Rowland Croucher
Police wisdom (serious)
From a talk I heard this morning from a fairly experienced policewoman (PS. Victoria, Australia): * Men: never put your wallet in your back trouser-pocket * Re identity-theft: the latest is phoning you saying there’s a virus in your computer; did you know people can swipe/insert credit cards in some supermarkets etc. and withdraw cash […]
Henri Nouwen’s spiritual wisdom
Making Our Lives Available to Others One of the arguments we often use for not writing is this: “I have nothing original to say. Whatever I might say, someone else has already said it, and better than I will ever be able to.” This, however, is not a good argument for not writing. Each human […]
Humo[u]r
The teacher wrote on the blackboard, ¢â‚¬Å“I ain ¢â‚¬â„¢t had no fun all summer. ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“Now Paul, ¢â‚¬ she said. ¢â‚¬Å“What shall I do to correct this? ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“Get a boy friend. ¢â‚¬ Paul replied. =============== “Simon, if I had eight apples in my right hand and ten apples in my left hand, what would I have? ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“Huge hands, sir. ¢â‚¬ =============== […]
Cardiologist and Mechanic
A motor mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a BMW M3 when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his car when the mechanic shouted across the garage, “Hey Doc, want to take a […]
Pray for the World 16 April 2012
SAUDI ARABIAN ISLAMIC LEADER SAYS ALL CHURCHES IN ISLAMIC NATIONS SHOULD BE DESTROYED ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ANNOUNCES HE IS STEPPING DOWN AT THE END OF THE YEAR ~~ SAUDI ARABIAN ISLAMIC LEADER SAYS ALL CHURCHES IN ISLAMIC NATIONS SHOULD BE DESTROYED Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, the highest official of […]
Heaven: Here-and-now or There-and-then or Both-and?
Sightings 4/12/2012 The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth — Karl W. Lampley In his Time magazine article, ¢â‚¬Å“Heaven Can ¢â‚¬â„¢t Wait, ¢â‚¬ dated April 16, 2012, Jon Meacham contrasts two seemingly competing visions of heaven in contemporary Christianity. One prominent view envisions heaven as the ethereal place one goes when one dies. Images of winged angels, celestial […]
Christ Among the Dragons
Christ Among the Dragons, James Emery White (2010). When medieval mapmakers came to the end of the world as they knew it, they would write on the edges of their maps, ¢â‚¬ËœHere Be Dragons ¢â‚¬â„¢. Without a way to navigate, these areas were, at best, promising yet unexplored, and at worst, perilous. What is the new […]
Creation… and the Moon
Here’s an extract from Neil Armstrong’s biography First Man. I think that recent discoveries [thanks to the Hubble telescope, etc] have stretched the meaning of a ‘day’. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. Genesis 1:2 And the Earth was without form and void. And darkness was on the face […]
Ministry Risk Factors
Ministry Risk Factors ¢â‚¬” How Do You Stack Up? by Tony Stoltzfus Aug 12th, 2009 | By Tony Stoltzfus | Category: Coaching Tools, Transformational Coaching The 18 risk factors for pastors shown below are given with statistics that show where pastors are at today. You may be surprised or even shocked at some of the […]
The Bible and Homosexuality – one more time…
John ShoreAuthor, ‘UNFAIR: Why the “Christian” View of Gays Doesn’t Work’ The Best Case for the Bible Not Condemning Homosexuality Posted: 04/ 3/2012 God does not ask us to choose between compassion and faith in the Bible. Christians are increasingly divided over the issue of the acceptance and inclusion of gay persons into the church. […]
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