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	<title>Pitchford's Ramblings</title>
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	<description>The Writings of Nathan Pitchford</description>
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		<title>A Call to Revolution</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/05/17/a-call-to-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 16:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Articles</category>

		<category>Missions</category>

		<category>Christ and the Cross</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is the year 2008. The gospel has been spreading and the Kingdom of Christ has been growing for nearly two thousand years. But not without setbacks. For almost a thousand years, in the middle ages, the gospel was slowly obscured by the corruptions of a satanically-influenced medieval church. The light was almost entirely extinguished. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (17 &#8212; The Life of Joseph)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/05/16/images-of-the-savior-17-the-life-of-joseph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Images of the Savior - OT</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And his brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, “Behold, we are your servants”. And Joseph said unto them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? Now, you purposed evil against me, but God purposed it for good, in order to make it as it is today, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Justification and Regeneration, by Charles Leiter</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/05/12/book-review-justification-and-regeneration-by-charles-leiter/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/05/12/book-review-justification-and-regeneration-by-charles-leiter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Book Reviews</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Synopsis: Dealing with the two major aspects of man&#8217;s sin problem before God – objective guilt and moral corruption – and the two major aspects of the redemptive work of Christ that overcome these problems, Justification and Regeneration, by Charles Leiter, is a book that explains in clear, simple, and eminently biblical terms the very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (16 &#8212; The Birth of Perez)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/05/09/images-of-the-savior-16-the-birth-of-perez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Images of the Savior - OT</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And it came to pass, at the time of her giving birth, that behold, there were twins in her womb. And it came to pass, as she was giving birth, that one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, “This one came out first”. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (15 &#8212; Jacob at Peniel)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/05/02/images-of-the-savior-15-jacob-at-peniel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved”.– Genesis 32:30

Everywhere in the Law and the Prophets we see Christ and his gospel-work symbolized, prophesied, and foreshadowed in many marvelous ways: but only a very few times, and at the most critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (14 &#8212; Jacob and Laban)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/25/images-of-the-savior-14-jacob-and-laban/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/25/images-of-the-savior-14-jacob-and-laban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Images of the Savior - OT</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“These twenty years I served you in your house, fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times; if the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely now you would have sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Personal Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/22/a-personal-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/22/a-personal-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Miscellaneous</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part One: Principles by Which to Order My Life

1.Life is short, and comprises the only time I have to labor for eternal results. Psalm 90:10; Ecclesiastes 9:10

2.After the brief duration of my life, I must stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and give an account of how I used my time. Hebrews 9:27; 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (13 &#8212; Jacob and Esau)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/19/images-of-the-savior-13-jacob-and-esau/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/19/images-of-the-savior-13-jacob-and-esau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Isaac entreated Yahweh in behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and Yahweh was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together inside her; and she said, “If it be so, why is it thus with me?”; and she went to seek Yahweh. And Yahweh said unto her, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/14/poems/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/14/poems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Poems</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone is interested, I just compiled and self-published a book of poems with Lulu. Quite a variety of poems, mostly lyrical but with a few narratives, and including several hymns such as &#8220;Lovely Progression&#8221; (which I recently posted here). The download is free, hard copies are $14.95.
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		<title>Images of the Savior (12 &#8212; The Provision of a Wife for Isaac)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/12/images-of-the-savior-12-the-provision-of-a-wife-for-isaac/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/12/images-of-the-savior-12-the-provision-of-a-wife-for-isaac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my birth, and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying, “To your seed I will give this land,” he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (11 &#8212; The Offering Up of Isaac on Mount Moriah)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/05/images-of-the-savior-11-the-offering-up-of-isaac-on-mount-moriah/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/04/05/images-of-the-savior-11-the-offering-up-of-isaac-on-mount-moriah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the Angel of Yahweh called unto Abraham from heaven a second time, and said, “By myself I have sworn, says Yahweh, that because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your only son, I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heaven, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (10 &#8212; The Birth of Isaac)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/28/images-of-the-savior-10-the-birth-of-isaac/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/28/images-of-the-savior-10-the-birth-of-isaac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return unto you, at the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. – Genesis 18:14

Of all the notable things that could be said of the life of Abraham our father, without a doubt the most outstanding is only this: he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Threat of Christian Zionism</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/24/the-threat-of-christian-zionism/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/24/the-threat-of-christian-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Dispensationalism</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the phenomenal success of the bestselling Left Behind series indicates anything about the prevailing eschatological mindset across a wide swath of the evangelical landscape in modern America, then we would do well to pause and consider. Where is this fascination with the sensational, and frequently outright bizarre, interpretation of the significance of current events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (9 &#8212; The Destruction of Sodom)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/21/images-of-the-savior-9-the-destruction-of-sodom/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/21/images-of-the-savior-9-the-destruction-of-sodom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun came out upon the earth, and Lot went to Zoar. And Yahweh rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh, out of heaven. And he overthrew all those cities, and all the surrounding region, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the growth of the ground. But his wife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to Christ</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/16/coming-to-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/16/coming-to-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Christ and the Cross</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I saw Christ, oh, how I feared to come to God! He was holy and I was sinful. He was righteous and I was guilty. He was wrathful and I was a child of wrath, deserving of every eternal torment. But then God&#8217;s merciful Spirit opened my eyes to the King of Glory, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (8 &#8212; Abraham&#8217;s Victory and Melchizedek&#8217;s Blessing)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/14/images-of-the-savior-8-abrahams-victory-and-melchizedeks-blessing/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/14/images-of-the-savior-8-abrahams-victory-and-melchizedeks-blessing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine (now, he was the priest of the Most High God), and he blessed him, and he said, “Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, the Possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered your enemies into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely Progression</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/10/lovely-progression/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/10/lovely-progression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Poems</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus, how sweet your virgin birth,
    Deep, lovely mystery:
Out from the unsewn womb sprang forth
    God of eternity!
I kneel before your bed so rough,
My Savior in a feeding trough,
Divine before the world began,
And now in time become a man.

Jesus, how sweet your life on earth,
    Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the Savior (7 &#8212; Abraham&#8217;s Sojourn in Egypt)</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/07/images-of-the-savior-7-abrahams-sojourn-in-egypt/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/07/images-of-the-savior-7-abrahams-sojourn-in-egypt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Yahweh smote Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram&#8217;s wife; and Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not reveal to me that she is your wife? Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister,&#8217; so that I took her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Darkness, Light</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/05/after-darkness-light/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/05/after-darkness-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dragon and the Whore

or

A Parable for America in the Twenty-First Century

The death-stroke fell; still reeling at the blow,
   The Dragon roared in mortal agony
      And spewed hot venom at the woman’s seed,
Contesting fiercely him who crushed him so.
   Ah, vainly! for his people straight did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Later Lyrics</title>
		<link>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/04/later-lyrics/</link>
		<comments>http://pitchfordsramblings.com/2008/03/04/later-lyrics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanzas

No, I shall not now weep. –
E&#8217;en tears are a comfort that I scarce can bear,
So deeply do I grieve; profound despair
  I will sit and savor to its bitterest drop:
And while the calm and weary hours creep,
  I will ask of them nothing, – save not to stop.  

No. – I [...]]]></description>
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