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		<title>Why I Choose &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; over &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shocking, I know. A good &#8216;ole Christian boy like me choosing Happy Holidays over Merry Christmas. I can&#8217;t even woo you with pleas of &#8221; I don&#8217;t want to offend people in hopes of evangelizing them.&#8221; But, if you&#8217;ll listen, I can explain. Christmas is still two weeks away, at this writing. I guarantee that you won&#8217;t find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment of Intimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I read Everybody Wants to go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die, or (the Eschatology of Bluegrass) by David Crowder and Mike Hogan (also in DCB). The author&#8217;s wrote it after a series of deaths in their lives. During the research of the book (or perhaps before the book began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1536&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Scientist and the Assistant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[glory to god]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard people often say, “I’m the hands and feet of Jesus.” Or, “I owe all of this to Jesus. It wasn’t me, but him working through me.” It’s not a concept I easily grasp. For those of us who have trouble understanding, or emotionally connecting, I’ve written this story. The Scientists and the Assistant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1527&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Didn&#8217;t Have to Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[drawbridge keeper story]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email circulated years ago that evolved into a popular Christian metaphor. It tells the store of a drawbridge keeper who faced the choice between locking the bridge (saving a train of people and killing he son who had wondered onto the bridge) or not locking the bridge (killing the people but saving his son). Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six Fun Ideas for When You&#8217;re not Working</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most weeks I work about 50 hours, not counting my writing. I only mention this to say that, like many of the people around me, I have just as much right to focus on my work in exclusion to all else. Still, I believe that life should be about more than work. I believe that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1506&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction Niceties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day I&#8217;d like to be a published writer. And I&#8217;d like to support my family, at least in part, through those publishings. I recently discovered that writers and to-be writers should build a platform and a following. This blog is my attempt at doing so, and I&#8217;d like to introduce myself. Before that, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1491&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Drawbridge Keeper (for another post)</title>
		<link>http://colbystream.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/the-drawbridge-keeper-for-another-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Return to original post. There was once a bridge that spanned a large river.  During most of the day, the bridge sat with its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing ships to pass through freely on both sides of the bridge.  But at certain times each day, a train [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colbystream.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4074115&amp;post=1515&amp;subd=colbystream&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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