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Matt Appling, author of the blog The Church of No People<\/em>, was kind enough to ask me to write a guest post for him while he\u2019s on his annual blogging sabbatical.<\/p>\n

I wrote about the truth that is found in the BIble\u2019s use of metaphors.<\/p>\n

Make sure you check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"