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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>Church Organist Job Description</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOB DESCRIPTION CHURCH ORGANIST HOPE COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH VIRGINIA, MN PURPOSE The Organist is the primary instrumental musician in worship DUTIES Available for Sunday morning worship and Monday evening Choir rehearsal Accompany the Chancel Choir during worship services and rehearsals, under the direction of the Choir Director Provide musical leadership in regular and special occasion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1020&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>February Pastor&#8217;s Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A problem well stated is a problem half solved. - Charles Kettering As we turn another month, I’m serving a week-long rotation as volunteer chaplain at the Virginia Regional Medical Center. As a chaplain, I get to fill a unique role at the hospital. There’s listening, of course, which is the big thing we keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1017&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I know who you are&#8230;!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psalm 111; Mark 1:21-28 Seriously, what’s wrong with this guy? Who uses Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream as a bulletin cover? Well, as if it were a mitigating factor, it wasn’t originally my idea &#8211; one of my favorite worship blogs suggested it &#8211; but I suppose I made the choice either way, right? Fine. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1015&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drift-nets of Divine Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Mark 1:14-20 I should probably clarify: I actually do like fishing. It’s a pleasant way to spend time, a good excuse to be out on the water (especially when said water is liquid), and every so often it contributes to a tasty meal. But that has nothing to do with the kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1008&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January Pastor&#8217;s Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick, before I write next month&#8217;s pastor&#8217;s letter: the January letter (the newsletter itself went out on time, okay?) Merry Christmas and a happy&#8230; Epiphany? According to tradition, the season of Christmas continues until January 6, when we would celebrate the visit of the “wise men” on Epiphany. (As it happens, we’ll be celebrating it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1011&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad News/Good News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 Peter 3:8-15; Mark 1:1-8 Friends, I’m afraid I have some bad news: Christmas isn’t coming this year. See, we follow a three-year cycle of scripture readings for worship, and each year more or less follows a different Gospel. So until a couple weeks ago, we were in Matthew, which has the story of Joseph’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1006&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Is To Be Trusted</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/11/27/god-is-to-be-trusted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isaiah. 40:1-11; 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 I’m beginning Advent and still full from Thanksgiving. Today I’m giving thanks for our gifts. Many of these are your individual gifts, but I’m especially thinking in terms of our life together as Hope Community Presbyterian Church. We’re blessed with abundant food and generosity, with hospitality we shared last weekend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1003&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ecumenical Thanksgiving Reflection</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/11/23/ecumenical-thanksgiving-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deuteronomy 26:1-11 When I was growing up, my family gathered for Thanksgiving every other in Sac City, Iowa, where my grandparents grew up. They grew up there, so the whole family came to be planted there in a sense, but my people were not from there. We were from Germany, Wales, and a few other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sovereign Possibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ephesians 1:15-23; Matthew 25:31-46 I came very close at one point to majoring in physics. When I told my physics professor that I was feeling more drawn to religious studies than to physics, he paused a moment and asked, “Is there a difference?” A fair question for a Quaker astronomer to ask, and I understood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=995&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Are the Saints</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/11/06/happy-are-the-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revelation 7:9-14; Matthew 5:1-12 We’ve placed mementos and written names of our saints who join us at this Communion Table. I have 16 more names to add to the Communion Table. They’re not this congregation’s, but they’re saints with us today. I was just at a conference on the mission of the church with people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=992&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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