Rowland Croucher
A Wedding Vow
From a pastor-friend: “I … promise you … to love you with all my heart, mind and strength. I promise to be faithful to you, now and forever. I promise to be your lover, companion and friend. I promise to be your ally in conflict, your greatest fan and your toughest adversary. I will be […]
Creed of the Sword
The world witnessed a flood of reaction to Benedict XVI’s Regensburg lecture, a reaction that has gone well beyond words, with attacks on churches in Gaza, the West Bank and Basra. Some even called for the Pope to be executed. Australia’s Cardinal George Pell weighed into the debate, suggesting that violent responses to the Pope’s […]
Baptists Call For Action On Global Warming
November 2006 Victorian Baptists are the latest group to make a strong call for action on climate change. At its annual assembly on 28 October 2006 the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV) voted overwhelmingly to call on the Australian government to commit firmly to a sixty per cent reduction in Australian greenhouse gas emissions by […]
3 November 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: CHURCH LEADERS IN LEBANON SCRAMBLING TO SET UP AID NETWORK CHURCH MEMBERS FORCED TO BOW TO HINDU GODS OR BE SHUNNED EVANGELIST TO MUSLIMS SAYS GOSPEL IS BEST HOPE TO STOP ISLAM SOMALI CHRISTIAN REFUGEE REUNITED WITH ONE OF HIS SONS * ECUADORIAN STAMP HONORS HCJB WORLD RADIO’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY Interested in what […]
Texas in July as Well as Other Places
YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN the great State of Texas when????? The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground. The trees are whistling for the dogs. The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance. Hot water now comes out of both taps. You can make sun tea […]
Four letter words
A young couple got married and went on their honeymoon. When they got back, the bride immediately called her mother. “Well,” said her mother, “so how was the honeymoon?” Oh, mama,” she replied, “the honeymoon was wonderful! So romantic…”Suddenly she burst out crying. “But, mama, as soon as we returned, Sam started using the most […]
Uncle
A young man walks onto the stage of Stars in their Eyes, on crutches, with a plaster cast from his feet to his hips. Matthew Kelly Introduces him as Simon. ‘It’s very brave of you to come out here,’ says Matthew. ‘Please tell the audience what happened?’ ‘Well’ replies Simon ‘about a year ago, I […]
Mice and alcohol
David Sinclair and his Harvard colleagues fed high doses of resveratrol, a molecule found in grape skins and red wine, to laboratory mice eating a high-calorie diet. Although the animals grew fat, they did not suffer from the diseases of obesity that affected mice eating the same food without resveratrol. Indeed they were as healthy […]
Making Too Much Of Self Esteem
From a beautiful website http://churchresources.info/pray/ The cult of self-development, or even a spiritual path that doesn’t wake you up to do something about the painful realities of this world, can be just as narcissistic, just as entrapping. Stephen R. Covey, author of the hugely successful best-seller The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, points out […]
Bullied Pastors: two stories…
Two emails from a friend who will remain anonymous… ~~~ I have just read a disturbing article on your website about a couple in the Church of England who were bullied out of the ministry. Unfortunately I have seen the same thing happen here in Australia in two churches of which my wife and I […]
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