Rowland Croucher
Why Social Cohesion Needs Religion
Archbishop of Canterbury – why social cohesion needs religion Posted On : December 6, 2007 4:38 PM The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has given a wide-ranging lecture today in Singapore, at the Building Bridges Conference. In his lecture Dr Williams discusses the position of the “absolute truths” of faith over and above political […]
Turkish Nationalism Threatens Christians
This posting aims to give some degree of understanding the phenomenon of Turkish nationalism, its relationship to the persecution of Christians and the immense difficulties facing those hoping to secure justice and security for Christians through the Malatya murder trial. Turkey has only around 100,000 Christians left, making up less than one percent of the […]
Red Wagon
It was the day after Christmas at a church in San Francisco. The pastor of the church was looking over the cr ¨che when he noticed that the baby Jesus was missing from among the figures. He hurried outside and saw a little boy with a red wagon, and in the wagon was the figure of […]
The Truth
Bloke to new mate: G’day, wotterya vices, we all ‘ave ’em? Do ya smoke? No. Drink? No. Go out with wild women? No. Well, wotterya do? I tell lies.
50 Million Bibles printed in China
50 Million Bibles printed in China and Jesus film DVD released in 8 languages Posted On : December 5, 2007 4:23 PM On September 11, 2007, the 50 millionth Bible rolled off the Press at Amity Printing Company in Nanjing. While the world remembered the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we remembered God’s Goodness […]
Blasphemy and Islam
December 03, 2007, 6:00 a.m. *Not Child’s Play* The teddy-bear intifada. An NRO Symposium *EDITOR’S NOTE: *There is rioting in Sudanese streets calling for the death of a woman over a teddy bear named Mohammed. What can we in the West possibly do with this — nationally, individually? How do we help? What must we […]
Mormons and Evangelicals
Thought you might be interested in Dan Gilgoff’s just-posted Beliefnet story about evangelicals calling for Mitt Romney to stop blurring the lines between Mormonism and traditional Christianity in tomorrow’s “Faith in America” speech: http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2007/12/has-romney-blurred-lines-on- mo.html. “In the few times he’s addressed the [religion] issue, he talks about the importance of religious values and dips into […]
Mending The Heart (john Claypool)
MENDING THE HEART My favorite preaching-writer John Claypool has written a brilliant little book Mending the Heart (Cowley Publications 1999) Here’s his wisdom about how to deal with your woundedness: Preface: First, we must accept the fact that our parents often neglect or mistreat their children in an effort to have their own needs met. […]
Nine Proposals for Church Renewal
There is a book called ‘Going to the Root: Nine Proposals for church renewal ’ by Christian Smith, who seems to be a house-church Anabaptist type. One reviewer on Amazon comments: “In all his proposals, most readers will feel quite convicted by their dependence upon being a spoonfed benchwarming puppet on Sunday, their wasted resources […]
Preaching for profit!
By Alan Matheson – posted Wednesday, 5 December 2007 The scramble for cash and possessions has finally caught up with some of America’s leading televangelists. Six of the best – Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn, are now under investigation. All are well known in Australia. They head […]
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