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      <title>In due season &#45; Valerie Volk</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/in_due_season_valerie_volk</link>       <description>The sudden illness and resulting death of Valerie Volk&apos;s husband cast her into a world of suffering and separation. What emerged was a strengthened faith and a book of poetry that has the ability to lead similarly suffering readers through to a new gratitude and acceptance.</description>
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      <content:encoded>The sudden illness and resulting death of Valerie Volk&apos;s husband cast her into a world of suffering and separation. What emerged was a strengthened faith and a book of poetry that has the ability to lead similarly suffering readers through to a new gratitude and acceptance.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-07-03T00:01:19+10:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Nominated Christian books of the year</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/nominated_christian_books_of_the_year</link>       <description>Youthworks publishing scoops four of the eight nominees for Christian Book of the Year &#45; have your say as to which volume you think was the best read for 2009.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Youthworks publishing scoops four of the eight nominees for Christian Book of the Year &#45; have your say as to which volume you think was the best read for 2009.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-06-26T00:01:11+10:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Over my shoulder &#45; Naomi Reed</title>
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      <content:encoded>Naomi Reed has spent two years interviewing and cataloguing life stories from missionaries, grouping them according to personality type, to bring her readers a useful tool for alleviating Christian guilt and setting people free to serve.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-06-19T00:01:14+10:00</dc:date>
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      <title>My Happy Heart &#45; Victoria Osteen</title>
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      <content:encoded>I must confess an important bias. I am a sucker for books with textures and this new box set aimed at toddlers provides plenty to cheer about. But there are also some clear illustrations of the divide between Victoria Osteen’s beliefs and Biblical Christianity.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-06-12T00:01:03+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Lisa Byrnes)</author>
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      <title>Godly women on the loose &#45; Coralie Thornton</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/godly_women_on_the_loose_coralie_thornton</link>       <description>So weighed down by past experiences that freedom seems virtually impossible? Then this is the book for you.</description>
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      <content:encoded>So weighed down by past experiences that freedom seems virtually impossible? Then this is the book for you.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-06-06T00:01:35+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Elly Byrne)</author>
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      <title>Discovering God &#45; Rodney Stark</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/discovering_god_rodney_stark</link>       <description>Does God exist or did we make him up? Whatever answer one might feel inclined to give, Rodney Stark’s latest book, Discovering God – the origins of the great religions and the evolution of belief, offers much that is worthy of discussion and debate.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Does God exist or did we make him up? Whatever answer one might feel inclined to give, Rodney Stark’s latest book, Discovering God – the origins of the great religions and the evolution of belief, offers much that is worthy of discussion and debate.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-06-05T00:01:33+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Simon Smart)</author>
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      <title>Home for bright ideas</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/home_for_bright_ideas</link>       <description>Fancy the chance to step into the shoes of advertising gurus like Todd Sampson or switched&#45;on book reviewers like Jennifer Byrne? Here&apos;s a home for your bright ideas...</description>
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      <content:encoded>Fancy the chance to step into the shoes of advertising gurus like Todd Sampson or switched&#45;on book reviewers like Jennifer Byrne? Here&apos;s a home for your bright ideas...</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-05-29T00:01:13+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (AMS Staff)</author>
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      <title>Garage Hymnal &#45; Garage Hymnal</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/garage_hymnal_garage_hymnal</link>       <description>Garage Hymnal are currently the classiest act on the local evangelical music scene. Their new album, the self&#45;titled Garage Hymnal, is simply sensational.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Garage Hymnal are currently the classiest act on the local evangelical music scene. Their new album, the self&#45;titled Garage Hymnal, is simply sensational.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-05-22T00:01:43+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Craig Schwarze)</author>
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      <title>The Flame of Heaven</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/the_flame_of_heaven</link>       <description>Andrew Wright has set himself a noble goal as a Christian author: write a Bible&#45;based novel that will lead non&#45;Christians on to spiritual truth.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Andrew Wright has set himself a noble goal as a Christian author: write a Bible&#45;based novel that will lead non&#45;Christians on to spiritual truth.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-05-16T00:01:37+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Mark A. Hadley)</author>
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      <title>A taste for life</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/a_taste_for_life</link>       <description>With Australians fat and prosperous, but starving to death for eternal food, I can think of four good reasons why you should grab this little book.</description>
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      <content:encoded>With Australians fat and prosperous, but starving to death for eternal food, I can think of four good reasons why you should grab this little book.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-05-08T00:01:58+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Robyn Powell)</author>
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      <title>Screwtape Letters &#45; CS Lewis</title>
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      <content:encoded>There are few books that can truly be described as a Christian Classic. If there were ten in the world, CS Lewis’ Screwtape Letters would definitely be among them.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-04-30T23:01:16+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Mark A. Hadley)</author>
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      <title>Choices: One person’s journey out of homosexuality</title>
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      <content:encoded>For anyone struggling with unwanted same&#45;sex attractions or who has a family member or friend with such a struggle, the book Choices by Christopher Keane is a definite must&#45;read.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-04-23T00:01:48+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Haydn Sennitt)</author>
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      <title>The essence of the Reformation &#45; Kirsten Birkett</title>
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      <content:encoded>Given that the Reformation was both an influence upon, and was strongly influenced by, the turmoil of its historical setting, Kirsten Birkett has written an unnervingly short, overwhelmingly positive account of this period of church history.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-04-16T23:01:13+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Wheldon Curzon-Hobson)</author>
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      <title>A foot in two worlds &#45; John Chapman</title>
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      <content:encoded>John Chapman’s latest book is down&#45;to&#45;earth. He doesn’t gild the lily but helps us to understand that a life lived for Jesus will be good and hard.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-04-09T23:01:59+10:00</dc:date>
			<author>editor@sydneyanglicans.net (David McKay)</author>
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      <title>We&#8217;d like to meet your mum</title>
      <link>http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/resources/wed_like_to_meet_your_mum</link>       <description>Sydneyanglicans.net is developing a Mothers Day resource for churches ... and we&apos;d like your mum&apos;s help.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Sydneyanglicans.net is developing a Mothers Day resource for churches ... and we&apos;d like your mum&apos;s help.</content:encoded>
      <dc:date>2009-04-08T23:00:09+10:00</dc:date>
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