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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

The Challenge And Promise Of Reformed Theology

The current theological climate can best be characterized by the surprising collapse of God into the human community. The understandable and essential efforts of theologians to address the dignity, freedom, and equality of all human beings in the local and global community has led theologians of all stripes, from political and liberation theology to radical […]

Reviving The Living

I received a weekly mailing from AISH …. the Jewish community …. I love some of the things they post and this is one of the good ones …… Rosh Hashanna & Reviving the Living by Rebbetzin Tzipporah Heller *** Some people walk around as the living dead; others are the most alive when dying. […]

Jesus’ Knowledge Of His Divinity

Guillermo: You wrote: Anyway, “The Last Temptation” does rise a point that has come to my attention again very recently, I’d like to read your opinions: During His earthly life, Was Jesus Christ aware that He was God Incarnate? And of course, this is NOT a Yes/No question. And does the answer to this question […]

The Deep, Dark Pit

A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. A subjective person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.” An objective person walked by and said, “It’s logical that someone would fall down there.” A Pharisee said, “Only bad people fall into pits.” A mathematician calculated how deep the pit […]

Homosexuality: Truth And Love

30 June 2001. Rowland, I have enjoyed reading articles on your website from time to time. Your series on recent trends in evangelicalism was especially meaningful to my wife and me several years ago as we moved from a conservative, strongly reformed evangelical church to a mainline Episcopal (USA) church. Today I read with interest […]

Non-Sexist Bible Translations

(Andrew Bromage) writes: >G’day all. >enterfornone writes: >>The Bible would need some significant changes in order to be >>non-sexist. I’d seriously question the accuracy of a non-sexist >>Bible. >You’re using the term in a different way than Rowland is. >I don’t think the term “non-sexist” is helpful here. A better term >is “gender accurate”. That […]

Recommended Books: Some Suggestions

Just a few comments, Rowland. “Rowland Croucher” <> writes: >I’ve just modified this list ( it’s on >http://skyfamily.com/rcroucher/index9.html ) >Whast would you add/delete? >RECOMMENDED BOOKS. >What would you say are the 100 or so essential books a literate Christian – >particularly a pastor – should read? >Any response has to be personal/subjective of course. But […]

What Kind Of Baptist?

Aaron wrote in message . > >Terry & Utahna” wrote in message > . > I am an Independent, Bible Believing, Fundamentalist Baptist. However, in > the Pacific Northwest you have to be careful by calling yourself > Independent. Up there the term carries with it the association of being > BBF. I’m not sure […]

‘There’s Life In The Old Church Yet’

A NOTED 19th-century academic and prelate – it might have been Dr Spooner of Spoonerism fame; I’ve misplaced my source – once descended from the pulpit after preaching for an hour, stopped, turned, and climbed back up. “Of course,” he told his startled listeners, “every time I said Aristotle, I meant St Paul.” One can […]

Obsolete King James Bible Words

The following is a select listing of obsolete terms and their meanings in current terminology. A more complete list may be found in The Interpreter’s Dictionary of The Bible published by Abingdon Press. The number of obsolete words is well over 1000, many of the words though obsolete in common language are still used in […]