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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Jesus [42] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (28)

On October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Continuing our summary/review of Tom Wright and Marcus Borg’s discussion… For other articles in this series visit http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm. These brief excerpts are meant to provoke thought/reflection… More from Tom Wright: [Marcus and I] stand shoulder to shoulder against all attempts to reduce the gospels to a set of theologically inspired fictions… My point remains that […]

Belarus; Kazakhstan

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FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief 3 October 2006 BELARUS: REPRIEVE FOR CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO CELEBRATED UNAUTHORISED MASS http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=849 Catholic priest Fr Antoni Kochko has not been charged for […]

Pope in child abuse cover-up?

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Doco claims Pope in child abuse cover-up October 02, 2006 08:20am A BRITISH documentary claimed today that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests. Over 20 years, the man formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced a secret 1962 document on how bishops should deal with […]

Bishops condemn abuse cover up allegations against Pope

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British bishops have denounced as “misleading” accusations by a BBC investigative TV program that Pope Benedict played a leading role as a cardinal in a systematic cover up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, […]

Rethinking the System

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Rethinking the System Lyle Schaller has done it again, has written another hard-hitting, utterly honest book that consists of the harvest from his great insights on church growth and decline. His The Ice Cube is Melting (Abingdon, 2005) is a provocative, evocative book. One of his seminal insights is that the United Methodist Church has […]

The Problem With Preaching

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The Problem With Preaching By David Allis September 2006 Preaching is a big problem. After many years of preaching, listening to sermons, studying the scriptures, participating in ‘church’ leadership & studying the western church (in New Zealand), I’m becoming convinced that preaching often does more harm than good. Preaching, as it is practiced in modern […]

When Good becomes the enemy of the Best

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When  ¯ ¿ ½GOOD ¯ ¿ ½ Becomes the Enemy of  ¯ ¿ ½BEST ¯ ¿ ½ By David Allis 16th December 2005 I have always thought that  ¯ ¿ ½good ¯ ¿ ½ and  ¯ ¿ ½best ¯ ¿ ½ were very close together. When I was at school, on the occasions that I got a  ¯ ¿ ½good ¯ ¿ ½ result in a test or exam, it was usually very close to the  ¯ ¿ ½best ¯ ¿ ½ result. In a […]

Being Part of the Solution

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Being Part of the Solution A sermon on Mark 8:27-38 by Nathan Nettleton, 17 September 2006 One of the things I find hardest to do is resist the urge to hit back when I cop an unfair attack. I don’t think I’m on my own there. The hunger for retaliation or vengeance is pretty much […]

Funeral

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The old man had died. A wonderful funeral was in progress and the country preacher talked at length of the good traits of the deceased, what an honest man he was, and what a loving husband and kind father he was. Finally, the widow leaned over and whispered to one of her children, “Go up […]

4 October 2006 Update from HCJB World Radio

On October 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Today’s Headlines: 13 DEAD IN IRAQ AS BOMBS TARGET CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORHOOD 8 CHRISTIANS ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IN INDIA OPEN DOORS ENCOURAGES, AIDS CHRISTIANS AFTER NIGERIAN RIOTING KAZAKHSTAN BAPTISTS REFUSE TO REGISTER CHURCHES, PAY FINES Today’s Top Stories: Fereshteh Dibaj, a young mother and house church leader who was arrested along with her husband, Amir […]

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