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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Does Jesus Love Osama? (More)

To the suggestion that ‘Jesus loves Osama’ might be an inappropriate sign to put at the front of our churches – as would a sign saying: “Jesus loves rapists” or “Jesus loves paedophiles” – which statements are true, but would the signs be helpful in building bridges to our communities? Nathan responded: This is a […]

Affluenza

Welcome to the selfish city Brigid Delaney February 2, 2007 IMAGINE you are a modern explorer. But instead of discovering a country, you wish to journey into the inner lives of its inhabitants. What you wish to discover is how much that country is in thrall to consumer culture and to the virus of affluenza. […]

Was September 11 an ‘inside job’?

Who really blew up the twin towers? As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 nears, Christina Asquith finds academics querying the official version of events Tuesday September 5, 2006 The Guardian Shards of glass and dust from the World Trade Centre towers sit on Professor Steven Jones’s desk at Brigham Young University in Utah. Evidence, he […]

No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model

Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:42 PM No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physicists. The cyclic model […]

Ball Games & the Battle for Men’s Souls

Ball Games and the Battle for Men’s Souls Feb ’07 Gordon Dalbey Newsletter #20 _http://www.abbafather.com_ (http://www.abbafather.com/) It happened at a Browns-Jacksonville game, when hundreds of enraged Cleveland football fans showered the field with beer bottles—stopping the game and sending players, referees, and coaches running for cover—after a last-minute botched call by officials gave the game […]

Re the number of ‘Christian denominations’

Here’s something from a seminal book – The Soul of Christianity – by Huston Smith, an American expert on comparative religions (and, incidentally, a universalist Christian who personally adopts various spiritual disciplines from Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam): First, Protestant diversity is not as great as its hundreds of denominations (most of them more adequately termed […]

God, Time and Eternity

God, Time and Eternity William Lane Craig ——————————————————————————– William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Jan and their two teenage children Charity and John. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first […]

30,000 Protestant Denominations?

Due to popular request and to the ongoing distortion of figures from uninformed Roman Catholic apologists writing on this issue, I am posting the following excerpt from my forthcoming book, Upon This Slippery Rock (Calvary Press, 2002). Throughout this book we have examined the Roman Catholic apologist’s primary argument against sola Scriptura and Protestantism; namely, […]

Abbott and Costello and Computers

You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on… If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, “Who’s on First?” might have turned out […]

Muslims and Christmas

*RECORD NUMBER OF EX-MUSLIMS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR Spiritual revolution underway in Middle East. * *By Joel C. Rosenberg * More Muslims converted to faith in Jesus Christ over the past decade than at any other time in human history. A spiritual revolution is underway throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. As […]