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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

April Website News

Here’s a mail-out I’ve just sent to people on my e-list. Email me (see the contact button on this page) if you’d like to be added to this list. Rowland. ~~~ Hi friends, on a very pleasant April Fools’ Day Sunday, in Melbourne, Australia) Here’s the first of these mail-outs from my Mozilla Thunderbird email […]

Easter Sermon

Easter Sermon. Scripture: John 20:10-18. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene. Preached: Morning Worship, 31 March 2002. Church: Sea Point Evangelical Congregational Church, Cape Town Minister: Rev. Thomas O. Scarborough. Earlier in our service this morning we read a passage of Scripture titled: “Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene. ” You know what was said in the […]

Psychiatrist

Two older gentleman were talking and one said to the other, “You’re having an anniversary soon, right?” The other replied, “Yup, a big one… 20 years.” “Wow,” said the other, “what are you going to get your wife for your anniversary?” The other replied, “We’re going on a trip to Australia.” “Wow, Australia, that’s some […]

Church Apologies for past sins

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Chocolate RULES!!!!

If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want. The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot car. The solution: Eat it in the […]

Marriage

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. David Bissonette When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they […]

When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking

(Written by a former child) (A message every adult should read, because children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say.) When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one. When you thought I wasn’t looking, […]

Baptizing children?

To this: If we choose to recommend to delay baptism of younger people, what are we going to do to recognize their step of faith. Because if we simply put them off then we may end up doing more harm by giving the impression that they are too young to be considered a “real Christian.” […]

Baptism in the Early Church

And to this: The one thing that keeps nagging at me is that the New Testament gives us one rite for entry into the body of Christ – that is believers baptism (at least that is my interpretation – others of different faith traditions may disagree). So I wonder if someone has come to a […]

Religion and Redemption in Black Snake Moan

Sightings 3/29/07 — Kristen Tobey While many reviews describe Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan as a movie about religion, the immediate impression one gets from the trailers and posters is more accurate: The film is primarily about a barely-clad woman named Rae chained to a radiator. Some have argued that the religious elements serve only […]