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		<title>Not Gone, and Not Forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t forgotten about this blog, nor left it behind at my previous Parish. I&#8217;ve just been busy with meetings and moving and settling and visiting and studying and worshiping and tired in the evenings. That&#8217;s all. I hope to pick things up again in the next several weeks. 
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		<title>Quick Update</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2321</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m now the Senior Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church. I was installed on Sunday, May 6 and was blessed by having a full pews and 20 pastors from the district participating. Grace really knows how to through a reception, too.
Then I hit the ground running, and it has been exciting and fulfilling. It was a whirlwind of a week, added to being away from the family. I can&#8217;t wait for their school to get out and the house sold so they can move up there with me.
Next week I hope to carve...<br/>
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		<title>Impracticality of God</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2314</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[More great writing and wisdom from Pr. Peters
Hardly anything you see or we do on Sunday morning is practical.  Not the vestments or the liturgy, not the organ or the choir, not the paraments and painting or the wooden pews and kneelers.  But that is the point.  It was practicality that got us in trouble in the first place.  We sought a short cut to achieving our dreams of glory and it came with a price tag of death, disorder, and disappointment.  We don&#8217;t need a better life now as much...<br/>
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		<title>The Horror! The Horror!</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2308</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At the Oklahoma District LCMS Convention last week I was privileged to be an assisting minister at the opening worship service. I read the Old Testament reading and assisted with communion distribution. We had three &#8220;stations&#8221; and used the &#8220;drive-by&#8221; style for the sake of time, numbers and logistics. Not my favorite way to give the gift of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, but that&#8217;s the way it was done.
I held the cup containing the precious blood of Jesus....<br/>
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		<title>Angry Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t run for six years or more, and even back then it was short-lived. It really had been more than ten years since I&#8217;d logged any appreciable miles.  I&#8217;d moved to other exercise and enjoyed it and didn&#8217;t look back until two weeks ago. My cholesterol was high again, my weight was not budging and Marjorie wanted to shed some pounds too. We decided to run together, using the Couch-to-5K program. All was good the first two runs. On my third run my knees felt like fire....<br/>
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		<title>Kneeling as Christians (or Genuflecting)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“When menaced by the power of evil, as (Christians) kneel, they are upright before the world, while as sons and daughters, they kneel before the Father. Before God’s glory we Christians kneel and acknowledge his divinity; by that posture we also express our confidence that he will prevail&#8230; (Pope Benedict XVI)
H/T  http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pat-archbold/sspx-in-heretics-out#ixzz1sOgtMPl4
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		<title>The Church which Produced Bach is Where?</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2294</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We began to build plain Jane buildings and to restrict the ceremonial of the liturgy to the minimum required.  We became more content in the black robe from Geneva than the historic vesture of the Church.  We treated hymns as if they were merely ornamental and not truly confessional, a matter of personal taste in which they were mostly equal in quality.  We became utilitarian and decided that pipe organs were too costly and so the Church that produced Bach found itself unable to utilize...<br/>
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		<title>Easters Here, There and Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2289</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Easter Sunday was hard. Seeing all the faces of those I&#8217;ve known, the widows whose husbands I&#8217;ve buried, the hands held out that I had confirmed over the years, knowing why she doesn&#8217;t kneel but he does&#8211;seeing this and knowing it is my last Easter here. But at the same time already moving ahead, thinking of my new congregation kneeling, communing with them already together with the angels and the archangels, with Peter and John and Mary and all the company of...<br/>
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		<title>Good Friday Meditation</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2286</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is finished. 
That&#8217;s the way the stomach rumbles
That&#8217;s the way the bee bumbles
That&#8217;s the way the needle pricks
That&#8217;s the way the glue sticks
That&#8217;s the way the potato mashes
That&#8217;s the way the pan flashes
That&#8217;s the way the market crashes
That&#8217;s the way the whip lashes
That&#8217;s the way the teeth gnashes
That&#8217;s the way the gravy stains
That&#8217;s the way the moon wanes
&#8211;William Burroughs
That’s the way it all goes, not with...<br/>
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		<title>Addendum on This Week of Weeks</title>
		<link>http://christopherdhall.com/archives/2282</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Think about the blogosphere, the Facebooks and internets and such the past few days. People are complaining about the &#8220;new logo&#8221; of the Synod. There&#8217;s a story about a pedophile pastor in the LCMS and what or who knew about it before his most recent arrest. There&#8217;s more scandal and biting and bad news than normal. It&#8217;s all part of it. The demons use whatever they can to take our eyes off our Christ and Lord hanging from the Tree which brings life.
If you are caught...<br/>
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