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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Different Kinds of Prayer (N T Wright)

N. Thomas Wright Anglican Bishop of Durham, England Nicholas Thomas Wright is Anglican Bishop of Durham, England. The “On Faith” panelist taught New Testament studies for 20 years at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities before becoming Dean of Lichfeld in 1994. He was named Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey in 2000, and consecrated bishop in […]

Resources for pastoral counselling

From a friend doing a course in counselling: Highly recommended: Interpersonal Processes in Therapy. An Integrative model by Edward Teyber The Pragmatics of Therapeutic Practice by Paul Gibney Books recommended for this year: Our Inner World. A guide to Psychodynamics and Psychotherapy by Scott A. Ahles Principals of Trauma Therapy by Briere. & Scott Psychotherapy […]

History and the Empty Tomb (N T Wright)

[209] Resurrecting Old Arguments: Responding to Four Essays (Originally published in Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2005, 3.2, 187–209. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N.T. Wright Bishop of Durham Durham, UK ABSTRACT The author is grateful for the attention given to his book […]

Married Couple

A married couple is driving along a highway doing a steady 60 miles per hour. The wife is behind the wheel. Her husband suddenly looks across at her and speaks in a clear voice. “I know we’ve been married for twenty years, but I want a divorce.” The wife says nothing, Keeps looking at the […]

Depression

SEA POINT EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CAPE TOWN. MINISTER, Rev. Thomas Scarborough. Depression. Morning Worship, 19 September 2004. I have been preaching lately on a few topics that are important to us as Christians – and this morning I am preaching on the topic of depression. I certainly hope that it won’t be a depressing sermon […]

Islamic theology and Iraqi Christians

Barnabas Fund Email News 2nd February 2007 Islamic theology and Iraqi Christians As the rising tide of sectarian violence in Iraq pits Sunni against Shi’a, many in the West struggle to understand why religion plays such a part in the violence. In the fourth of a series of special reports on life within Iraq, Barnabas […]

Stop the Hissing

Feb. 4, 2007 By Harry T. Cook “Stop the hissing,” is what I kept saying to our cats as warily they circled one another for several days in some kind of agitation. The female cat spent a day at the local veterinarian for minor surgery and came home bearing new and apparently threatening scents. My […]

What Do We Mean By This?

Feb. 4, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 5: 1-11 On this Sunday, the congregation of St. Andrew’s will do a bold and, some would say, arrogant thing. It will reach out through the performance of the ancient liturgy of baptism to claim for itself and all of Christianity a child barely a year old. […]

Eternal

If “eternal life” doesn’t mean “life after death,” what does it mean? Later in John’s Gospel, Jesus reduces the phrase simply to “life,” or “life to the full.” near the end of John’s account, Jesus makes a particularly fascinating statement in a prayer, and it is as close as we get to a definition: “This […]

Emerging Church

Essential Concerns Regarding the Emerging Church INTRODUCTION Thesis The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, I will raise three areas of concern Evangelicals should focus most of their attention as they assess both the Emerging Church movement (hereafter ECM) and Emergent Village (hereafter EV). Specifically, I will point to some examples of what three […]