Rowland Croucher
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER MAY 2009 * PAKISTAN FACES REFUGEE CRISIS * CHRISTIANS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE OF SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR * DEFECTORS TO FAITH A GROWING TREND * IRANIAN CHURCH NEEDS SUPPORT * AMERICANS RALLY IN SUPPORT OF THEIR DOCTORS RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE * BBC APPOINTS MUSLIM AS HEAD OF RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMING PAKISTAN […]
Making Life Decisions (Journey in Discernment)
Making Life Decisions (Journey in Discernment) by Geoff Pound (2009). Good books about discernment – or ‘guidance’ as our forefathers preferred to call it – are not common. Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak has a beautiful illustration of the Quaker model of group discernment, and Marva Dawn’s Joy in Divine Wisdom is a collection […]
Seminarians
Sightings 5/18/09 — Martin E. Marty Having had enough of headlines and cable television about distracting commencement events, I am planning to do a small, quiet commencement one the day before you read this. It’s at a favorite school of our tribe, Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, a school and a state (I lived in […]
Eugene Peterson
From a pastor-friend: I have so loved reading Eugene Peterson over the years. This week I’ve picked up /The Jesus Way/ for nighttime reading and for some inspiration for preaching. Last month I read a chapter on Sabbatical from one of his books that inspired me to plan some good value-adding LSL next year. Peterson […]
Marriage counselling
A pastor asked about counselling couples for/after marriage: I replied: My favourite place for counselling couples – before or after marriage – is a smorgasbord restaurant (‘FoodStar’ at Burwood Highway Knox – cheap and good). I listen to both, then may talk to one of the couple while the other gets some food (‘take your […]
Muslims, Jews and Christians
Patrick Sookhdeo Interviewed in the Australian Presbyterian magazine May 2009 Below is an extract of an interview with Barnabas Fund International Director Patrick Sookhdeo published in the April edition of the Australian Presbyterian magazine. Patrick, Islam is one of the most powerful religions in the world today. How does Islam shape the belief of its […]
Major treatise on religious liberty published online in the USA
By staff writers 12 May 2009 The First Amendment Center in the USA has placed online the once unavailable five-volume treatise of the late Rev Dean M. Kelley, the internationally known National Council of Churches USA executive for religious liberty. The Law of Church and State in America has been described as “a 20-year research […]
Questions from God to a theologian
(Clever and irreverent; but some of you might enjoy it): The questions are: Where did I come from? Why am I here? How do I decide what is right and wrong? An excerpt from “why am I here?” I could create more universes and more laws, but what’s the point? I’ve already done universes. Creation […]
Pharisees and Saints [2]
Pharisees are proud of their discipline over ‘sins of the flesh’, and evangelical orthodoxy, and religious rituals. But these static habits are not the essence of Christianity – which is progress/growth in faith, hope and love. And which is why sexual sinners could be entering the kingdom ahead of them (Pharisees can’t cope with that […]
Holiness and Spiritual Growth
A friend asked me to explain briefly (on Facebook) how holiness and the Kingdom of God are related: 1. Jesus and his followers teach us that the Spiritual Life is a matter of growth, renewal, maturity etc. The aim: to become more like Jesus. 2. Jesus’ Church – of all types – have honoured saints, […]
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