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    <title><![CDATA[Blog Entries from Randall's Ruminations]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[This blog is about understanding the Bible. Interpretation of Scripture can be a quagmire. I share brief thoughts on specific verses in this blog.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Despising Yahweh's Offering • 1 Samuel 2:11-17]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The sin of these young men was very great in Yahweh’s sight, for they treated Yahweh’s offering with contempt. (1 Samuel 2:17)Eli’s sons did not know Yahweh, but he knew them. Just as Hannah warned in her prayer, Yahweh observes and weighs the actions of every human being who walks]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who can intercede? • 1 Samuel 2:18-25]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of Yahweh spreading abroad. If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him,]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Giving God our Best • 1 Samuel 19b-28]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him. Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She brought him to Yahweh’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[No Longer Weak • 1 Samuel 2:1-3]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hannah prayed, “My heart rejoices in Yahweh; my horn is exalted high because of Yahweh. I loudly denounce my enemies, for I am happy that you delivered me. No one is holy like Yahweh! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God! (1 Samuel]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Defender and Avenger • 1 Samuel 2:4-10]]></title>
      <link>http://www.faithvillage.com/blogpost/80bf349dccac4c1e8a6f3725280e38c3/defender_and_avenger__1_samuel_24_10</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The foundations of the earth belong to Yahweh, and he has placed the world on them. He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails. Yahweh shatters his adversaries; he thunders against them]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[1 Samuel 1:1-11 • The misery of uselessness]]></title>
      <link>http://www.faithvillage.com/blogpost/e6780b739f884698b7c36565b3105cd7/1_samuel_11_11__the_misery_of_uselessness</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for Yahweh had not enabled her to have children. Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to Yahweh’s house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat. Finally her]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[1 Samuel 1:12-19a • The Priesthood 101]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Eli replied, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him.” (1 Samuel 1:17) Eli was wrong to assume the worst about Hannah, to rebuke her, to accuse her of being drunk. He failed her as a priest, as a mediator]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jonah 4 • The immutability of Jonah]]></title>
      <link>http://www.faithvillage.com/blogpost/102b07d2ad7d4a29b7f75231b87e18ef/jonah_4__the_immutability_of_jonah</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[So now, Yahweh, just take my soul from me, because my death is a greater good than my life.” And Yahweh said, “It is good that this makes you angry?” (Jonah 4:3-4) After he sees that God heard the repentant plea of Nineveh and did not destroy the city for]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Jonah Skip • Jonah 2]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For you had cast me into the deep, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; to the heart of the sea, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and the river flowed around me; all your breakers and your billows &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; crashed over me. But I, I said: ‘I have been driven away &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[I'm fine, really! • Acts 5:17-42]]></title>
      <link>http://www.faithvillage.com/blogpost/131b1d0d27f344cbaa3cacebd1c19854/im_fine_really__acts_517_42</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, and the high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name. Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood on us!” (Acts 5:27-28) I’m]]></description>
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