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            <title>Addictions and Grace</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=89</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Addictions Can Be Doorways to God]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Snakes of Criticism</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Moses Lifted Up Grace In The Wilderness]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:56:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Finding A Path</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=86</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Walking in Faith Rarely Means Seeing Everything Clearly]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Stephen Ministers</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=85</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A Call to Serve]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Spiritual Intimacy in Marriage</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=77</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Share your faith with your beloved - it is an untapped source of love.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:16:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Gratitude</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=73</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A Heart of Gratitude Grows and Blesses]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Stooping Low Enough to Hear God</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=71</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Serving Those In Need Draws Us To God]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:45:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Commitments</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=70</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Making a commitment leads us to goodness we could not see]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:39:00</pubDate>
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            <title>God Making Us Into Heros</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=68</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pondering the new &quot;Batman&quot; movie]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:02:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Finding Our Way</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=65</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Path to Integrity Leads Through Suffering]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:22:00</pubDate>
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            <title>God is good, but not tame</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=61</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Don't turn your backs on sunsets and the ocean]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:41:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Loss and Gain</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=56</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Anytime we grow, we lose something.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:30:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Wilderness</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=54</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Every Now and Then a Surprise]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:39:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Surprised By Joy</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=47</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Road signs to joy]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:46:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Special People Remembered</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=45</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Remembering Lloyd Lineweaver, Barb Worden and Pat Kirby]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:10:00</pubDate>
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            <title>People are the real beauty</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=42</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Traveling across the country, it is the people that really touch me.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:38:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Conspiracies of Goodwill</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=40</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is funny how people do kind things.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:56:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Infamous Angel</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=36</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I recently used this song in worship - May 25, 2008 - and folks wanted to see it again. It is joyous song about going home, going home to love, going home to God. Bless as I prepare to hit the road away from home.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:08:00</pubDate>
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            <title>The Advent</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=31</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Advent is a time of preparation. We prepare for the new person God is slowing and loving bringing into being.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>The Sanctuary</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=30</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Advent is a time of preparation. We prepare for the new person God is slowing and loving bringing into being.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>The Current</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=29</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Advent is a time of preparation. We prepare for the new person God is slowing and loving bringing into being.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>The Vacation</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=28</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Advent is a time of preparation. We prepare for the new person God is slowing and loving bringing into being.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>The Big Tent</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=27</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Even before I knew that Billy Graham was raised a Presbyterian, I respected him.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Are you there, God?</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=26</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Katherine Paterson's most famous book, Bridge to Terabithia, was made into a move this last year. I didn't see the movie for fear it would not do justice to the book, which was very good.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>The Cellular Church</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=25</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Cells are what keep most any church alive. That is just as true at Silver Spring as in any congregation...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Ten (Possible) Reasons for the Sadness of Thought</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=24</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Every October the Houghton Mifflin company publishes its annual edition of The Best American Spiritual Writing. It is a collection of dozens of magazine articles and book excerpts that have spiritual themes.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>It's all about Joy</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=23</link>
            <description><![CDATA[When we sense God is near the feeling we often have can best be described as joy. God does stir up other emotions for sure, but the pleasure of God equates to our joy.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>A Troubling Passage</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=22</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I had no idea there were such malevolent passages in the Bible until I went to seminary and read them for the first time. Psalm 137 is one of the most troubling...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Guilt</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=21</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It is a terrible feeling to realize we have done something wrong. These are times when we cannot deny that we have sinned.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>How Long, O Lord?</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Psalmist repeats that question four times. The plead flows out with tearful urgency. Anyone who has ever had an experience when the minutes felt like hours and days felt like weeks, can understand...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Like trees planted by streams of water</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=19</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Book of Psalms is the place we hear about every emotion that can be expressed. There is anger, resentment, desperation, longing, contentment, liberation and joy - just to name a few. Whatever it is we are feeling, odds are very good that if we open the Book of Psalms and listen, we will hear something that resonates with our soul.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Trials and Temptations</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=18</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Somehow we got it into our theology that God purposely makes life hard for us. Somehow we got the notion that God sets traps, plants temptations, organizes trials, doing all kinds of things to make sure we fail at faith and fall flat on our face.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Forgiveness</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=17</link>
            <description><![CDATA[&quot;Those who say 'I love God,' and hate their brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.&quot;]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Daily Bread</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=16</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Six years ago I had just finished eating breakfast when my daughter called me on the phone. She said, &quot;Turn on your TV.&quot; Most of us can still recall what we were doing as the tragedy of September 11, 2001 began to unfold.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Our Father...</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=15</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As the prodigal son brought joy to his father when he returned home we bring joy to God when come to God in prayer. It matters little what we say, what matters is the turning: &quot;I will go to my Father.&quot;]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Lord, grant us eyes to see</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=14</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For the month of August, I will have a prayer for each Tuesday that I pray you can ponder for the week. Ponder it more than once. Let is sink deep in your soul.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Purpose in Life</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=13</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For the month of August, I will have a prayer for each Tuesday that I pray you can ponder for the week. Ponder it more than once. Let is sink deep in your soul.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Burdens on the road to life</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=12</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For the month of August, I will have a prayer for each Tuesday that I pray you can ponder for the week. Ponder it more than once. Let is sink deep in your soul.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Forgiveness</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=11</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For the month of August, I will have a prayer for each Tuesday that I pray you can ponder for the week. Ponder it more than once. Let is sink deep in your soul.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Why does life have to be so hard?</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=10</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Why do the things that are most important to us often have such pain involved? Having children, building loving relationships, pursuing life-long dreams..]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Lend each other a hand when we're falling</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=9</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A few years ago I had the honor of officiating at a funeral of the father of a member of our church. In preparing for the funeral, the daughter told me that one of the things that meant so much to her and her family was the fact that her father was never alone...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Forgiveness</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=8</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A few years ago I discovered a wonderful, classic book titled, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, by Hannah Whithall Smith...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Unless a Seed Dies</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=7</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes we have it in our minds what is good and if we do not get what we want exactly like we planned, we can turn away from what life gives us with disappointment. And, the truth is, sometimes what we do get is less than ideal.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Words Have Power</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=6</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Words have power. We see certain words and that usher in a flood of anger, courage, hope. Words like Talliban, F.D.N.Y, children. And, they don't have to be a lot of words either...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Actors without a Script</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=5</link>
            <description><![CDATA[We are actors in a drama with no book of words. It has not pleased God to provide us with the book of words. He has brought us into the light, but has also left us in the dark. 'O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord.']]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Thomas Wingfold</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=3</link>
            <description><![CDATA[During this season of Pentecost, we are called to be the Church and go out into the world and share the Gospel, baptizing, teaching, making disciples...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Tell them I AM WHO I AM sent you</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=4</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In the book of Exodus, the third chapter, God asks Moses to go to Egypt to bring the Hebrews out of bondage. Moses says to God...]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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            <title>Beginnings</title>
            <link>http://www.silverspring.org/devotions/?id=2</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Beginning June 5, 2007, and each week thereafter, we will have a weekly devotion titled, &quot;Tuesday Morning,&quot; on the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church website. Each Tuesday morning we invite you to open up the website and read something we pray will nourish your soul for the week.]]></description>
            <author>Stephen Melton</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:00:00</pubDate>
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