Rowland Croucher
John Claypool
Note from Rowland: John Claypool has, for a couple of decades, been my favorite preacher. You ¢â‚¬â„¢ll note that several of his sermons are on this website. I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve only learned today from a clergy-friend that he died nearly two years ago. Watch my blog on Interesting People for my own tribute to this great preacher (http://1monthtomeet30interestingpeople.blogspot.com/ ) […]
Prayer for the Preacher
Heard in a sermon this morning… a prayer for preaching/preachers by a theologian: ‘Lord bless the preaching of your Word And bless the preacher… And forgive him. Amen.’
Cho Seung-Hui
by Thomas Scarborough Cho Seung-Hui was pictured large on the second page of our local newspaper in Cape Town, holding a gun to his head. I summed it up for myself: Another tragic massacre in the USA. Little did I expect that the story would relate to me in a personal way. I am registered […]
Our cricketers must not go to Zimbabwe
May 10, 2007 *Australian sport has a part to play in ending Robert Mugabe’s rule, writes Peter Roebuck.* ZIMBABWE has been consumed by evil forces, many of them members of the Zezuru tribe, whose numbers include a murderer called Robert Mugabe. Raised in bitterness, steeped in hatred, the unduly elected President has, throughout a life […]
Climate Change
Ian, Peter and John just don’t get it Tracee Hutchinson, The Age. May 12, 2007 THEY don’t get it. Climate change, that is. They just don’t get it. Everyone else does. Even the people who stand to gain the most out of this week’s buy-your-vote speech from the federal Treasurer. They know they’re being bought. […]
International News 14th May 2007
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * TIME RUNNING OUT FOR IRAQ’S PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS * CHRISTIAN GROUPS MOVE TO CONDEMN GAY SEX * NORWEGIAN HOMOSEXUALS WANT QUOTAS SET FOR HOMOSEXUAL CLERGY * CHRISTIAN PARTY IN SCOTLAND GAINS SUPPORT OF MUSLIMS * CHINA CHANGES DEATH PENALTY POLICY * ASTONISHING TURNOUT IN JAPAN TO HEAR THE GOSPEL ———————————————– TIME […]
Sexual and Moral Rules
A NEW GENERATION OF ADULTS BEND MORAL AND SEXUAL RULES TO SUIT THEMSELVES Unless the Church is able to find meaningful ways of communicating biblical truth on moral values to a generation that is not listening to “outdated” moralising, western civilisation will not survive. Is this the outcome “we had to have” resulting from the […]
Christianity Without Salvation
The legacy of the “Social Gospel”–100 years later. BY JOSEPH LOCONTE Wall Street Journal Friday, May 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT Within a few years of its publication in 1907, “Christianity and the Social Crisis” swept through America’s Protestant churches like a nor’easter, selling more than 50,000 copies to ministers and laypeople alike. In an […]
Is God listening to this man?
Chaim Potok wrote in ‘The Book of Lights’ about two American rabbis, both army chaplains, in Japan during the Korean War. They passed a Japanese man praying devoutly beside the roadside shrine. One rabbi said to the other, ‘Do you think our God is listening to this man?’ He went on, ‘If our God is […]
Bottle of Wine
THE BOTTLE OF WINE For all of us who are married, were married, wish You were married, or wish you weren’t married, this Is something to smile about the next time you see a Bottle of wine: Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly […]
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