From an anonymous ‘Net-friend: Reply from a ‘How are you?’ email I sent out. How do I respond? ~~~ “Things are going ok i suppose. Its taken a while to adjust. My wife kicked me out after i leftthe job which was a bit of a bugger, and most of my pay-out went to her […]
Received from a netfriend: Hi, I received a book alert and always do a little checking before forwarding emails to others. There are so many urban legends that it’s really important to verify facts first, so I checked with Dr. Dobson’s website http://family.org ……here’s what the response to the question about the Book Alerts: Dr. […]
BE a friend. You don’t need money; Just a disposition sunny; Just the wish to help another Get along some way or other; Just a kindly hand extended Out to one who’s unbefriended; Just the will to give or lend, This will make you someone’s friend. Be a friend. You don’t need glory. Friendship is […]
A helpful suggestion from a reader of this website (thanks): This is essentially a hoax. Below are some links for verification: http://www.mendedhearts.org/education-cough-cpr.htm http://www.hoaxinfo.com/coughcpr.htm http://www.snopes.com/toxins/coughcpr.htm From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240’s newsletter and the beat goes on (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response) “PAUL R MEYER, JR., MD” WROTE: Let’s […]
Wives, be subject to your husbands… Husbands, love your wives. Ephesians 5:22,25. A simple view of the main mid-life crisis goes like this: The wife and mother seeks security first, significance second – until the empty nest looms and she goes back into the work-force. The husband and father seeks significance first, security second – […]
What does a Baptist understanding of biblical authority and Christian compassion bring to the debate over same-sex relations, asks Nigel Wright, Principal of Spurgeon’s College, London. The discussion of same-sex orientation and practice has been one of the most painful experienced by the church over the last two decades. Whereas a number of denominations in […]
Homosexual activists in the Anglican Communion have enjoyed a string of strategic victories in recent months, giving evangelical Anglicans much to pray about: * The Church of England almost installed Jeffrey John, a priest who has been in a homosexual relationship for 27 years, as a bishop. John says his relationship became celibate when the […]
Mosaic editor Rod Benson asked Gordon Moyes about the prospects for evangelicals within liberal mainstream denominations. Here’s what he had to say. In the Uniting Church of Australia there is spiritual warfare (see Ephesians 6). The battle is with spiritual and dark forces in high places. It is a battle primarily for the Bible’s place […]
Launch of Paul Arnott’s book – No Time to Say Goodbye by Janine Stewart The title says it all. This best-selling book deals comprehensively with the trauma of the sudden and unexpected death of a child, but has relevance to all who have suddenly lost someone they loved. The difficult questions of faith that such […]
If you were born after 1980, this does not apply to you.., so go away! Kids of today are wrapped in cotton wool……… Read on. If you lived as a child in the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s, looking back,it’s hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have… As children, we would […]