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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.

Time And Justice

More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress […]

The Sin Of Indifference

The Sin of Indifference (April 12, 1999) – Elie Wiesel 1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer In the summer of 1944 in Hungary, the Nazis deported teenage Elie Wiesel, along with his father, mother and sisters, to Auschwitz extermination camp in occupied Poland. Upon arrival there, Wiesel and his father were selected for slave labor and began […]

Persecution Of Christians March 2001

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 110 – Thu 29 Mar 2001 WELCOME to the 13 intercessors who have joined the list this month. DURING MARCH WE PRAYED FOR: * believers who suffer in ‘closed’ countries, where it is difficult to get religious liberty monitors in, and where poverty and a lack of communications make […]

Religion In Australia. April 2001

18th April, 2001. Had a meeting this morning with a couple of colleagues, and we swapped theories about the following (roughly based on data from the Christian Research Association: their new CD on religion in Australia is supposed to be a better summary than any comparable effort in any other country. I’ve been playing around […]

Religious Liberty (?) In Bhutan

Subj: Bhutan For: World Evangelical Fellowship’s Religious Liberty E-mail Dear Friends, Here is an update on the Buddhist country of Bhutan. A small, landlocked Himalayan kingdom wedged between Chinese Tibet and India, it is ruled by 45 year-old King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, and is essentially a Buddhist theocracy. Although there have been some liberal reforms […]

Dvar Torah About Nissan (Ohr Somayach)

Seasons Of The Moon The Jewish Year seen through its months ==================================== Nissan/Iyar 5761 March 25 – May 22, 2001 ==================================== THE LIGHT OF THE NIGHT Imagine a world where when you turned on the light, darkness shone from the lamp. Imagine a world that when you closed the shutters and nothing could penetrate from […]

April 2001 Religious Liberty Update

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 114 – Thu 26 Apr 2001 WELCOME to the 20 intercessors who have joined the list this month. IN APRIL WE PRAYED CONCERNING: * TURKMENISTAN – where, under the oppressive and dictatorial rule of President Niyazov, authorities are pursuing a vicious campaign to ‘strangle the local church’, ignoring intense […]

Jesus Film

4.1 BILLION VIEW ‘JESUS’ FILM IN 636 LANGUAGES The “Jesus” film continues to break records in its desire to lead people to Christ. Ministry officials say that 4.1 billion people have seen the film. That’s up from 3.9 billion in October. The “Jesus” Film has been translated into 636 languages, leading some 128 million people […]

Praying With The Digital Natives

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-037 (Leadership Issues) PRAYING WITH THE DIGITAL NATIVES CLM recently ran a review of a trilogy Leonard Sweet’s books (CLM-1-022). Thanks to Terry Mattingly we can now bring you this report of Sweet’s sharp and perceptive address at a global forum for leaders from 150 Christian campuses. It’s hard to move into […]

The Swaggie

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-046 (Evangelism/Witnessing) THE SWAGGIE One night at a small church in Atlanta, Georgia, a man shared how he had become a Christian while in Sydney, Australia. “I was at the street corner in Kings Cross,” the man began, “when I felt a tug on my sleeve. Turning, I found myself face to […]