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Hi friends, (Updated May 2014) [1] CANCER SCARE: My wife – of 54 wonderful years – Jan has suffered a couple of serious health issues in the last 12 months (mainly Pulmonary Embolism, and an aggressive form of Uterine Cancer + a few other medical issues). See here for updates. (Rev.) […]
PERSECUTION UPDATE – JUNE 2010
June 2010 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. * EGYPT: CHRISTIAN TEENAGE BROTHERS LOSE COURT CASE * INDIA: BRUTAL MURDER […]
COMMUNICATION IN MARRIAGE
Marriage counseling and creativity (Rowland Croucher) wrote: Every day this sort of thing happens in my counseling room: She: ¢â‚¬ËœHe doesn ¢â‚¬â„¢t talk to me! ¢â‚¬â„¢ He: ¢â‚¬ËœI bloodywell talk all day to people earning a living to pay our bills, and when I come home I need space, silence ¢â‚¬ ¦ ¢â‚¬â„¢ She: ¢â‚¬ËœOK, I ¢â‚¬â„¢ll respect that. However it […]
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION, by Rowland Croucher
He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, ¢â‚¬ËœLord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples. ¢â‚¬â„¢ He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve, whom he also named […]
The Best Books I’ve Ever Read
My journey as a Christian, lover/husband, father, and pastor/teacher/ evangelist has covered different terrains during threescore and ten-plus years. Here’s a rough chronological journey listing books that influenced me at the time. Remember, I’m not back there, stuck where-I-was. I was brought up in a ‘gentle fundamentalist’ church (Open or Plymouth Brethren) and I’m still […]
Universalism: Will God Empty Hell?
The following is an excerpt from my book LIVE! (Meditations and prayers on 22 Big Questions! In several Bible colleges I have asked the students to answer, without too much time to think, this question: ¢â‚¬ËœDoes God love the devil? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Invariably the responses are equally divided between ¢â‚¬ËœYes ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœNo ¢â‚¬â„¢ and ¢â‚¬ËœDon ¢â‚¬â„¢t know. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Of course, God is […]
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [2]
Previous article… http://jmm.org.au/articles/23664.htm ISLAM: Is there a ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically? Some notes from my recent reading: People Like Us ¢â‚¬“ How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Waleed Aly, 2007). Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and […]
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [1]
ISLAM: Is there a ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically? Some notes from my recent reading: People Like Us ¢â‚¬“ How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Waleed Aly, 2007). Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom […]
The Problem of Suffering: 8 considerations
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest. Psalm 22:1. My inward parts are in turmoil, and are never still; days […]
SURPRISED BY HOPE
SURPRISED BY HOPE: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (N T WRIGHT, 2008). Bishop Tom Wright is currently the English-speaking world ¢â‚¬â„¢s most influential evangelical scholar. He is ¢â‚¬Ëœevangelical ¢â‚¬â„¢ (being quite a literalist in terms of what happened at the resurrection of Jesus for example), but also tantalizes us in terms of […]
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