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Apologetics

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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Niv To Be Gender-Specific

Date: November 25, 1998 Today’s Stories: * COLORADO–Bible society reiterates commitment to original NIV gender-specific style. * KENTUCKY–2 churches take special interest in ministering to world’s hungry. * TENNESSEE–Plan to achieve God’s purposes, LifeWay leader tells pastors, staff. * KENTUCKY–Faith in Christ enables 14-year-old to endure agonizing brain syndrome. * ALABAMA–Alabama’s former top quarterback on […]

Gutenberg Tops The Millenium

Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, is the most important person of the millennium, a new book says. A pair of New Jersey journalist couples spent years researching, arguing, and consulting scholars before publishing 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium (Kodansha America). The Bible was the first […]

Headship

From: "Richard Sydney-Smith" <> To: <> Subject: Leadership : the biblical model Date sent: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 03:59:19 +0800 I read with some interest the article on headship as applied to the christian home. I noted serveral attempts to avoid confrontation with the modern sensibilities of the submittees by stressing the christlike nature of […]

Lamb-Chop Witness

Read: 2 Corinthians 4:1-7 Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. -1 John 3:18 Have you ever heard of witnessing with a lamb chop? W.H. Lax, a Methodist minister in London for 38 years, did just that. An old man was gravely ill, and Pastor Lax called […]

The Media And Violence

MUST READ!Christianity Today August 10, 1998 p. 31f (available online www.christianitytoday.net) “Trained to Kill” , by Lt. Col. David Grossman A military psychologist, expert in training people to go beyond natural aversion and kill their own species, analyzes graphically how modern media uses the same “tools” in training our young people to kill. – he […]

Spare A Kind Thought For Police!

From: (St.Athanasius) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Please Read this Brothers & Sisters Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:15:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.37.143.4 In the Name of the Father,the Son and the Holy Spirit,the One God, Amen. Peace and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Dear Theo, Greetings, Thanks for supporting the fact […]

Media Culture

I recently asked for suggestions on new forms of Christiane ducation and youth ministry, which were used ina presentation I made to a task group of the National Assembly of the Untiing Church looking at the future of the teaching ministry of the church. Somebody asked me if I would post what I’d said after […]

Proseltizing Jews

Les Brown wrote: > > “Rowland C. Croucher” <> wrote in aus.religion: > >Les Brown wrote: > >> > >> “Rowland C. Croucher” <> wrote in aus.religion: > >> > >> >Jews Respond in Argentina > >> > > >> >More than 1,000 people, including many Jews, accepted Yeshua as their > >> >messiah during […]

Northern Ireland

From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: A couple of questions for atheists. Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 03:24:39 GMT On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 03:32:15 GMT, (Rod Pinna) wrote: >Conincidently, the topic came up over dinner. As far as I can >make out, the Catholic minority in Nothern Ireland were, in times >past, […]

Jewish Theology

From: (Les Brown) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion Subject: Re: Jewish conversions Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 12:19:34 GMT (Jason Haines) wrote in aus.religion: >In article <36669553.5188350>, (Les >Brown) wrote: > >> What would BOG say of all these Jews who convert to Christianity? >> Would he think them wise and intelligent? Hardly. > >Pardon my ignorance Rabbi […]