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	<title>Light from Light †</title>
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	<description>True worship is a work of God.  True faith is an act of God.</description>
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		<title>Remembering the Victims of Communism</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/remembering-the-victims-of-communism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.  We should never forget why it was built and why it fell.  Remembering where we came from will tell us who we are.
The above video is an interview with author and historian Lee Edwards about the creation of the Victims of Communism Memorial dedicated to those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7957&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Builds the Church?</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/who-builds-the-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not we who build.  [Christ] builds the church.  No man builds the church but Christ alone.  Whoever is minded to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it; for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it.  We must confess—he builds.  We must proclaim—he builds.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7888&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Voices of All Saints</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/holy-voices-of-all-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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Happy All Saints Day!
The saints on earth and those above
But one communion make;
Joined to their Lord in bonds of love,
All of His grace partake.
— The Lutheran Hymnal, &#8220;The Saints on Earth and Those Above,&#8221; 478:1.
Hark! the sound of holy voices
Chanting at the crystal sea,
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Lord, to Thee.
Multitudes which none can number
Like the stars in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7939&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hallowe&#8217;en Moon</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/halloween-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

	
	
	
	


Those waves in the video are from billows of rising air heated by the sun.  We see this effect above fires, and a similar effect causes the stars to twinkle.  The moon&#8217;s movement from left to right in the picture is caused by the earth&#8217;s rotation.
When Jesus was on earth, he looked at the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7726&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photographic Interlude</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/photographic-interlude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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May God bless you.
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		<title>So I hated life</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/so-i-hated-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I hated life.
— Ecclesiastes 2:17.
It can be good to hear things like this in the Bible because being sick and tired of life is something that happens to us all.  It&#8217;s hard to function when you feel like that…
On top of the pain and boredom, there&#8217;s also the fact that there is so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7751&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light Bulbs vs. The Nanny State</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/light-bulbs-vs-the-nanny-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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As an amateur photographer, I can attest to the inferior quality of CFL light.  They give off an unhealthy looking green glow, and have ruined many a photograph.  Compact Florescent Lights have good uses, but we should not ban beautiful incandescent lights.
If the government is going to start outlawing beautiful objects just because they allegedly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7703&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Fall Colors</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/first-fall-colors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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They say the Autumn colors won&#8217;t be as vibrant this year.  Says who?
Autumn is a yearly reminder that this world is having its season, but it will come to an end.  On the day Christ returns, the sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and the starry host will fall like Autumn leaves.  (Isaiah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7634&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/nebuchadnezzar%e2%80%99s-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apocalyptic writing is best understood when we interpret it in the light of the past.  It tells us to fear God, not man, because “man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”  (Proverbs 16:9).  Consider Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as recorded in the book of Daniel, chapter two:
‘You looked, O king, and there before you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7471&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lutheran Study Bible, a First Look</title>
		<link>http://vdma.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/the-lutheran-study-bible-a-first-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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The regular print edition of The Lutheran Study Bible is a beautifully bound book.  It is a big book, about the same size as the Treasury of Daily Prayer; however, the print is much smaller and the paper is thinner than the Treasury.  The print for the abundant notes below the Biblical text is especially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vdma.wordpress.com&blog=3662576&post=7329&subd=vdma&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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