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	<itunes:subtitle>Awestruck Ministries Podcast features the teaching and preaching of Ben Birdsong and also contains other contributions from Awestruck Band and other members of the Awestruck Ministry team.  Awestruck Ministries exists to make famous the name of Jesu[...]</itunes:subtitle>
	<itunes:summary>The Awestruck Ministries Podcast features the teaching and preaching of Ben Birdsong and also contains other contributions from Awestruck Band and other members of the Awestruck Ministry team.  Awestruck Ministries exists to make famous the name of Jesus Christ as the crucified, risen, and exalted Savior through music and the teaching of the Word in order that people can catch a glimpse of Christ and be awestruck by a small taste of His glory. For more information about Awestruck Ministries, visit us online at http://www.weareawestruck.com</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Does Your Life Tell the World that God Is Great?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the news reported the death of world renown atheist, Christopher Hitchens, from a long battle with cancer.  Hitchens is known in religious circles for his role as a leader in the New Atheism movement and as author of God Is Not Great.  In the world of atheists, I think that Hitchens was my favorite.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Churched: One Kid&#8217;s Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess by Matthew Paul Turner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Churched: One Kid’s Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess, Matthew Paul Turner presents a tragic memoir of what happens when churches fail to practice the gospel.  The book is the story of his childhood in church, which he described as fundamentalist. In these fundamentalist churches, every thing took a fundamental place except for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life, Joan Chittister makes the church calendar and the importance of liturgy come alive.  This is the seventh book in Thomas Nelson&#8217;s Ancient Practices Series, which focuses on different spiritual disciplines.  This series is strongly influenced by primary voices in the Emergent Church Movement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God- David Platt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God, Dr. David Platt challenges the church to seriously examine the mission of God and how effectively each local church is carrying out this mission.  Just like Platt&#8217;s first book, Radical: Taking Your Faith Back from the American Dream, Radical Together presents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss the King</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a Christmas reflection that I wrote several years ago and want to pass along.  God bless you and your family this Christmas season! When we come to the Christmas season, we are met with many things to do.  Our lives tend to immediately get busy and hurried in the midst of all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: On This Day in Christian History</title>
		<link>http://www.benbirdsong.com/archives/738</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Christians have very little understanding of or appreciation for church history.  Hebrews 12:1-2 speaks encouraging words to believers that they should press on in the faith because they are surrounded by such a great crowd of witnesses.  This crowd of witnesses did not end when the last pages of the New Testament cannon were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Leadership: The Key to Building Ownership in Your Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an article that I wrote for the youth ministry blog for my friends over at Youth Ministry 360: Student leadership is an often overlooked but essential element to youth ministry.  This element is often neglected due to the time, energy, and investment involved versus the seemly small tangible pay off.  Student leadership, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light in the Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time last May, I was on a plane headed to East Asia to serve the Lord doing mission work.  One of the towns that we were in was a large city that had little knowledge of the gospel.  One day, we went to a model display of the city to pray that God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entertainment Instead of Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading through Dr. Calvin Miller&#8217;s book Conversations with Jesus in 2009 and came across something that was very challenging and confronting.  The book is Dr. Miller exploring texts by doing an exposition of the text from the perspective of Jesus having a conversation with the book&#8217;s readers over the central theme of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Innovation in Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The greatest opposition to what God is doing today comes from those who were on the cutting edge of what God was doing yesterday.&#8221;- R. T. Kendall in The Anointing I read the above quote yesterday on a blog and cannot stop thinking about it.  I know from my experiences launching and leading ministries that [...]]]></description>
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