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	<description>The Writings of Nathan Pitchford</description>
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		<title>The Dragon and the Whore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dragon and the Whore or A Parable for America in the Twenty-First Century The death-stroke fell; still reeling at the blow, The Dragon roared in mortal agony And spewed hot venom at the woman’s seed, Contesting fiercely him who crushed him so. Ah, vainly! for his people straight did flee Into the arms that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>De Profundis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Profundis [i] 3 Sonnets Out of the depths, O Lord, I cry to thee: Carest thou not, nor markest how I grieve? The pangs of loneliness rack cruelly: My friends have left; my God, wilt thou too leave? With one unyielding hand thou tearest me, Preservest with the other, so that I Can neither [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Tenebras Lux</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Tenebras Lux [i] In the night watches, in the night watches, When the gloom of the know-less falls like a numbing chill, And the ghost-breath of sad confusion sudden touches The quick of the soul, and life and time grow still, – My God! I cry to you. In the night watches, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Savior and my God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come to me, darling of my soul, My spirit&#8217;s truest gain; Your touch alone, which made me whole, Can thrill my heart again. Where are my dreams of yesterday, That I had loved so much? I find them all dissolved away Beneath your gentle touch: But I find in their vacancy Far greater riches poured: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Image of the Savior from the Book of Hebrews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Image of the Savior From the book of Hebrews The far-flung echoes die: We who the prophet-whispers long have heard Now tune our ears to the fuller voice on high, Now hear the mind of God in one live Word. We bow, O Christ, at your glorious name. The ancient splendors fade: The brightness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely Progression</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus, how sweet your virgin birth, Deep, lovely mystery: Out from the unsewn womb sprang forth God of eternity! I kneel before your bed so rough, My Savior in a feeding trough, Divine before the world began, And now in time become a man. Jesus, how sweet your life on earth, Your public ministry, Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversely Excellent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revelation 5:5-6 “…Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Timothy 3:16</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great is the mystery, The godly-fashioned plan That God should stoop from heaven on high To take the form of man! In flesh he was made known, In spirit justified, By angels he was seen; Among the nations shown, Believed on far and wide, In glory raised again. This is the solid ground That cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gethsemane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the riddle of eternity, And here the mighty conflict of the ages: Shall God contend with God in unity With God’s own will? How fierce a war he wages! What hellish sorrows fling him rudely down, And wring the bloody sweat from every pore, Which glistens on his brow, a crimson crown Forged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golgotha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He breathed his last, – And died. And the beat of the rain came hard and fast, And the lightnings writhed in the sudden blast, And the fierce winds cried. Is he then dead? But no – For, “In him was life,” the beloved said, And then, “Before Abraham” (So his own words rang out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toil and Rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once more I take my pen in hand, once more I lay it down, and still the page is bare. A dullness seeps into my soul. I fear That I have nothing left to say. I fear My heart will finally be left as blank As this blank page. – No, blanker yet (alas!) As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Credo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trace the sunbeam to the sun; Trace the river to the sea; Trace all pleasures to the One Who is Pleasure perfectly.]]></description>
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		<title>Songs of Redemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. Christ Promised Standing in my shame, Naked and alone; No one left to blame; The fault was all my own. The Serpent sowed the lie, Mine only was the fall; Now cursed is all my race, Now death has come on all. Is this to be the end, Forever lost and dead? But no! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basileus: Prologue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prologue The Argument Apostrophe to Nebuchadnezzar [ii] – Reflection upon the same – Petition to the Spirit of Truth – The theme laid out in brief O Head of gold [iii]! whose Babylonian might Subdued the nations, at whose outstretched hand Innumerable minions, scarlet-clad [iv], O’erswept earth’s mighty kingdoms, riding forth Conquering and to conquer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basileus: Book One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book I – The Coming of the King The Argument The covenant made with David – the decline of the Kingdom – the promise of the prophets – the rise of Rome and the Idumean king – 1st portent: the Star of the East – 2nd portent: Gabriel’s message to Mary and Joseph – 3rd [...]]]></description>
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