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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Surgery

Things You Don’t Want to Hear During Surgery ~~~ “Better save that. We’ll need it for the autopsy.” “Bo! Bo! Come back with that! Bad Dog!” “Wait a minute, if this is his spleen, then what’s that?” “Hand me that …. uh … that uh….. thingie” “Oh no! I just lost my Rolex.” “Oops! Hey, […]

Charity Justice and Mission

CAN WE MAKE POVERTY HISTORY? The Micah Challenge and Make Poverty History (MPH) campaigns are gaining momentum in the lead up to the G20 summit this month (November 2006), where representatives from 20 nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, will meet in Melbourne to discuss a range of global economic issues. Since last year […]

Western militarism and Arab despotism

Saddam’s cruelty is only half the story By Rami G. Khouri Daily Star staff (Lebanon) Wednesday, November 08, 2006 There was an appropriate irony to the fact that the day after Saddam Hussein was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder and torture of many Iraqis, the former American ruler of Iraq, L. […]

The Old Pastor’s Last Request

An old pastor lays dying. He sent a message for an IRS agent and his lawyer to come to the hospital. When they arrived, they were ushered up to his room As they entered the room, the pastor held out his hands and motioned for them to sit on each side of the bed. The […]

Rocket prank leaves man in hospital

Rocket prank leaves man in hospital A man is in hospital with severe internal injuries after trying to launch a powerful firework rocket from his backside. Safety campaigners say they have never come across such a bizarre incident but it is thought the man, 22, could have been copying a scene from the controversial film […]

Scanty clothing never justifies rape

Rachel Woodlock and Anna Halafoff October 29, 2006 SHEIKH Taj al-Din al-Hilali has demonstrated he is unfit and unable to act as a leader in the Muslim community and should resign from his position or be stood down by his Lakemba congregants. From his statements made during a Ramadan speech, in which he compared women […]

Short Story

A college class was told they had to write a short story in as few words as possible. The instructions were: The short story had to contain the following three things: (1) Religion (2) Sex (3 Mystery. Below is the only A+ short story in the entire class. “Good God, I’m pregnant; I wonder who […]

Science – amazing!

Nov. 5, 2006 Religion and Science By Harry T. Cook: Science (the word comes from the Latin for knowledge) is the intellectual discipline of exploring the natural order for information about how it works and why. Response [1]: And it’s great for exploring the natural order. It gets really tangled though in dealing with the […]

I Can Only Imagine

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Review: The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Review: The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir ‘I’m Amazed… LIVE’ (Brooklyn Tabernacle/INO Records) 2006. Here’s a DVD of 1 hour 30 minutes of brilliant black gospel music – a beautiful, very professional production. The songs are all ‘black gospel’ which means you won’t experience any Bach or classical/mainline hymns or Taize songs (pity; they could have added […]