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Funeral Sermon For Slim Dusty

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Phillip Jensen Dean of Sydney September 26, 2003 Matthew 26:26-39 On behalf of all who are gathered here at St Andrew’s Cathedral and on behalf of the hundreds of thousands listening to this broadcast or watching it on TV, in fact as this is a State funeral on behalf of the entire nation I would […]

Nietzsche

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From Friedrich Nietzsche “The Gay Science” – 1887, pp. 125 The madman. – Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place and cried incessantly: ‘I am looking for God! 1 am looking for God!’ As many of those who did not believe in […]

The Amazing Dawn Rowan Saga

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

She sued the Federal and South Australian Governments, defended herself in a five-month court-case – and won! ~~~ In 1987 the South Australian government ceased funding the Christies Beach womens shelter, due, it said, to ‘unsubstantiated allegations’ of misappropriation of funds, sexual misconduct, intimidation, physical harassment, and unprofessional conduct. Fifteen years later – June 21st […]

Finishing Well (Eulogy For Bill Bright)

By and others ⋅ September 29, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-173 (Practical Christian Living) BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030730 FINISHING WELL – Eulogy for Bill Bright [Very many reading this will have had] some contact with Campus Crusade and, therefore, will know of Bill Bright’s extraordinary work in building that exemplary organization. Crusade has a staff of 6,500 and untold thousands […]

Peter’s Shadow

By and others ⋅ September 29, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-052 PETER’S SHADOW From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. They carried out the sick into the streets… in order that Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he came by. Acts 5:15. Some cultures have a superstition […]

Biography Of Hudson Taylor

By and others ⋅ September 29, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The biography of J. Hudson Taylor Written by Peter H. S Lim on 18th March 2003. “God’s work done in God’s way would yield God’s desired results. . . . To move men through God by prayer alone.” (James Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905) Sailed from Liverpool to Shanghai, September 1853 Founded the China Inland Mission, June […]

Phoebe’s Perplexity (F W Boreham)

By and others ⋅ September 29, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By F. W. Boreham I ‘PHOEBE DRYDEN wants you in the study, father! She seems dreadfully upset about something or other.’ To the study I accordingly hastened: and, as I had been given to expect, found poor Phoebe very agitated and perturbed. Dressed in a becoming brown costume, she sat in the big study arm-chair, […]

Sci-Fi Today Father Of Environmental Ethics Wins Templeton Prize

By and others ⋅ September 29, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi, folks. I did not see this anywhere amidst the rush of testosterone. ~~~ http://www.scifitoday.com/story/2003/3/19/201832/327 As reported by the BBC, Holmes Rolston, Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, has won the 2003 Templeton Prize for progress in religion. The Templeton Prize is is the world’s most lucrative annual prize for an individual, earning the […]

Johnny Cash Was Steadied By His Faith

By and others ⋅ September 22, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

September 12, 2003 ******************** BPNews — Witness the difference! http://www.bpnews.net BPSports — Sports with a spiritual attitude! http://www.bpsports.net ******************** Check out our feature cartoons at http://www.bpnews.net/bpcartoons.asp BPLife Lighter Side — “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Proverbs 17:22 ******************** Click here to download today’s Baptist Press stories: http://www.bpnews.net/storydownloadall.asp?mo=9&da=12&yr03 ******************** Though drugs & alcohol […]

New Archbishop Faces Hurdles To Anglican Unity

By and others ⋅ September 17, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St. Augustine, who was sent by the pope to England as a missionary in AD 597. The 104th Archbishop of Canterbury – who is being enthroned today – is head of the Church of England and spiritual leader […]

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