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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.

Prayer In A Time Of War

By and others ⋅ April 14, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Leaves G’day friends, Just thought I offer a few thoughts. Whether or not the timing and international approval of this war was right, some things are worse than war. For one, unimpeded and massive atrocities are worse than war. It’s true that one can never know for sure whether war will bring an end to […]

Prayers For Children In Time Of War

By and others ⋅ April 2, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Prayers for children At a time such as this children may ask why do we have to fight each other? Why does God let it happen? Where is God? Children will be seeing images of war on the television and in newspapers and they may be afraid by what they see and whether it will […]

Prayers Of Peace For Iraq

By and others ⋅ March 25, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Peace for Iraq 20 March 2003 | ACNS PRAYERS For the Human Family O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite […]

Spiritual Direction Before ’77

By and others ⋅ March 22, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi, I just came upon your site using search terms evangelical and taize. In you article “Spirituality and spiritual direction” you ask, “Can you name one book about the classical practice of spiritual direction either written by an evangelical or by any non-Catholic before 1977?” Yes, I can name a Reformed theologian who wrote a […]

On Loving God

By and others ⋅ March 16, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-039 ON LOVING GOD From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Theophilus [lover of God]… Acts 1:1,2. Over the next eleven meditations we’ll relive one of the most exciting few weeks in human history. Luke wrote his two-part story about […]

I Will Meet You There

By and others ⋅ February 25, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

My Dear Child, Prayer is not complicated. It is very simple. It is a conversation between your heart and mine. It is a place where all of your questions and all of My answers can find each other. It is the breath of My Holy Spirit cooling your anxiety and stirring up the flames of […]

President Bush And Prayer

By and others ⋅ February 18, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From a netfriend: Thank you for your comments John, I feel that I need to respond to your encouragement about the US President George W. Bush being a man of prayer and Christian faith. I want to say that I am pleased that President Bush proclaims faith in Christ, and that he prays about his […]

We Never Talk Anymore

By and others ⋅ February 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

–author unknown– Dear Friend, As you got up this morning, I watched you and hoped you would talk to me, even if it was just a few words, asking my opinion, or thanking me for something good that happened in your life yesterday. but I noticed you were too busy trying to find the right […]

Spiritual Holiday

By and others ⋅ February 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

(From a friend): I have included an article from the AGE which I enjoyed reading. It is from a Catholic web site http://www.thetablet.co.uk. 20/07/2002 Swap duty for delight Monika-Clare Ghosh In the second in our series to help readers restore true leisure to their lives, a hermit writes from the Irish midlands with some suggestions […]

Sometimes

By and others ⋅ January 24, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Sometimes I say: “It’s impossible.” God says: “All things are possible!” (Luke 18:27) Sometimes I say: “I’m too tired.” God says: “Come to me, I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28-30) “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their Strength.” (Isaiah 40:31) Sometimes I say: “Nobody really loves me.” God says: “I love you.” […]

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