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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Ten Movies Every Christian Should See

Lenny Esposito’s 10 films every Christian should see (due to their covert to overt Christian themes): — Ten Movies Every Christian Should See But Probably Hasn’t by Lenny Esposito [source unknown] Many people I’ve spoken with bemoan the state of Hollywood and the poor entertainment choices out there. However there are a good number of […]

What Does the Bible Actually Say About Homosexuality (2) ?

(David wrote an article on the Bible and Homosexuality which always enjoys a high hit-count – see http://jmm.org.au/articles/13935.htm . Here’s more from him). Whether a person is gay or not and the extent to which a person is gay can be measured by doctors fairly accurately using testing. It’s a bit private but vitally important. […]

A Sent People

July 8, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 10: 1-12, 16-20 On a trip to my hometown last month, I encountered my high school football coach, now pushing 80 years old. He was 27 when he put our team through its paces in 1955 and 1956, but he’s still under a head of steam all […]

A Liberal Christian’s Journey

ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Some personal discoveries David Merritt Melbourne November 2006 Introduction Two of our grandchildren who live in another state expect me to arrive each time with new jokes. Which is a tough ask! So I have to be on the lookout. I saw one recently that I though might be about […]

Belarus; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan

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 ================================================= 5 July 2007 BELARUS: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CAMPAIGNERS DETAINED http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=989 Belarusian police have, within two days, detained 19 Catholics and Protestants petitioning to […]

Suffering for faith

The British Secret Service reports that some 200 million Christians in 60 countries around the world are at risk of persecution – a scandal to which many in the West would like to turn a blind eye. The report was published in the Sunday Express in London, and carried by the Catholic News Agency According […]

Counting down (the Australian census)

Counting down There isn’t much good news for Christians in the 2006 Census figures released today, with a continued decline to 64 per cent of the Australian population. Nominally, they are still a large majority but the main churches lost ground. Catholics rose 6.8 per cent from 1996 but failed to keep pace with the […]

Islamic Youth at Risk in Australia

Herald Sun news report 3/7/07. Carly Crawford reporting. Up to 2000 Melbourne youths are at risk of being turned into radicals by Muslim extremists. Melbourne and Sydney are firming as Australia’s fundamentalist recruitment centres. Researcher Mustapha Kara-Ali says young people are being exposed to a warped view of Islam in mosques, Islamic centres and even […]

Egypt: Let The Apostasy/liberty Debate Begin

Subj: Egypt: Let the apostasy/liberty debate begin. In April 2007 a lower court ruled against 45 Copts who had converted to Islam or been deemed Muslim on account of the conversion of a parent, but who wanted to officially return to Christianity. The lower court ruled that Muslims, even if they are converts from Christianity, […]

Islamic recruiting in Australia (more)

Herald Sun news report 3/7/07. Carly Crawford reporting: UNIVERSITY students will be the key targets of a weekend recruitment drive by Muslim extremists espousing the teachings of Osama bin Laden. Firebrand Melbourne cleric Sheik Mohammed Omran will join other hardline clerics at a conference in Sydney devoted to bin Laden’s poisonous brand of Islam, Wahhabism. […]