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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.

Loneliness

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

But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. I will get up now and go about the […]

Temptations

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

“If our eneme owte wynnith of us by our fallyng, for it is his likenes, he lesith manyfold more in our rising be charite and mekeness . than is this the remedy – that we ben aknowen our writchisnes and flen to our Lord. For ever the mor nedier that we ben, the more spedefull […]

A God Who Works Wonders

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

[The brothers] left Egypt and went back home to their father Jacob in Canaan. ‘Joseph is still alive!’ they told him. ‘He is the ruler of all Egypt!’ Jacob was stunned and could not believe them. When the Lord brought us back to Jerusalem, it was like a dream! How we laughed, how we sang […]

Prayer

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

Dear Friend, Have you ever thought what a wonderful thing it is to pray? So often when people talk about prayer it sounds like a chore, or a duty, or one of those things that we know we ought to do, but find ever so difficult. It is sad how few people talk about it […]

Food For Prayer

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

from Dom Hubert van Zeller Ultimate intimacy, as St. Augustine and his mother St. Monica discovered while looking out of a window at Ostia, is not a sharing of words or impressions but a sharing of silence. +++ According to a man’s temperament or mood, silence is either an emptiness, a luxury, a burden, or […]

Notes On Prayer

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

We will be talking about awareness, meditation, contemplation, interior silence – wordless heart to heart prayer – prayer that is deeper than words can express. Prayer is the deepening of an interpersonal relationship. It is an intimate time between you and God. Not a time to pray for people, wants. Put aside all thoughts of […]

The Waiting Game

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

Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord. For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him. It will be said on that day ‘Lo this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.’ From of […]

On Sabbatical

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

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Six days you shall do your […]

Talking It Through

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

‘Come now, let us talk this over,’ says Yahweh. ‘Yahweh,’ he said, ‘I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down and went to sleep… But the angel of Yahweh came back a second time and touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat, or the […]

Still Waters… Deep Waters

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

He lets me rest in fields of green grass and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water. A person’s thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can draw them. out. Tremble with fear and stop sinning; think deeply about this, when you lie in silence on your beds. Offer […]

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