// author archive

Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
Email the author

2 January 2007 Daily Update from HCJB Global

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: 22,000 ATTEND URBANA STUDENT MISSIONS CONFERENCE IN ST. LOUIS CONTEST SEEKS INNOVATIVE METHODS OF SHARING THE GOSPEL CONVOY OF HOPE HOSTS FIRSTHAND LOOK AT POVERTY IN KENYA CHINESE POLICE RAID CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IN INNER MONGOLIA CHURCH BURNED, CAROLERS ARRESTED DURING CELEBRATIONS IN INDIA Today’s Top Stories: 22,000 ATTEND URBANA STUDENT MISSIONS CONFERENCE IN […]

Boxes

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

We like things boxed. Cereal, Candy, soap, gifts, and corpses. They seem safe when boxed, as are We. As is God and other Potential dangers. So we Sleep in a box, awake in A box, shower in a box, Refrigerate food, store knives, Drive to work, work for hours, where We stare each day at […]

Orthodoxy (N T Wright)

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

“It is possible to say more or less all the orthodox Christian affirmations, but to join then up in the wrong story.” ~~~ “If you simply address the God-shaped blank that people think they’ve got, the God that you end up with is the God shaped by the blank.’ N. T. Wright

New Year Resolution

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Droplets from Life Last night as David and I sat sipping our lemon tea, we chuckled over the newspaper columnist’s article. ‘Angry from Berwick’ was recounting his own New Year Resolutions – to be more tolerant of the music of young people, to smile at queue-jumping people, etc. This started me thinking about my own […]

Conversation with an Atheist

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

[1] wrote: An event for which the only record is the few lines in Matthew. Even Josephus, who seemed to enjoy listing Herod’s faults, failures, and nastiness, never mentioned it. Roger: Quite why Josephus not mentioning it is evidence I am not sure. Matthew mentions it, and there seems no objective reason to ignore this, […]

Science and non-science

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

[1]: No I do not believe in a God. I simply do not know. Though one thing that I do know is that religion is hogwash! Why Science has to patronise religion I do not know. [2]: You would probably enjoy Dawkins’ new book, “The God Delusion”. The scientists’ patronising (appeasing) is something that irritates […]

This tiny little prayer

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Dear Lord: Every single evening As I’m lying here in bed Keeps running through my head. God bless all my family Wherever they may be, Keep them warm and safe from harm For they’re so close to me. And God, there is one more thing I wish that you could do. Hope you don’t mind […]

God and Reason

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

All language, in so far as it consists of words, purports to convey ideas or concepts; that is what language means; – and the more clearly and unequivocally it does so, the better the language. And hence expositions of religious truth in language inevitably tend to stress the `rational’ attributes of God. But though the […]

The Law of the Excluded Middle (Aristotle)

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

“There are some who, as we said, both themselves assert that it is possible for the same thing to be and not to be, and say that people can judge this to be the case. And among others many writers about nature use this language. But we have now posited that it is impossible for […]

The Future According to Jesus (Jay Gary)

On January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

(Highly recommended by Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus, p. 179 (‘First there is a conventional future with the status quo continuing on uninterrupted… Second there are various counterfutures imagined by various groups for whom the status quo is not too profitable or satisfying. There is the fight res;ponse of the Zealots (fight, rebel, […]

« Previous   Next »