Rowland Croucher
Beautiful advice
This is the most beautiful advice I have ever received in an email …. (Please forgive the formatting)… An Angel says, ‘Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn’t happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.’ 1. Pray […]
The Scourge of Internet addiction
We are a culture obsessed with experiences. We fear missing out. We cannot bear to see our neighbours and friends having a seemingly enjoyable life where everything seems to go as planned, while we struggle along year after long, drawn out year. When we believe that this is our lot in life, it is a […]
And Then the fight started
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’ I said, ‘Dust.’ And then the fight started. ====================================================== = My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in […]
Pray for the World February 2009
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * ATHEIST RECOMMENDS GOD – A POWERFUL TESTIMONY OF THE IMPACT OF LIVES LIVED FOR CHRIST * CHRISTIAN THINKERS IN ENGLAND URGE RETURN TO BASIC BANKING PRACTICE * U.S. SUPREME COURT SHUTS DOOR ON CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION ACT * GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST DOPING IN SPORT SUBJECT TO LEGAL CHALLENGE * UPCOMING […]
Wisdom
Quotes collected by a Facebook friend: “We’re all latecomers to history. When we get here, all this stuff has happened.” — Jaya Savige “How can a conscious spirit be anything other than an absolute desire for God?” — Henri de Lubac “The sacramental life is one that is open to the presence of God, and […]
Iran
In December we asked for prayer for Iranian Christians during the Christmas and New Year period. In three towns, new Christian believers from a Muslim background (BMBs) were summoned to the offices of the secret police where they were forced to sign documents stating that they would not meet together to celebrate Christmas. Elsewhere, the […]
Creationists tell Attenborough to ‘burn in hell’
Sir David Attenborough says he receives hate mail over his belief in evolution. The British broadcaster and naturalist says he is preparing for more letters telling him to burn in hell when his latest television show, a documentary on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, is aired in the UK on Sunday. The popular 82-year-old says […]
Inaugural Jesus
*Sightings* 1/26/09 — Martin E. Marty The apostle Paul claimed that Jesus, in the form of “Christ crucified,” was “a stumbling block [*skandalon=scandal=offence] *to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.” (I Corinthians 1:23) Jews+Gentiles=pretty much everybody. You may ask, “What is Jesus doing in *Sightings,” *given this column’s assignment to deal with religion in public life? […]
A New Professional: The Aims of Education Revisited
Parker J. Palmer From Change November/December 2007 I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty To know what occurs but not recognize the fact. —William Stafford I was born in 1939, so my first few years on earth intersected with the Holocaust. And yet, as I was growing up on the North […]
Our deepest fear… (Nelson Mandela)
“Our deepest fear is not that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There […]
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