Rowland Croucher
Our Christmas Gift to God
OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT TO GOD. Christmas is a perfect time to remember the fact that God always initiates to us first. God initiated His love to us by allowing Jesus to be born as a baby at Bethlehem. God initiates: we respond. With prayer, God has initiated a 24/7 communication link between Himself and us. […]
Market-able Christians
Soundings No. 44 – 14 December 2006 by Martien Kelderman Jesus told us we were to be the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13-16). We all know the blessings and the curses of salt. Too little and you notice it, too much and again you notice it. Both too little and too much bring out […]
Prayer at the End of the Day
In some small way, focus your attention on God: listen to a special piece of music; sing a refrain of a song; go to a favourite prayer place; remember a Scripture verse: ‘The Lord is my shepherd’ or ‘Find rest, O my soul, in God alone’ (Ps 62:5). Light a candle; look at something beautiful. […]
Aceh, Indonesia: A struggle commences over Sharia Law
– ———————————————————————— ———————————————————— ACEH: A STRUGGLE COMMENCES OVER SHARIA ———————————————————— On Monday 11 December, an estimated 85 percent of Aceh’s 2.6 million eligible voters cast their ballots in the autonomous province’s first gubernatorial elections since the peace agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2005 that ended 30 years of conflict with Jakarta. The result […]
Urgent Forwarded
Dear friends, With Christmas almost upon us, I’d like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send me “forwards” over the past 12 months. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed and healthy. * Extra thanks to whoever sent me the email about […]
Going Beyond Belief
Sightings 12/14/06 Going Beyond Belief — Philip Hefner Both the New Scientist and the New York Times reported on the symposium entitled “Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason, and Survival,” hosted by the Science Network, a coalition of scientists and media professionals convening November 5-7 at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. […]
Religious Vilification Case (Mark Durie)
Friday, December 15, 2006 7:56 AM The Supreme Court of Victoria has overturned the earlier religious vilification findings by Judge Higgins against Daniel Scot, Danny Nalliah and Catch the Fire. The Supreme Court judgement can be read at: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2006/284.html This judgement criticizes Judge Higgin’s legal reasoning, and also his specific findings about what Scot said […]
Knowledge is Power
Dec. 17, 2006 Power to the People By Harry T. Cook Francis Bacon evidently thought the principle so important that he uttered it first in Latin: Scientia potestas est: “Knowledge is power.” Bacon, as he once said, preferred to begin with doubt and end in certainty rather than begin with certainty and end in doubt. […]
John and Baptist and Mary
Dec. 17, 2006 Plain and Unvarnished By Harry T. Cook Luke 3: 7-18 We meet in quick succession in the last half of Advent two of the most compelling characters in the gospel drama: John the Baptist and Mary the mother of Jesus. Outwardly they are quite different, and it is easy to miss the […]
Baptists and Institutions
*Every* human institution will have its own particular ways of valuing something over the instrinsic worth of the humans who (want to)/ belong to it… The institution will value a doctrine/belief, attitude, ritual, tradition, lifestyle, sexual orientation… you name it, and if the individual doesn’t conform, the institution will apply ‘sanctions’… Which is what Baptists […]
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