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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.

Hope

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

‘TOWARDS CIRCUMSTANCES – BE HOPEFUL’ TEXT: 1 Peter 1:1-19 Victor Frankl was a young psychiatrist who had just begun his practice when the Germans took over his native Vienna and shipped him and all the other Jews off to a concentration camp. Then began the awesome task of survival. With his trained psychiatric eye he […]

God

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Preached at Boronia Baptist Church (Victoria, Australia), by Rev. David Morland, Sunday 30 July 1995. Reading: Genesis 1:1 The importance of Genesis. The book of Genesis is the first and the foundational book of the bible. The rest of the bible is quite incomprehensible without a working knowledge of Genesis. Genesis gives us the origin […]

Holiness

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These three expository sermons from 1 Peter are a bit ‘dense’. They were first preached to a Doctor of Ministry class at Fuller Seminary. You will probably have to lighten and condense them for your congregation (unless they’re used to this style!) 2. TOWARDS GOD – BE HOLY TEXT: 1 Peter 1:1-3, 13-15, 2:1-10 Who […]

When To Say ‘No’ And When To Say ‘Yes’

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SCRIPTURE – EXODUS 1:8-22 (Introduction/point of contact: Newspapers this week: Napalm victim from one of the most memorable pictures from the Vietnam War, Kim Phuc, now a resident in Canada says ‘Stop the killing’. Oppression is ghastly and our news papers and TV screens report plenty of it. In our story, the Egyptians ‘set taskmasters […]

Understanding the Book of Revelation

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(A series of eight sermons on the Book of Revelation) Introduction: UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION It is not surprising that a variety of methods of interpretation have evolved with reference to the Book of Revelation. Not only does the book seem an enigma to us, with its visionary language, curious figures, and its cosmic […]

No One Is An Island

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YOU CAN’T BE ‘FULLY HUMAN, FULLY ALIVE’ ALONE We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. (Romans 14:7) The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and to keep it… Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the […]

Humility

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TOWARDS OTHERS – BE HUMBLE TEXT: 1 Peter 5:5 (Good News Bible): "All of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another". Slaves in Peter’s day used to put on an apron to protect their tunics, and keep themselves clean and decent while they were working. The apron was their "badge […]

Hope

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For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future and a hope. The Lord appeared to us in the past saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build […]

Gospel Of Mark

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First of a series on The Bible and Your Future. How do you feel when I say the word "future"? Most of the kids I talked to in the 1960s felt the future was grim, but they could just possibly change it. Most of the kids I’ve talked to in the 70s agree that the […]

Jesus The Healer

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JESUS THE HEALER (Precis of a sermon based on Mark 5:21-43) = Mt. 9:18-26, Lk 8:40-56 In spite of the almost universal human desire to have good health, the sum total of our diseases does not diminish. Infectious diseases may be decreasing, but emotional illness is increasing. Questions about sickness and healing are numerous and […]

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