries a few days later.  We received a little more than that. It is amazing that countless beautiful snowflakes can fall every winter, and none will be the same.  God has truly made His creation wondrous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14358&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O winter snow, where are you?</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/o-winter-snow-where-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without the white crystals, Winter in Wisconsin is not as photogenic. &#8220;Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.&#8221; — Psalm 51:6-7, NIV-1984. Here is a video of snow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14315&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intrepid Lutherans Discuss the Cup</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/intrepid-lutherans-discuss-the-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Rydecki posted an excellent discussion of the Cup of Christ on the Intrepid Lutherans blog entitled: &#8220;A Pastoral Rationale for Using the Common Cup.&#8221;  It is recommended reading.  I especially appreciated this description of the Lutheran tradition: We are not minimalists in the Lutheran Church.  We don’t ask the question, “How little do we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14239&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year, 2012</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/a-new-year-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun blazes orange on the trees of an ice blue lake. &#8220;I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.&#8221; The sun broke free under a cloudy sky, to say farewell and bye to eye.  It was a cloudy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14212&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Magnum Mysterium</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/o-magnum-mysterium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O Great Mystery! O Magnum Mysterium! I especially appreciate the picture that starts at 3:45.  This song and these pictures are not emotionally bouncy or catchy, but they convey truth.  Deep truth. O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. Alleluia. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14199&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Christmas Story, read by Sissel</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/the-christmas-story-read-by-sissel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the City of David, a Savior was born.  He came to make peace between God and Man.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3662576&amp;post=14179&amp;subd=vdma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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