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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.

The New Birth

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“The New Birth” John 3:1-15 Now we finished chapter 2 with John’s observation that the Lord Jesus knew what was in the hearts of men. There follows now in the Gospel a series of conversations in which the Lord Jesus goes to the heart of individuals of very different backgrounds. First Nicodemus, the Jewish rabbi; […]

Psalms On Sundays: 116 – He Has Heard My Voice

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-124 Sunday 23 Jun 2002 Reading: Psalm 124 – HE HAS HEARD MY VOICE (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.'(Heb 12:2) Many of us have prayed, at one time or another, ‘Lord, increase my faith,’ or else […]

David Livingstone’s Text (F W Boreham)

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F.W. Boreham A BUNCH OF EVERLASTINGS (Epworth Press 1940, first edition 1920 pgs 118-127) DAVID LIVINGSTONE’S TEXT It is the word of a gentleman of the most strict and sacred honour, so there’s an end of it! says Livingstone to himself as he places his finger for the thousandth time on the text on which […]

Jesus The Compass For Life (Mark 4: 35-41)

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The most important part of any sea going vessel is its navigation system. It’s also helpful if the boat doesn’t leak. Whether in contemporary times or in days of old, a ship needs to be sea worthy and to have means of navigation. Ancient mariners used the stars to chart a course. Later came the […]

Psalms On Sundays: 112 – Righteous, Unshaken

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-104 Sunday 26 May 2002 Reading: Psalm 112 – SHAKE NOT THE RIGHTEOUS (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed’.(1) Hallelujah! Because it so closely echoes the language and themes of Psalm 1, it is […]

Trinity Sunday Sermon

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[Shared with a list I’m on]: SERMON : TRINITY SUNDAY / SORRY DAY, 26th May, 2002 Exodus 34:1-8 2 Cor 13:11-13 Matt 28:16-20 Lord, I offer these my words to you, that you may use them for your greater glory. Amen. Today is a “crazy, mixed-up” day. We have at the same time, by the […]

Psalms On Sundays: 113 – The Hungry Filled

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-109 Sunday 02 Jun 2002 Reading: Psalm 113 – THE HUNGRY FILLED (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘Praise, O servants of the Lord; praise the name of the Lord'(v 1). Sing to the Lord, and rejoice! In this psalm, the Lord deserves praise day and night for two seemingly contradictory […]

Burden Of Chronicles, The

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-111 (Expository Sermon) THE BURDEN OF CHRONICLES 1 & 2 Chronicles (overview) by Rod Benson In over 500 sermons, I have preached from 1 and 2 Chronicles only five times: a four-part series on Hezekiah, and a summary of the series as my last sermon at my first church – a day […]

I Am What . . .

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-112 (Leadership Issues) ‘I Am WHAT?’ By Terry Mattingly As the college student knelt at the altar rail, another parishioner pointed accusingly and loudly said: “Don’t give him communion. He does not believe. He is mocking us all.” Stunned, Father George Carey asked the student for his response. He looked up and […]

Brothers Reconciled

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Living the Word >From almost the beginning to the very end of the Book of Genesis, one theme whirls through many variations: war and peace between brothers (and one pair of sisters). Rabbi Arthur Waskow >From almost the beginning to the very end of the Book of Genesis, one theme whirls through many variations: war […]

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