Rowland Croucher
Ministry Leadership (Bill Hybels)
Leader’s Insight: Yes, Ministry Leadership Is Complex When business people offer free advice, we should say, “It’s not that easy.” by Bill Hybels, Leadership guest columnist My friend runs a company with about 3,000 employees. He says he wants to relax after retirement and lead a church. He said, “It doesn’t have to be a […]
International News
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * IRAQ CHRISTIANS CALL ON THE WORLD TO JOIN THEM IN PRAYER * NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS LIVE IN DREAD AS LOCAL TALIBAN RISES IN THE NORTH * SUDAN: WAR AGAIN LOOMS DESPITE THE SIGNING OF PEACE AGREEMENTS * INDONESIA: CHRISTIAN LEADERS JAILED FOR PRAYING * STEM CELL DISCOVERY HAILED AS MILESTONE * […]
Anthony Venn-Brown’s ‘A Life of Unlearning’
Review: Anthony Venn-Brown’s ‘A Life of Unlearning: a Journey to Find the Truth’, 2nd edition, New Holland Publishers, 2007. The Church has wrestled with a dozen major paradigm-shifts in its history. The first had to do with accepting Gentiles. The Protestant Reformation was built on the radical proposition that we are saved by faith purely […]
The Commercialization of Christmas: What Would Jesus Buy?
By Emily Wilson, AlterNet November 23, 2007 Bill Talen, known as Reverend Billy, doesn’t mind making a fool of himself. He is happy to throw himself on the floor in a fit of religious ecstasy, perform cash register exorcisms or go caroling with the 35 members of the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, singing […]
When I Whine
~~~~~~~ Today, upon a bus, I saw a girl with golden hair I looked at her and sighed and wished I was as fair. When suddenly she rose to leave, I saw her hobble down the aisle. She had one leg and used a crutch But as she passed, she passed a smile. Oh, God, […]
Women and Men
Women spend three years of their lives on preening before a night out! ANI Monday 26th November, 2007 London, Nov 26 : Men are bound to moan and groan even louder when they learn that their women spend nearly three years on last minute preening before leaving the house. The survey was commissioned for Nephria […]
The Golden Compass
The Chronicles of Atheism When The Golden Compass hits theaters this month, many will be introduced to the works of Philip Pullman, a writer who detests C.S. Lewis’s fantasy world. Peter T. Chattaway | posted 11/27/2007 09:14AM The story begins with a girl hiding in a wardrobe. It continues with a series of adventures in […]
Russia; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan; Turkey
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 ================================================= 29 November 2007 RUSSIA: WILL MOSCOW MAYOR HELP MOLOKANS? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1054 In what Russia’s Ombudsman for Human Rights has called “a scandalous case,” […]
The Curse of Bibliolatry
The Curse of Bibliolatry. December 3, 2007 The Curse of Bibliolatry (A liberal Christian view) Dec. 2, 2007 By Harry T. Cook It is common wisdom that the Gutenberg revolution coupled with the translation of the Bible into the vernacular was a monumentally great thing for the human race, or at least the part of […]
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Dec. 2, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Isaiah 2: 1-5 So today is the beginning of Advent. For the church, it is the new year about 30 days earlier than most of the rest of the world will celebrate it. For us, Advent is supposed to be a time of taking stock, of seeing where […]
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