Rowland Croucher
Gun Massacres in the U.S…
(ABP) — We have another gun massacre by another deranged young American man, this one targeting a U.S. congresswoman for assassination and wounding or killing 20 people, including, heartbreakingly, an innocent 9-year-old child. And so Tucson joins Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, the Pennsylvania Amish schoolchildren, the Long Island Railroad killings, the Wisconsin church shooting […]
Grace (C S Lewis)
¢â‚¬Å½’Christianity’s uniqueness?’ ‘That’s easy: grace.’ ‘To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you’ C S Lewis **** From Philip Yancey’s ‘What’s So Amazing About Grace?’ 1997 p. 45 and C S Lewis, “On Forgiveness”, ‘The Weight of Glory’, 1975, p. 125 (Both cited in James Emery […]
Pray for the World (January 18, 2011)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * MANY ARE LEAVING THE CHURCH TIRED OF SUPERFICIAL CHRISTIANITY * CHRISTIAN TELEVISION REACHES OUT TO MUSLIMS * UNITED NATIONS VOTES ON DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS RESOLUTION * ISLAMISTS RAID HOUSES AND CHURCHES IN WEST JAVA * THE SIX MEGATHEMES THAT EMERGED IN 2010 * BBC HOLDS BIBLE READING EVENT ———————————————– MANY […]
Pastoral Care: on-the-job training
At Blackburn Baptist Church whenever someone wanted a ‘catch up’ talk rather than in-depth counselling, I would often invite them to come with me to do a hospital/shut-in visit. We would talk as we drove, they’d come in with me to the visit (I’d use my judgment about whether anything highly confidential would come up […]
Show and tell :-)
Three third grade girls were asked to show and tell something about their religious faith. The first girl stood up and said “I’m Jewish, here is my Star of David.” The next girl said “I’m Catholic, here is my rosary.” The last girl said I’m Baptist. Here is my casserole.”
The Gospel in the Global Village
Katharine Jefferts Schori, The Gospel in the Global Village (Canterbury Press, 2009). Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. – the first woman primate in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Before her ordination as a priest, she was a professional oceanographer. In these inspiring sermons and speeches – delivered in […]
OLD GOLFER
A golfer, now into his golden years, had a lifelong ambition to play the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Verde, Fla. , exactly the way the pros do it. The pros drive the ball out over the water onto the small green that is on a small spit of land. It was something […]
HOW THE INTERNET STARTED
A revelation with an Incredibly Big Message (IBM)…. In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called […]
Obama’s Remarks in Tucson and McCain’s Response
Video of this great speech: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2011/01/12/VI2011011207235.html?sid=ST2011011406249 **** Published: January 12, 2011 Following is a text of President Obama ¢â‚¬â„¢s prepared address on Wednesday to honor those killed and wounded in a shooting on Jan. 8, as released by the White House. To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the […]
Slaughter of Christians in Iraq and Egypt: religious not political motivation
The Religious Character of the Massacre at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad Saturday, January 15, 2011 markdurie.com blog The massacre of Christians at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad on October 31 2010 gained extensive world-wide media attention. This Assyrian Catholic church was taken over by jihadis, and during the course of […]
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