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		<title>Living as Citizens of Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 &#8220;Let our lives be conformed to the glory of our citizenship: &#8220;In Heaven they are holy, so must we be—so are we if our citizenship is not a mere presence. &#8220;[In Heaven] they are happy, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=1010&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why God Became Man (Part 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the beautiful scenes in the Christmas story is that of the angels visiting the shepherds the night Jesus was born. Last year I wrote two articles (Part 1 &#38; Part 2) on the last phrase of their announcment, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=991&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unceasing Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God is so good to me. He richly provides me with everything to enjoy.  When I stop and consider what he has done, my hearts thrills with a song of thanksgiving. He made me; He saved me, and daily sustains me! Yet my  song was drowned out with the noise of the world&#8217;s cravings. Lovers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=987&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eating with &#8220;Sinners&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke 5:29-32 In this story Jesus blows the religious conceptions of the day out of the water. Instead of hanging out with the religious people, He eats meals, a main social event of the day, with those people from whom the religious leaders had distanced themselves. He hangs out with “sinners.” But before we immediately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=968&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strength in Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[Paul &#38; Barnabas] returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.&#8221; Acts 14:21-22 We who follow Jesus desperately need our souls strengthened in suffering. Like weary soldiers we&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=958&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Abandoned</title>
		<link>http://controlledbylove.org/2011/05/11/never-abandoned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 01:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lord strengthened my faith today through the preaching of the Word from brother C.H. Spurgeon (a re-preached sermon). I&#8217;m sharing an excerpt from it here, that you too may be built up. May the Spirit deeply impress us with this profound promise, that we may truly grasp it and walk it by faith. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=952&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank God for Our Mothers</title>
		<link>http://controlledbylove.org/2011/05/08/thank-god-for-our-mothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I wrote this simple song for my mom on mother&#8217;s day, and its a tradition now for my family to sing it to her each year. I share it, hoping it will stir up a spirit of thanksgiving to God for our excellent mothers. An excellent wife who can find? She far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=947&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encouragement to Pray: Progress in Holiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I am afraid the private devotions of many are most painfully scanty and limited; just enough to prove they are alive and no more. They really seem to want little from God. They seem to have little to confess, little to ask for, and little to thank him for…. They have not, because they ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=938&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open My Eyes to Nature’s Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I have received tremendous spiritual encouragement through the book The Basket of Flowers by Christoph Von Schmid (1878). He wrote this fictional book for teaching children biblical truth and wisdom through the life of James and his daughter Mary. James is a simple gardener who is consumed with the Word, filled with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=918&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why God Became Man (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://controlledbylove.org/2011/03/02/why-god-became-man-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Hancock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After thousands of years of waiting Jesus was born, and that night the angel of the Lord appeared to some shepherds with the good news of great joy (Lk. 2:10-12). By the time he got to the last two lines of his message, the whole sky was filled with an enormous host of angels praising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlledbylove.org&#038;blog=5932552&#038;post=908&#038;subd=controlledbylove&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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