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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>
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		<title>Book Review: Torn: Trusting God When Life Leaves You in Pieces by Jud Wilhite</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Torn: Trusting God When Life Leaves You in Pieces, Jud Wilhite presents an encouraging and biblical call to trust God in the midst of suffering and difficulty.  This is clearly a book that was written by a pastor, who has suffered himself and alongside people in his congregation.  Therefore, this is a book that [...]]]></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: SoulPrint: Discovering Your Divine Destiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our world is in an identity crisis.  We are constantly looking to celebrities, children, relationships, looks, and many other things to base our identity on.  In SoulPrint: Discovering Your Divine Destiny, Mark Batterson effectively presents the biblical antidote to this identity crisis.  As believers, our true identities are grounded in our relationship with Jesus Christ. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; In Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions, Max Lucado seeks to do exactly what the title of the book proposes.  From all of his years as a pastor and best-selling author, Lucado has gathered the best 172 questions that he has been asked and seeks to answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ, Dr. John MacArthur argues that the gospel has been minimized due to many English translations of the New Testament choosing to translate the Greek word &#8220;doulos&#8221; being translated as &#8220;servant&#8221; instead of &#8220;slave.&#8221;  This initially seems like an intellectually based argument that would only be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible, Pastor Steven Furtick presents a timely challenge to believers to live with an audacious faith.  This is a call to live a life of radical risk trusting God to use ordinary believers to do extra-ordinary things for God&#8217;s glory.  Based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God, Max Lucado presents twenty-two stories of amazing faith from scripture.  Lucado&#8217;s ability to take stories from scripture and make them come alive in today&#8217;s context is the main appeal of the book.  The stories of David, Lazarus, Paul, and many other beloved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Places: What I Learned While Editing My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A Million Miles in a Thousand Places: What I Learned While Editing My Life, engaging author and masterful storyteller, Donald Miller, invites his readers into the realm of story.  This memoir, which journeys with Miller through the past few years since his last book, To Own a Dragon, brings the idea of living your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Fearless</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Fearless, Max Lucado brings to life Jesus&#8217; teachings on fear throughout the gospels.  The is a timely book considering our current cultural fears raging from economic to health to political fears.  Lucado does a biblical job of addressing fears not using the popular techniques of self-help and prosperity preachers who take advantage of people&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accountability Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a blog post from Ed Stetzer that I thought would be worth passing along: Cathy Grossman and USAToday writes about christian accountability groups. You can read the whole article here. It begins with: Does the Capitol Hill house on C Street &#8212; home to several congressmen although it eludes property taxes by [...]]]></description>
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