Rowland Croucher
Monkeys
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for £10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at £10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers […]
Mothers
A little boy walked up to the librarian to check out a book entitled “COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR MOTHERS.” When the librarian asked him if it was for his mother, he answered ‘no.’ “Then why are you checking it out?” “Because,” said the little boy confidently, “I just started collecting moths last month!”
Up!
Word Play: One two-letter English word has a ridiculous number of meanings. It’s easy to understand up, meaning higher, but why do we wake up every morning? Why do meeting topics come up? Why do we speak up? Why are officers up for election? Why is it up to the secretary to write up a […]
Telephone Call to God
An American Decided to write a book about famous cathedrals around the world. So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Orlando, thinking that he would start by working his way across the USA from South to North. On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed […]
Spanking: an Online Discussion
Study: Spanking Can Bring Problems Later Fri Feb 29, 8:15 PM EST DURHAM, N.H. — New research by a University of New Hampshire domestic abuse expert says spanking children affects their sex lives as adults. Professor Murray Straus concludes that children who are spanked are more likely as adults to coerce partners to have sex, […]
Baptist Freedom
Dr. Packer together with the other clergy at St. John’s have been served with a Notice of Presumption of Abandonment of the Exercise of the Ministry under Canon XIX (Look up the indexes on our website to find the original article). To this Nathan responded: If all that is a fair representation of the happenings, […]
Pray for the world
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * HOW A BISHOP BROUGHT THE GOSPEL OF PEACE TO THE TROUBLED CONGO * CUBAN CHRISTIANS UNCLEAR ABOUT IMPACT OF CASTRO’S RESIGNATION * INDIAN CHRISTIANS REACH OUT IN MINISTRY TO TRANSVESTITES * MALAYSIAN CHRISTIANS DECRY EROSION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM * HONG KONG CHRISTIANS SEEK TO ADDRESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE * KOSOVO MAY […]
Good News for the Poor
On a mission trip in Honduras a few years ago, we were all sitting with some of the villagers around a fire in the evening. One of the members of our team said, “Let’s all go around and share our favorite Bible verse.” This sort of thing can be tough for us scripturally challenged Methodists! […]
Why God Made Moms
Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions: Why did God make mothers? 1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2. Mostly to clean the house. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? 1. He used dirt, […]
Creation and Evolution
Creationists argue that evolution is “only a theory and cannot be proven.” As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena. Any scientific theory must be based on […]
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