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Parker Palmer: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
(Material found on Amazon.com. This book has been recommended by several perceptive friends. I tend to take notice of such titles when that happens. Rowland). Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review The old Quaker adage, “Let your life speak,” spoke to author Parker J. Palmer when he was in his early 30s. It summoned him to a […]
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER April 2009 * THOUGHT POLICE MUSCLE UP IN BRITAIN * SETBACK FOR HOPED FOR BREAKTHROUGH IN CHINA * EMERGENCY PRAYER ALERT FOR PAKISTAN * AUSTRALIA PRESSES CHINA TO CURB ITS FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR FIJI * ADULT STEM CELLS USED SUCCESSFULLY TO CURE DIABETES AND HEAL BROKEN JAW * MUSLIM EXTREMISM ACCOUNTS […]
Anzac Day
From the Pastor – Anzac Day 2009 As a child I grew up in Queensland (although I am quick to add that I was born in Melbourne.) One of my abiding memories is standing on the usually hot bitumen of the quadrangle at Upper Mt Gravatt Primary School on Anzac Day. The 400 plus students […]
A Recipe for Dreaming
Bryce Courtenay and illustrations by Anie Williams, A Recipe for Dreaming (Camberwell: Penguin, 2007) Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw “Imagination is more important than knowledge” Einstein announced. Imagination also often comes to us in different ways than knowledge. We might be able to acquire lots of knowledge through reading hundreds of pages, listening to lots of […]
Belonging
From a friend: A good book – The Search to Belong. Rethinking intimacy, community, and small groups Joseph Myers Zondervan. Myers argues that people stay in churches because they feel they belong, but he sets out 4 levels of belonging.
Church Growth
COMMON QUESTION IN OUR JOHN MARK MINISTRIES SEMINARS: Why do some churches grow? Simplest answer: more people who come once come back again! A pet food manufacturer’s business was going bad, so he sacked all his staff. The new staff didn’t do any better, so he sacked them too. In a conference with the third […]
Orthodoxy and Liberalism
From a netfriend: prompted by the article on Liberalism and Frances Macnab (look up the relevant articles under keywords McNab or Macnab and/or liberalism, mainline churches). **** Somewhere in all of this there was a reference made to Schleiermacher. He was one of the first names that came to mind while researching McNab. I completely […]
Some Good Quotes
“Philosophers have sought to interpret the world, the point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx When I get a little money, I buy books. If I have any left, I buy food and clothes. –Erasmus When I feed the poor, I’m called a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, […]
Death before you die
“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and call you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.. You refuse to do it because you want to […]
The Dream (of a Healthy Church)
The Dream (From a Facebook friend) I want to be part of a community that I love and that loves me. A place where we get past the polite niceness, beyond the pretence and the masks, and get really irritated with each other. And then stick at it, and stick together. I want to be […]
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