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      <title>Hymn of Light</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>James Kusko</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13380</link>
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      <description>Is there an organist accompaniment for the Phos Hilaron (Hymn of Light) from LSB pg 244?   If so can anyone email a copy ASAP? Rev. James Kusko St. John&#39;s</description>
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      <title>clarification about branch</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:45:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>LisaW</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13379</link>
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      <description>Hi, I am just a layperson but I have a question I was hoping some on here can answer.  I recently met someone who goes to a AFLC Church.  I looked at the</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:29:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Rick VanBriggle</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13378</link>
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      <description>Amen Mark, amen.    Vicar  Rick VanBriggle Genesis Center, A Ministry of St. Thomas Lutheran Church Eastpointe, MI ... From: Mark Sell, Friends of Mercy</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:30:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mark Sell, Friends of Mercy</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13377</link>
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      <description>Two Kingdom theology is such a comfort. What makes our gov. great is the individual&#39;s right to have a private contract in whatever form (individualism) and the</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:19:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Don Whitbeck</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13376</link>
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      <description>Oh Yes Vicar, I agree we have a wonderful government.  No doubt in my mind.  However, millions of people don&#39;t have the faith in government or in religion</description>
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      <title>In memoriam: Paul Otto Manz (1919-2009)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:57:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>bliesem@...</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13375</link>
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      <description>Beloved composer, organist, and Lutheran church musician Dr. Paul Manz died on Wednesday evening October 28 after several weeks of hospice care. You can read a</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:33:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Pastor Kurt Hering</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13374</link>
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      <description>... From: Don Whitbeck ... Gracias. You make the point. Pastor Hering ____________________________________________________________ Instant Medical Insurance </description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Vicar Rick VanBriggle</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13373</link>
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      <description>Yes, it certainly is!!  At least it&#39;s better than (most of) the alternatives. ... From: Don Whitbeck &lt;don1720@...&gt; Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:20</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:28:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Don Whitbeck</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13372</link>
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      <description>Not even close, it hasn&#39;t hit the 1000 page mark.  Just remember, like my Senators and Congressman, they just vote on the bills, they don&#39;t even read them! </description>
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      <title>Re: conventions</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:16:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Rev. Timothy Stout</dc:creator>
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      <description>It would seem that there are a few assumptions made here that need to be addressed.  First, not every delegate at the convention is a pastor.  In fact, only</description>
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      <title>Re: Thrivent</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:31:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tom Myhre</dc:creator>
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      <description>Don&#39;t expect to learn much.  I went to one a couple of weeks ago and they couldn&#39;t tell us much.  As someone else has said, &quot;they are still working that out.&quot;</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alisa Rabe</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13369</link>
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      <description>Whoa!  This in not the case for English District.  Where did you get that information? Alisa ... From: Rev. Roger D. Sterle To: LCMS-ISSUES@yahoogroups.com </description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:53:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alisa Rabe</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13368</link>
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      <description>My husband was the alternate lay delegate for the English District, Curcuit 20.  He just got a call that he is now the delegate going to Convention next year.</description>
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      <title>Re: (Blue Ribbon Task Force)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:33:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alisa Rabe</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13367</link>
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      <description>My husband really wants to bring what he learns in Detroit back to our congregation &amp; get their input on all of it.  We are hoping that our pastor can be a</description>
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      <title>Re: Thrivent</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Rev. Thomas Wenndt</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCMS-ISSUES/message/13366</link>
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      <description>&quot;Pastor Sterle&quot; said:  &quot;What has been stated by the Thrivent general agent in our area: individual members will be given &quot;gift dollars&quot;. They no longer have to</description>
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