Rowland Croucher
Irish Millionaire :-)
Mick, from Dublin ,appeared on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ and towards the end of the program had already won 500,000 pounds. “You’ve done very well so far,” said Chris Tarrant, the show’s presenter, “but for a million pounds you’ve only got one life-line left ¢â‚¬“ phone a friend. Everything is riding on this question….. will you go for it?” “Sure,” said Mick. […]
Anti-Christian Persecution across the World
Facing the Rising Tide: Anti-Christian Persecution across the World. April 10, 2010 On Easter Monday the Archbishop of Canterbury appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week and was asked to comment on the troubles currently being experienced by non-Western Christians. In his reply he said, ‘We lose sight in this country very […]
SURPRISED BY HOPE
SURPRISED BY HOPE: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (N T WRIGHT, 2008). Bishop Tom Wright is currently the English-speaking world ¢â‚¬â„¢s most influential evangelical scholar. He is ¢â‚¬Ëœevangelical ¢â‚¬â„¢ (being quite a literalist in terms of what happened at the resurrection of Jesus for example), but also tantalizes us in terms of […]
The Apostle Paul: “Rejected”
Based on Bill Britton’s classic; modified and expanded by Dean VanDruff. MYSTERY BABYLON DENOMINATION FOREIGN MISSIONS BOARD To: Rev. Saul Paul First Christian Church Antioch, Syria Dear Mr. Paul: I have your application for missionary appointment before me, and will be as frank as possible concerning your qualifications as a foreign missionary. We have to […]
Thorvald Lorenzen: Resurrection, Discipleship, Justice
Thorvald Lorenzen’s Resurrection, Discipleship, Justice: Affirming the Resurrection of Jesus Today (2003) Dr Thorvald Lorenzen is an Australian Baptist pastor-theologian, who was born and spent his childhood in Germany. He did his initial pastoral training (we were contemporaries) at Morling College (then known as the Baptist Theological College of NSW) in the 1960s, and taught […]
Pray for the World – May 2010
May 2010 IRAN – PRAISE AND PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN PRISONERS A number of arrests and releases of Christian prisoners in Iran have caused mixed feelings among the Christian community, according to Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN). Three women (Maryam Jalali, Mitra Zahmati and Farzan Matin) were finally released on 17 March after being held for […]
Little Old Ladies :-)
Hope this touches you the way it touched me! GOODBYE MOM A young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following him around. If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him. She finally overtook him at the checkout, and she turned to him and said, “I hope I haven’t made […]
Old hymns – and new lyrics
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com In our Christian culture, with its emphasis on glitz and noise, it is important to look back at times on some of the great hymns that have come to us down through the ages. Some of the greatest hymns of history were written in the most unlikely of circumstances. Consider […]
Husbands are not good for nothing :-)
Visitor in Kabul, Afghanistan, before the Afghan conflict noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul & observed that women still walk behind their husbands, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime. She asked, ‘Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once […]
Review: Mark Durie, The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom
Mark Durie, The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom (2010) Critiquing Islam, some can be so “truthful” they come across as bigoted (one Christian politician wants “no more Muslim immigrants”); others are so “politically correct” they can be guilty of appeasement. Mark Durie, in this well-researched book, works hard to “speak the truth in love”. […]
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