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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.

Love Affair Of A Lifetime

By and others ⋅ February 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

God has called me to the greatest love affair of my dreams. God has promised that he will ALWAYS be available to me, no matter what time of day or night. He never falls asleep: never travels away on business: never is in a hurry. He has all the time in the world ~ just […]

What was that all about?

By and others ⋅ February 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(~) What was that all about? A man walked home from work one day when he saw a snail on his porch and said, “Oooh, a snail.” So he kicked it as hard as he could, sending the snail to his neighbor’s yard. Two years later, the man was sitting in his front room watching […]

Good Quotes (from a conservative standpoint)

By and others ⋅ February 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

“To claim the Bible approves homosexuality is equivalent to claiming that Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a musical comedy.” -Tim Wilkins “We are not true to our profession of being Christians if we question the bidding of our Leader and Commander. Submission is our duty; making excuses is not.” – Charles Spurgeon “The obsession to […]

What is Love?

By and others ⋅ February 14, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(~) What is Love? Even the great philosophers, with profound definitions, could not fully touch love’s true essence more clearly than in a survey of children who are 4 to 8 years old where the kids share their views on love: “Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in […]

Giving things up

By and others ⋅ February 11, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

For those interested in a Lenten action or different challenging thing to give up here are a few suggestions I have used from another Christian web site to choose from. Lenten Actions: Think of a person with whom you have a strained relationship and make some gesture toward improving that relationship. Or Schedule a fifteen […]

Wolves

By and others ⋅ February 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The […]

The Cookie Jar

By and others ⋅ February 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I watched a TV talk show one time. During the course of the program, they had some cookies set on a table in a room with a hidden camera and two way mirror. They then created a situation where the kids and their parents came to where that room was. The families entered in one […]

God Always Hears

By and others ⋅ February 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

C. H. Spurgeon http://www.spurgeon.org/fcb/fcb.cgi ——————————————————————————– January 31 My God will hear me. (Micah 7:7) Friends may be unfaithful, but the Lord will not turn away from the gracious soul; on the contrary, He will hear all its desires. The prophet says, “Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. A […]

What Do You See?

By and others ⋅ January 31, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(~) What Do You See? Ezekiel 34:23-24 (NCV) Then I will put over them one shepherd, my servant David. He will feed them and tend them and be their shepherd. 24 Then I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will be a ruler among them. I, the LORD, have spoken. My […]

Waiting Silently

By and others ⋅ January 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(~) Waiting Silently He was standing there this morning just as he has done for the last year hoping to gather some change from people. His “spot” is just at the corner of the library where I work.When I am coming from my bus stop I pass him and it has been my habit to […]

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