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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.

Grace

“Inscribed on the very heart of God’s grace is the rule that we can be its recipients only if we do not resist being made into its agents; what happens to us must be done by us” Miroslav Wolf “Exclusion and Embrace”

The Cross and Your Abandonment

http://www.rejesus.co.uk/spirituality/seven_sayings/sevensayings_media/saying_six.swf

U are planned in His Name

(A bit corny but a great truth)… THE U IN JESU S Before U were thought of or time had begun, God stuck U in the name of His Son. And each time U pray, you’ll see it’s true, You can’t spell out JesU s and not include U . You’re a pretty big part […]

Prescribed by the Great Physician

**************************** ~*~A GREAT RECIPE~*~ Fold two hands together, And express a dash of sorrow. Marinate it overnight, And work on it tomorrow. Chop one grudge in tiny pieces, Add several cups of love. Dredge with a large sized smile, Mix with the ingredients above. Dissolve the hate within you, By doing a good deed. Cut […]

The Mirror

(~) The Mirror One day a rich man of a miserly disposition visited a rabbi, who took him by the hand and led him to a window. “Look out there,” he said. The rich man looked out into the street. “What do you see,” asked the rabbi? “I see men, and women and little children,” […]

Can You Sleep When The Wind Blows?

Click on the link with your sound on. Can you sleep while the wind blows? http://www.hall4bc04.org/Storm.htm

The Water Bearer

(~) The Water Bearer A water bearer had two large pots, one hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long […]

Our Master’s Voice

(~) OUR MASTER’S VOICE The story is told of an American tourist who was traveling in the Mid East. He came upon several shepherds whose flocks had intermingled while drinking water from a brook. After an exchange of greetings, one of the shepherds turned toward the sheep and called out, “Manah. Manah. Manah.” (Manah means […]

I’ll Keep On Till They Quit

(~) I’LL KEEP ON TILL THEY QUIT There once was an older man who went out jogging. He was running around a track that circled the high school football field while the team was conducting their practice. When the football players began running their sprints up and down the field, the man said to himself, […]

Hope

(~) Hope In the Russian prison where Solzhenitsyn was, no one was allowed to speak. There was nothing to read, and no encouragement of any kind to sustain life. He knew that if he tried to escape he would be shot, but he thought, “At least, that would be the end of that!” His faith […]