Rowland Croucher
Pray for the World 11th April 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * PAKISTAN’S CHRISTIANS FEAR FOR THEIR FUTURE * EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS PROTEST FOR SECULAR STATE * EGYPTIANS PROTEST AS CHURCH TORCHED AND COPTIC HOMES ATTACKED * HOW REJECTING REVENGE AND TURNING TO FORGIVENESS SAVED A NATION * ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIANS FACE PERSECUTION * PRAYER FOR JAPAN AS IT SEEKS TO RECOVER FROM THE […]
Contradictions
God bless our contradictions, those parts of us which seem out of character. Let us be boldly and gladly out of character. Let us be creatures of paradox and variety: creatures of contrast; of light and shade: creatures of faith. God be our constant. Let us step out of character into the unknown, to struggle […]
The World’s Wealth – over 200 years
This is a quite remarkable distilling of 200 years of global economic life into a four minute summary – enjoy!! http://www.flixxy.com/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes.htm
QUOTES to give us pause…
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” — e e cummings “We don’t quit laughing because we grow old. We grow old because […]
THE DONKEY
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his […]
The Challenge of Easter (Bishop N T Wright, 2009)
Tom Wright is recognized generally as the English-speaking world’s leading ‘Evangelical’ New Testament scholar/theologian. (Though he mostly prefers to describe himself as an historian). Not all ‘Evangelicals’ like his ideas. Alister McGrath, perhaps the most prolific published author in this genre, reckons that Wright, his fellow Anglican churchman and former Oxford colleague, has ‘lobbed a […]
Sacred and Profane Power (Sam Keen)
¢â‚¬Å“We are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night ¢â‚¬ Matthew Arnold Once again, the Empire is threatened. This time not by a man riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, but by holy warriors who use their own deaths as weapons of mass destruction […]
Tobacco industry has much to fear
David Hill April 8, 2011 Plain packaging will slash smoking rates – and cigarette-makers know it. In 1967, as a fresh-faced researcher looking to make an impression in my first real job, I conducted an experiment to assess the frequency of cigarette advertising on television. I was astonished when the study revealed Melburnians were shown […]
Jesus’ Self-Understanding
(Originally published in The Incarnation, ed. S. T. Davis, D. Kendall, G. O ¢â‚¬â„¢Collins 2002, Oxford: OUP, 47 ¢â‚¬“61. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT I INTRODUCTION (A): TODAY ¢â‚¬â„¢S SITZ IM LEBEN As I prepared to write this short chapter on Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ self-understanding, three things happened to sharpen up in my mind both […]
Joy and sorrow… a heart-warming story…
Consumed by my loss, I didn’t notice the hardness of the pew where I sat. I was at the funeral of my dearest friend – my mother. She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times. Always supportive, Mother clapped loudest at […]
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