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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

16 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB

16 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB Global Today’s Headlines: CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN PHILIPPINES GROWS ‘DUE TO TERRORISM’ BOMBING JEOPARDIZES PEACEKEEPING EFFORTS IN DARFUR, SUDAN ATTACK BY MUSLIM MOB DISTURBS PEACEFUL HOLIDAYS IN INDONESIA COLD WAVE IN BANGLADESH CLAIMS NAZARENE PASTOR’S LIFE Learn more about the impact of Urbana 06 on attendees’ lives by visiting […]

The Seamstress and the River

One day, when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, her thimble fell into the river. When she cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, “My dear child, why are you crying?” The seamstress replied that her thimble had fallen into the water and that she needed it to help her husband […]

The Five Finger Prayer

From a netfriend: I found this prayer guideline for you. 🙂 1. Your thumb is nearest you. So begin your prayers by praying for those closest to you. They are the easiest to remember. To pray for our loved ones is, as C. S. Lewis once said, a “sweet duty.” 2. The next finger is […]

Great News

The day after a woman lost her husband in a scuba diving accident, she was greeted by two grim-faced policemen at her door. “We’re sorry to call on you at this hour, Mrs. Watkins, but we have some information about your husband.” “Please! Tell me,” the woman said. The policeman said, “We have some bad […]

Homosexual ‘marriage’

HOMOSEXUALS BACK AWAY FROM FORMALISED RELATIONSHIPS The homosexual lobby continues to push for varying forms of “marriage” relationships be they civil unions or relationships registration. However evidence in places where legislation to allow such arrangements has been passed would seem to indicate that individual homosexuals in fact make little use of their hard fought gains.For […]

Block the Escalation in Iraq

You Thought Iraq Could Not Get Worse Dear friends, Just when we thought the war in Iraq couldn’t get any worse – it has. President Bush has rejected reality, spurned the American people’s verdict, and announced his new policy: MILITARY ESCALATION IN IRAQ. The good news is that the newly elected United States Congress can […]

Canon of the Scriptures – when?

Netfriend’s question: What are the dates that the contents of the Old Testament and the New Testament were finally agreed upon? Also the dates the first books were written? Another netfriend: Agreed upon by whom? 🙂 Seriously, you’ve just asked two questions that biblical scholars have been wrangling about for centuries. You might find the […]

The Box Of Chocolates

For all of us who are married, were married, wish we were married, or wish you weren’t married, this is something to smile about the next time you open a box of chocolates: Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on […]

Brain Teaser

See If You Can Figure Out What These Words Have In Common……. Banana Dresser Grammar Potato Revive Uneven Assess x x x x x x x x x Are You Peeking Or Have You Already Given Up? Give It Another Try…. x x x x x x x x You’ll kick yourself when you discover […]

3 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB Global

Today’s Headlines: POLAND LAW PROPOSES NAMING JESUS CHRIST AS HONORARY KING 2 PASTORS KILLED IN SEPARATE ATTACKS IN SOUTHEASTERN AFRICA MINISTRY HELPS GRANDPARENTS PASS DOWN CHRISTIAN VALUES 10 WORST PERSECUTORS MAKE ICC’S ANNUAL ‘HALL OF SHAME’ AWARDS RESEARCH REINFORCES WORSHIPERS’ VIEWS OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES Today’s Top Stories: POLAND LAW PROPOSES NAMING JESUS CHRIST AS […]