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	<description>Hope Community Presbyterian Church shares Christ&#039;s love and concern for all people, emphasizing the unifying aspects of the Holy Spirit, by serving downtown Virginia and the surrounding communities of the Quad Cities.</description>
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		<title>Sharing and Sending</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isaiah 6:1-8; The Nicene Creed Isaiah has a profound and overwhelming vision, the kind of experience you can’t share. He despairs of telling about it, knowing that language (especially descriptive language) breaks down in God’s presence. All that’s left is to sing with the angels, “Holy, Holy, Holy!” We’ll sing that too, in a bit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1080&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Breathing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 15:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ezekiel 37:1-14; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 Breathe in, deeply. Breathe out, gently. Isn’t that incredible? We pull air right out of the space around us, hold it within ourselves for just a few seconds, and release it again. In that moment, the same thing happens inside us that is happening in these candle flames: oxygen in, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1077&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll be back; be who you really are.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acts 1:1-11; John 17:6-19 Time With Young People Sunday School ended today. How many days are left in school? (Answer: 7) Let’s think about the last day of school. There’s all kinds of packing up, celebrating the year, and sharing some final ideas. Jesus’ followers had something like that in today’s readings. One reading was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1074&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May pastor&#8217;s letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 05:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What on earth are we here for? Not as individual people, but as the church. This question arose anew as the Session studied J. Clif Christopher’s book Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate, which offers insight about the numbers that reflect our church life: membership, attendance, and money. The primary driver of giving, according to Christopher, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1068&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation Bible School registration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join Daniel &#8211; torn from his home and forced into the king&#8217;s service. Imagine the pressure of learning a new language and culture&#8230;and the shock of discovering your best friends have been tossed into a fiery furnace. Explore exotic sights and smells in a Babylonian bazaar! Vacation Bible School is coming July 9th-13th, 9am-noon. Don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1072&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel, Parts 1 and 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18 Time With Young People Have you ever been scared? What are you scared of? Some fears I’ve had include being alone without someone to care about me, losing something special, falling from somewhere high, or embarrassing myself. Other grownup fears include running out of money, losing friends or marriages, getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1070&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty in the Pit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke 24:36b-49 There was a dusting of early-season snow in among the trees, a sign that winter was sneaking up on us. The morning was chilly and bright. The early sun poked through the gathering clouds and glinted on the hillsides among long shadows. It was this beautiful light/dark play that can happen so wonderfully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1066&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Island of Misfit Souls</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2012/04/15/welcome-to-the-island-of-misfit-souls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acts 4:32-35; John 20:24-29 I’ll beg your pardon here for talking about a Christmas movie during the Easter season, but it’s all one great big story, right? The movie is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the claymation TV special. Rudolph, you may recall, is ostracized from the reindeer games when his shiny red nose is found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1064&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Is Not Canceled</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark 16:1-8, 9-20 One of my friends, a pastor (and my fifth-grade Sunday School teacher), posted on Facebook: I had to laugh when I was asked if we were having church on Christmas day, which fell on a Sunday in 2011, I could give them that as it is a movable day. But, when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1060&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behold Your Son / Behold Your Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflection on one of Christ&#8217;s seven last words, from the community Good Friday service. John 19:25-27 It would be something of an understatement to say that Jesus had plenty on his mind at this point in the story. He was carrying human sin, divine grief, and his own physical and spiritual pain &#8211; and thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&#038;blog=4278052&#038;post=1058&#038;subd=hopecommpres&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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