<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><channel rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/BlogRss.aspx/BumpyRoad"><title>Bumpy Road of an Unconventional Christian - Blogit</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/</link><description>This is not about the past but the present.  </description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/449443" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/380968" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/373818" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/367438" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/367120" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/366932" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/366617" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362578" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362252" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362030" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/449443"><title>i have been writing not blogging.</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/449443</link><description>Even though,I can still blog here I haven't. Now that i'm stuck I decided to write again here. I have been working on an essay about morality. I believe that the reasons why the homeles are on the street are moral. We have plenty of money to build a baseball and football stadiums and also the new...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/380968"><title>My Daughter is Missing</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/380968</link><description>Missing Daughter Kristina Marie Hanson Last Seen: June 8, 2006 @ 3:00 PM Location: Seattle, WA Date of Birth: June 30, 1981 Hair Color: Blonde Eye Color: Hazel Height: 5’9” Weight: 170 Kristina Marie Hanson Kristina has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a mental illness with symptoms...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/373818"><title>Relapse and Goodbye</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/373818</link><description>As the manager and owner of a recovery house, it is inadvisable to allow a using addict to remain in the house. Recovering addicts are vulnerable to relapse. When one falls, the rest can fall, too. So those who remain clean must be protected from the using addict. No matter how sad the relapse...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/367438"><title>Doing the right thing</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/367438</link><description>I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refugees in this world! Do not give in to bodily passions, which are always at war against the soul. 12 Your conduct among the heathen should be so good that when they accuse you of being evildoers, they will have to recognize your good deeds and so...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/367120"><title>Chosen People</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/367120</link><description>"But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light. 10 At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/366932"><title>Worthless stone</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/366932</link><description>Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by people as worthless but chosen by God as valuable. 5 Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. 6...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/366617"><title>Full of Metaphor</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/366617</link><description>1 Peter 2:1-25 (GNT) 1 Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language. 2 Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved. 3 As the scripture says, "You have found out for...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362578"><title>A Day in the Life of Jesus</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362578</link><description>Mark 11:12-33 (GNT) 12 The next day, as they were coming back from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 He saw in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, so he went to see if he could find any figs on it. But when he came to it, he found only leaves, because it was not the right time for figs. 14...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362252"><title>Concern for the Poor</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362252</link><description>American Evangelical Christianity forgets about the poor. The psalms they sing, the scriptures they read, and the sermons they preach, generally exclude the many scriptural passages about God's concern for the poor. They quote the two verses in the New Testament that appear to dismiss the poor,...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362030"><title>Pat Answers from another Victim</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BumpyRoad/362030</link><description>Critique of "When I Lay My Isaac Down" by Carol Kent Carol Kent writes of her family's experience with suffering. Her son murdered his wife's ex-husband. Her son feared for the safety of his stepdaughters. Their father had been accused of molesting his daughters. The father sued his ex-wife for...</description></item></rdf:RDF>