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	<description>Fighting God to discover my purpose</description>
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		<title>Comment on Kubert &amp; Azzarello&#8217;s Sgt Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place by The Gosh! Authority 29/11/11 &#187; Gosh! London &#8211; the Culture of Comics</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Gosh! Authority 29/11/11 &#187; Gosh! London &#8211; the Culture of Comics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] this WWII story in which Sgt. Rock is in the midst of a murder mystery behind enemy lines. Here’s a review from back in 2004 when the book originally [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Why Would John Crowder Fake Tongues? Glossalia and Clerical Control by Joy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, my response is to the last comment about getting scientific evidence.

i have just stumbled across this crowther guy today. I wouldn&#039;t like to comment about if i think his ministry is authentic because I don&#039;t know his history or much else about what is going on other than these videos.

I have been raised in the Roman Catholic church and have always been open to the idea of miracles- there has been rigorous scientific studies on many miracles that happen in Lourdes In France where Mary the mother of Jesus appeared. the Roman Catholic church makes sure it is very rigorous about testing claims of miracles.

i think if there are so many miracles happening they should start getting them checked scientifically. 

all signs and wonders are for God&#039;s glory- to bring his kingdom of love, peace and salvation
Thanks God for giving us brains and good senses and the gift of prayer to discern what is of him- beauty, truth  and goodness</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, my response is to the last comment about getting scientific evidence.</p>
<p>i have just stumbled across this crowther guy today. I wouldn&#8217;t like to comment about if i think his ministry is authentic because I don&#8217;t know his history or much else about what is going on other than these videos.</p>
<p>I have been raised in the Roman Catholic church and have always been open to the idea of miracles- there has been rigorous scientific studies on many miracles that happen in Lourdes In France where Mary the mother of Jesus appeared. the Roman Catholic church makes sure it is very rigorous about testing claims of miracles.</p>
<p>i think if there are so many miracles happening they should start getting them checked scientifically. </p>
<p>all signs and wonders are for God&#8217;s glory- to bring his kingdom of love, peace and salvation<br />
Thanks God for giving us brains and good senses and the gift of prayer to discern what is of him- beauty, truth  and goodness</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;Are you ready to leave your family behind?&#8221; by Daun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I appreciated reading this post very much tonight and have been finding myself being given the same words, &quot;Follow me.&quot; And like you here, so many years ago, I now stand terrified to leave. No saying, &quot;goodbye,&quot; no &quot;but wait, Jesus, give me just a minute to clear such and such up with Dad,&quot; &quot;to get over this injury or drown in the pain for just a minute more.&quot; It&#039;s simply time to go, to grow up, to leave that behind and walk close in the light of His shadow. Thank you again and again for sharing this site with me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I appreciated reading this post very much tonight and have been finding myself being given the same words, &#8220;Follow me.&#8221; And like you here, so many years ago, I now stand terrified to leave. No saying, &#8220;goodbye,&#8221; no &#8220;but wait, Jesus, give me just a minute to clear such and such up with Dad,&#8221; &#8220;to get over this injury or drown in the pain for just a minute more.&#8221; It&#8217;s simply time to go, to grow up, to leave that behind and walk close in the light of His shadow. Thank you again and again for sharing this site with me.</p>
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		<title>Comment on About The Power Struggle by Daun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rock on. I love what you&#039;ve done with the place.</description>
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		<title>Comment on Why Would John Crowder Fake Tongues? Glossalia and Clerical Control by bobba44</title>
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		<dc:creator>bobba44</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I realize that we cannot put God in a box and He can do whatever He wants to do in life...But I know if people were promoting me I would want them to put me in a good light and respect me, and show me as someone you could take seriously. I think the church has lost its reverence for God. I know I would not want to represented by someone who looks like they are either drunk or stoned. I believe God can work miracles and there will be signs and wonders...but not at the cost of making God look like a joke..!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I realize that we cannot put God in a box and He can do whatever He wants to do in life&#8230;But I know if people were promoting me I would want them to put me in a good light and respect me, and show me as someone you could take seriously. I think the church has lost its reverence for God. I know I would not want to represented by someone who looks like they are either drunk or stoned. I believe God can work miracles and there will be signs and wonders&#8230;but not at the cost of making God look like a joke..!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why Would John Crowder Fake Tongues? Glossalia and Clerical Control by Daun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pretty much summed it up there Leviticus.  The younger generation is searching for something more authentic than the denial, for lack of a better word, that those before them seem to live in.  Much of the &quot;church&quot; is relatively dead and they&#039;re so desperate for something real that they&#039;ll grasp at anything that hints the possiblity of life.  A lot of them are too young to have experienced enough pain in their lives to realize that the &quot;signs and wonders&quot; being offered to them lack true depth.  What then when they do?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pretty much summed it up there Leviticus.  The younger generation is searching for something more authentic than the denial, for lack of a better word, that those before them seem to live in.  Much of the &#8220;church&#8221; is relatively dead and they&#8217;re so desperate for something real that they&#8217;ll grasp at anything that hints the possiblity of life.  A lot of them are too young to have experienced enough pain in their lives to realize that the &#8220;signs and wonders&#8221; being offered to them lack true depth.  What then when they do?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Power of Desire by Daun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for this post-even though you wrote it 8 years ago. It was hopeful when today hope is running a bit low in my personal journey.

