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		<title>You can Change &#8211; Chapter 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What would you like to change?
We want to change in many ways the problem is they are not ambitious enough.  We are created to be images of God.  Don&#8217;t create idols, you God&#8217;s image.  &#34;We&#8217;re God&#8217;s glory, displaying his likeness.&#34;
Problem is we are now a broken image.  &#34;We struggle to be God&#8217;s image on earth.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=30&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/you-can-change-chapter-2/</link>
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		<title>You can Change &#8211; Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six examples of people who are struggling to change

Jack masturbation and pornography
Carla irritable and complaining
Colin got a temper
Emma shopping
Jamal overambitious
Kate booze

Is there hope, yes, in each case they are changing, not perfect but chancing.  Book comes from long personal experience.  Searched Scriptures and also other books.
This book is about hope.  It&#8217;s about the hope we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=20&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/you-can-change-introduction/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 5: The World wants me to fear people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Step 3 identify where your fear of man has been intensified by the world
&#8216;The Bible warns us that there is a quiet, sub-biblical pattern to the world that begs us to conform to it.&#8217; p.73-74
How does the world do this?  
1. Encourages to think in terms of being victim and so shifting the blame on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=16&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/chapter-5-the-world-wants-me-to-fear-people/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 4: People will physically hurt me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;For some people sexual lust may be a fluctuating temptation; sometimes the battle may seem fearce, sometimes other battles may seem more urgent.  But for someone introduced to pornography, the battle may seem constant.  Such a person may have to enlist consistent prayer support and be prepared to fight the battle daily.  In a similar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=15&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/chapter-4-people-will-physically-hurt-me/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 3: People will reject me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seen that there is a shame-fear.  There is also a rejection-fear, people will ridicule, reject and despise me.
&#8216;We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (a fear of the Lord).&#8217; p.40  Paul is not a people pleaser but a people lover.  He didn&#8217;t change his message [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=17&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/chapter-3-people-will-reject-me/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 3: The Smoking Flax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grace is very little at first and very glorious later.  So Christ will fan into flame a tiny smouldering flax into a blazing light.  Things of greatest perfection are a long time growing, like an acorn forming a great oak.
Don&#8217;t despise small begininings therefore.  Grace though little in quantity is much in vigour and worth.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=14&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/chapter-3-the-smoking-flax/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 2: Christ will not break the Bruised Reed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d expect a surgeon to bruise you and hurt you if they are to make you well.  Do you really expect God to be any different?  Yet Christ calls himself husband, shepherd and brother.  He is humble, gracious and kind.  
We learn:

1. To come boldly to the throne of grace in all our grievances.  Don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=13&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/chapter-2-christ-will-not-break-the-bruised-reed/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 1: The Reed and its bruising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are looking at Isaiah 42:1-3 which are taken up in Matthew 12:18-20.
1. Christ&#8217;s calling to his office: to be the agent of our redemption &#8217;see here for our comfort a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father gives a commission to Christ, the Spirit furnishes and sanctifies to it, and Christ himself executes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=12&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/chapter-1-the-reed-and-its-bruising/</link>
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		<title>Chapter 2: People will see me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scripture gives three reasons why we fear other people:

They can expose and humiliate us (ch 2-3)
They can reject, ridicule or despise us (ch 4)
They can attack, oppress or threaten us (ch 5)

Thinking in this chapter about fearing people exposing and humiliating us.  Look at shame is trying to hide ourselves from gaze of God and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=11&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/chapter-2-people-will-see-me/</link>
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		<title>Part One overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part One
Step 1: Recognise that fear of man is a major theme both in the Bible and in your own life
    Chapter 2: People will see me
    Chapter 3: People will reject me
Step 2: Identify where your fear of man has been intensified by people in your past
    Chapter 4: People will physically hurt me
Step [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aimupton.wordpress.com&blog=2221081&post=10&subd=aimupton&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://aimupton.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/part-one-overview/</link>
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