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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.

Attending Church And Cell Phones

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

The original message (August 2002) NOT ALL AS IT SEEMS (EP News) Priests in a local Milan parish mistook a young couple’s frequent visits to the church as devotion to a Madonna statue as the two sat quietly in front of it for an hour on a regular basis. The couple had been visiting the […]

Homosexuality (Pro-Gay Christian Apologetic)

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ 2 comments

“Many are quick to cite Leviticus when condemning homosexuality. “A man shall not lie with a man as one does with a woman. It is an abomination.” (Lev. 18:22) This condemnation is invalid for the modern day on several counts: 1) Not all that was forbidden or commanded the OT Jew carries the same injunction […]

How To Know The Lord

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

(1) THINKING BIBLICALLY ABOUT JUSTICE “Justice and righteousness…Caring for the poor and needy … Is not this to know me? says the Lord”. Jeremiah 22:15b-16 Christians of all kinds – Catholic, Conciliar and Evangelical – are now more concerned than ever about social justice. Theology is never a “value-free” discipline, and in a world of […]

Give me this mountain!(Caleb)

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Give Me This Mountain (Joshua 14:6-13) A sermon preached at the induction and commissioning of Philip Hunt as the executive director of World Vision Australia. In this ‘charge’ to you Philip, I want to talk about one of my biblical heroes, CALEB. We don’t know very much about him, but the few clues we are […]

Overcoming the Fear of Failure

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

(First draft of a chapter for the forthcoming Still Waters- style book for new Christians – GROW! – published by the Joint Board of Christian Education). Rowland Croucher Overcoming The Fear Of FailureMy brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, because you know that the testing of […]

Forgiving Others

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Forgive Others (And Don’t Forget Yourself!)I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! […]

Retreat Questions

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

RETREAT QUESTIONS Select some/all of the following, and jot down notes for discussion in your journal: 1. Do a time-line of your life, noting ‘highs’ and ‘lows’ (however you like to define them). Graph the highest and lowest and put rough dates against these, noting your feelings then and now about these events/experiences. Why were/are […]

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