Peter Block says that the answer to “How?” is “Yes!”, meaning that while “how?” may be a useful question, it is a third-order question, after “Who am I?” and “What do I want?” We tend to go into How because it is safer. We can always kill a great idea, a life-changing idea that threatens our comfortable little worlds, by saying “Well, how are you going to do it?” Certainly, I am guilty of the how: I’ve killed my fair share of even my own visions by asking how I was going to pay for it, or how I would build support.
It’s not that how is irrelevant; it’s just that it isn’t as important as asking Who and What.

I have a friend frustrated with my seeking of the Who &amp; What that says that the How is the most important because if you aren&#039;t doing the practical you can spend years wandering in the Who and What.  I tend to think his position undermines the entire process because if you don&#039;t seek the Who and the What then you can waste your entire life doing the How&#039;s that never touch the depth of your created person-what what your life for then?
Iguess the best course would be to find Who before What all while doing How and letting go of not being able to control any of it along the way.  How&#039;s that for simple? :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for this post-even though you wrote it 8 years ago. It was hopeful when today hope is running a bit low in my personal journey.</p>
<p>Peter Block says that the answer to “How?” is “Yes!”, meaning that while “how?” may be a useful question, it is a third-order question, after “Who am I?” and “What do I want?” We tend to go into How because it is safer. We can always kill a great idea, a life-changing idea that threatens our comfortable little worlds, by saying “Well, how are you going to do it?” Certainly, I am guilty of the how: I’ve killed my fair share of even my own visions by asking how I was going to pay for it, or how I would build support.<br />
It’s not that how is irrelevant; it’s just that it isn’t as important as asking Who and What.</p>
<p>I have a friend frustrated with my seeking of the Who &amp; What that says that the How is the most important because if you aren&#8217;t doing the practical you can spend years wandering in the Who and What.  I tend to think his position undermines the entire process because if you don&#8217;t seek the Who and the What then you can waste your entire life doing the How&#8217;s that never touch the depth of your created person-what what your life for then?<br />
Iguess the best course would be to find Who before What all while doing How and letting go of not being able to control any of it along the way.  How&#8217;s that for simple? <img src='http://www.processwrite.com/bloghost/manasclerk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Why Would John Crowder Fake Tongues? Glossalia and Clerical Control by Frank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s really scary is that he believes in being in two or more places at the same time.  Isn&#039;t this called being omnipresent.  And isn&#039;t it true that only God can be in more than one place at the same time?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s really scary is that he believes in being in two or more places at the same time.  Isn&#8217;t this called being omnipresent.  And isn&#8217;t it true that only God can be in more than one place at the same time?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Humiliation and Face by Daun Jacobsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daun Jacobsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post.  A person unsure of their status; unsure of how they are viewed by others either avoids them or constantly feels anxious which is a catch-22. 
&quot;Humiliation comes from both overstepping the value that others want to give you and not claiming enough value for yourself.&quot; So we &quot;become fighters...instead of the hostility that seethes beneath the surface&quot;

