Rowland Croucher
Is the universe a friendly place?
I receive daily emails from Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation. [http://cacradicalgrace.org/] Most of the time they’re very good, and occasionally one just hits me with a force that I cannot ignore. This is one of them: “It is all a matter of learning how to be more and more deeply connected. And of […]
Why Willow Creek and Saddleback are Losing Influence
Why Willow Creek and Saddleback are Losing Influence While North Point and LifeChurch.tv are Gaining Influence Willow Creek, Saddleback, North Point, LifeChcurchFor the last couple of decades Willow Creek Community Church outside of Chicago and Saddleback Church in Southern California have been the twin towers of influence in American evangelical circles. Thousands of churches have […]
Where is God?
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives.” – Bono
Prayer Network Newsletter August 3, 2009
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * CHINA’S ETHNIC TINDERBOX * GROWING CHURCH FACES PERSECUTION IN IRAN * CHURCH IN SOMALIA GROWS DESPITE TURMOIL * NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-IL BELIEVED TO HAVE CANCER * CHRISTIAN WOMAN JAILED FOR SMUGGLING IN NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES * CHINA’S ONE CHILD POLICY BEGINS TO WEAKEN CHINA’S ETHNIC TINDERBOX The recent […]
Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus
Book Review – Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus, Ann Spangler & Lois Tverberg, 2009 Imagine if you could take yourself back 2,000 years and immerse yourself in the world of 1st Century Palestine, in a little Jewish backwater where you were hearing reports of a man who was healing people and making the […]
Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 28 July 2009 UZBEKISTAN: “JOY” CHILDREN’S HOLIDAY CAMP ATTACKED http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1332 Uzbekistan’s Baptist Union is facing criminal charges for allegedly unlawfully teaching children […]
Something to think about…
Washington DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his […]
Reason, Faith and Revolution
http://jmm.org.au/articles/22779.htm Reason, Faith and Revolution, August 3, 2009 May 3, 2009 God Talk In the opening sentence of the last chapter of his new book, ¢â‚¬ËœReason, Faith and Revolution, ¢â‚¬â„¢ the British critic Terry Eagleton asks, ¢â‚¬ËœWhy are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God? ¢â‚¬â„¢ His answer, elaborated in prose that is […]
Australia: a good website for resources
http://www.mobal.com/articles/10.html Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/
The Supremacy of Jesus Christ
A Magna Carta for Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century Church by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola Christians have made the gospel about so many things … things other than Christ. Jesus Christ is the gravitational pull that brings everything together and gives them significance, reality, and […]
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