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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 Wheel

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

Here’s what the wheel is all about. When you receive this, say a prayer for the person that sent it to you…. That’s all you have to do….There is nothing attached…. This is so powerful….Just send this to someone you care about and watch God’s answer to prayer work in your life. Do not stop […]

Meditation Walk

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

Darlene, Rowland Croucher has passed your request to me in Melbourne [and Ross Kingham in Canberra] A resource you may find helpful is Linus Mundy, 1997, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO PRAYER WALKING: A SIMPLE PATH TO BODY-AND-SOUL FITNESS, Crossroad Publishing Company, New York. [168pp.] If for some reason you can’t get access to a copy, […]

Prayer

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

FREE CALLS $.00 Per Minute You qualify for long distance services with a 100% discount. Service is quick and access is easy. Jesus is standing by to take your calls. Lines are always open, you will never be put on hold. Calls can be made day or night, 24 hours a day, 7 days a […]

St. Hilary: Precursor To Eternity

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

Christian Quotation of the Day November 2, 2000 Feast of All Souls In this calm assurance of safety did my soul gladly and hopefully take its rest, and feared so little the interruption of death, that death seemed only a name for eternal life. And the life of this present body was so far from […]

Individual And Corporate Spirituality

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

The bishop of Belley, Jean Pierre Camus, wanted to know if Francis de Sales was really as holy as he seemed to be. So he drilled a hole in the wall of his bedroom in the episcopal residence to spy on him. What did Camus discover? Only that Francis was the same in secret as […]

Prayer

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

I remember the first book on prayer I ever read – “The Kneeling Christian”. The evocative way it began is still fresh after thirty years. “God wondered,” said the ancient prophet. Imagine that! Why would God wonder about anything? “God wondered that there was no intercessor….” The book was an urgent summons to what used […]

Was Jesus a Christian? (I Doubt It)

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Christians come in about 13 varieties. These varieties (or mindsets) can be found in all religions. You mustn’t judge any religion simply on its caricatures. My theses: Each mind-set makes part of Christianity the whole of it. There’s nothing wrong with the parts. But like a car, if you’ve only got parts lying around you’re […]

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