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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

What Color is God??

I am very interested in colors. I have read a little on how colors are made and the psychology behind colors is also a subject I find absolutely fascinating. Colors are deliberately chosen to help people feel more relaxed, or hungry, or excited, and color experts work fulltime, in advising clients about which colors to […]

Entertaining an Angel

“Ninure Saunders” wrote in message news:< amic.covad.net>… (~) Entertaining an Angel This is true story as told to me by my wife…she was the woman in this story! She told me it at least five times, and I have attempted to describe via written prose the extraordinary events of that special day! It was just […]

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

The following story is reported to be true, but cannot be verified: After the “Cold War” was over, a squadron of Russian pilots was invited to participate in tactical war games at a U.S. Air Force base. A gala dinner was planned by the Base Commander. Thinking to relax the guests, he offered a WW […]

Read only if you have time for GOD

Let me tell you, make sure you read all the way to the bottom. I almost deleted this email but I was blessed when I got to the end. God, when I received this e-mail, I thought… I don’t have time for this… And, this is really inappropriate during work. Then, I realized that this […]

Just Enough Faith

By Kim Thoday It was 1993, in Sydney’s Martin Place, and Jeff Gambin sat on a park bench. Jeff was taking a break from his busy schedule . life as a well known Sydney restaurateur was a hectic one. It was a cold night just after 10pm. An old man suddenly appeared near Jeff and […]

Liberty

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… (from Hans Kung, ‘On being a Christian’, Collins, London, 1977, p 482) Liberty is both a gift and a task for the Church. In great things and in small, the Church can and should be a community of free people. If it wants to serve the cause […]

The Pretty One

This was the last litter of puppies we were going to allow our Cocker Spaniel to have. It had been a very long night for me. Precious, our only black Cocker, was having a very difficult time with the delivery of her puppies. I lay on the floor beside her large four-foot square cage, watching […]

Christianity as a Journey

“Mark and Bev Tindall” : I dabbled in the possibility of agnosticism if the bible were not completely true. At the moment my belief in God does not rest in the bible. I realized that my “revelation” was mere belief, and that my relationship was with an imaginary entity. This latter conclusion was supported by […]

Humility

“Before honour is humility.” –Proverbs 15:33 Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love. He who desires close communion with Christ should remember the word of the Lord, “To this man will I look, even to him that is […]

Of Burning Issues and Love

By: Feather Forestwalker, July 25, 1999 (published in the church newsletter in August, 1999) Everyone has a burning issue. Unless one is dead inside, that is. The issue could be homelessness. Child abuse. Child endangerment and all it entails. It could be the environment, waging war on pesticides, over-harvesting of the forests; it could be […]