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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.

So Moves The Claviger Beetle

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

(Genesis 1:26-28 and 31 and 1:20b-24, JB; Malachi 2:15, NIV; Mark 10:6-9, NEB) God did not stop at creating a man; he also created a woman to produce what might be called a divine duet. In creating man and woman, God brought into existence things which had no previous existence. The divine duet formed the […]

Prayer

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

“He who neglects prayer, thinking there is another door for repentance, seeks the devils.” (St Isaac the Syrian)

The Prayer Of King James’ Mother

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

Before Elizabeth had her beheaded, Mary, Queen of Scots, a devout Christian and loyal Catholic to the end — as well as mother of James I (inspiration for the King James Bible) — composed the following prayer (this is Swinburne’s translation from the Latin that Her Maiesty composed it in) O Lord my God, I […]

Purposeful Fasting

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-141 (Devotional) THE PURPOSE OF FASTING by Peter Kennedy “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the […]

God Is A Sea

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God is our shelter and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not be afraid, even if the earth is shaken and mountains fail into the ocean depths; even if the seas roar and rage, and the hills are shaken by the violence. I am the Lord: why don’t you […]

Why Pray?

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

Recently I was asked, “If God is all-knowing, all-powerful and has everything planned out, why pray?” It is a common question and an excellent one. I have found in the Bible four reasons for prayer, and today I am going to lay them out for you to examine and think through. You may know additional […]

Squeezed Dry Then Cast Aside

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

My tears have been my food day and night, while others say to me continually, ‘Where is your God?’ My thoughts today are resentful, for God’s hand is heavy on me in my trouble. If only I knew how to find him, how to enter his court, I would state my case before him and […]

Prayer For The Bored

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PRAYER ON THE OCCASION OF UTTER BOREDOM IN CHURCH Oh Lord, this service is so dull that I think I must be dead. But if it be, Lord, by your grace and favour, that I am not in fact dead – merely stunned into mind-numbing oblivion by the overall tedium, and general inconsequentiality of the […]

Help Lord, I’m Hurting!

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Surely our griefs he himself bore, and our sorrows he carried… But he was pierced through for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon him, and by his scourging we are healed. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, […]

Holiness And The Methodists

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

“Knowing exactly what I say, and taking the full responsibility of it, I repeat, [the Methodists] are the only Church in history, from the apostles’ time till now, that has put forth as its very elemental thought the great pervading idea of the whole Book of God from the beginning to the end — the […]

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