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Questioning The Question

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-100 (Apologetics) The Cry for a Reason in Suffering (Part 2) by Ravi Zacharias QUESTIONING THE QUESTION Some years ago I was speaking at the University of Nottingham, England, when a rather exasperated person in the audience made his attack upon God with this very question. C.S. Lewis reminds us that there […]

Medicine And Political Correctness

COMMENTARY March 1, 2001 Doctors’ disease Paul R Gross Copyright (c) 2001 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. Copyright American Jewish Committee Mar 2001 BOOKREVIEW: PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine by Sally Satel Basic. 256 pp. $27.00 SALLY SATEL, a psychiatrist with strong credentials in several areas of […]

Examine The Evidence!

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-102 EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE! From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Beloved… have mercy on some who are wavering. Jude 22. Many have examined Christianity with a head full of questions, who then read the New Testament. As they came […]

Doubts

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-062 THE CAPACITY TO DOUBT From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. Acts 1:3. […]

A Strange Beginning

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-104 (Apologetics) The Cry for a Reason in Suffering (Part 3) by Ravi Zacharias ——————- A STRANGE BEGINNING ——————- In the first chapter of the book, we find Job facing one calamity after another. He lost his health, his wealth, and finally, his family. As he sat on his ash pile, covered […]

Career And Calling

> Reverend Croucher – > I read with great interest your posting to alt.christnet on the call > to pastorship or the priesthood. I could not agree with you more. I > have felt called by God to do more in terms of evangalism, but have > felt constrained by the fact that theological seminaries […]

A Prophet Of The Wind

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-109 (Apologetics) The Cry for a Reason in Suffering (Part 4) by Ravi Zacharias ——————— A PROPHET OF THE WIND ——————— Their stalemate prepared the way for Job’s next friend, Bildad. He wasted no time and immediately said to Job: Your words are a blustering wind. . . . Ask the former […]

The Cult Of Celebrity

FEATURES & ARTS Fanning the fame The cult of celebrity has gone too far, writes Jack Robertson. Here’s a celebrity joke I got Jamie Oliver to prepare earlier. St Peter is at the Pearly Gates watching Survivor II when Madonna rocks up in her limo, pouts for the heavenly paps, and presses the celestial buzzer. […]

Origins Of Doubt (3)

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-086 THE ORIGINS OF DOUBT (3) From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. It is God alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal […]

Euthanasia

Moyers’ PBS series on death draws lament on assisted suicide segment [September 2000] By Michael Foust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Bill Moyers’ recent PBS television series on death and dying tackles important issues but is slanted in its presentation of physician-assisted suicide, two leading Southern Baptist experts on the controversial topic say. The series, “On our Own […]