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		<title>Love Singapore Pastors&#8217; Prayer Summit 2012: a personal reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2012/01/love-singapore-pastors-prayer-summit-2012-a-personal-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ice breakers were agonizing. One flat bonding activity after another. Immovable as a pew I stayed rooted to my seat. It was not the right attitude to have at the commencement dinner of the 2012 Love Singapore Pastors&#8217; Prayer Summit. It was not because Ps Eugene Seow, the king of icebreakers, has handed his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because the pastor said so</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/12/because-the-pastor-said-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben drew a deep breath and closed his bank account. All that he had saved for the past decade of working in the premier Administrative Service is now in this cheque that he would put in the offering bags on Sunday. He had been saving to invest in a private property he had been assiduously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review of Streams of Living Water by Richard J. Foster</title>
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		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/10/book-review-of-streams-of-living-water-by-richard-j-foster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mature faith
One of the marks of a mature faith is that it is sufficiently secure to explore other Christian traditions and discover in them good which they can incorporate into their life without losing their roots in the essentials of faith in Christ. One of the early steps we can take to hop out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To blog or not to blog</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/09/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reasons not to blog
In the past year I have been nibbling on the idea of a blog funeral for blogpastor.net.  One reason was my burnout. My blog entries went downhill and I wrote less often. My heart was not there and inspiration waned. Another was the temptation to follow the crowd. Many blogs have in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive revival among untouchables in India</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/09/massive-revival-among-untouchables-in-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/09/massive-revival-among-untouchables-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dalit (literally,&#8221;broken people&#8221;) or the untouchables- the lowest of India&#8217;s caste system- form close to 25% of the total population. In Hindu perspective, the Dalits are regarded lesser than humans and are treated as such. Most of them are illiterate and destitute and are sidelined to undesirable occupations. They are like the biblical lepers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DUMC raid: it&#8217;s about what&#8217;s right for the marginalized</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/08/dumc-raid-its-about-whats-right-for-the-marginalized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/08/dumc-raid-its-about-whats-right-for-the-marginalized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogpastor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock at DUMC raid by Jais
Already there had been issues that had risen in the recent decade with rights of Muslim converts to Christianity to change their designation on their ID, the Alkitab issue, and the accompanying bomb blast at a Kuala Lumpur church. Last week, with shock I read that the Damansara Utama Methodist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startling, depressing statistics on U.S. pastors</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/05/startling-depressing-statistics-on-u-s-pastors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/05/startling-depressing-statistics-on-u-s-pastors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogpastor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These statistics have been around for some time and the research was done in the 1990&#8217;s but they do strike a chord for us even today and in Singapore. The research was finished by the Schaeffer Institute, but quoted in Thabiti Anyabwile in a post titled, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Make Your Pastor A Statistic&#8221;. In the post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wearing Sunday best and forbidden flip flops</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/02/wearing-sunday-best-and-forbidden-flip-flops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/02/wearing-sunday-best-and-forbidden-flip-flops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogpastor</dc:creator>
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Enforcing dress codes in church
The arresting subtitle of the Sunday Times article by Elizabeth Soh (Feb 6, 2011) read: “Catholic churches are enforcing dress codes, as more turn up in inappropriate attire”. Such inappropriate attire included shorts and flip flops; attire that exposed the entire shoulder, chest, back or thighs; low rise jeans and T [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost shepherds in the city</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2010/12/shepherds-lost-in-the-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2010/12/shepherds-lost-in-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogpastor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pastoring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost shepherds and waiting sheep
The Rt Revd Rennis Ponniah, the Vicar of St John’s-St. Margaret’s Church, and Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Singapore, gave an insightful message to priests and ordinands recently that was excerpted in the Diocesan Digest(Nov 2010). He was reminding the church of what it meant to be an Anglican priest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of a sabbatical</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2010/09/the-value-of-a-sabbatical/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogpastor.net/2010/09/the-value-of-a-sabbatical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The church board of elders granted me a 6 months sabbatical and I felt grateful and relieved. Grateful because they knew I needed it even though the timing was not perfect. There never is a perfect time in church life for sabbatical. Wait for the perfect time and it will never come. Relieved because I [...]]]></description>
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