Rowland Croucher
14 August 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: 2,000 DIE IN FLOODING IN INDIA, OUTREACH GEARS UP FOR RELIEF EFFORTS 4 CHINESE MISSIONARIES TORTURED FOR 6 HOURS IN YUNAN PROVINCE MINISTRY LEADER: PLANNED AIRLINE BOMBINGS SHOW ‘SPIRITUAL DARKNESS’ SUPREME COURT RULING IN INDIA MAKES CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION ‘EASIER’ Today’s Top Stories: 2,000 DIE IN FLOODING IN INDIA, OUTREACH GEARS UP FOR RELIEF […]
Survey of British Muslims
ALMOST a quarter of British Muslims say the 7/7 bombings can be justified because of the Government’s support for the war on terror, according to an opinion poll. And nearly half of those polled, or 45 per cent, believe the 9/11 attacks on New York were a conspiracy between the United States and Israel. The […]
The Council of Nicaea and the Bible
The Council of Nicaea and the Bible (Some excellent material from a netfriend, Roger Pearse): There seem to be a number of legends about the First Council of Nicaea (325AD) in circulation on the internet, presented as fact. Some people seem to think that the council, which was the first council of all the Bishops […]
The 7 Ups
1. Wake Up !! Decide to have a good day. “This is the day the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118:24 2. Dress Up !! The best way to dress up is to put on a smile. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. “The […]
The Old Days – Do You Remember?
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN…? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Your […]
Three Women
——————————————————————————– Kumba is 20 years old. Three years ago, she carried a baby to full term, but a complicated labour resulted in the death of the baby. If that alone weren’t enough, Kumba was also left incontinent. In the West African nation of Liberia and in other developing nations, pregnancy and childbirth can be hazardous […]
Christians – The Most Persecuted People Group on Earth
5th August 2006 CHRISTIANS – THE MOST PERSECUTED PEOPLE GROUP ON EARTH By Anthony Browne, Europe correspondent of the Times. Rising nationalism and fundamentalism around the world have meant that Christianity is going back to its roots as the religion of the persecuted. There are now more than 300 million Christians who are either threatened […]
How We Know What We Know
(Rev Harry T Cook makes a lot of sense – http://www.harrytcook.com ) In my undergraduate days as a philosophy major, the area of inquiry stated in the title of this essay was dealt with in what was known as “epistemology” – studies of the theories of knowledge. All the way from Protagoras (ca. 490-420 BCE) […]
This Land Is MY Land …
By Harry T. Cook Deuteronomy 8: 1-10 The scene is an area of Gaza: Israel, or, depending on your point of view, Palestine. A rabbi says, paraphrasing our text from Deuteronomy, This land was promised on oath by God to our ancestors. It is therefore our land by the divine hand, and we may not […]
Life Is Sacred … Except When It’s Not
August 13, 2006 By Harry T. Cook It was actually possible to read on the same page of a single day’s newspaper these three articles: the first about why the President said he vetoed the stem-cell research bill, the second explaining why he resisted the call for an immediate cease-fire in the Hezbollah-Israeli war, and […]
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