Rowland Croucher
Marriage Rituals
INTENTIONAL MARRIAGE: YOUR RITUALS WILL SET YOU FREE WILLLIAM DOHERTY University of Minnesota http://www.drbilldoherty.org Banquet Keynote/Annual Smart Marriages Conference Denver, Colorado I had a fascinating conversation with the taxi driver on the way from the airport to this conference. When he mentioned his wife, I asked him how long he had been married. “Forty-seven years […]
Family of Origin Questions
Family of Origin Questions: Recall when you were about 12-14 years of age: ?Describe your mum and dad in 3-5 words ?What did you think about their marriage? ?What roles did your parents play within the marriage? ?How did your parents communicate? ?How was conflict (difference) managed within the family? ?How was discipline managed? ?How […]
Family of Origin
Some Questions: 1.Write three words that would describe your father/mother growing up. 2.Write three words that your mum/dad would use to describe their marriage. 3.In 5, 10, 25 years time how would you like to be describing your marriage? 4.How would your dad describe your mum as wife and how would your mum describe your […]
Fundamentalists and Evangelicals
From a netfriend: According to George Marsden in “Understanding Fundamentalism And Evangelicalism” (Eerdmans:1991) – “A fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something …. fundamentalists are a subtype of evangelical and militancy is crucial in their outlook.” p.1 Evangelicals / fundamentalists are EXACTLY like the Taliban for they share the same obnoxious characteristics: – […]
Is God still at work in the West?
Is it really true that, when people travel to what we call the developing world, such as much of Africa, they see God’s Spirit move in powerful and miraculous ways which we don’t often see in the affluent West? We live in a time which is the most materialistic in the history of humanity. In […]
The Owl and the Ant
The Owl and the Ant (and the cricket) This post was written by Chuck McKay Posted on November 1, 2008 Filed Under Strategy and Tactics One day an ant stopped carrying food into the anthill, and paused to look around. The other ants kept scurrying around him intent in their tasks, but this ant, call […]
Notes on healthy churches
* Eddie Gibbs’ new book Churmorph (pp. 19ff.) lists five megatrends we could look at to understand contemporary cultural shifts – modernity to postmodernity, industrial to information age, Christendom to post-Christendom, production initiatives to consumer awareness (Hillsong, Planetshakers et al do this successfully, in terms of ‘attracting’ numbers), religious identity to spiritual awareness… * Were […]
Wake up!
“Wake up!” she said, “you dreaming fool, don’t throw your life away. Because life’s too short and you’re too smart to want to hurt yourself that way. And what’s this talk about the fellow man? Look, it’s catch as catch can, understand? You muscle and struggle and get what you can or you’ll never get […]
Christians & Homosexuality: Beyond Stereotypes
A few brief notes on BEYOND STEREOTYPES: CHRISTIANS & HOMOSEXUALITY (The Evangelical Alliance Working Group on Human Sexuality), Australian Evangelical Alliance, 2009, 108 pages. My thesis: Evangelicals who believe in ‘the supreme authority of the Scriptures’ have come a long way in terms of freedom for slaves, equality for women, and grace for the divorced, […]
Women’s Toilet Adventures
WOMEN’S TOILET ADVENTURES 🙂 Warning: if your mindset is Victorian, prudish etc. and toilet humor/humour is ‘not your thing’ don’t read this. But women’s toilets were mostly architectured/built by males, and every man should know some of the problems associated therewith… ************* When you have to visit a public toilet, you usually find a line […]
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