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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.

‘Freedom’, the ‘Therapy Eagle’ – a beautiful story!

By and others ⋅ May 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

http://1monthtochangeyourlife.blogspot.com/ Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/

Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride

By and others ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.lshs64.com/enjoytheride.html

Some Good Quotes

By and others ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“Philosophers have sought to interpret the world, the point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx When I get a little money, I buy books. If I have any left, I buy food and clothes. –Erasmus When I feed the poor, I’m called a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, […]

Death before you die

By and others ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and call you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.. You refuse to do it because you want to […]

How to Dance in the Rain

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

It was a busy morning, about 8:30 , when an elderly gentleman in his 80s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an […]

Work

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From a friend: WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY 28 APRIL 2009 * Work in its different forms,is mentioned more than eight hundred times in the Bible;of the 132 public appearances of Jesus,122 were in the market place;of 52 parables,45 are in a workplace context”. # In Australia 21 workers die each day from work-related incidents or diseases,1890 […]

Success Quotes

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“If you want to build a ship, don’t summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organise the work; rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.” — Antoine de Saint-Exup ©ry “A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. […]

Struggling with Respectability?

By and others ⋅ March 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Selwyn Hughes tells of a humiliating, ‘ugly’ time in his ministry when, after preaching a hugely theological sermon and feeling somewhat proud of himself, his ego was dropped from a rather large height when a trusted confidant assisted God in reinforcing that Jesus didn’t say, “Feed my giraffes,” but “Feed my sheep.”[1] Hughes was suddenly […]

Pride

By and others ⋅ March 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From a Facebook friend: “This is an interesting concept … a question arises: how do you know if “God has done this for me” or if “God hasn’t done this for me”. We then need some criteria to judge if God ever does anything for anyone. The issue for me is not so much has […]

Wisdom

By and others ⋅ March 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(from a Facebook friend) “Don’t believe everything you think” “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” (martin luther king jr) “the time is coming when my law will be written on their hearts” (yhwh) “A map of the world that does not include utopia isn’t even worth a […]

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