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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

One-liners and other humo[u]r :-)

One-Liners : Punctual people have nothing better to do. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. Due to budget constraints and energy conservation, the light at the end of the When a girl says “No” she really means “Yes”, but […]

ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [2]

Previous article…  http://jmm.org.au/articles/23664.htm ISLAM: Is there a  ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically?  Some notes from my recent reading: People Like Us  ¢â‚¬“ How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Waleed Aly, 2007). Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and […]

ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [1]

ISLAM: Is there a  ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically? Some notes from my recent reading: People Like Us  ¢â‚¬“ How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Waleed Aly, 2007). Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom […]

Auto Air-Conditioning

The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, & Max, invented & developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office & sweet talked his secretary into telling him that four gentleman were there with the most exiting innovation […]

Nobel Prize Winners: Muslims and Jews

(Note: I am a Christian, and don ¢â‚¬â„¢t like the flavour of this article, which has floated around the Internet for a number of years  ¢â‚¬“ and needs updating. I would, for example, dispute the idea that Jews don’t force the world’s media to see their side of the story: they do it better than anyone. […]

Mothers’ Day Resources and Thoughts for 2010

Arise,then,women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears! say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn […]

DEEP QUESTIONS

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? 3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something […]

The Problem of Suffering: 8 considerations

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest. Psalm 22:1. My inward parts are in turmoil, and are never still; days […]

Review of Wafa Sultan’s “A God who Hates”

Wafa Sultan describes herself as an atheist. Her autobiographical “A God who Hates” is a witness statement concerning Islam’s God, of whom she writes “I did see the influence he wielded, and in order to dispel his influence, I have to deal with him as if he exists” (p.46). At the heart of Sultan’s courageous […]

Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter Reflection

Sunday, April 4, 2010 Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter Sermon & Easter Reflections Here are some excerpts from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter Sermon: With a bit of a sigh, we read about yet another legal wrangle over the right to wear a cross in public while engaged in professional duties; one more small but significant […]