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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.

Teaching Theology

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Creative Teaching Ideas (From a very rich source of ideas on this subject – Geoff Pound’s Blog http://theologianswithoutborders.blogspot.com/) Johnson Lim, Singapore-based author and teacher in several subjects, including Old Testament and Homiletics, provides this bundle of creative teaching methods: Some key words for me include: Relevance, (Re) Contextualisation and Creativity. 1) Contextualisation e.g. When I […]

Home blessings

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

From an experienced pastor: I’ve been invited to bless new homes on several occasions over the years – mostly by people from the Indian subcontinent. I normally take an extemporaneous approach. Over the years I have also been involved in a few “spiritual cleansings” of homes in which there have been disturbances. It’s been encouraging […]

Non-synoptic Church Leadership

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

You probably know that important guides for the Christian faith are the Synoptic Gospels. Synoptic is a word that comes from the Greek meaning literally to see together. A symphony is when everything sounds together. Synoptic is when we see everything together – such as the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, whose accounts of […]

Churchgoing on its knees in the U.K.

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

May 8, 2008 Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent Church attendance in Britain is declining so fast that the number of regular churchgoers will be fewer than those attending mosques within a generation, research published today suggests. The fall – from the four million people who attend […]

The People formerly known as The Congregation

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Jay Rosen created the meme of The People Formerly Known as the Audience – those of us who are no longer content to be content consumers – but have become content creators ourselves. The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people of our existence, and of a shift in power that […]

The Religion Works

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Sermons by Harry T. Cook April 27, 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note: Sermons are distributed to subscribers of http://www.harrytcook.com [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DCuvW1rThPQYoPe5niSmfy0H7FtxQ4KsZ-BEnJ_tVZY2dzRTn3aMwve70MNcbRUYhe9adUJN0GbqlLyndYMyJDdYcKLETdpAhibeogNAaBrpXiiOmCASNQ==] Sundays at 11 a.m. Eastern time. To read this week’s sermon “Forty Years, More Or Less,” just scroll down. I was ordained 40 years ago April 27. I thought I knew everything then. My Hebrew, Aramaic and […]

Definition of the Call/Calling

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Thomas Scarborough Dr. George N. Malek must be one of South Africa’s most abstruse theologians. He is, in fact, both a doctor of theology and a doctor of psychology. Among his many publications is a fourteen-page booklet titled THE CALLING TO THE PRIESTHOOD, which is the subject of this review. But first, some definitions. […]

The Purposes of the Church ( Methodist perspective)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bible is clear about the purpose of the Church. Jesus is clear that the mission of the church is to “make disciples.” The Church is the place where we are called to follow Christ. The Church is the place where we learn what it means to follow Christ. The Bible guides us in our […]

Challenges for small-church pastors

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Challenges listed by small-church pastors By Jerry Higgins Apr 10, 2008 LEWISVILLE, N.C. (BP)–A LifeWay Research study reveals that the top challenge facing small-church pastors is finding enough hours in the day to do the Lord’s work. Brad Waggoner, vice president of B&H Publishing Group and former LifeWay Christian Resources vice president over the research […]

5 Moral Fences