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		<title>Defining me by what I don&#8217;t do</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/08/26/defining-me-by-what-i-dont-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized a very sad thing today. I realized that during my Universtity years&#8230; my Christianity was defined by the things that I wouldn&#8217;t do. I wouldn&#8217;t drink, swear or have sex. One of the saddest things about evangelical Christianity in 2010 is that the average Joe only knows us by what we don&#8217;t do. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty as charged</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/06/15/guilty-as-charged/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/06/15/guilty-as-charged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stood before a judge this morning...

I had been clocked going a mere three miles an hour faster than what I could have got away with (whilst dropping a mate at the airport). It was an understandable, even charitable mistake. Three miles an hour is the speed at which humans walk. It was no big deal.
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		<slash:comments>171</slash:comments>
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		<title>The end of the world (and I feel fine)</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/05/10/the-end-of-the-world-and-i-feel-fine/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/05/10/the-end-of-the-world-and-i-feel-fine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With every earthquake, flooding, famine, war and rumour of war that occurs, the cuddly evangelical 'left behind' community of which I am a member braces for Armageddon.

Most of us believe that the world is going to get worse and worse... and then one day we will all be swept up to heaven (the rapture). Some believe that this will happen before the 'Great Tribulation' (I am hoping this is the case), some think during (this is a bet either way), and some think after (I suspect that it will be this guy). Whatever the case, many Christians expect  the world to end at some point soon.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Homosexuality and Christianity</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/27/homosexuality-and-christianity/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/27/homosexuality-and-christianity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Knapp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched the Jennifer Knapp interview on Larry King Live and it was AWKWARD. It was very uncomfortable watching two Christians debate homosexuality on late night TV. Larry King seemed to be stuck on 'choice' and all things considered, it didn't really feel like it was a fair fight. I felt like mainstream Christianity lost BIG.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3596</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jennifer Knapp comes out</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/15/jennifer-knapp-comes-out/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/15/jennifer-knapp-comes-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mattsmallbone.com/?p=558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Christian blogging community, Jennifer Knapp recently announced that she is gay. You can read an article about it in USA Today. Jennifer is one of CCM&#8217;s greatest songwriters of the last 15 years and has won a Grammy and a Dove Award (which is a Christian Grammy&#8230; yep&#8230; there is such a thing)! Some things [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>535</slash:comments>
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		<title>An average dose of narcissism</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/06/an-average-dose-of-narcissism/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/06/an-average-dose-of-narcissism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took the Narcissism Personality Inventory online test this morning. The average participant scores between 12 and 15. True narcissists score over 20 and celebrities often score around 18. Joel Stein of Time Magazine reports that reality TV show contestants generate scores that should only be attained by two-year olds or Fascist dictators (sic). I scored 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1304</slash:comments>
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		<title>Good Friday with Bono</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/02/good-friday-with-bono/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/04/02/good-friday-with-bono/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best books that I&#8217;ve read in the last five years is Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas. The guys is a deep thinker and he expresses things of God in ways that Evangelical Christians can&#8217;t. The following is an extract from Conversations. Bono: My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>646</slash:comments>
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		<title>My God Lens</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/03/30/my-god-lens/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/03/30/my-god-lens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worldview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Basically, you view life through a particular type of lens. Mine is more or less a Christian lens.

My lens tells me that people are born bad. My lens tells me that all are lost and undeserving of rescue. My lens tells me that there is nothing that I can do to be good enough (in fact... being good isn't even really that important in terms of my eternity).

So why then don't I just rob a bank and move to a Pacific Island?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>The best pre-Easter message I have ever heard</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/03/29/the-best-palm-sunday-message-i-have-ever-heard/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/03/29/the-best-palm-sunday-message-i-have-ever-heard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Stanley]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mattsmallbone.com/?p=404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of times a month I play bass in the music team at Cumberland Church, Franklin, TN. It is probably the  best church worship band that I have ever been in (yes&#8230; even better than the glory days at Rangeville Uniting Church in Toowoomba&#8230;which was my &#8216;summer of 69&#8242; era). All of the guys [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>752</slash:comments>
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		<title>My day off&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/03/22/my-day-off/</link>
		<comments>http://mattsmallbone.com/2010/03/22/my-day-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mattsmallbone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mattsmallbone.com/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t turn my computer on yesterday. Not once. It has been a long time since that happened. As a result, yesterday was one of the best days that I have had in a long time. It was all about my real family&#8230; not my Facebook family. There really is something to the old &#8220;Remember the Sabbath [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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