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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.

Accept me

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

(~) Accept me Accept me as I am, I have no guarantee. A claim to perfection I have not. Perfect I cannot be. I, like you, am human. Prone to make mistakes. Failure is not a character flaw, just a part of the human makeup. I live, I laugh and I also learn. My knowledge […]

I am the very model of a modern parish minister

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I am the very model of a modern parish minister; My versatile efficiency seems positively sinister, With youth I’m awfully jolly, and with older folk refined. I’m a staunch denominationalist, yet ecumenically inclined. I’m very much au fait in matters modern theological – The ‘myths’ of Genesis 1 correlate with dogmas geological. I am chummy […]

Peace and Christmas

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

‘Peace in our time’ would be a wonderful thing. Here is a great song, written by Paul Hewson, a christian. It explains how I feel about peace in our time, especially the last stanza “You hear it every Christmas time but hope and history wont rhyme”. Heaven on earth We need it now I’m sick […]

Heaven

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven’s door, not by the beauty of it all, by the lights or its d ©cor. But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp, the thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics, the trash. There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped […]

What’s the Greatest-Ever Hymn in English?

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 3, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

For Tennyson: ‘Holy Holy Holy’…

IF (Rudyard Kipling)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ March 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or […]

After All (Henry Lawson)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ March 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

After All The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone from the bush and town; My spirit revives in the morning breeze, though it died when the sun went down; The river is high and the stream is strong, and the grass is green and tall, And I fain would think that this world of […]

Bring Many Names

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 21, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Bring many names, beautiful and good ———————————————————————— Bring many names, beautiful and good, celebrate, in parable and story, holiness in glory, living, loving God. Hail and hosanna! Bring many names! Strong mother God, working night and day, planning all the wonders of creation, setting each equation, genius at play: Hail and hosanna, strong mother God! […]

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ February 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless this bed that I lay on. Before I lay me down to sleep, I give my soul to Christ to keep. Four corners to my bed, Four angels ’round my head, One to watch, one to pray, And two to bear my soul away. I go by sea, I […]

Dear Lord I Cannot See