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	<title>The Shepherd&#039;s Rod Speaks &#187; Christmas</title>
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		<title>How Not to Explain Myths About Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2015/12/how-not-to-explain-myths-about-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been given a special message to proclaim to the world warning of God’s soon coming judgments (Rev. 14:6-12) and the only escape through the pure, unadulterated gospel of Jesus Christ. Instead, they have . . . turned back from following Christ and are steadily retreating toward Egypt I am filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventh-day Adventists and Pagan Holidays: A Current Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are More and More Seventh-day Adventist&#8217;s Celebrating Easter?</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2014/04/why-are-more-and-more-seventh-day-adventists-celebrating-easter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is increasingly apparent that more and more Seventh-day Adventist churches, rather than being not of this world, are becoming more tolerate of pagan festivals as recently reported in Adventist Today. Easter celebrations are now becoming a long standing tradition at many major S. D. A. educational institutions that hold their annual events each year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church Steadily Retreating Towards Egypt, How is This Happening?</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2013/12/the-church-steadily-retreating-towards-egypt-how-is-this-happening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2013/12/the-church-steadily-retreating-towards-egypt-how-is-this-happening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sighandcry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. Grievous and presumptuous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Some in the Church Wondering After the Beast of Revelation 13?</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2012/12/are-some-in-the-church-wondering-after-the-beast-of-revelation-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All The World Wondered After The Beast “His deadly wound was healed,” John says, “And all the world wondered after the beast.” Note that the world wondered after the beast and not after the head. Therefore, it cannot mean that the world would necessarily have to enroll in the member-ship of the system represented by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should You Attend a Seventh-day Adventist Christmas Gala?</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2012/12/should-you-attend-a-seventh-day-adventist-christmas-gala/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2012/12/should-you-attend-a-seventh-day-adventist-christmas-gala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sighandcry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas for Seventh-day Adventists?</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2011/12/christmas-for-seventh-day-adventists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2011/12/christmas-for-seventh-day-adventists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sighandcry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.&#8221;— James 1:17 It has come around to that time of year when the topic of Christmas observance heats up within Adventist circles. Our new president Elder Ted Wilson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What About Christmas Observance for SDA&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2010/12/what-about-christmas-observance-for-sdas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shepherds-rod-speaks.org/2010/12/what-about-christmas-observance-for-sdas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sighandcry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Seventh-day Adventist church today essentially giving full sanction to the observance of the pagan institution of Christmas as evidenced by the above screen shot from the church&#8217;s flagship website one wonders what to think about this steady retreating towards the world and its customs. Also note the tragic attempt by the church leadership [...]]]></description>
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