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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

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Australian Evangelical Alliance A question for theology and education in a secular society Brian Edgar Director of Public Theology, The Australian Evangelical Alliance 1. Introduction 1.1 The current debate reveals a high degree of confusion about intelligent design The current controversy about Intelligent Design was created when it was widely reported that the Federal Education […]

Evangelicalism in Australia

Two Centuries of Evangelicalism In Australia By Dr Stuart Piggin, historian and author of several books including ‘Evangelical Christianity in Australia’ (OUP). The above reflections have been taken from the concluding chapter of that book with kind permission Throughout almost two hundred years the mission of Australian evangelical Christianity has been to preserve society by […]

Funny Video Link

From a pastor-friend: Apart from the clear product-link, (and editing off the last three seconds would help with that) this is a very funny ad… and maybe not a bad illustration clip for your sermons as well.. http://one.revver.com/watch/149635

Archbishop of Canterbury – Holocaust needs to be remembered as ‘real event’

ACNS 4241 | LAMBETH | 25 JANUARY 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury – Holocaust needs to be remembered as ‘real event’ The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has said that the Holocaust needs to be remembered as a real, historical and well-documented event. In a statement to mark the UK’s Holocaust Memorial day, he said […]

Muslims on Television

Sightings 1/25/07 — Amir Hussain Last November, over 10,000 scholars of religion from across North America and around the world gathered in Washington, D.C., for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. A keynote speaker was to have been European Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, but his visa […]

Zephaniah [2]

by Rev. Thomas Scarborough 15 February 2004. We are taking a brief look at the prophet Zephaniah at the moment. It is a brief book, in fact, because it covers just three pages in our Bible. Now this is the Word of God, and every part of it is precious, and every part of it […]

ZEPHANIAH [1]

by Rev. Thomas Scarborough 8 February 2004 Today I return to the Old Testament with my preaching. It is good to look at the Old Testament from time to time, because that is also part of God’s Word to us. Often the Old Testament is neglected. We must remember that when we deal with the […]

25 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB Global

Today’s Headlines: SOUTH AFRICAN PASTOR MURDERED, ONE INJURED IN CHURCH SHOOTING MANY IRAQI CHRISTIANS WELCOME ARRIVAL OF U.S. TROOP SURGE INDIA: ONE VIOLENT ACT PERPETRATED ON CHRISTIANS EVERY 3 DAYS YOUTH PRAYER EVENT TO SEND ‘SHOCKWAVE’ AROUND THE WORLD SALVATION ARMY’S FORMER NATIONAL COMMANDER TO LEAD NAE Today’s Top Stories: SOUTH AFRICAN PASTOR MURDERED, ONE […]

The Council of Nicaea and the Bible

The Council of Nicaea and the Bible There seem to be a number of legends about the First Council of Nicaea (325AD) in circulation on the internet, presented as fact. Some people seem to think that the council, which was the first council of all the Bishops of the Christian Church, either invented the New […]

The Deep Ecclesiology Of The Body

THE DEEP ECCLESIOLOGY OF THE BODY by Frank Viola My friends Andrew Jones and Brian McLaren have written about something they call “deep ecclesiology.” This phrase appears to be derived from Noam Chomsky’s linguistic theory of “deep semantics.” Chomsky said that underlying the “surface structures” of the statements we make there lies a deeper and […]