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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.

Life Is A Juggling Game

(~) 5 Balls This was written by the President and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Brian G. Dyson. It was used at Georgia Tech’s 172nd Commencement Address Sept. 6, 1991. Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them–work, family, health, friends, and spirit, and you’re […]

2 Days We Need Not Worry About

There are two days in every week that we should not worry about. Two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One is YESTERDAY, with its mistakes and cares, its faults, and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring […]

The Positive Side Of Life

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on. Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live. Happiness comes through doors you didn’t even know you left […]

The Allegory Of The Frog

A Lesson of Life Once upon a time there was a race of frogs The goal was to reach the top of a high tower.Many people gathered to see and support them. The race began In reality, the people didn’t believe that it was possible that the frogs would reach the top of the tower, […]

Importance Of Being Apathetic

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-113 (Apologetics and Social Issues) BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030604 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING APATHETIC – When the Faithful Just Don’t Care Columnist Jonathan Rauch believes that America has made “a major civilizational advance” in recent years. Rauch, a longtime atheist, is thrilled about a phenomenon he calls “apatheism.” It’s not […]

Some Inspiring Thoughts

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future. Love…and you shall be loved. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. All people smile in the same language. A […]

Smile!

Breakfast at McDonald’s … Please read until the end. This is a good story and is true, please read it all the way through until the end! (After the story, there are some very interesting facts!): I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last […]

Strength And Courage

It takes strength to be certain, It takes courage to have doubts. It takes strength to fit in, It takes courage to stand out. It takes strength to share a friend’s pain, It takes courage to feel your own pain. It takes strength to hide your own pain, It takes courage to show it and […]

Two Brothers

Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of the household, a goldsmith by profession, worked almost eighteen hours a day at his trade and any other paying chore […]

Little Inspirations

“True happiness…is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller “The genius of life is to carry the spirit of childhood into old age.” ~ Aldous Huxley “The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the […]