Rowland Croucher
Firefighter
There was a fire in my neighborhood, and I arrived just in time to see firefighters carry one of their men out of the burning house and lower him to a sitting position on the lawn. Visibly shaken, he took out a cigarette, lit it, and sat there puffing on it to calm his nerves. […]
God’s Existence
“If God is all powerful, he can do everything. He can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore an all powerful God does not exist.” -Lucretius
Defining ‘tragedy’
Prime Minister John Howard was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the Prime Minister if he would like to lead the discussion on the word “tragedy”. So the illustrious leader asked the class […]
If you think you’ve got a computer virus…
(From a netfriend:) … Sing this to the tune Ghostbusters: theres something weird , in your email box, who you gonna call? Hoaxbusters http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#virtualcard Why do people keep on getting taken in by this stuff? snopes.com is another good place to check before you go blasting off the equivalent of a ‘reply to all’ about […]
Quick Thinking
A Banbury senior citizen drove his brand new BMW Z3 convertible out of the car salesroom. Taking off down the motorway, he floored it to 90mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left. “Amazing!” he thought as he flew down the M40, enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal even more. […]
Defenceless in Dora
Defenceless in Dora: the latest twist in anti-Christian violence in Iraq It was in 1999 that I first went to Dora, which for many centuries has been a strongly Christian area of Baghdad. Visiting a block of flats, I saw the appalling poverty of the Christian community. Like most of the Iraqi population they were […]
Love and Obedience
*May 13, 2007**//* ** *Love and Obedience* ** *By Harry T. Cook* */John 14: 23-29/* */ /* “I love you, Mom,” we’d say after having done something we shouldn’t have done and hearing about it from her in no uncertain terms. “Well,” she would say, “If you love me so much, how about doing what […]
Kazakhstan; 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 ================================================= 11 May 2007 KAZAKHSTAN: “ECONOMIC WAR” TO CRUSH BAPTISTS? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=954 Homes, cars, washing machines and even pigs have all been confiscated or […]
Clergy Job Satisfaction
Sightings 5/10/07 Workers in the Kingdom — Courtney Wilder The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago recently released the results of an eighteen-year-long study on job satisfaction and general happiness. One interesting finding reveals that members of the clergy are both most satisfied with their jobs and happiest overall. The position […]
White Ants (Islam and Western Culture)
White Ants The story is told of an Australian who came home one day to find his house had collapsed and little remained but a pile of dust and rubble. Unknown to him, white ants had been eating away at the foundations and supporting timbers of his house for years. While everything had continued to […]
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