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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Books You Should Read

A Remedy for What Ails Us Harry T. Cook 10/17/08 Reading a collection of the late Norman Mailer’s voluminous correspondence in a recent issue of The New Yorker, I came upon a line in which he fretted that “in 50 years . . . there may not be anyone alive who’s read all of [Proust’s] […]

Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Maldives

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 ================================================= 17 October 2008 AZERBAIJAN: STATE STILL DEPRIVES MUSLIMS OF MOSQUE AND BAPTISTS OF PASTOR http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1205 Azerbaijan continues to maintain the closure of […]

A Must Read for all whether you have kids or not…

After tossing her books on the lounge, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message: ByAngel213: Hi.. I’m glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. […]

A Man Named Ralph

There’s a man named Ralph that goes into a bar, looking very depressed. A friend approaches him and asks, “Why the long face, Ralph?” “Oh, I’m just bored. I know every person in the entire world now, and there’s just nothing left to challenge me.” His friend says, “No, you can’t know everyone. Do you […]

History belongs to the dreamers

Voices for Justice 2008 – ‘History belongs to the dreamers’ Last weekend my wife and I joined 230 other people in Canberra for the Micah Challenge annual Voices for Justice conference. This was not just a conference but a demonstration of faith in action. Voices for Justice has 2 main aims; firstly to seek more […]

Bridal Gifts

Mario, age 92, and Lina, age 89, are excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way they pass a Chemist. Mario suggests they go in. Mario addresses the man behind the counter: ‘Are you the owner?’ The pharmacist answers ‘Yes’. Mario: ‘We’re about […]

Corny!

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A […]

Psychological Question

Borrowed from a Usenet newsgroup… Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy […]

Kindergarten

…Police reinforcements were called to a child minding centre because one of the children was resisting a rest.

Caesar Salad

Harry T. Cook 10/19/08 Matthew 22: 15-22 Has each of us at one time or another not wandered into the middle of an argument between feuding parties and wondered what under the sun was at issue? That’s exactly our situation today as Matthew drops us into the middle of a colloquy in which he depicts […]