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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Prayer for seniors and community

On August 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

My wife Jan was asked to pray for seniors, and for our local community, at a regional prayer breakfast this morning. Here’s her prayer: Lord, our God, as we come to pray for the seniors in our community my mind goes to a televised church service where a 92 yr old ‘saint’ walked slowly to […]

A Cautionary Tale (Berlin in the mid-1930s)

On August 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By Harry T. Cook 8/19/11 In the Garden of Beasts is the title of Erik Larson’s best-selling book. Larson puts a twist on tiergarten — “garden of animals” or “zoo” — to make his point that Berlin of the mid-1930s was a beastly place. This book — besides being an exquisitely reported and researched piece […]

How Rich Are You?

On August 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sobering: visit – Global Rich List   www.globalrichlist.com

PAUL AS LIBERATOR (Richard Rohr)

On August 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

For Paul, the Christ is not  ¢â‚¬Å“out there. ¢â‚¬  For him, there is no split between himself as the subject and Christ as any kind of object. Jesus is  within, around, and in-between ¢â‚¬”I cannot say that strongly enough. Christ is the Homing Device, the Inner Knower, a reliable Inner Guidance through an Indwelling Presence that he calls […]

Kazakhstan

On August 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report ———————————————————————- Christians May Face More Restrictions in Kazakhstan ———————————————————————- August 18, 2011 The government of the former Soviet nation of Kazakhstan seems to be fostering the fear of Islamist extremism to further restrict civil rights, including religious freedom, WEA-RLC has learnt. It appears that the Kazakh parliament, a rubber stamp […]

The Gist of Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

On August 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Richard Rohr,  Falling Upward, Jossey-Bass, 2011   Falling Upward  is, in my view, his  ¢â‚¬Ëœbest yet ¢â‚¬â„¢  ¢â‚¬“ with more quotable quotes than any of his previous writings.   Here I ¢â‚¬â„¢ll simply list a pot-pourri of his most memorable sayings, in three sections:   The first half of life The second half of life, and The age-old principles […]

Dog’s prayers

On August 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I copied and pasted from an email a bunch of beautiful photos of dogs, with their prayers. I still haven’t figured out how to show the pictures here, but here are the prayers:     .       Dear God..   Dear God: Is it on purpose our names are the same, only reversed? […]

92 YEAR OLD PREACHER

On August 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

While watching a   little TV one Sunday instead of going   to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior   pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I   wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to   preach at that age.   After […]

Fighting Injustice

On August 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Cheryl Catford,  Following Fire: How the Spirit Leads us to Fight Injustice (Springvale: UNOH, 2008) ISBN 9780977507030 Paperback, x, 337 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw Coordinator of Leadership Training, Baptist Union of Victoria Pastor, Auburn Baptist Church I am fascinated by how different people and traditions interpret how God works in our lives and in the […]

When Speaking on Sensitive Topics

On August 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By Mark Durie     Posted:  15 Aug 2011 07:34 PM PDT This blog post is about how to speak reasonably about sensitive topics, and specifically ones which can give rise to charges of vilification. In ideal world, speech would be free, and everyone would use their freedom responsibly.   But human nature being what it is, […]

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