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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Persecution: Sudan, Laos, China etc.

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 152 | Wed 28 Mar 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal ‘Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ‘ (Psalm 118:5 ESV) WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. MARCH 2012 UPDATE — During March we prayed […]

The Green Thing

  Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The cashier responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation […]

Mission Trends…

From a friend… If you are interested in reading about the recent (last 100 years) historical and contemporary global context and trends in mission, I recommend this journal article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-6631.2011.00066.x/full

Saying Something Nice… very powerful

Remember, you reap what you sow. What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own. One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of […]

What Causes a Business to Become Unethical?

  Mar 26th, 2012 by Ethics Newsline editor Carl Hausman The  ¢â‚¬Å“resignation letter heard round the world ¢â‚¬  continued to echo last week, as many in the business community and elsewhere shook their heads over the scathing piece in the New York Times in which former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith pilloried what he called the […]

Pray for the World March 26, 2012

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER BRITAIN LAUNCHES WAR ON MULTICULTURALISM ETHIOPIANS COME TO CHRIST IN DROVES AFTER WATCHING JESUS FILM HOW GOD CHANGED ONE AMERICAN COMMUNITY THROUGH PRAYER TRIBAL GENERATION MOVEMENT SEEKS TO REACH A NEW GENERATION WITH THE GOSPEL BBC GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO MOCK JESUS RUSSIA MOVES TO CURTAIL HIGH ABORTION RATE BRITAIN LAUNCHES […]

Paying taxes: but if someone refuses…???

Sightings 3/25/2012 The Kingdom of Heaven and the IRS — Martin E. Marty A Gentile (as in Russell P. Gentile) is the most recent, perhaps most earnest, certainly the boldest claimant, on the government and religion news front in the winter just past. While others have protested along the line of  ¢â‚¬Å“separation of church and […]

The CROSS OF CHRIST: Notes for Reflection/Discussion

Wednesday Koinonia 28/3/2012: THE CROSS OF CHRIST  ¢â‚¬   Surnames ( ¢â‚¬ËœCroucher ¢â‚¬â„¢ =  ¢â‚¬Ëœa dweller near the cross ¢â‚¬â„¢)  ¢â‚¬   Reactions to the movie The Passion of Christ? Too/violent? Catholic? Realistic? Anti-semitic?  ¢â‚¬   Who killed Jesus?  ¢â‚¬    ¢â‚¬ËœHow has this bloodied man changed history? ¢â‚¬â„¢  ¢â‚¬   The three great existential questions: Guilt? Love? Death? (1) God so loved, that […]

YOUNG MARGINALIZED DRIFTERS: THE LESSON OF MOHAMED MERAH

Tariq Ramadan ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS UPDATED 26 MAR 2012 THE STORY OF MOHAMED MERAH HOLDS UP A MIRROR TO THE FACE OF FRANCE: HE ENDS UP A JIHADI WITHOUT REAL CONVICTION, AFTER HAVING BEEN A CITIZEN DEPRIVED OF TRUE DIGNITY. Amid the constant media coverage and political crisis management, it is crucial that the […]

Dear Dr. Laura…

In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by Prof. James M. Kauffman of Virginia University. Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing […]