<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18791311</id><updated>2011-04-21T14:40:17.379-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Glimpses of Eden</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>...live in the light...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13904441741070136642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18791311.post-113166616897628482</id><published>2005-11-10T15:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-10T15:42:48.983-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Self Portrait</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4204/1847/1600/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4204/1847/320/2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18791311-113166616897628482?l=findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/feeds/113166616897628482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18791311&amp;postID=113166616897628482' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default/113166616897628482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default/113166616897628482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/11/self-portrait.html' title='Self Portrait'/><author><name>...live in the light...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13904441741070136642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18791311.post-113157578930715112</id><published>2005-11-09T14:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-10T00:34:32.173-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Prostitution of the Sacred</title><content type='html'>In my outreaches to male prostitutes in West Hollywood, CA week after week, I have come to recognize the nauseating similarities between the men soliciting their bodies to the night and the way that followers of Jesus Christ have come to prostitute Christianity.  I can vouch that I am guilty of all I am about to say, but hope that what I do say will resonate within the hearts of Christ's followers, creating a desire for change.  Packaging God, canning worship, and limiting our Scripture intake to three points of life application is plaguing American Christendom.  Christians are whoring up the image of God and church to look attractive.  In our presentation of the one true, holy, perfect God, we have limited Him to earthly, finite terms.  Therefore, we have come to worship something less than who God is.  We will never be able to know everything about God's character because of His infinacy  ( and the mystery of God is what sets Him apart from humanity).  Let us worship the Lord as he is: indefinable by human terms, which leaves room for awe and mystery, causing us to tremble and fall facedown in worship, rather than flaunt a false, sexy image of a less-than-holy god.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18791311-113157578930715112?l=findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/feeds/113157578930715112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18791311&amp;postID=113157578930715112' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default/113157578930715112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default/113157578930715112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/11/prostitution-of-sacred.html' title='Prostitution of the Sacred'/><author><name>...live in the light...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13904441741070136642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18791311.post-113152305882389760</id><published>2005-11-08T23:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-09T00:02:47.746-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thirsting for The Dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4204/1847/1600/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4204/1847/320/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18791311-113152305882389760?l=findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/feeds/113152305882389760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18791311&amp;postID=113152305882389760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default/113152305882389760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18791311/posts/default/113152305882389760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://findingwordsforthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/11/thirsting-for-dream.html' title='Thirsting for The Dream'/><author><name>...live in the light...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13904441741070136642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
