Rowland Croucher
Freedom
And then there was the man whose wife found him sobbing. “What’s up?” she asked. “You know your father threatened to take me to court for under-age sex when we were teenagers?” he said. “Yes, after I got pregnant” she replied. “And he said that the only way to avoid spending twenty years in jail […]
Rejected asylum seekers killed
Rejected asylum seekers killed after being sent back to Afghanistan from Nauru and 3 children dead Edmund Rice Centre research team reports A delegation from the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney recently visited Afghanistan and found that as many as 9 men returned from Nauru may have been killed, and 3 children of people sent […]
Hard Times Roll On
Dear pastoral friends, At the risk of seeming like a perpetual whinge-er, I want to tell you about the weather up here in the farming country. It is another unbelievable bleeding (literally! – life-sapping) bad season. Our irrigation farmers on the Murray system have been given their annual allocation of water for the season – […]
A Liturgy for Maundy Thursday
With the Consecration of Holy Oil An Informal Liturgy Following A Church Pot Luck Supper The following is an informal liturgy for use following our congregational Pot Luck Supper. It is held in our eating place and every year features communion. This year we added the consecration of Holy Oil – which, as folk coming […]
8 August 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: MINSK CHURCH IN OLD COWSHED ORDERED TO SELL AT LOW PRICE BOMBING, FUEL SHORTAGES DISRUPT LEBANESE SATELLITE MINISTRY CHRISTIANS IN INDIA SPEAK OUT AGAINST ANTI-CONVERSION LAWS RADIO MINISTRY IN INDONESIA HELPS CHURCHES EXPAND SCHOLARS: MUSLIM ‘END-TIMES’ BELIEFS FUEL MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT Today’s Top Stories: MINSK CHURCH IN OLD COWSHED ORDERED TO SELL AT […]
The Middle East: Some Dangerous Ideas…
1. ‘The Israelis can do no wrong’, (and given the 20th century’s Nazi holocaust and the 21st century’s Iran’s et al’s threats of another holocaust you can’t blame them for over-reacting to real or imagined threats to their survival…) 2. ‘The rage of Hezbollah/Hamas/Arabs in general is justified’ (because of the contempt with which Jews […]
Resource for internet accountability
Here are some useful resources for control of intent pornography use for Christians. They came from the recent international Conference of Christian Doctors and Dentists in Sydney. The Battle for the Mind! Deliver us from evil – controlling negative inputs. The internet has great potential for good or evil. Many Christians battle with temptation or […]
9 August 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: MUSLIM MOB IN KYRGYZSTAN ATTACKS CHURCH PLANTER AND HIS SON PRAYER FOR SRI LANKA SOUGHT, 16 AID WORKERS SHOT IN CIVIL WAR NEW REPORTS OF PERSECUTION IN INDIA FAIL TO DETER CHRISTIANS ISLAMIC-TRAINED FIGHTER KILLS 223 BEFORE GIVING HIS LIFE TO CHRIST Today’s Top Stories: MUSLIM MOB IN KYRGYZSTAN ATTACKS CHURCH PLANTER AND […]
To Love And Serve Others
A Sermon in the Series on the Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada by Thomas R. Henry August 6, 2006 Text: Matthew 25: 31-45 For those of you who were alive way back there in the late 1960s, you may remember that the word “community” began to replace the word “family” as […]
Theology and Prayer
‘The person who prays is a true theologian and the true theologian is the one who prays’ Eastern Orthodox maxim
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