Rowland Croucher
A Special Mother
A young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following him around. If he stopped, she stopped. And she kept staring at him. She called him over to her checkout, and said to him, ‘I hope I haven’t made you feel ill at ease; it’s just that you look so much like […]
Review: Apostles of Fear (A Church Cult Exposed) by Morag Zwartz (2008)
Christians, says the famous cop-out, ‘are not perfect, just forgiven’. But some imperfect Christians have a higher profile, and their evil is more sinister, than others’. Of course such imperfections/evil are not confined to one branch of Christ’s Church. Catholic bishops moving predatory priests from one parish to another; the Exclusive Brethren’s nasty habit of […]
Nagorno-Karabakh; Serbia; 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 ================================================= 4 December 2008 NAGORNO-KARABAKH: “THE LAW IS LIKE RUBBER” http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1225 President Bako Sahakyan of the internationally unrecognised entity of Nagorno-Karabakh is considering […]
So Is ‘Big Government’ all bad?
Tenets of the Catechism Harry T. Cook 12/05/08 Thanks to my daughter who keeps track of such things on her MacBook, I saw over the holiday weekend a reprise of the Sarah Palin-turkey farm interview. Not only were viewers treated to the bloodletting of seasonal fowl bound for Alaskan Thanksgiving dinner tables, but to more […]
Quotes about ultimate matters
Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to find a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to discover the mystery of forgiveness, we will soon be disappointed. ~ Jean Vanier, Community and Growth When we […]
A Summary of Rural Issues Raised by the Drought
From the Barham Baptist church Basic Premises: * The small family farm remains the best future for the sustainability of rural life * Australia needs to maintain a viable agricultural industry * Rural Australia needs healthy and functional small rural communities to support the agricultural industry and maintain our rural areas * Government action needs […]
Prayer Network Newsletter
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER December 8, 2008. * WEST SEEKS SAUDI FUNDING TO HELP ECONOMIC BAILOUT AS ISLAM PUSHES SHARIA LAW IN RETURN * KYRGYZSTAN PASSES RESTRICTIVE RELIGION LAW * WHO WAS BEHIND THE MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACK? * UNITED NATIONS BANS DEFAMATION OF RELIGION AS ISLAM TRIES TO CURB FREE SPEECH * VIETNAM: AUTHORITIES PRESSURE […]
Did Groucho Marx think these up by himself?
“I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” — Groucho Marx “I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.” — Groucho Marx “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.” — […]
Mystery
“[Mystery] must be entered into… For we do not solve mysteries; we enter into them. The deeper we enter into them, the more illumination we get…. a problem is solved, it is over and done with. We go on to other problems… But a mystery, once recognized, is something we are never finished with. It […]
Consumers at heart? From Consuming to Contributing
Posted on December 3, 2008 by wwwestlake I found my longevity in ministry, when I faced my consumerism, and its co-dependent-forming effect on churches, and shifted my orientation to contributing, to blessing & benefiting our neighbors and beyond. It’s the air we breathe – Western cultures are now so consumeristic, that by default churchgoers approach […]
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