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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.

Dr Jensen’s Jesus

By and others ⋅ January 23, 2006 ⋅ One comment

The Future of Jesus: Boyer Lectures 2005 (Dr Peter Jensen, ABC Books, December 2005). Everybody liked Jesus Everybody wanted to hang out with Him Anything He wanted to do, He did He turned water into wine And if He wanted to He could have turned wheat into marijuana Or sugar into cocaine Or vitamin pills […]

Liberation Theology

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

John Risley: Liberation Spirituality When Christians, in their struggle to create a just society, turn to the historical Jesus and make a preferential option to support the poor, a spirituality of liberation emerges. ————————————————————————– Father Risley, O.P., serves in the Social Pastoral Office of the archdiocese of Cochabamba, Bolivia, is a member of the Permanent […]

Frank Schaeffer on Fundamentalism etc.

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Fundamentalists to the Right, Fundamentalists to the Left What my hate mail tells me about Christian factions today. By Frank Schaeffer I abandoned Protestant Christian fundamentalism many years ago for Greek Orthodoxy. I converted because the Orthodox tradition embraces paradox and mystery. For someone raised in a strict Calvinist home, relief from absolutist certainty was […]

Jensen and Jesus – one response

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

18 January 2006 PROMISE ? Baptist Minister Dr Mark Tronson, the Australian Cricket Chaplain and Chairman of Well-Being Australia writes that it’s been a pleasure listening to, and then reading Peter Jensen the Sydney Anglican Archbishop “Boyer Lecturers” http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/mission/boyer/ I felt that, here was someone who articulated with much skill the Jesus challenge. Peter Jensen’s […]

Baptism in water or in blood

By and others ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

One netfriend: The person who told me of their lives also said that as they were beheaded by the soldiers’ swords that a man nearby had a vision of hands from heaven placing martyr’s crowns on their heads. I haven’t been able to confirm if that really happened. Another: This is a common vision at […]

Truth

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Mark T asked: What are the TOOLS for evaluating truth? Reason, Experience, Tradition, Revelation/Bible Now class: put these in order for Evangelical/Conservative Christians: Pentecostal/Charismatic Christians: Liberal Christians: Pre-Vatican 2 Catholic Christians: Lutherans who are Lutheran (see http://jmm.org.au/articles/16579.htm ) Note: _all four_ are tools for evaluating truth for all four groups Shalom! Rowland Croucher

Anglican proposals for women bishops

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

16 JANUARY 2005 Guildford Group sets out proposals for women bishops A Church of England group is proposing a way forward aimed at both permitting women to become bishops – should General Synod vote in favour of this – and of preserving the maximum amount of unity within the Church. The group, chaired by the […]

The Gospel Concept of the Cross

By and others ⋅ January 16, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

From a netfriend: This is an excerpt from John Howard Yoder’s “The Politics of Jesus”, where he talks a great deal about bearing one’s cross, and the inevitable suffering that comes with genuine commitment to Christ. He then tempers those comments with this passage. “This Gospel concept of the cross of the Christian does not […]

Luther on ‘Reason’

By and others ⋅ January 16, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

From somewhere in a Usenet newsgroup Faith and reason are somehow uncontradictory, but we don’t know how? Then BOTH are useless! If it just seems that faith and reason are contradictory, which do we trust? Do we adopt orwellian doublethink and adopt both? The articles of Christian faith are not logical, not reasonable. So much […]

Music and the Devil

By and others ⋅ January 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

From Mark in response to the question WHAT WOULD JESUS HAVE ON HIS IPOD? ~~~ Apparently NOT the following !!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Wicca%20&%20Witchcraft/signs_of_satan.htm the following would be banned from Jesus’ ipod because they show the “handsign of Satan”! Bill Clinton, John Kerry, George W Bush, Prince William. Paul McCartney, Spiderman Elizabeth Taylor, Amy Grant, […]

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