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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.

Rage

Rage: Both Unavoidable and Crippling Rage is not only the strongest emotion there is but it is also one of the worst forms of crippling pain.. When present, it dominates both the activities and the direction of every developmental stage during the formative years. Just as no-one can work while in severe physical pain, a […]

Thanks for Your Time

It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no […]

It

By CLYDE HABERMAN Published: October 26, 2007 Members of the American Psychological Association visited New York from Washington the other day to talk about stress. They came to the right place. Traffic in Midtown was such a disaster that day that the only anxiety-free soul would have been someone riding in the back of a […]

What is Important in Life

MAYONNAISE JAR and 2 CUPS OF COFFEE When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of Coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, […]

The Donkey

A thought for the day One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the […]

Stress/burnout Inventory For Pastors

     STRESS/BURNOUT INVENTORY FOR PASTORS/LEADERS    TICK ONE BOX 1 = YES/SERIOUS/BAD –> 5 = NO/NOT AT ALL/NOT EVER/OK    ~~~~    BACKGROUND/FAMILY OF ORIGIN/UNDERLYING FACTORS    1. My family of origin was dysfunctional 1. [     ] 2. [     ] 3. [     ] 4. [     ] 5. [     ]    2. My mother was […]

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Ethical Eating

Moving up the food chain Want to eat ethically but not sure how? Veronica Ridge navigates today’s food landscape in search of ways to eat yourself to salvation. ETHICUREAN. It’s a new word to describe a new kind of eater – a diner whose ethical concerns take priority over epicurean whims. Ethicureans like their food […]

Rich and poor and enough

From a friend: The world today has lost the meaning of the concept of “enough”; without it we will always have rich and poor, but they will always be defined as those who have more than we do and those who have less than we do, but the real meaning of rich is simply having […]

The Age of U-Turns

Thursday, Apr. 05, 2007 By BRUCE GRIERSON It’s easy to get the sense these days that you’ve stumbled into a party where the punch is spiked with some powerful drug that dramatically alters identity. The faces are familiar, but the words coming out of them aren’t. Something has happened to a lot of people you […]