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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.

Ambition

By and others ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Ambitious Like Jesus If your ambitions aren’t worth your life, they’re not big enough. Will Willimon Tuesday, October 12, 2010 So my wife signs me up to participate in a research project at Duke that was investigating the “effect of exercise upon Type A personalities who had no previous experience with physical exercise.” Why did […]

Crabby old man…

By and others ⋅ November 29, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

CRABBY OLD MAN When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte , Nebraska , it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff […]

The Seasons

By and others ⋅ November 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/theseasonsoflife.htm

The Magnificence of God’s Creation

By and others ⋅ November 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

www.andiesisle.com/creation/magnificent.html

Your place – on a map, and in a photo

By and others ⋅ November 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Click on the www below TYPE a postal any address in the world and you will see the location on a map and also photo of the place ! Incredible! The link: http://www.vpike.com/

How to Read Books

By and others ⋅ November 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

How to Massively Increase Your Reading Comprehension What was the last great non-fiction book that you read? What one book was so good, that after you finished it, you promised yourself that you were going to read it again? One more question, how many books on your bookshelf do you have, that you told yourself […]

Slowness: this is important

By and others ⋅ November 17, 2010 ⋅ One comment

What is  In Praise of Slow about? It ¢â‚¬â„¢s about how the world got stuck in fast-forward and how more and more people everywhere are slowing down. In other words, it ¢â‚¬â„¢s about the rise of the Slow Movement. In Praise of Slow is published in 30 languages and has been a bestseller in many countries. In October […]

Self-harming addiction

By and others ⋅ November 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Sophie Scott (2008) Crying Scarlet Tears-My journey through Self Harm (U.K: Monarch Books) pp.154 The issue of self harming by adolescents is not something I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve come across much over the years and when I did it was while serving as a Chaplain in a state government secondary college. In this book we witness a compelling, […]

42 little exercises to enhance a more gentle/humbler life

By and others ⋅ November 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(Submitted by some of my Facebook friends) 1. Pick up someone’s rubbish every day 2. Be grateful when you’re passed over: helps shed any ‘sense of entitlement’ 3. Listen – *really* listen 4. Drive defensively 5. Communicate ‘you’re wrong’ with genuine love 6. Arrive early and pray 7. Be open to a new idea 8. […]

Jonathan Franzen, Freedom: a Novel

By and others ⋅ November 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Nearly a decade after publishing his prize-winning novel The Corrections, Franzen has done it again. Freedom is currently (November 2010) the most-discussed contemporary work of English-language fiction in the U.S. and Australia and who knows where else. Freedom is the complicated story of an unfree, deteriorating middle-class Minnesotan family (parents Walter and Patty Berglund, children, […]

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