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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Amazing Grace: Just the Black Notes!

(Very powerful!) – Amazing Grace: Just the Black Notes!

American Intelligence :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=fJuNgBkloFE Now, you Americans out there, let’s have something similar which ‘sends up’ Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians, Germans…. (be careful if you’re tempted to choose any otherr country 🙂

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE 12 DISCIPLES :-)

Name: ________________first _____________nickname bar ______________(father’s name) Address: __________hut, shack, tent ____________village ____________ province _________empire Occupation: __bass fishing __catfish fishing __tilapia fishing __walleye fishing __tax-collecting __banditry __carpentry (houses, furniture) __carpentry (crosses) __farming _____other Class: __desperately poor __dirt poor __poor __poor but proud Ethnicity: __Jew __Gentile Family Status – check or fill all that apply: __married, one […]

A Prayer for Today

Eternal God, your touch makes this world holy, Open our eyes to see your hand at work in the splendor of creation, and in the beauty of human life. Help us to cherish the gifts that surround us, to share your blessings with our sisters and brothers, and to experience the joy of life in […]

Interactive Preaching

Interactive Preaching 03/03/2008 – 03:37. By Stuart Murray Williams Klaus Runia, in his book The Sermon under Attack, quotes a rather unkind definition of preaching as  Â¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“a monstrous monologue by a moron to mutes Â¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢. In this book, which is actually a defence of preaching and a plea for more effective communication, Professor Runia explores some […]

Giving Back Stolen Lands

From a Facebook friend: Before pressing Israel to “give back” the West Bank, how about the following “give backs”? China gives back Tibet, the Uigher province and part of Mongolia — all taken by force. Russia returns Siberia to the Mongolians. Uzbekistan gives back the Samarkand area, stolen from Tajikstan and still with a majority […]

The New Atheism

. Apologia Report: Surveying New Resources in Christian Apologetics – a weekly e-mail briefing in worldview news and study designed to help bring understanding to an age-old arena of conflict Volume 15: Number 29 (1,034) August 4, 2010 In this issue: Theme for Philosophy Now magazine’s Apr/May 2010 issue: “Is God *really* Dead?” Victor Stenger […]

Pray for the World (August 9, 2010)

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * SYRIA BANS FULL ISLAMIC FACE VEIL AT UNIVERSITIES * INDONESIAN MILITARY SWEEPS PAPUA AGAIN * EMERGENCY PRAYER ALERT FOR PAKISTAN * EGG MYSTERY CRACKED – THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST * MAN RAISED FROM THE DEAD AS DOCTOR HEARS GOD SAY PRAY FOR HIM * MOST TEENAGERS IN AMERICA ARE VIRGINS […]

Benediction

Lord, as we part and go our different ways, it is our prayer that you will give us, each in our own way, the passion for living and loving, the courage for daring and hoping, the freedom for growing and changing, the capacity for giving and receiving, the humility for learning, the tenderness for understanding, […]

MYSTERY: Here’s one approach

(From a facebook friend): “When God ceases to exist or present any shred of rational basis to satisfy my leap of faith, and I have come to this place, this is where silence is the most dreadful yet wonderful gift. Falling into God is falling into nothing, quite literally, and that nothing is proving to […]