How does one stop caring what others think?  Believe God that they are who He says they are? How can one make this happen? Can we really will ourselves to believe?  Doesn&#039;t it really just go back to being &quot;in the middle - in the moment between Friday and Sunday&quot; - faith that He is enough as we wait in hope for what only He can bring about?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post.  A person unsure of their status; unsure of how they are viewed by others either avoids them or constantly feels anxious which is a catch-22.<br />
&#8220;Humiliation comes from both overstepping the value that others want to give you and not claiming enough value for yourself.&#8221; So we &#8220;become fighters&#8230;instead of the hostility that seethes beneath the surface&#8221;</p>
<p>How does one stop caring what others think?  Believe God that they are who He says they are? How can one make this happen? Can we really will ourselves to believe?  Doesn&#8217;t it really just go back to being &#8220;in the middle &#8211; in the moment between Friday and Sunday&#8221; &#8211; faith that He is enough as we wait in hope for what only He can bring about?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why Would John Crowder Fake Tongues? Glossalia and Clerical Control by LeviticusMaximus</title>
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		<dc:creator>LeviticusMaximus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The word of the day is &quot;Charlatan&quot;. 

It&#039;s a shame that we often reduce the power of our Holy Father, YHWH, His Son, and the Holy Spirit to something that resembles more of a hard alcoholic drink or the feeling of heat and/or an electric shock.... which typically has only a slight chance of permanently healing joints/back pain/headaches/weight loss or whatever superficial healing that is desired.

 When Jesus performed miracles, even his enemies were doubtless that He had healed the sick or given signs! The only thing that they could come up with was that Jesus had to be working through the power of Satan. Where are the withered hands that are being healed by this movement? Where are the mute and the deaf who have received a full restoration? What about the blind or those with cerebral palsy or MS or missing limbs... What about the dead that have been raised from their grave? I hear all kinds of stories about these great miracles, but there is always doubt because the stories are ever-changing. What about the obsession with drug culture and the occult? Levitation? transcendental meditation? OBE&#039;s? Altered states of consciousness through the clearing of one&#039;s mind? Are we so faithless that we require signs and wonders to believe and have faith? 

I&#039;m afraid that its the fake signs and cheap wonders keep us hanging on until the next week&#039;s revival or next month&#039;s refilling of the Holy Spirit.

I can think of dozens of verses that seem to explain how we should respond.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The word of the day is &#8220;Charlatan&#8221;. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a shame that we often reduce the power of our Holy Father, YHWH, His Son, and the Holy Spirit to something that resembles more of a hard alcoholic drink or the feeling of heat and/or an electric shock&#8230;. which typically has only a slight chance of permanently healing joints/back pain/headaches/weight loss or whatever superficial healing that is desired.</p>
<p> When Jesus performed miracles, even his enemies were doubtless that He had healed the sick or given signs! The only thing that they could come up with was that Jesus had to be working through the power of Satan. Where are the withered hands that are being healed by this movement? Where are the mute and the deaf who have received a full restoration? What about the blind or those with cerebral palsy or MS or missing limbs&#8230; What about the dead that have been raised from their grave? I hear all kinds of stories about these great miracles, but there is always doubt because the stories are ever-changing. What about the obsession with drug culture and the occult? Levitation? transcendental meditation? OBE&#8217;s? Altered states of consciousness through the clearing of one&#8217;s mind? Are we so faithless that we require signs and wonders to believe and have faith? </p>
<p>I&#8217;m afraid that its the fake signs and cheap wonders keep us hanging on until the next week&#8217;s revival or next month&#8217;s refilling of the Holy Spirit.</p>
<p>I can think of dozens of verses that seem to explain how we should respond.</p>
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