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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Pray for the World October 11, 2010

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * NEGATIVE IMPACT OF ABORTION ON WOMEN RESULTS FROM HARD WIRING OF THEIR BRAINS * POWER TRANSFER BEING PREPARED IN NORTH KOREA * SCIENTISTS ADMIT PARTING OF THE RED SEA POSSIBLE * WORLD’S POOR NEED SAME LEVEL OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AS THE BANKS * U.S.A. IGNORING CREEPING THREAT FROM SHARIA LAW […]

‘Evangelical Right’: what about divorce?

Divorce  ¢â‚¬” The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience Evangelical Christians are gravely concerned about the family, and this is good and necessary. But our credibility on the issue of marriage is significantly discounted by our acceptance of divorce. To our shame, the culture war is not the only place that an honest confrontation with the […]

EVANGELICALS AND SCIENCE

iMonk Classic: Niki Made Her Choice and, Apparently, So Did We October 9, 2010 by Chaplain Mike Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer Originally posted Oct 4, 2009 A year ago, this Michael Spencer piece really got people talking. FIRST: Read  ¢â‚¬Å“Evangelicals and Science ¢â‚¬  at Tim Stafford ¢â‚¬â„¢s blog. SECOND: Niki is fictionalized, but not much. […]

SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY (a little exercise in philosophy)

Class: Who’s right? For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.  ¢â‚¬” H. L. Mencken For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong.”  ¢â‚¬” Albert Einstein Versus Thomas Aquinas: If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to […]

GREATEST HYMN EVER WRITTEN?

GREATEST HYMN EVER WRITTEN? ie. which produces awe/goosebumps/real adoration for you? Mine: Hebrew – Isaiah 40, Psalm 23 Greek – Philippians 2:4-11 English – When I Survey, Jesus Joy of Loving Hearts Modern (last 50 years)? Pause… have to think about that… Be Exalted O God ? Yours? (I posted this on to Facebook, 11/10/2010: […]

The Vatican – a ‘rogue state’ (Geoffrey Robertson)

Call to treat Vatican as a rogue state September 9, 2010 Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says the church must abandon canon law, writes Paola Totaro. THE Vatican should be treated as a kind of ”rogue state” by the rest of the world until it stops using statehood – and the ancient rules of the canon law […]

Facebook’s scary secret

Facebook’s scary secret Stephen Hutcheon October 8, 2010 What has been overlooked is the hoovering up of the digital fingerprints we leave in our online meanderings. Mark Zuckerberg preaches ‘radical transparency’, but what is he hiding? In the movie The Social Network, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is cast as a conniving, sociopathic ”asshole” who shafts his […]

A Great Communion Hymn

And now, O Father, mindful of the love And now, O Father, mindful of the love that bought us, once for all, on Calvary’s Tree, and having with us him that pleads above, we here present, we spread forth to thee that only Offering perfect in thine eyes, the one, true, pure, immortal Sacrifice. Look, […]

War Crimes (and issues with Euthanasia)

Surgeon at arms Karen Kissane October 9, 2010 Braving the worst of conflicts, internal and external, this doctor risks his life to remedy injustice. THE soldiers could hear a woman crying out in a house at the other side of the village. Two of them peeled off to investigate. Unluckily for them, Serb paramilitaries had […]

Halloween

Preparing for Halloween Well, it ¢â‚¬â„¢s that time of year again: the time when you can ¢â‚¬â„¢t drive down the street without seeing inflatable witches and ghosts everywhere. Over the years there has been a lot of controversy over Halloween. Should Christians celebrate this holiday or not? For many, the answer is yes. Halloween is just a […]