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		<title>My place of safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Clinging to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.&#8221;. Matthew 10:39 These words leapt out at me this morning in my devotions, and they&#8217;ve been plaguing me ever since! How foolish it is for me to cling to my life, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=153&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Necessity of belief</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grazioso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8216;Because you believed, it has happened.&#8217; And the young servant was healed that same hour.&#8217;&#8221;. Matthew 8:13 I was reading my Bible a few minutes ago and I came across this passage. Although I&#8217;ve read it dozens of times before, today it leapt off the page at me. I guess it is because I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=148&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacrifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grazioso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.&#8221;. Genesis 22:12 The altar of sacrifice is the place where we realize what is really important to us. Until we are asked to give up something, we don&#8217;t realize the power and influence it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=146&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not resolution but revolution!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the rest of my life&#8230; Today I will begin again. I will start anew. I will put into practice what I have been putting off. I will take at least one step towards becoming the man God wants me to be. Holy Spirit enable me today. Breath fresh fire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=144&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.&#8221; Genesis 15:6 Faith is more than just hearing. Faith is confident belief and hopeful expectation. This is why God counted it as righteousness for Abram. I want that kind of faith. I want to take God at his word, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=142&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grazioso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am starting out the new year by embarking on an excitingly scary new journey. The words I write and upload to this blog are my attempt to let my friends, family and colleagues into what is taking place in my heart and mind. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be a bit more faithful and consistent with my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=140&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Supernatural Realm (part II) &#8211; The Holy Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grazioso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  -We’re going to take our eyes off of the spooky and the sensational for a moment, we’re going to change our focus from the eerie and evil forces of darkness, and we’re going to turn our attention instead to the person and work of God’s Holy Spirit. • From the outset of this message, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=135&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Supernatural Realm &#8211; An Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 01:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grazioso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  When you think of the supernatural world, what images come to you mind?   -Do you see spirits and demons, perhaps like those you were exposed to in horror movies growing up such as Poltergeist or The Exorcist, or in current television shows such as the CW’s ‘Supernatural?’  -Do you think of hyper-charismatic Christians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=129&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WALKING WITH WISDOM (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grazioso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Every single one of us has done something in our past that we regret.  Whether it was dating the wrong person, making a wrong purchase, walking away from the Lord, getting into debt, cheating on a spouse, getting a divorce, breaking the law, rebelling against our parents, or allowing ourselves to become addicted and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedeconstructionoftom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3080882&amp;post=115&amp;subd=thedeconstructionoftom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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