<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195022825588352190</id><updated>2011-04-21T12:49:23.477-07:00</updated><category term='future'/><category term='the fall of the church'/><category term='cancer'/><category term='need for surgery'/><category term='spiritual'/><category term='America'/><category term='God'/><category term='hope'/><title type='text'>Our Sofa: Thoughts on Truth, Faith, &amp; Relevance</title><subtitle type='html'>I wonder if we as created beings realize the amount of significance we play in the hope of humanity found in Jesus Christ and the privilege it is for us to be a part of such a great task. We should strive to be relevant and effective, making disciples... in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Join me on my journey to do this.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>B. E. Hinote</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11864126671761909790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SORkc7R6ZNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SIy_uQErsrA/S220/CIMG0058.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195022825588352190.post-4044262883019274948</id><published>2009-02-09T10:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T10:30:55.774-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Picking Up My Teeth and Pride</title><summary type='text'>“Picking Up My Pride and Teeth” by Beaux E. Hinote             We had decided to drive from our apartment in Fort Worth to Pinnacle Mountain in Arkansas. My wife Amy and I loved to hike and this would be a weekend trip that would not only bring our newlywed relationship closer, but give us some much needed outdoor activity, something we had not partaken of in a very long time. We prepared for our</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/feeds/4044262883019274948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2195022825588352190&amp;postID=4044262883019274948' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/4044262883019274948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/4044262883019274948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/2009/02/picking-up-my-teeth-and-pride.html' title='Picking Up My Teeth and Pride'/><author><name>B. E. Hinote</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11864126671761909790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SORkc7R6ZNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SIy_uQErsrA/S220/CIMG0058.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195022825588352190.post-4435035919010153281</id><published>2008-11-04T20:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T20:37:52.287-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Congrats...yes, congrats !!!</title><summary type='text'>I do not believe that I, nor anyone, can put into a proper construct of words and emotions of what this election means for the state of our glorious God-founded country, the United States of America. First and foremost, congrats to the senator from Illinois. You, Senator Obama ... excuse me, Mr. President will change our country's face in history; Time will only tell what kind of legacy you will </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/feeds/4435035919010153281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2195022825588352190&amp;postID=4435035919010153281' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/4435035919010153281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/4435035919010153281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/2008/11/congratsyes-congrats.html' title='Congrats...yes, congrats !!!'/><author><name>B. E. Hinote</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11864126671761909790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SORkc7R6ZNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SIy_uQErsrA/S220/CIMG0058.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SREjDPFiv1I/AAAAAAAAACc/BjEmSnPaC9Y/s72-c/obama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195022825588352190.post-6241866900538939757</id><published>2008-10-07T20:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T22:50:45.571-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the fall of the church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='need for surgery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='future'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cancer'/><title type='text'>A Debilitating Cancer Inside The Body</title><summary type='text'>Imagine with me for a minute (without closing your eyes) and visualize yourself in your local hospital corridor. Wired glass windows, automatic closed doors to restricted areas, stale odors, and bland, modern decor, the hospital reeks with the cleanness of a used cars salesman on a hot August day. You stand in your supposed sterile spot aside a loved one's door as the doctor explains to you that </summary><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://music.myspace.com/Modules/MusicV2/Pages/PopUpPlayer.aspx?songid=&amp;artid=&amp;profid=221736950&amp;plid=261782' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/feeds/6241866900538939757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2195022825588352190&amp;postID=6241866900538939757' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/6241866900538939757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/6241866900538939757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/2008/10/debilitating-cancer-inside-body.html' title='A Debilitating Cancer Inside The Body'/><author><name>B. E. Hinote</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11864126671761909790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SORkc7R6ZNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SIy_uQErsrA/S220/CIMG0058.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SOw5tDeFU_I/AAAAAAAAACE/cPUE4hINCl0/s72-c/hospital.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195022825588352190.post-4671789960083606127</id><published>2008-10-02T23:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T06:36:57.374-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Praying for November</title><summary type='text'>You may addicted to political commentators debating the lesser points of "who said what" or "who really means what they are promising" but most of these ideologues and their opinions that are leading up to the voting days of November are just smoke and mirrors, parlor tricks to take your mind off of what's going on behind the corner with the great wizards of Washington D.C. . So to be blunt, you </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/feeds/4671789960083606127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2195022825588352190&amp;postID=4671789960083606127' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/4671789960083606127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/4671789960083606127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/2008/10/praying-for-november.html' title='Praying for November'/><author><name>B. E. Hinote</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11864126671761909790</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SORkc7R6ZNI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SIy_uQErsrA/S220/CIMG0058.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JY9LZQz_sdw/SOWqBRC10-I/AAAAAAAAAB4/f2feJ6bGhRE/s72-c/Election_2008-400x300.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195022825588352190.post-3917674969815593058</id><published>2008-10-01T23:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T23:51:01.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Time for Fall, Falling, and Getting Up Again</title><summary type='text'>I have not truly considered myself to be a saint or anything that comes close to that, especially in terms of my faith and the clumsy process by which I continually fall down to the same old sins that seem to trip me even though they are in the same place in my life's path. I think about falling more than usual this time of year; what is was like before Christ rescued me from the fall. I think </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/feeds/3917674969815593058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2195022825588352190&amp;postID=3917674969815593058' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/3917674969815593058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2195022825588352190/posts/default/3917674969815593058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ourorangesofa.blogspot.com/2008/10/time-for-fall-falling-and-getting-up.html' title='A Time for Fall, Falling, and Getting Up Again'/><author><name>B. E. 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