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	<title>Running Strong</title>
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	<description>Random thoughts about life and following Christ</description>
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		<title>Returning&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/returning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it almost hard to believe a case must be made that the heart is . . . well, at the heart of it all.
Of life.  Of God.  And of Christianity.
But our Enemy has come against us, and now we are all in some way like the Tin Woodman.  We, too, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=234&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of It All&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/the-heart-of-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On her journey down the yellow brick road &#8211; a journey, may I remind you, that grows more dangerous every step she takes &#8211; Dorothy meets a number of strange sights.  She befriends the Scarecrow, and later the two of them come upon a lumberjack made of tin, standing utterly still in the forest, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=229&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think Mythically&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/think-mythically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You will not think clearly about your life until you &#8220;think  mythically.&#8221;  Until you see with the eyes of your heart.   
About halfway through their journey—following a great deal of hardship and facing a good deal more—Frodo’s devoted friend and servant, Sam Gamgee, wonders out loud: I wonder what sort of tale we’ve fallen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=117&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Have a Crucial Role to Play&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/we-have-a-crucial-role-to-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this desperate hour we have a crucial role to play.  
That is the Third Eternal Truth and it happens to be the one we most desperately need if we are ever to understand our days.
For most of his life, Neo sees himself only as Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer for a large software [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=116&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle is Under Way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-battle-is-under-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Eternal Truth brought to us comes like a broken message over the radio or an urgent e-mail from a distant country telling us that some great struggle or quest or battle is well under way. May even be hanging in the balance. 
When the four children stumble into Narnia, the country and all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=114&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things Are Not What They Seem&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/things-are-not-what-they-seem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do all the great stories and myths tell us? What do they have in common? What are they trying to get across? 
Wherever they may come from, whatever their shape might be, they nearly always speak to us Three Eternal Truths. 
These stories are trying to remind us that things are not what they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=35&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mythic Reality&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/mythic-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of us rationalists, the word myth means not true.  Isn&#8217;t that what you think when you hear someone say, &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s just myth&#8221;?  Meaning, that&#8217;s not factually true.  
But myth is a story, like a parable, that speaks of Eternal Truths.  I am not using myth in a technical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=113&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing With the Heart&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/seeing-with-the-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A sower went out to sow some seed&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;A man fell into the hands of robbers&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and looses one&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;There were ten virgins with ten lamps&#8230;&#8221;
What&#8217;s up with all these stories?
Think about it.  You are the Son of God.  Your job is to communicate truth that will lead to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=112&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Seen Is Temporary, but What Is Unseen Is Eternal&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/what-is-seen-is-temporary-but-what-is-unseen-is-eternal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 18:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=34&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Things Clearly &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bobthyer.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/seeing-things-clearly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 18:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before he promised us life, Jesus warned that a thief would try to steal, kill, and destroy it.
How come we don&#8217;t think that the thief then actually steals, kills, and destroys?  You won&#8217;t understand your life, you won&#8217;t see clearly what has happened to you or how to live forward from here, unless you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobthyer.wordpress.com&blog=889631&post=101&subd=bobthyer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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