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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.

If God is my Father and you…?

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ March 3, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

by Larry Norman If God is my Father and you are my brother Then why can’t we bother to love one another? Why do we keep on acting the way we do? The way we treat each other it just breaks my heart in two. Once we were happy, oh, yes, once in the garden […]

New Beginnings

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 28, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Help Me To Believe in Beginnings God of history and of my heart, so much has happened to me during these whirlwind days: I’ve known death and birth; I’ve been brave and scared; I’ve hurt, I’ve helped; I’ve been honest, I’ve lied; I’ve destroyed, I’ve created; I’ve been with people, I’ve been lonely; I’ve been […]

In My Daughter’s Eyes

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

In my daughter’s eyes, I am a hero. I am strong and wise, and I know no fear. But the truth is plain to see. She was sent to rescue me. I see who I want to be In my daughter’s eyes. In my daughter’s eyes, everyone is equal. Darkness turns to light, and the […]

Yesterday’ Today and Tomorrow

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 21, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday’s dead Tomorrow’s unborn So there’s nothing to fear And nothing to mourn For all that is past And all that has been Can never return To be lived once again And what lies ahead Or the things that will be Are still in God’s hands So it’s not up to me To live in […]

Battle Hymn of the Republic

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 20, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Lyrics from the Bread Site, http://www.breadsite.org/hymns/Bhymnotr.htm Midi, http://www.xprt.net/~servitum/sounds/battlhymn.mid Battle Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Glory! […]

Arise, My Soul, Arise

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 17, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

No story of a hymn can be more sweet and precious than its basis in scripture. Charles Wesley shows his profound knowledge of scripture in the Biblical refernces that flowed out through his hymns. Here is the the scriptural story behind one his great hymns. Arise, my soul, arise, Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy […]

Arise My Soul (Charles Wesley)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 17, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

4-6s & 2-8s. 1 ARISE, my soul, arise, Shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice In my behalf appears; Before the throne thy Surety stands; My name is written on his hands. 2 He ever lives above, For me to intercede, His all-redeeming love, His precious blood, to plead: His blood atoned for all […]

Love Song

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 11, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

You are our source You are our reason for living Only you know what each of us needs Only you know our inmost being Search us, O Lord Delve deep inside each of us Where there is pain Send comfort Where there is sorrow Send joy Where there is disease Send healing Where there is […]

Shot Down

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ January 3, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

– Larry Norman (“In Another Land”: 1975; Solid Rock Records) i been shot down, talked about / some people scandalize my name / but here i am, talking ’bout Jesus just the same / i been knocked down, kicked around / but like a moth drawn to the flame / here i am, talking ’bout […]

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