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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.

True Love

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with. If it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and never behaves as if […]

Food For Thought

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane. It’s not the pace of life that concerns me, it’s the sudden stop at the end. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been anywhere. Living on Earth is […]

Things You Would Never Know Without The Movies

During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once. All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555. Most dogs are immortal. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick’s Day parade – at any time of the year. All […]

Dumb Things To Ponder Etc.

A Queensland Radio Station, QFM, were running a competition to find contestants who could come up with words that were not found in any English Dictionary yet could still use these words in a sentence that would make logical sense, the prize being a return trip for two to Bali for a week. The DJ, […]

Chinese Story

Walking through Chinatown, a tourist is fascinated with all the Chinese restaurants, shops, signs and banners. He turns a corner and sees a building with the sign, "Hans Olaffsen’s Laundry." "Hans Olaffsen?", he muses. "How the heck does that fit in here?" So he walks into the shop and sees an old Chinese gentleman behind […]

Scrabble Trivia

A 28-year-old stock options trader won the U.S. Scrabble championship and $25,000 in prize money Thursday, beating out 125 other top-rated contestants by spelling out words such as "juba" and "anoretic." Brian Cappelletto, a frequent second-place finisher in Scrabble tournaments, which he began entering as a 15-year-old prodigy, used all seven letters in his rack […]

Idiots At Work

IDIOTS SHOPPING… I was signing the receipt for my credit card Purchase when the clerk noticed that I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction unless the card was signed. When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary […]

Important/Useful Sayings

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. – Unknown After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn’t for everyone." – Larry Brown Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I never tried. – Mae West When in doubt, duck. – Malcolm Forbes You can’t depend on your eyes […]

President Clinton’s Story

Subject: First Frog The President takes the day off work to elude the press corps and Hillary. He decides to go out golfing. Bill gives the slip to the Secret Service guys and ends up, unrecognized, at a small public course in Maryland. He is on the second hole when he notices a frog sitting […]

The Pope And The Queen

The Pope and Queen Elizabeth were standing on a balcony beaming at thousands of people in the forecourt below. The Queen says to the Pope out of the corner of her mouth "I bet you a tenner that I can make every English person in the crowd go wild with just a wave of my […]