Rowland Croucher
23 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB Global
Today’s Headlines: 68 MORE CHRISTIANS JAILED IN ERITREA’S WIDENING CRACKDOWN 2 PAKISTANI ‘BLASPHEMERS’ GO INTO HIDING AFTER ACQUITTAL TEEN CONFESSES TO KILLING ARMENIAN WHISTLE-BLOWER IN TURKEY CHRISTIAN, FAMILY GROUPS OPPOSE CALIFORNIA NO-SPANKING BILL NEW ZEALAND CHURCH GIVES FAMILIES $100 EACH TO BOOST OUTREACH Today’s Top Stories: 68 MORE CHRISTIANS JAILED IN ERITREA’S WIDENING CRACKDOWN In […]
Is Praying for a Parking Space OK?
Praying for Parking Is Evil To pray for parking is to misunderstand what God does in our lives. By Patton Dodd There are single moms or dads with three kids and bags of groceries, elderly men with oxygen tanks to push across icy lots, people recovering from surgery who aren’t advised to be out of […]
Clergy Choosing Orthodoxy
Growing number of clergy choosing ordination as Orthodox priests 1/21/2007, 1:22 p.m. ET The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit is emerging as a national center for the rebirth of Orthodox Christian churches, which have deep ethnic roots in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Social scholars say the churches are growing in […]
The Evidence For Jesus
Dr. 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 heard the message […]
The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology (N T Wright)
The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology* (Originally published in Sewanee Theological Review 39, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT The quest for the historical Jesus began as a protest against traditional Christian dogma, but when the supposedly ‘‘neutral” historians peered into the well, all they saw was a featureless Jesus. Even […]
Truth in the Fire: C.S. Lewis and Pursuit of Truth Today
July 21, 1998 Dallas A. Willard Lewis on Truth and Logic C. S. Lewis was devoted to the pursuit of truth, and was sure he had captured or been given a great deal of it. His confidence in this respect did not make him arrogant and close-minded, but was, to the contrary, the foundation of […]
Opus Dei
From a Catholic friend: I would highly recommend reading John Allen’s book on Opus Dei. Nothing will ever beat it. It’s as balanced as you can get. Not where I’m headed, but hey, these are good guys and they don’t deserve the beat up. I reckon the Times writer is right: they’re not the local […]
The Book of Revelation
From a thoughtful (Catholic) friend: Re Revelation, I have taught on this book a number of times, and though it needs supplementing, there is a book (written before 1990’s) which one really can’t go past for getting a level handle on it: Michael Wilcock “I Saw Heaven Opened”. What I really find useful about this […]
Recommended Books
From a Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism, responding to http://jmm.org.au/articles/8073.htm: Theology: This isn’t just because he is now Pope, but Ratzinger has to get a guernsey there somewhere. His classic was written in 1968 called “Introduction to Christianity”. I have been reading it now for almost a year. You have to take it in […]
Some Questions (and another lot of answers)
From a netfriend (=) Some questions Here are a few things to think about that you probably have never thought about and will never think about again; Can you cry under water? = Yes. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? = Hold political office […]
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