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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.

Baptists and Pentecostals and healing

From a Facebook friend: “Heard a rather funny commentary by Mike Warnke on the subject of healing. It may not solve your problem but it might give you a laugh, and they do say that sometimes laughter is the best medicine. Here’s the link:

Politically correct carols

Some concerns about carols and there appropriateness 🙂 have a blessed and safe Christmas everyone. I partically like the shepherds and 3 kings ones! Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose? And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows. You are advised that under […]

Santa Claus

A cartoon with Santa in the dock as the judge asks him: “Which part of ‘Breaking and Entering’ don’t you understand?” And then there was the story about the Jewish Santa, who went around waking kids up and asking them: “Hey, would you like to buy some gifts?”

How do these people survive?

ONE Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. ‘We don’t have half dozen nuggets,’ said the teenager at the counter. ‘You don’t?’ I replied. ‘We only have six, nine, or twelve,’ […]

Abbott & Costello & Computers

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, ‘Who’s on First?’ (http://funnyjokesnpics.blogspot.com/2009/07/whos-on-first.html) might have turned out something like this: COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks. I’m setting up an office in my den and I’m thinking about buying […]

Gravitas

A man was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell, and hit him on the head… (1) as a Denier, his thick skull didn’t feel the impact, so, when he glanced beside him and saw an apple which wasn’t there a moment ago, he thought it might be a pomme de terre (as […]

Noah’s Ark

There’s a cartoon I heard about which claims that there were, in fact, three Arks, not just one. The one with wombats, koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, . . . was blown off course and finished up in Australia, not near Mt Ararat. The one with dinosaurs, elves, fairies, unicorns, dragons, centaurs, sphinxes and other extinct animals […]

Jokes

Teacher: Cindy, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? Cindy: You told me to do it without using tables! =========================== Did you ever notice? When you put the two words “The” and “IRS” together it spells “THEIRS”? =========================== Two women, who are dog owners, are arguing which dog is smarter. First woman: […]

Health

With proper diet, rest, and exercise a healthy body will last a lifetime.

Proofread!!!

Everyone’s heard about the 1631 King James Bible which misses the word “not” out of the seventh commandment which then read “Thou shalt commit adultery”. A couple of others: A biography of George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Anne Evans) once referred to the author throughout as “He”. The first edition of James Joyce’ […]