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				<title>Melanie posted a new activity comment</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:48:22 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post! God does use ordinary people and God gets the extraordinary! </p>
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					<a href="https://onlinebibleinstitute.org/members/jeffshott/" data-bb-hp-profile="3009" rel="nofollow">Jeff Shott</a> posted an update <p>This lesson read like an evangelistic calling church service! It tied all of the strategies for spiritual harvest back onto the harvester. Us.</p><p>It showed that God always uses [&hellip;]</p>					]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:47:28 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could it also be something that was cultural that maybe we do t understand because times were different?</p>
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					<a href="https://onlinebibleinstitute.org/members/aaronhouse/" data-bb-hp-profile="3256" rel="nofollow">Aaron House</a> posted an update <p>Sword Sharpening </p><p>Lesson-4 </p><p>In this continuing series, Pastor Doug talks about how the bible was written to </p><p>us but not for us, and to read the scriptures in such a way as to not [&hellip;]</p>					]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:45:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting thoughts. We should accept them as equals. But do we?</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:44:34 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your post. I currently have the NIV, but I am really leaning towards trying the CSV. I will make sure to learn more about it before purchasing!</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power principles Lesson 20There are many reasons power [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:42:02 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Lesson 20</p>
<p>There are many reasons power and authority are challenged. Some examples include, unbelief, populat opinion, tradition, misuse, credentials, doctrine, spiritual fear, manner of teaching, and your walk in life. We should be careful not to allow these challenges to diminish out power and authority. </p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power PrinciplesLesson 19Therw are many reasons [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:39:22 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Lesson 19</p>
<p>Therw are many reasons for spiritual power failure. For example, sin, bondages, violation of power principles, reigning inatead of serving, personal profit, emulations, wrong motives, unbelief, and limiting God.  I Think all humans have some amount of these reasons in their lives. We need to learn how best to overcome&hellip;</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:10:50 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I absolutely love the story of Ruth! It’s my favorite.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:05:21 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just thinking about this makes me want to strive to be more like Jesus!</p>
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					<a href="https://onlinebibleinstitute.org/members/darrenblevins/" data-bb-hp-profile="2948" rel="nofollow">Darren Blevins</a> posted an update <p>Course Kingdom Living</p><p>Chapter 8 The Culture of the Kingdom: Kingdom Principles part two</p><p>Worldly Culture vs. Kingdom Culture</p><p>Worldly Culture	Kingdom Culture</p><p>Wealth is viewed [&hellip;]</p>					]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:03:01 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agreed. Very nice summary. I enjoyed reading it.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:02:21 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a Sunday school teacher a couple years ago who told me about her missionary work in Russia. She said that they were not allowed to have church or read the Bible there. Everything had to be done in secret. They had to be very careful not to be caught, but she said that lots of people would come to hear about God and get bibles to read! I&hellip;</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:58:22 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow! I never thought about that. How true. It truly wasn’t until he was human that he became known as Jesus! Very cool! </p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:55:36 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve always felt kinda bad for Haggar and Ishmael. </p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:53:40 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes I believe it is very important to be obedient to God. His laws are there for our own benefit.</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power PrinciplesLesson 18This lesson gives us the [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:51:42 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Lesson 18</p>
<p>This lesson gives us the steps needed to experience the power of God. The first step is to fast and pray. Ive never fasted before ao maybe ill give this a try. Next, you shoukd receive the gidt of the Holy Ghost. Thirdly, you nust exerciae your faith in Jesus. Lastly, you ahould apply biblical princilrs to your life.&hellip;</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power PrinciplesLesson 17Yhere are many piwerful [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:47:34 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Lesson 17</p>
<p>Yhere are many piwerful purposes which are accomplished in the life of a believer through suffering. It could turn the bad into good, turn loses into wins, turn weakness to strength, enable you to comfort others, teaches you not to trust in yourself, helps you to develop positive spiritual qualities, perfects the power&hellip;</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power PrinciplesLesaon 16This chapter taught [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:39:55 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Lesaon 16</p>
<p>This chapter taught about ressurection. I learned that there are several reasons for the importance of Jesus’s ressurection . The first is because his resurrection is basic to our faith. Also, his ressurection is necessary for our salvation. His reasure roons confirms that believers are justified. It means that death is&hellip;</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:26:17 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post!</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:25:14 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all sin. Daily. Sometimes we may not even be aware of our sin. But we have an amazing forgiving God who loves us and being redeemed and asking forgiveness from our sins also helps us acknowledge them and figure out why we are tempted or why we sinned so we can prevent future sins.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:22:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve learned that the closer I walk with God, the less sin I find within my life.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good points!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank God for redemption!!!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All in all, I’m amazed at how amazing of a job the translators actually have done! </p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw an exhibit of the Dead Sea scrolls. It was so awesome to see!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes you can even read the same passages and get something totally new from them! I love that.</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power PrinciplesLesson 15We learned about authority. [&#133;]</title>
