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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.

Dysfunctional People

Interaction on a couple of Australian newsgroups: > >> > >>>>And before you complain about the cost, consider that a significant > >>>>number of the unemployed smoke and gamble and drink. > >>> > >>> You have evidence of this? Or is it just your prejudice? > >> > >>Too easy – get your deck […]

Sanctifying Your Wife

I was challenged earlier in the week when reading “Disciplines of a Godly Man” by R. Kent Hughes. I just thought I would share a small part. . . . . Men, (ignoring for the moment our wives spiritual responsibility to us) do you realise it is your responsibility to seek your wife’s sanctification? Even […]

Forgiving Abusers

eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 04 December 2002 Report criticises ‘institutional failure’ of churches on sex abuse London (ENI). The Christian yearning for reconciliation can lead to damaging pressure on sex abuse victims to forgive their abusers, the churches of Britain and Ireland have been warned. David Gamble, a Methodist minister and moderator […]

Love

Romantic love is the single greatest energy system in the Western psyche. In our culture it has supplanted religion as the arena in which men and women seek meaning, transcendence, wholeness, and ecstasy. As a mass phenomenon, romantic love is peculiar to the West. We are so accustomed to living with the beliefs and assumptions […]

Singleness

As a single woman, I want to witness to a way of living that liberates me from inordinate attachment to the world of power, pleasure and possession so that I can serve the Lord as an instrument of transformation. My singleness frees me to see God’s image in creation so that I can reverence the […]

Relationships, Sex Addiction Love Addiction

Depression, Alcohol–Drug addiction Early Traumas/Inner Child Issues NOTE: Following is an excerpt from what may be the last self help book you ever have to read. It is Chapter 20 from this book, and zeros in on the prime causes of relationship failures. Earlier chapters deal with addictions, depression, and early childhood issues, and how […]

Fear Of Relationships

The 1980s Thatcherite dictum that there is no such thing as society gave expression to powerful forces that helped consolidate a profound orientation towards the self. Paradoxically, the cultural focus on the self was not simply the work of free-market crusaders, but also sprung from the therapeutic ethos of the 1960s that exhorted people to […]

In Defense Of The Inner Child

by Laurie A. Weiss, Ph.D and Jonathan B. Weiss, Ph.D It seems characteristic of our society that whenever something gets big enough to be noticed, it comes under attack. Many articles have appeared recently in the popular press condemning the concept of the “Inner Child,” and the idea that life’s problems can be solved by […]

Parenting And Modeling

Model Christian living Whether we like it or not we will model something. The question is will it be a godly example or not? Our values and priorities will show through. We can say all we like about how important our kids are and how important church is or reading the Bible, however if our […]

Inner Child Healing Techniques

“The feeling of wanting to die, of not wanting to be here, is the most overwhelming, most familiar feeling in my emotional inner landscape. Until I started doing my inner child healing I believed that who I really was at the deepest, truest part of my being, was that person who wanted to die.” “The […]