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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.

Why Are There So Many Christian Denominations?

Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one… I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you Father, are in […]

How To Make Smart Decisions

Success is largely a matter of making wise choices. As F.W. Boreham said, “We make our decisions and then they make us.” That’s why every decision has an element of risk to it. We can’t always predict the outcome. Are you dealing with any difficult decisions these days? Try following these eight steps for decision-making […]

What Is A Christian?

Subject: Re: logic Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:16:00 +0800 From: Nigel Mitchell Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Hi, Greg and Chris. I have stepped back from this discussion for a few days to think about a couple of things, but I will return (although briefly before I am away for three weeks starting next Thursday). Chris: >> […]

How Do I Find God?

“Matt” wrote in message . > How do i find God? I used to be a Christian. And I guess I still > consider myself to be one. But it seems that whatever I do, I can’t > find him. no matter how hard I seek him, he’s just not there. When I > pray […]

‘If Only I Had Enough Faith’ – You Have!

It is not your faith that will keep you standing, but it is a living Jesus, met every day in fellowship and worship and love. Andrew Murray, Day by Day, Minneapolis,Minnesota:Dimension Books, Bethany Fellowship Inc., 1961, p.78

Grace

Grace: the best experience you could ever have! …I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant covert in all England. I did not see then what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert […]

Worship

How I love your temple, Almighty Lord! How I want to be there… With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God. Glory and majesty surround him, power and joy fill his temple. Praise the Lord, all people on earth praise his glory and might. Praise the Lord’s glorious name; bring an […]

Christianity: If God Is Like Jesus

For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ‘Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,’ which means, ‘God is with us.’ I am the […]

The Components Of Authentic Worship

John Claypool, in a sermon entitled ‘Worship as Involvement’ tells of a woman in Kentucky who came to him one Monday morning. She wanted to talk about her experience the day before when her four-year-old son had come to ‘big church’ for the first time. She described how excited he had been and all of […]

Spiritual Direction: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)

He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’ He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve, whom he also named […]