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<p>Lesson 15</p>
<p>We learned about authority. Ive always kinda had a problem with authority. I march to the beat of my own drum in life. But, i rwad in this chapter that rwbeling against authority is the same as rebelling against God. I am going ro have to take some time to think about things now becauee i never looked at it like that.&hellip;</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power PriniciplesLesson 14This was my favorite chapter [&#133;]</title>
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<p>Lesson 14</p>
<p>This was my favorite chapter so far because it stated something that i tell my children everyday! I made sure to show my children this chapter. I tell them that God created this workd by speaking and we are made in his image so therefore we can create and destroy with our words so we shoukd be careful what we say. </p>
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<p>Lesson 13</p>
<p>This chapter taught about praying. Praying is not something I woukd consider myself good at. I am very intimidated by prayer. I learned a lot in this chapter about praying and im going to take what i learned and try to pray more and get better at it. </p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That’s important! I don’t do this enough. You are right though, we should use our trials and difficulties as tools for spiritual growth.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Faith is also a gift from God!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thankfully we have Jesus to turn to in times of need</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only cure is Jesus!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very true. But luckily, Jesus died on the cross for us!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It makes me wonder why Catholics pray to Mary when they also study the Bible and know that you can just come to Christ.</p>
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<p>Lesson 12</p>
<p>In this chapter, I learned that names were more than names. Names were also a personal label of the person they were attached to. My name means “dark” or “dark haired”. My name is definitely not a personal label. I am light skinned and blonde. Ive never thought that my name was  representative of me. I guess Id have&hellip;</p>
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<p>Lesson 11</p>
<p>I learned there are different kinda of faith in this lesson. Until now, I always believed that faith was faith. I never knew that there were different types of faith. I also sisnt know that we are norn with a certain anount of faith. I guess that makes sense though as one woukd have to have faith that a caregiver&hellip;</p>
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<p>Lesson 10</p>
<p>We learned about annoiting in this chapter. I realized that I do not thinkbthat I have ever annointed anything or even really knew about announting. Wverything in this chapter was jew to me.</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power principles Lesson 9In this chapter, we learned [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:07:34 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Lesson 9</p>
<p>In this chapter, we learned that the greatest spiritual power is love. We learned that everything must operate throygh love. We learned that other believers will know we believe by love. In conclusion, we learned that love us the greatest power there is.</p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power principles Lesson 8There are biblical guidelines [&#133;]</title>
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<p>Lesson 8</p>
<p>There are biblical guidelines for reveiving the power of the holy spirit. You must repent and be baptized. You must believe it is for <span>You. You kuat desire it. You must realize that it is a gift. You must yield to God. Lastly, you must request prayers of other believers.  I know it says repent and be baptized, but soes&hellip;</span></p>
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				<title>Melanie posted an update: Power principlesLesson 7The gospel is powerful bevause [&#133;]</title>
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<p>Lesson 7</p>
<p>The gospel is powerful bevause it brings salvation. It reveals God’s power to man. It reveals what is known about God ro man. It reveals Gods judgement and wrath against sin. It shows how to be justified by faith. The gospel is powerful because it is the basis of faith. I also learned the the power of Jesus is in the&hellip;</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We should all carry this profound faith in God!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God chooses you! </p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting. I never thought about eating being a symbol for restoration when once it was associated with the fall.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God is in control and uses us to advance the kingdom!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sharing! Definitely gives me something to think about.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really need to find a church to attend. Sometimes, I forget how important church can be.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am currently also taking Michael Heiser’s Unseen Realm classes and have learned so very much about angels and demons. It has really set my mind afire. </p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautifully written!</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I used to hate that Lot offered his daughters. I’m still trying to completely understand why Lot would do that.</p>
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									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome! You picked a great first class. The study methods you learn will definitely <span>Come in handy!</span></p>
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<p>Lesson 6</p>
<p>Worldly power isused to advance the world. This is mostly selfish needs ofthe world. Spiritual power is to advance the kingdom of God. Worldly power focuses on advancing worldly needs and is selfish. <span>Worldly purposes are financial, political, physical, military, the power of energy, and religious power. Spiritual power&hellip;</span></p>
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