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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.

Another baptism story

I was talking to a Baptist friend the other day about Baptism… If I wade in the water…and it is knee deep..am I baptized?? I asked… No..he said.. Well…If I go deeper..and it is waist deep..am I baptized?? No again he said… Well..If I go shoulder deep?? No again… Finally I said…well, if I am […]

Signs Your Cat is Too Fat

*Signs Your Cat Is Too Fat* Cat door retro-fitted with garage door opener. Confused guests constantly mistaking him for a beanbag chair. Fifteen month gestation period, and still no kittens. No longer cleans self unless coated in Cheese Whiz. Catfood dish replaced with a trough. Luxurious, shiny black fur replaced with mint green polyester pantsuit. […]

Just being helpful

Two guys were attending a party in the woods when, all of a sudden, the skies opened up and rained torrents on everybody. They ran for their car, jumped in, and gunned it. They were going pretty fast when an old man’s face appeared in the passenger window, knocking on it! The passenger screamed, but […]

Puzzle

If you put the 46th word from the beginning of Psalm 46 (in the KJV) with the 46th word from the end of Psalm 46 you have a secret message about the greatest writer in the English (any?) language 🙂 Thought ya’ll needed to know that. Shalom! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ http://articlesandreviews.blogspot.com/

Revival site

From a friend: Hi Rowland, This makes me smile – enjoy! http://media.euniverse.com/funpages/cms_content/1956/squirrel_revival1.swf

Baptism

A little son of a Baptist minister was in church one morning when he saw for the first time the rite of baptism by immersion. He was greatly interested in it, and the next morning proceeded to baptize his three cats – in the bathtub.The kitten bore it very well, and so did the young […]

Retirement At The Inn

Why didn’t somebody tell me? With the average cost for a Nursing Home per day reaching $188.00, there is a better way when we get old & feeble. I have already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn for a combined long term stay discount and senior discount of $49.23 per night. That leaves $138.77 […]

What’s the funniest or oddest thing you’ve ever heard anyone else pray for?

Praying for characters in soap opera …. Praying that the ”…people in hell not to have to suffer so bad…” (!) …. “Lord please anoint our Christmas cards.” … The success of a TV ministry. I mean, do we REALLY want to see divine intervention in making them successful? Maybe in sending a good plague […]

The Right Way to Spell Potato

The Right Way to Spell Potato —————————– If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough If OUGH stands for O as in Dough If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbour If TTE stands for T as in Gazette If EAU stands for O as in […]

Various…

Funny, I don’t remember being absent minded. Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand at the very edge of the pool and throw them fish? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I can’t be seen, I can’t be held, I can’t be dropped to the […]