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I Got Flowers Today

By and others ⋅ September 9, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

A friend I met on alt.abuse.recovery newsgroup sent this: > What follows my long rambling is a poem I first saw in an Ann Landers > column, dated Jan 21, 1999. I saved it, and posted it on my website, > along with free in America > hotline numbers and crisis numbers, as well as […]

Masculine Soul

By and others ⋅ September 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

HEALING THE MASCULINE SOUL NEW UPDATED AND REVISED EDITION JUST RELEASED BY “W” (WORD) PUBLISHERS * Preface with historical overview * new chapter on “Fathers & Daughters” * amplified chapter on “Fathers & Sons” * engaging new stories and insights * added material on the roots of homosexuality See below endorsements by John Eldredge, Sheila […]

Boys And Men

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

What does it mean to be a man in 2003? The Age invited seven men to talk to Steve Waldon and Julie-Anne Davies about the trials of modern manhood. The man inside AM: (We wonder why) so many men in our age demographic are taking their own lives. People who, from the outside, look like […]

St Valentine – A Brief History

By and others ⋅ August 25, 2003 ⋅ One comment

Bringing the world into focus through the lens of Scripture Koinonia House K-House eNews For The Week Of February 11, 2003 ——snip—— ST. VALENTINE – A BRIEF HISTORY Friday, February 14 is St. Valentine’s Day. This day has come to mean flowers and candle light for lovebirds, crunchy little hearts and cards for gradeschoolers, and […]

Home And Marriage

By and others ⋅ August 25, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-139 (Leadership Issues) A Pastors/Leaders Survival Guide [9] 5. HOME AND MARRIAGE By Rowland Croucher —- Continuing our series on Pastors’/Leaders’ ministry-survival. The full text of these chapters can be found on the John Mark Ministries’ Website – http://jmm.org.au/articles/8658.htm In this series of leadership studies, I am looking at the factors associated […]

Portrait Of A Friend

By and others ⋅ August 15, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I can’t give solutions to all of life’s problems, doubts, or fears. But I can listen to you, and together we will search for answers. I can’t change your past with all its heartache and pain, nor the future with its untold stories. But I can be there now when you need me to care. […]

Facing The Fifties

By and others ⋅ August 8, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The following are notes I took at a lecture last week by Dr. Peter O’Connor, an Australian psychologist. Please note these are my responses/reflections on his lecture: don’t blame him for anything /everything! His book: Facing the Fifties: from Denial to Reflection, Paperback, 228 pages, Published: December 2001, Allen & Unwin (Australia) Pty Ltd. ISBN: […]

C S Lewis On The Dangers Of Love

By and others ⋅ August 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Christian author C.S. Lewis fell in love late in life. Not long after his marriage to Joy Gresham, Joy contracted cancer. Lewis and Joy only shared a few short years together before she passed away. When C. S. Lewis speaks of the pain of love, we know he is speaking from experience. Here is what […]

Pastoral Letter Re The Disabled

By and others ⋅ August 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-134 PASTORAL LETTER RE THE DISABLED (Leadership Issues) from Keith Ayton To introduce myself to those lucky enough not to know me, I am a ordained, unregistered, almost human who is as deaf as a post, nearly as blind as a bat with a few other fun malidys thrown in, that on […]

Pm’s Statements On Gay Marriage

By and others ⋅ August 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

MEDIA RELEASE FROM THE NSW COUNCIL OF CHURCHES 5 August 2003 New South Wales Council of Churches’ President welcomes Prime Minister Howard’s stand against gay ‘marriage’ The New South Wales Council of Churches meeting today in Sydney welcomed the comments of Prime Minister John Howard on gay ‘marriages’. Mr Howard has joined the President of […]

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