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		<title>On Temptation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While listening to a sermon by Britt Merrick, the following quote from C.S. Lewis was stated.  Shook my world. “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/07/30/on-temptation/</link>
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		<title>The Encomium Series: Part 2 ~ Grandma Schuette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I have some &#8220;free me time&#8221; I usually choose to cook, bake or sew. My interest in these hobbies stems from my grandmother. As I was growing up she took time to teach me about these activities and mold me into the person I am today. I am able to make things from macaroni [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/07/29/the-encomium-series-part-2-grandma-schuette/</link>
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		<title>Roaring Lambs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks I have been spending 30 minutes or so each day, dissecting the works of Bob Briner in his book Roaring Lambs.  As a graduate of a Christian University, I agree wholeheartedly  with his thesis on Christian higher education.  Here is an excerpt from the chapter &#8220;The Christian Academe: Underachievers&#8221; : I&#8217;m afraid too many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/07/28/roaring-lambs/</link>
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		<title>The Encomium Series: Part 1 ~ Great-Great-Grandma Marsh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people do not have the opportunity to meet their great-great-grandparents. Autumn has been blessed to have two great-great-grandmas living. One she will meet in a couple of weeks and the other is the subject of this encomium. I will always remember the first time Autumn met her great-great-grandma Marsh. Autumn was still small enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/07/26/the-encomium-series-part-1-great-great-grandma-marsh/</link>
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		<title>On Creativity &amp; Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[21st Century Western Culture is obsessed with education, and for great reason.  Young minds need to be trained, the genius of the older generations must be passed down, and the torch must burn brighter than ever before.  I cannot imagine anyone in any society, in any social setting disagreeing with passing down knowledge from one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/07/14/on-creativity-education/</link>
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		<title>On Wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power.  But what about wisdom?  Is it possible to truly build a society on top of knowledge?  What happens when you pull wisdom, replacing it with facts and trivia?  You create a mansion built on the sand, that&#8217;s what.  I have had the opportunity to meet with many brilliant individuals, many of whom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/07/13/on-wisdom/</link>
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		<title>What a Friend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I am broken, you mend When I am lost, you guide When I am confused, you simplify When I am distraught, you comfort When I am hungry, you feed When I am thirsty, you quench When I am poor, you come up with money out of thin air When I am rich, you remind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/06/07/what-a-friend/</link>
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		<title>The Nature of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been an individual who has sought after knowledge and truth (qualities that may often, unfortunately, conflict). That quest has brought me down some roads that might be labeled as &#8220;interesting&#8221;. Many times, however, it has led me down the path of righteousness. Well, as those who know me are aware of, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/06/07/the-nature-of-love/</link>
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		<title>Why 37 Signals is Always Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even when 37 Signals is dead wrong,  they are 100% right.  A paradox of great proportions to be sure, but the truth it is. I am a huge fan of all of the work that 37 Signals has done in the community.  Half of the apps that I have written are in Rails, I use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/06/05/why-37-signals-is-always-right/</link>
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		<title>When Blogging Doesn&#8217;t Cut It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I probably have as many blog posts in draft form as I have published (or maybe even more).  Some of the posts remain in draft form just because I haven&#8217;t had time to research and provide good information.  Sometimes I just decide that what I am writing is more of personal information and I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/05/21/when-blogging-doesnt-cut-it/</link>
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		<title>The Unfortunate Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sunday&#8217;s Coming&#8221; Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo. I found this great quote as a response- &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned through experience that if you try to attract the world with the world you will be at best mediocre. We who are followers of Christ have been uniquely and individually called before the foundation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/05/13/the-unfortunate-reality/</link>
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		<title>Who shall stand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary?  Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart, and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong, and casts no slur on his fellowman, who despises a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/04/25/who-shall-stand/</link>
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		<title>If We Should Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?  Even &#8216;sinners&#8217; love those who love them.  And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you?  Even &#8216;sinners&#8217; do that.  And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/04/25/if-we-should-live/</link>
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		<title>The Great Commission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After nearly 20 years of preaching at Trinity Alliance Church, pastor Mark Swanson concludes his service with this wonderful sermon from the end of Matthew.]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/04/25/the-great-commissio/</link>
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		<title>Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (42)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife recently bought the &#8220;Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy&#8221; for me.  I have been reading it off and on for some time now.  I would have to say that it is one of the most quirky books that I have ever read.  I never know quite what to expect.  Well, one part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/03/25/answer-to-the-ultimate-question-of-life-the-universe-and-everything-42/</link>
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		<title>Praise God: Bless Me Indeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I have been praying for some time about being able to purchase a new car (well, not new, but new to us).  Right now we only have one car (although it has been a great car, and is really new), and with me driving it to work every day, it has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/03/22/praise-god-bless-me-indeed/</link>
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		<title>Should we know it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shall we begin today to be men of prayer, if we have never done so before?  Let us not put it off till a more convenient season.  God wants me to pray.  The dear Savior wants me to pray.  He needs my prayers.  So much- in fact, everything- depends upon prayer.  How dare we hold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/03/22/should-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>Who is St. Patrick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Patrick&#8217;s boat pushed west, he felt a strange chill from the memory of the same journey he had made years earlier under very different circumstances.  The smells of the sea and the fog clinging to the waves and the cliffs took him back to when he was a lad of sixteen, traveling to Ireland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/03/18/who-is-st-patrick/</link>
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		<title>The Supremacy of Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colossians 1:15-23 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.17 He is before all things, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/03/11/the-supremacy-of-christ/</link>
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		<title>Photos of my daughter, Autumn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Deven Carter, took some awesome pictures of my daughter, Autumn, about 2 weeks after she was born.  Here are my favorites-]]></description>
		<link>http://melissa-brandon.com/2010/03/11/photos-of-my-daughter-autumn/</link>
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