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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.

Freedom (Richard Rohr)

By and others ⋅ June 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Jesus has a different understanding of personal freedom. Freedom is not the capacity to be what you are not, but the capacity to be fully who you already are, to develop your inherent self as much as God allows. Spiritual and true freedom is wanting to do what you have to do to become who […]

Inspiring!

By and others ⋅ June 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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Hope

By and others ⋅ June 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The women returned from the cemetery on the first Easter morning, announcing, He is Risen! The response of the disciples, the church, us? With one voice we responded that the women preached an idle tale (Luke 24:11). What is there about us that tends to disbelieve the possibility of resurrection, to be cynical and hopeless? […]

As I faced my Maker

By and others ⋅ March 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

As I faced my Maker at the last Judgment, I knelt before the God along with the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives, like the squares of a quilt, in many piles. An Angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. But, […]

Assurance

By and others ⋅ February 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(John 10:28)…. “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand”. I read a story about a new young partner in a law firm. The senior partners had set extremely high standards and had coached him carefully. He did well in some […]

Holiness

By and others ⋅ February 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The Seven Deadly Sins

By and others ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Graham Tomlin ‘The Seven Deadly Sins: and How to Overcome Them’ (Lion 2007) and Andrew Cameron & Brian Rosner ed., ‘Still Deadly: Ancient Cures for the 7 Sins’ (Aquila Press, 2007). Medieval people were far more horrified by their sins than we are. Sin meant breaking the rules: God’s rules, with God being both Lawgiver […]

Still Deadly: Ancient Cures for the 7 Sins

By and others ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

From Andrew Cameron & Brian Rosner ed., ‘Still Deadly: Ancient Cures for the 7 Sins’ (Aquila Press, 2007). I wrote elsewhere: ‘Don’t bother buying the ‘Still Deadly’ book. It’s too ‘Sydney Anglican’ – somewhat desiccated, and heady, replete with many Bible texts and evangelical concepts. It has ‘in-group’ language (ex-Sydney Anglicans will know what I […]

Christmas in the Empire

By and others ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

On Christmas Eve we read a story about how a poor couple named Mary and Joseph were forced by imperial political decrees to pack up, to journey across the countryside (even though Mary was expecting a baby), to hold up in a cow stable, all as the result of Caesar’s enrollment. The Romans had the […]

God Loves You (from a 12-year-old boy)

By and others ⋅ January 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A remarkable phone call from a 12-yr old boy to Houston radio station KSBJ FM 89.3. So profound, the station has it posted on their website. Click below to listen to it. It’s short. =========================== Please Listen : http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCdZwitrNoY

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