Rowland Croucher
A Veteran Minister’s Regrets (About His Sermons)
Joe McKeever Southern Baptist preacher. Joe ¢â‚¬Ëœofficially ¢â‚¬â„¢ retired in 2009 yet still finds the time to draw a daily cartoon for the Baptist Press The original article can be found here! Joe writes: I ¢â‚¬â„¢m a veteran. A veteran minister. I received the call to preach in April of 1961, which means we have recently passed the half-century […]
Great God your love has called us here (Brian Wren)
A great modern hymn, unfortunately not so well-known: Great God your love has called us here as we, by love, for love were made. Your living likeness still we bear though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed. ~~ We come, with all our heart and mind, your call to hear, your love to find. We come with self-inflicted […]
Humo[u]r (Be sure your sins will find you out…)
While attending a Marriage seminar dealing with communication, Jack and his wife, Barb, listened to the instructor. ¢â‚¬Å“It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other. ¢â‚¬ He addressed the man, ¢â‚¬Å“can you describe your wife ¢â‚¬â„¢s favorite flower? ¢â‚¬ Jack leaned over, touched his wife ¢â‚¬â„¢s arm gently and whispered, ¢â‚¬Å“Its […]
Kitschmas
Where’s Gruen when you need them? Candidates for “the worst nativity set of all time”: http://whyismarko.com/2011/27-worst-nativity-sets-the-annual-growing-list/ And a new take on the Nativity – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW1pbuyGlQ0
Caring and Giving
People don’t care how much you know… They want to know how much you care! Care is shown by sacrifice of time, of help, of selflessness, of love. It means giving a part of your life to someone else! ~~~ Do not rob another person of the joy of giving, by not accepting. When you […]
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE: six articles (and more)
[Corrected, slightly amended, 24/4/2017) “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (H L Mencken) One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. (Victor Hugo) Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler). (Sad, Arthur?). John Maynard Keynes: “When […]
It is Time for the American Christian Church to Surrender the Gay Marriage Fight…
Apologize & Share Love by Ian Ebright Sunday, November 13th, 2011 I need to clarify right out of the gate that this post will not focus on the ¢â‚¬Å“choice vs. birth vs. childhood ¢â‚¬ arguments related to the origin of homosexuality in an individual. We must start from the reality that acknowledges the American Christian church as divided on that issue, and will be […]
Homosexuality & Divorce: why not treat them the same?
Dr. Smedes, a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, was a former ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and the author of a dozen bestselling Christian books including To Forgive and Forget and All Things Made New. LIKE THE WIDENESS OF THE SEA? Lewis B. Smedes I remember the first time that I watched […]
Odds and Ends…
Steve Jobs involved himself in details, which is the opposite of my approach: I have always believed in the art of delegation… It is necessary to give other people the space to thrive, to catch people doing something right, rather than getting things wrong… Don’t lead your company from a distance. Walk the floor, get […]
Walking on Water
Paddy had long heard the stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday. On that special day, they’d each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink. So when […]
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