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		<title>Baptism, Exorcism, and Fighting</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Alexander Schmemann&#8217;s wonderful book For the Life of the World:  Sacraments and Orthodoxy, he touches upon the relation of baptism to exorcism and evil and makes some great applications to today&#8217;s &#8220;smiling&#8221; Churches.
&#8220;The exorcisms [in relation to baptism...this was the early church's baptismal liturgy] mean this:  to face evil, to acknowledge its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisbollegar.wordpress.com&blog=261880&post=96&subd=chrisbollegar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Out of the mouth of babes and infants&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!  You have set your glory above the heavens.  Out of the mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.&#8220;  Psalm 8:1-2
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		<title>The Burden of Proof</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had many conversations over the last 2 years regarding the nature of the sacraments.  I made a huge leap in my own thinking about that long ago from a symbolic view of the &#8220;ordinances&#8221; of baptism and the lord&#8217;s supper to a truly sacramental view.  Naturally the questions/comments I get go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisbollegar.wordpress.com&blog=261880&post=93&subd=chrisbollegar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baptism and the Christian Conscience</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the words of Luther, that great defender of justification by faith, taken from his declaration in the Galatians commentary,
&#8220;Let us diligently learn to judge between these two kinds of righteousness [the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith], that we may know how far we ought to obey the law. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrisbollegar.wordpress.com&blog=261880&post=11&subd=chrisbollegar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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