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Chesterton'/><title type='text'>Comments on Ched Spellman: Nothing too small in us . . . to be ordained by Go...</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/feeds/9208576956965783234/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html'/><author><name>Ched</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04008363735281618528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MBueN2-Ns34/SZ72Z8C3M2I/AAAAAAAABQE/MjSL3CAxql4/S220/Vimeo.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-1870165104909436543</id><published>2009-05-28T21:17:23.656-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T21:17:23.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Amen.  I find myself somewhere between faith and a...</title><content type='html'>Amen.  I find myself somewhere between faith and anxiety...believing weakly.  Thanks for the encouraging word. May God grant us grace to help our unbelief.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/1870165104909436543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/1870165104909436543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html?showComment=1243563443656#c1870165104909436543' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan Watson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15627159148950545405</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12985511830556406083'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HkDibMLBedU/SbhV1TtVoVI/AAAAAAAAACQ/GZE7VD-4ZqE/S220/KJ_Christmas_2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-9208576956965783234' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/posts/default/9208576956965783234' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-403113525'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-3180843670836565082</id><published>2009-05-19T15:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T15:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think you bring this out in your post, but for m...</title><content type='html'>I think you bring this out in your post, but for me, knowing and believing in God's sovereignty means nothing to me apart from his infinite wisdom and unconditional love. These qualities, among others, of God's divine nature are what make sovereignty a comforting thing. In life, I know that God is sovereign; it is how that sovereignty plays out that scares me sometimes, but praying for the Lord to help my unbelief enables me by his Spirit to welcome the exercise of his sovereignty in all manner of ways, knowing that this all-good God is working his perfect will through every circumstance, some more difficult than others as demonstrated in your own situation, ranging from the birth of a child to a father who is fighting a major cancer. Nevertheless, the fact that God being all-wise and perfectly loving and gracious is able to make his divine will which flows out of these attributes the ruling rod in all of creation by means of his total-sovereignty and providence is doubly-comforting and consoling, though I sometimes lament, "Why O God?" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kim and I remain in constant prayer for the Spellman's over both of these two concerns.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/3180843670836565082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/3180843670836565082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html?showComment=1242763200000#c3180843670836565082' title=''/><author><name>Billy</name><uri>http://www.abettercountry.wordpress.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-9208576956965783234' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/posts/default/9208576956965783234' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1379310021'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-2890923951352856914</id><published>2009-05-15T22:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-15T22:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ched, 

Thank you for these thoughts. With Leigh A...</title><content type='html'>Ched, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for these thoughts. With Leigh Anne, "Amen." May the Lord help my unbelief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bret</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/2890923951352856914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/2890923951352856914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html?showComment=1242442980000#c2890923951352856914' title=''/><author><name>Bret</name><uri>http://www.irruption.wordpress.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-9208576956965783234' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/posts/default/9208576956965783234' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-730632750'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-117987399899619909</id><published>2009-05-12T22:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T22:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Amen.</title><content type='html'>Amen.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/117987399899619909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/9208576956965783234/comments/default/117987399899619909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html?showComment=1242183600000#c117987399899619909' title=''/><author><name>Leigh Anne</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.chedspellman.com/2009/05/nothing-too-small-in-us-to-be-ordained.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32439216.post-9208576956965783234' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32439216/posts/default/9208576956965783234' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-662474506'/></entry></feed>
