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		<title>What are you bringing on Sunday?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken some time to focus on what you and your friends/family talk about right after leaving church on Sunday? Hopefully you are spending some time reflecting with others on the service. So what do you talk about in the car ride home or when you go out to lunch? It is too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An informal survey of the unchurched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following post was a collaboration between Mandy and Jeff&#8230; Church has become quite a hot topic issue in the recent years. Move to a southern town, and the question you&#8217;re most likely to hear after &#8220;What&#8217;s your daddy&#8217;s name?&#8221; is &#8220;Do you go to church?&#8221; After that, you&#8217;ll most likely hear:  &#8220;What church did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing the Back Door of the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Jeff for inviting me to contribute to this site. I hope I can contribute something of value to the ongoing conversation we can all enjoy. The subject of this post has been swirling around in my mind for a long time, but a recent day spent at a seminar,coupled with a determination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nobledesign.us/ip/http:/www.nobledesign.us/ip/closing-the-back-door-of-the-church/</link>
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		<title>Jeff&#8217;s &#8216;Why&#8217; (the Remix)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff&#8217;s initial guttural scream of &#8216;why&#8217; has triggered a thought avalanche in my soul. It seems as though the evangelical church in America is enamoured with events. If not, then why do stadiums fill, Dove Awards happen, and the conferences replicate like rabbits? Events are by nature singular in scope and temporal in effect. The Gospels claw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nobledesign.us/ip/http:/www.nobledesign.us/ip/jeffs-why-the-remix/</link>
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		<title>Why&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a post from The Boars Head Tavern by Michael Spencer. Buckle down. It&#8217;s pretty much a soap box piece, but one well-suited for the likes of IP. Why are Christians so convinced that stadium events are going to change the world? Why are massive gatherings like Promise Keepers, Battle Cry and, now, “The Call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ock-en-gay who?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was kicked back in this incredibly comforter rocker that I think belonged to Carolyn&#8217;s great grandmother. Or maybe she just says that to make sure I treat it well, I don&#8217;t know. Sam and I are watching Colts come-from-behind win over the Patriots, rooting on the Patriots. My beloved wife is yelling and pacing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ready for some Advent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the football season winds down for high school, it&#8217;s just getting exciting for colleges and fantasy football fanatics. By the way, have you seen fantasy church and even fantasy congress? However, it&#8217;s not football that IP wants you ignorant Protestants to get ready for; it&#8217;s Advent. &#34;What&#8217;s Advent?&#34; I&#8217;m ashamed to admit that until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church membership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Dever at Together for the Gospel blog has written an insightful and incisive essay about what I&#8217;ll call the Church Membership Scandal. Many of our Protestant denominations today judge their health by their numbers &#8211; whether in attendance or on their rolls. Dever claims this is not only unbiblical but patently sinful. I encourage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nobledesign.us/ip/http:/www.nobledesign.us/ip/church-membership/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m with you fellars! (Or why you should read Practicing the Presence of God)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post comes from one of my favorite quotes in O Brother, Wherefore Art Thou? I think Delmar says it to Pete and Everett when they are arguing about who is going to be the leader. What makes it funny is that they are all chained together at the time. Anyway that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nobledesign.us/ip/http:/www.nobledesign.us/ip/im-with-you-fellars-or-why-you-should-read-practicing-the-presence-of-god/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Neal!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IP is excited to welcome Neal Nelson on board as an author. Neal is the Baptist Collegiate Minister at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Neal has been a collegiate minister for ten years now and brings a dynamic perspective on the ancient church as its synergy with current church life and faith.]]></description>
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