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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Dogs Cats and Light Bulbs

*How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb?** * 1. Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we’ve got our whole lives ahead of us, and you’re inside worrying about a stupid burned out bulb? 2. Border Collie: Just one. And then I’ll replace any wiring that’s not up […]

Universalism

From a netfriend: It is very intriguing to me that the vast majority of Christians accept the Nicene Creed, but do NOT accept universalism. Especially since Gregory Nazianzen was the Univeralist who oversaw the formulation of the Nicene Creed. Here is a very interesting e-book that is a reproduction of a book that was originaly […]

Moldova

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 24 January 2007 MOLDOVA: ARBITRARY LEGAL STATUS DENIALS CONTINUE http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=902 In Moldova, all Muslim organisations, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, the Ukrainian Orthodox […]

If This Be Christianity, They Can Have It

Jan. 28, 2007 By Harry T. Cook The New York Times gave a lot of ink recently to a 60-member church in the west Harlem section of Manhattan, pronouncing it the poster-child of the up-and-coming charismatic branch of 21st-century Christianity. The Times linked its adopted church to what it called the 400-million-member worldwide phenomenon of […]

Authority

Jan. 28, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 4: 21-32 Talk about a mixed reaction. First the synagogue congregation was outraged by what Jesus taught – so much so that its members were ready to push him off a cliff. Then they were astounded, so the text says, by the quality of his teaching because […]

Samuel [1]

SEA POINT EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CAPE TOWN. MINISTER, Rev. Thomas O. Scarborough. Samuel: 1 Samuel 1:1 to 1 Samuel 2:11. Morning Worship, 21 November 2006. In the past few weeks, we jumped ahead of the story we are going to look at this morning — which is the story we find at the beginning of […]

N.T. Wright: A Biography

N.T. Wright: A Biography Nicholas Thomas Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland in 1948 and was raised in the context of middle Anglicanism. From before the age of seven or eight he already felt called to go into Christian ministry. Growing up, Wright had an interest in music and sports, interests that he retains to […]

24 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB Global

Today’s Headlines: BOLIVIAN MINISTRY AIDS THOSE STRANDED BY POLITICAL TENSIONS SUDANESE AIR STRIKES UNDERMINE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT INDONESIAN POLICE RAID TERRORISTS WHO ATTACKED CHRISTIANS QUIZ GAME EDUCATES CURIOUS ONLOOKERS ABOUT AIDS PREVENTION SUPER BOWL XLI GIVES CHRISTIAN COACHES BIG AUDIENCE FOR FAITH Learn more about the impact of Urbana 06 on attendees’ lives by visiting […]

Calling the Police

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU’RE OLD AND DON’T MOVE FAST ANYMORE George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off […]

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane… (Jan and I watched this classic American movie the other night… Here’s the plot, but the deeper question might be: ‘What does it all say about modern Western values?’) ~~~ Plot Overview Citizen Kane opens with the camera panning across a spooky, seemingly deserted estate in Florida called Xanadu. The camera lingers on […]