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		<title>THOUGHTS FROM THE REV&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The Mountains Shall Bring Peace to the People” If you never had the chance to go to summer camp as a kid, you missed a lot: s’mores, songs around the campfire, making new friends, and just letting go and having a raucous good time. If you’ve never been to a church retreat at a U.C.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRUE TRANSFORMATION &#8211; Rev. BJ Ponders&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 20:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[True Transformation Now that Easter is behind us, it’s tempting to turn our focus away from the drama of Holy Week and Christ’s resurrection Easter Sunday to what we will do over the summer.  Not so fast.   The church actually celebrates Easter as a holy season for six weeks.  Moreover, every single Sunday throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FROM THE REV &#8211; &#8220;Dealing with Issues&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEALING WITH &#8220;ISSUES&#8221; Back in Gig Harbor, Washington, Master Ludke often warned our Tae Kwon Do class to shape up or we would have “issues.”  Nobody wanted “issues” with Master Ludke so discipline and order were quickly reestablished.  Things are simpler in the martial arts than they are in the church, as the church frowns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A THANKSGIVING PEOPLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that we need a national holiday to take time to give thanks?  If we’re lucky, we spend the better part of an afternoon and evening with loved ones “giving thanks.”  Typically, this means that the cooks are locked away in the kitchen while everyone else either watches football, pretends to be interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH &#8211; COMMUNITY CHURCH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning off Pacific Coast Highway onto Cleo Street, drivers pass an easy-to-miss, faded sign that proudly points the way to a magnificent church whose congregation originally met upstairs above the Sandpiper bar.  Although Neighborhood Congregational Church has always been staunchly Congregational (and United Church of Christ), it has that ineffable quality of being a community church—a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROP 8 AND THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about Judge Walker’s decision to overturn Proposition 8, the California Constitutional Amendment declaring marriage to be between one man and one woman. Although the California Supreme Court declined to invalidate Proposition 8, Judge Walker ruled that Proposition 8 violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Trinity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rev. B. J. Beu A while back, I got into a discussion on the Trinity with a visitor after church.  She had spent years searching scripture for clear language on the Trinity and had come away stymied.  She isn’t alone.  While you will find a triune formula for God in the New Testament, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARE WE A SOURCE OF BLESSING?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God made a covenant with Abraham.  If Abraham would follow the Lord, Abraham would be the father of a great nation, a nation through which all the nations of the world would be blest.  If Abraham would follow God in faith, his descendants would be as numerous as the stars and would inherit the land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EASTER LETTER FROM REV. BEU</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Members and Friends of Neighborhood Congregational Church: As the end of Lent approaches and we draw near to Holy Week and Easter, I invite you to deepen your walk with God by attending our services of worship this holy season. Our Palm Sunday celebration, March 28, 10:00 a.m. will not only feature the jubilant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;M A CHRISTIAN, BUT&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REFLECTIONS FROM THE REV&#8230; As we enter the half-way point of Lent, I worry that we, as mainline, progressive Christians, are too fatigued defending our understanding of the gospel to dive into the healing waters of a Lenten discipline.  How do we confidently live our faith when we live in a country besieged with ministers [...]]]></description>
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