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		<title>Brief Word on Blog Frequency</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loyal followers, as the Spring semester commences, I will be posting less on m blog / twitter so I can focus on classes and my next book.&#8212; Joel Peterson (@authorjp) January 10, 2012 &#160; I will be posting more frequently on twitter than on blog, but classes this semester will make for good, but less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1087&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books to Read in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devotional Victorious Living &#8211; E. Stanley Jones This devotional was written by Methodist missionary to India E. Stanley Jones in 1936. This edition updates the classic, best-selling devotional for the modern reader. &#160; &#160; Apologetics Christian Apologetics Past and Present: A Primary Source Reader - William Edgar and K. Scott Oliphint This two volume set is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[The Journey] Chapter 2 &#8211; Pastor Mark (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you read this, click here to read the introduction. This novel and all excerpts are (c) 2010 Joel Peterson. All Rights Reserved. Pastor Mark was a retired physics professor. He loved being a physics professor and found great joy in teaching science to young minds, but God had a further calling for him. While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am no longer my own, but thine.Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt.Put me to doing, put me to suffering.Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee,exalted for thee or brought low for thee.Let me be full, let me be empty.Let me have all things, let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1059&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 In Review!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,700 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 28 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1057&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[The Journey] Chapter 1 &#8211; A Grief Observed (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you read this, click here to read the introduction. Chapter 1 &#8211; Part 1 This book and all excerpts are (c) 2010 Joel Peterson. All Rights Reserved. If there was anything I struggled with in my life, it was finding my calling and sense of purpose. Coming in a close second was the question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I usually avoid making New Years Resolutions, I have decided to make a few for 2012: Write my next novel, tentatively tiled 15 Minutes Keep up to date on daily devotions Make the deans list Be more active in my prayer life. Take on John Meunier&#8217;s challenge to read one of John Wesley&#8217;s sermons every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1049&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[The Journey] Chapter 1 &#8211; A Grief Observed (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you read this, click here to read the introduction. This book and all excerpts are (c) 2010 Joel Peterson. All Rights Reserved. &#8220;Peter, I&#8217;m so sorry to tell you this but&#8230;&#8221; I never wanted to hear those words. I avoided them. I avoided him as well, in his last days. I imagine it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[The Journey] Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year ago, I released the result of about a year of writing and editing to the public. Over that year, I sold probably between two and three hundred books. It was a good experience for me, but I realized that instead of trying to make money off of my first novel, I would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=1027&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading the New Testament Epistles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The following is an interaction with the ideas Fee &#38; Stewart cover in their book How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. I highly recommend this book for any layperson who would like to further understand the Christian scriptures from a reliable source. New Testament Epistles At first glance, the epistles, or letters, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=authorjp.com&amp;blog=6085797&amp;post=988&amp;subd=rbflabs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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