Rowland Croucher
Bringing Up Pastors’ Kids
(Notes handed out at a Baptist Pastoral Leaders’/Spouses’ conference in Melbourne, Victoria, June 1, 2009). BRINGING UP PASTORS’ KIDS (by a sometimes inadequate pastor/father): Here’s a short summary of a few bits of wisdom I’ve learned from my own sometimes painful experience, and also heard in many John Mark Ministries’ retreats with pastors and their […]
Famous Prayer of St. Augustine
‘Good, all-powerful God, who cares for every one of us, as if you care for us alone; and who cares for us all, as if all were but one! O God, our parent, supremely good, beauty of all beauty, to you we entrust whatever we have received from you, and so shall we lose nothing. […]
Dancing with a New Pastor
A talk by Darren Cronshaw for a church preparing for a new pastor, May 2009 -Beyond employment arrangements … a dance rather than a contract Thanks & intro. One of the privileges of my role is seeing what God is doing around the state. Good on you. Privilege come & share with you today, especially […]
Baptist Church Membership
Baptist Church MembershipMay 11, 2009 The genius of a Baptist approach to ecclesiology is that context and experience are permitted a legitimate role in shaping our theology and practice of church. The danger of such an approach is that by focussing on context and experience we lose the capacity to understand them theologically. When that […]
Church attendance
In the basement of Shenandoah University’s Goodson Chapel one chilly November Sunday morning, John Copenhaver, a tall, white-haired professor of philosophy and religion, folded at the waist to demonstrate how to bow like a monk. The eight students clustered around him watched closely. One, taking stock of the incredulous faces around him, volunteered the group’s […]
If I Had My Life To Live Over
by Erma Bombeck The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out she had a fatal disease. If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. […]
A Thought for Preachers (and others)
I’ve just posted this as a Facebook thought (it was brought to memory by a quote in Geoff Pound’s Discernment devotions, Making Life Decisions). In my opinion, John Claypool is/was (he died a year or two ago) the best preaching writer or writing preacher in the English language in the 20th century. (His verbal delivery […]
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * FEMINISM BLAMED FOR EROSION OF MANHOOD * SOLOMON ISLANDS FACING THREAT FROM MILITANT ISLAM * CHURCH LEADERS URGE UNITY AS SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR ENDS * EGYPT USES SWINE FLU TO PERSECUTE COPTS * WHATS IN A NAME – DEPENDS ON HOW LONG IT IS RULES GERMAN COURT * BEAUTY […]
I’m mostly glad I’m tall!
The long and short of it: men can be elevated to power Susan Biggar I KNEW Barack Obama was going to win the US presidential election. Why? Quite simply: he was taller. At 185.4 centimetres, Obama towered 15 centimetres over his opponent, John McCain. And height matters. Reports suggest that in the 19 American presidential […]
Science and Faith
Put bluntly, science doesn’t deny the existence of supernatural entities, nor does science affirm their existence. Since science is limited to things which can be observed by our physical senses, aided by instruments where appropriate, it simply cannot investigate anything outside the natural world. See my current signature file (the “random” choice my login script […]
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