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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.

Men & Women

This URL is for both Men & Women ! http://www.flashfunpages.com/couple.swf Speakers on ….. * Shalom! Rowland Croucher * * http://jmm.org.au/ * (16200+ articles, 3500 clean jokes/stories) http://victoriaconcordiacrescit.blogspot.com/ *

Changing English

From http://www.word-detective.com/050404.html A story (possibly apocryphal, I must note) is told about Sir Christopher Wren, the brilliant architect who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Following the Great Fire of 1666, Wren was asked to rebuild the devastated cathedral, which he did. Viewing the restoration, Queen Anne is said to have proclaimed it “awful, artificial […]

Equivalent prices for petrol

I found this on the Fun Mansion website when looking for some jokes. Obviously American dollars, but puts petrol prices into perspective. Our fuel prices in Oz aren’t so bad after all. The equivalent of $A2.50 per litre in the UK when ours was $1.30. ~~~ Gas Price Comparisons. A side effect of the recent […]

Public Servants

TODAYS RIDDLE: Change the position of just one of the words below so that all the words are in an alphabetical sequence: llama, phoenix, hyena, alligator, beaver, elephant, tortoise, antelope /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ […]

Mother-in-law

. TODAYS RIDDLE: Can you decipher this word? ISM /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ Capitalism . ============================= . One morning a local highway department crew reaches their job-site and realizes they have forgotten all their […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day Song http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626&m=1652&rr=y&s T’was The night of Thanksgiving T’was the night of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn’t sleep. I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep. The leftovers beckoned – – – the dark meat and white, but I fought the temptation with all of my might. Tossing and turning with anticipation the thought […]

Creationism

In 1985 a colleague, Martin Bridgstock from Griffith University and I were asked to put together a book outlining scientific objections to creationism, following a meeting at the University of Queensland. It appeared under the title “Creationism: An Australian Perspective”. It’s now out of print, but a CD with a slightly revised version of the […]

Inventions by Blondes

TODAYS RIDDLE: . What is as long as theights of ten men and as strong as ten men’s strength but ten men working together could not make it stand on end? . x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x […]

TOP SMART ANSWERS FOR 2004…according to Reader’s Digest

* A lady was looking through the frozen turkeys at the supermarket but she couldn’t find one big enough for her family. She asked one of the staff “Do these turkeys get any bigger?” He replied, “No madam, they’re dead.” *A policeman got out of his car and the lad who he’d stopped for speeding […]

Will I Have to be Sexy at Sixty?

I had to search for this for my wife, Jan: she’s giving a talk at a church ladies’ group on Sexuality… Rowland ~~~ Will I have to be sexy at sixty? Will I have to keep trying so hard? Well I’m just going to slump, With my dowager’s hump And watch myself turn into lard. […]