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		<title>Experiencing God in Worship – group discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resulting from our discussion on 30 April, we challenged ourselves to describe what elements were necessary to ‘experience’ God in worship services.  We quickly realised that different environmental stimuli would impact positively on some but not others.  After all we are each unique.  We agreed that for a single worship time to invoke a feeling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/experiencing-god-in-worship-%e2%80%93-group-discussion</link>
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		<title>Christianity for the Rest of Us by Dianne Butler Bass, Harper One 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We considered one of the summary chapters ‘Transforming Lives’.  There is an initial emphasis on the ‘sanctuary’ and home wanderers have found in these Mainline churches.  They have found a place and an environment where they can put down roots and become part of an accepting, though challenging, community.  We observed the impression that compared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/christianity-for-the-rest-of-us-by-dianne-butler-bass-harper-one-2006</link>
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		<title>Christianity for the Rest of Us by Dianne Butler Bass, Harper One 2006:  Session 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We reviewed 3 further signposts of renewal in Mainline US Churches. Diversity  The author suggests that congregations are all the ‘richer’ for their diversity of thought, background, ethnicity and (in the US particularly) politics.  With diversity of thought and action also comes a need for tolerance and acceptance of alternatives to one’s own preferences and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/christianity-for-the-rest-of-us-by-dianne-butler-bass-harper-one-2006-session-3</link>
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		<title>Who on EARTH was JESUS &#8211; The modern quest for the Jesus of history.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written by David Boulton 2008 A century after Albert Schweitzer&#8217;s Quest of the Historical Jesus modern historians with new techniques are back on the trail.  In the most comprehensive survey yet published, David Boulton presents an engrossing account of the debate between contemporary scholars on what we can know about the human Jesus of history, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/who-on-earth-was-jesus-the-modern-quest-for-the-jesus-of-history</link>
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		<title>Christianity for the Rest of Us by Dianne Butler Bass, Harper One 2006: Session 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We reviewed 2 further signposts of renewal in Mainline US Churches. Discernment  This is defined as being open to God’s will, searching for answers to ‘what does God want me to do?’  The author suggests developing the practice of asking ‘God’ questions in place of ‘I’ questions.  This requires openness and time and then interaction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/christianity-for-the-rest-of-us-session-2</link>
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		<title>Christianity for the Rest of Us by Dianne Butler Bass, Harper One 2006: Session 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this book the author sets out to discover ‘Mainline churches’ in the US that are growing and thriving and to identify what they doing to achieve this.  She mourns the loss of the church society in which she grew up – it has just disappeared.  After some introductory chapters, she identifies 10 ‘signposts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/christianity-for-the-rest-of-us-session-1</link>
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		<title>The Four Horseman – DVD 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a DVD of a discussion between 4 atheists – Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris.  The discussion is wide ranging, informative (whether agree or not) and measured.  This is not a rant against religions but reasonably measured arguments.  Their principal issue is that religion removes individual’s ability to think for themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/the-four-horseman-%e2%80%93-dvd-2006</link>
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		<title>Uneasy Rider?  The Challenge to a Ministry of Word and Sacrament in a Post-Christendom Missional Climate by Mark Johnston 7/2/12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was given as the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership Inaugural Lecture 2012 This is a demanding read which yields much to those willing to search, discuss and ponder.  Mark notes that previous ‘fixes’ to arrest numeric decline of (Presbyterian) churches have not worked long term.  His view is that we are blinkered by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/uneasy-rider-the-challenge-to-a-ministry-of-word-and-sacrament-in-a-post-christendom-missional-climate</link>
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		<title>Oh My God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To round off the year we watched this video which talked to people from many faiths about their understanding or experience of their God.  Sincere people with views that reflected the whole gambit of religious belief or no belief.]]></description>
		<link>http://tawaunionchurch.org.nz/oh-my-god</link>
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		<title>Philippians 4:1-10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps some of you know the story about the ladder that has been on a ledge of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for over 150 years. The church that claims to be on the site of Jesus’ burial and resurrection has an equally well known reputation for being one of the most [...]]]></description>
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