Rowland Croucher
Fundamentals of Environmental Stewardship
*Sightings* 10/01/07 –Martin E. Marty “Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and in the bias which that revelation gives to life.” George Santayana follows up that sentence with lines that bear on global awareness of the environmental tumult. Then: “The vistas it opens […]
Atonement
Jesus Christ as our way to God Our thoughts on United Methodist Believing continue with these thoughts about Jesus Christ as our way to God. The way Scripture tells the story (and nothing we know about Jesus would we know without Scripture – here is a story so wonderfully strange we could have never thought […]
Marriage, Bill of Rights, Pornography
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * MARRIAGE MANIFESTO RELEASED AT CANBERRA SUMMIT * BOTH MAJOR PARTIES SAY THEY OPPOSE AN AUSTRALIAN BILL OF RIGHTS * ABORIGINAL WOMEN SEE SBS AS PURVEYOR OF PORN ———————————————– MARRIAGE MANIFESTO RELEASED AT CANBERRA SUMMIT A significant new document was launched recently at the ‘National Strategic Summit on Marriage, Family and […]
Southern Sudan: On The Path To War
On 31 December 2004, Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party ((NCP) formerly the National Islamic Front (NIF)) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), bringing to an end 21 years of civil war and Islamic jihad. FORMULATING THE CPA The process of formulating the Comprehensive Peace Agreement had been fraught […]
Marriage (and fishing)
(1) They say the ideal marriage is that between a deaf husband and a dumb wife (Which does seem like overkill) (2) A man was sitting on a river bank fishing when a loony popped his head over the high wall of the asylum just behind him – Loony: “What are you doing?” Man: “I’m […]
Deep Thoughts By Men While Fishing
Two men are out fishing at their favourite fishing spot, just fishing quietly and drinking beer. Almost silently, so as not to scare the fish, Bob says, “I think I’m going to divorce my wife. She hasn’t spoken to me in over 2 months.” Earl continues slowly sipping his beer, then thoughtfully says, “You better […]
What Will Convince Us? (Luke 16)
(Another challenging liberal sermon!) Sept. 30, 2007 What Will Convince Us? By Harry T. Cook Luke 16: 19-31 The heat is on. You can feel it already from the rich man’s side of the great abyss. If According to Luke were to be adapted as the libretto for a Wagner opera, this passage would be […]
International News
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER September 29 2007 * MYANMAR – A BACKGROUND BRIEFING * PAPUAN GENOCIDE TARGETS THE CHURCH * WINS FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE INDICATE A POSSIBLE TURNING OF THE TIDE * SPREADING GOD’S WORD TO CHINA’S FOOTBALL FANS * TEXAS TERRORISM TRIAL REVEALS ISLAMIC PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA * U.S CITIES PRAY AND FAST […]
Motherhood
A woman, renewing her driver’s license at the Motor Registration office, was asked by the counter clerk to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. “What I mean is,” explained the counter clerk, “do you have a job or are you just a …?” “Of course I have a job,” snapped the […]
Incarnation
United Methodists Worship the Incarnate Christ John Wesley often spoke of preaching as “offering Christ.” For Wesley, preaching was more than a string of interesting ideas, even interesting ideas about Christ; it was experience of and engagement with Christ as a living, relational being. With other Christians we join in basing all that we say […]
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