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		<title>Still Two, Not One</title>
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		<title>Marriage Reflections</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking about marriage we tend to try to be funny or profound – and end up being neither. Love and human relationships resist our attempts to fit things into a neat little package, and the longer we live the more we recognize this. Yet at some level we want to understand what makes marriage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pastorsheppard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11581642&amp;post=204&amp;subd=pastorsheppard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As a church, we can’t produce true worshipers.  Our only contribution is to provide instruction and an atmosphere to nurture a worshiping heart...In reality, there are things we do that hinder music worship.


     
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