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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.

Youth: Information About ‘Millennials’

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

INFORMATION ABOUT MILLENNIALS ON THE INTERNET <http://www.millennials.com/ltm/ltm.html> – “Love Those Millennials” <http://www.fourthturning.com/cgi-local/netforum/millennial/a.cgi/3–14> – “Reaching Millennials on the Internet” <http://www.fourthturning.com/cgi-local/netforum/generations/a.cgi/3–6> – “Millennials and G.I.s” – Discussion Group <http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~thomas/growing.htm> – “Growing Up Digital” <http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~thomas/x-mgap.htm> – “Is There and X- M Gap?” <http://www.ncbaptist.com/Nov98/Shock.htm> – “Culture Shock: Radical Change Required for Success in Youth Ministry” <http://www.christianchronicle.org/p18c_indepth.htm> – “Real Faith […]

Prayer And The Ordered Life

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by Revd John Simpson, (General Superintendent, Baptist Union of Victoria, Australia) There’s not too much doubt about it. Painful as it may be to say it, some pastors are not the most organised people in this world. Now this is not meant to be an unkind swipe at dedicated people who give themselves tirelessly to […]

Where Is God? (Part 1) – Depression

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(Elijah #4-1/6) Paul Harrison 1 Kings 19:1-18 James reminds us, in the New Testament book that bears his name (5:17), that "Elijah was a man of human frailty like ourselves." Nowhere is his frailty more obvious than in the episode recorded in the 19th chapter of I Kings. It comes as a surprise. Nothing in […]

Where Is God? (Part 2) – Depression

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(Elijah #4-2/6) Paul Harrison THE REMEDY FOR HIS DEPRESSION Look at God’s servant now, morosely convinced that neither his own faith and obedience on the one hand, nor the much publicised power of God to save on the other hand, has really changed anything at all. See how God gently takes His stricken servant in […]

Job Or Ministry?

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by James N. Spurgeon A job is at your choice; A ministry is at Christ’s call. In a job you expect to receive; In a ministry you expect to give. In a job you give something to get something; In a ministry you return something that has already been given to you. A job depends […]

Clergy Sabbaths

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For your interest – here is a summary of the outcome of a motion brought to Melbourne (Anglican) diocesan synod this year. The original motion, responding to a recently released research report on clergy stress, called for synod to encourage all clergy to take two days-off per week. I was disappointed not to be at […]

Nominality (Lausanne Statement)

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Statement to the Churches on Nominality from the Lausanne International Consultation on Nominalism (High Leigh, Hoddesdon, U.K., December 1998) 1. The Consultation 1.1 In December 1998 65 men and women from 15 countries and all six continents met to discuss ministry in relation to nominality among people who identify themselves as Christians. Those gathered represented […]

Do Pastors Have To Study Hebrew And Greek?

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I want to use this post to make a point I have long felt, but have a minority opinion about… Graeme Hunt wrote: > Pastors who are worth their salt are learned in Hebrew and Greek. > These are the tools for exegesis in order to teach what the scripture > says. First, let me […]

Twenty-Five Ways To Lose Your Passion For Ministry [2]

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Continuing: Twenty-Five Ways To Lose Your Passion For Ministry [1] AND HOW TO GET IT BACK! by Thomas F. Fischer A Passion For The Wrong Things A major part of the reason for passion problems is that we are passionate for the wrong things. In fact, passion for things is a mis-guided, idolatrous passion. It’s […]

Twenty-Five Ways To Lose Your Passion For Ministry [1]

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by Thomas F. Fischer What Happened To Passion? You feel you’ve given the ministry all you’ve got. Now, after further reflection, you are resigned to carry on in "same ol’, same ol’" mode. What happened to the passion? What happened to the unquenchable fire, the burning drive, the exuberant energies? No, people around you may […]

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