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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>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>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2012/01/21/january-pastors-letter-4/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/12/05/bad-newsgood-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Worship Order for All Saints&#8217; Sunday</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/11/02/worship-order-for-all-saints-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6 November 2011 &#8211; All Saints’ Sunday Cover Art: Altar of the Mystical Lamb &#8211; The Arrival of the Mystical Lamb Prelude Greeting Preparation for Worship Choral Introit * Call to Worship (based on Psalm 34:1-8) Let us bless the Lord always. Let God’s praises be always in our mouths. May our deepest selves shout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=988&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing Our Name</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/10/30/knowing-our-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 8:31-36 “Everyone who sins is a slave of sin.” The lectionary for Reformation Sunday takes us out of Matthew’s end-times press to the cross, but it still gives us one of Jesus’ less-popular sayings. And I don’t have to tell you, talking about sin may be even more unpopular than talking about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=985&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worship Order for Reformation Sunday</title>
		<link>http://hopecommunitypc.org/2011/10/24/worship-order-for-reformation-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a new thing: as I work ahead on worship planning, I’ll post the materials I’ve found and prepared for each Sunday’s bulletin (and some of the prayers and blessings that don’t get printed). You can use it in your personal preparation for worship, or if you happen to be a worship planner yourself, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopecommunitypc.org&amp;blog=4278052&amp;post=982&amp;subd=hopecommpres&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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