Rowland Croucher
Giving Them What They Want?
I’ve enjoyed a book by Dale Rosenberger, Who Are You to Say? Establishing Pastoral Authority in Matters of Faith, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2005). Rosenberger calls us to a critical theological assessment of our churches. In this excerpt, he compares art museums to churches and gleans some interesting thoughts on evangelism and church growth […]
The New Targeting
Persona-based writing is the new Targeting. According to what we’ve seen so far, ads that employ persona-based writing are outperforming yesterday’s demo-targeted ads by an average of 81 percent. Website copy, direct mail letters, radio scripts and magazine ads that use persona-based language are pulling buckets of gold from the dwindling rivers of mass media. […]
About Senior Citizens
This has been around before in one form or another. Sound on ….. http://www.libertyhigh56.net/special%20pages/seniors/seniors.htm
Euro-English
New Euro Language “Euro-English” European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan […]
Healing (another one)
From a pastor-friend: Healing There are no easy answers. I have come to the position of believing that if we are sick, God calls us to bring our need to him in prayer (James 5:13ff). I see various models of such prayer in the New Testament (use of oil and spittle, words, laying on hands, […]
New Hospital Wing
When a panel of doctors was asked to vote on adding a new wing to their hospital, the allergists voted to scratch it and the dermatologists advised no rash moves. The gastroenterologists had a gut feeling about it, but the neurologists thought the administration had a lot of nerve and the obstetricians stated they were […]
Belarus; Kyrgyzstan; Serbia
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 28 September 2006 BELARUS: MASSIVE FINE FOR “ILLEGAL” BAPTISMS http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=847 Baptising 70 people in a lake has led to the pastor of one […]
Pharmacist
A lady walks into a drug store and asks the pharmacist for some arsenic. The pharmacist asks, “Ma’am, what do you want with arsenic?” The lady says, “To kill my husband.” “I can’t sell you any for that reason.” says the pharmacist. The lady then reaches into her purse and pulls out a photo of […]
Never Mind Who Gets the Credit
October 1, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 9: 38-43, 45, 47-48 During my college years, I was a member of an organization that did not rank high on the campus social scale. We were a bunch of non-conformists – if it could be said that anyone at that little Midwestern college in the 1950s […]
29 September 2006 Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: ‘MOBILE STUDIO’ SPEEDS UP DISTRIBUTION OF AUDIO SCRIPTURES IN INDIA BIBLE SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA DISTRIBUTES BIBLE VIA MOBILE PHONES 28-CITY EXHIBIT TOUR OPENS IN ATLANTA TO ‘BRING ISRAEL TO THE U.S’ 100,000 DALITS EXPECTED AT ‘FREEDOM OF RELIGION DAY’ RALLY IN INDIA Today’s Top Stories: ‘MOBILE STUDIO’ SPEEDS UP DISTRIBUTION OF AUDIO […]
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