Interpreting Psalm 23 - September 1st, 2010
Many people misuse the 23rd psalm, snatching at its phrases and blandly
interpreting them in the light of their received theology without
reflecting on what the author meant; particularly, is this d...
If this doesn't warm your heart, see a mortician! - September 1st, 2010
6 minutes of joy.
Never too late to try something new!!!!!
Janey Cutler (she's 80!) - Britain's Go...
Islam and Apostasy - August 31st, 2010
The Age of Apostasy
August 28, 2010 - by Richard Fernandez
Readers may recall Maher El-Gohary, the subject of a post about a month ago. He was an Egyptian Muslim who decided to convert to Christ...
Christmas Gifts - a Better Way - August 30th, 2010
This "Advent Conspiracy" video shows how by changing our spending habits at Christmas can have a huge impact on Third World people and their need of clean drinking water. Instead of buying Christmas g...
Pray for the World August 30, 2010 - August 30th, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER
* MASS ARREST OF NEW CHRISTIAN CONVERTS IN IRAN
* PRESS STATEMENT BY KENYAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH LEADERS
* WORLD HAS FORGOTTEN ABOUT SOMALIA
...
Addressing those with a 'title' - August 27th, 2010
By: Mark Tronson
Christian Today Australia Advisor
Friday, 27 August 2010,
In Australia the nature of addressing or referring to someone with a title has taken a significant change from seve...
BEING A MOTHER.... - August 26th, 2010
After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to
take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She
said, 'I love you, but I know this other woman loves
you and would love to spend some time with y...
Disasters and the Media - August 26th, 2010
Some reflections on the media and disasters:
* "Donors unmoved by Pakistan's woes",(Sunday Age 22.8.10)...."Pakistan's floods have caused unprecedented devastation...yet aid agencies are underwhelm...
Online Evangelism - August 26th, 2010
The potential of digital media for evangelism and discipleship outside the West is growing dramatically. Mobile phones users now total well over 3 billion, while 2 billion access the Web regularly. Th...
DID THE RESURRECTION HAPPEN? - August 25th, 2010
Did the Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (IVP 2009).
Here is a transcript of the third of three debates between Gary Habermas and Antony Flew - and it's one o...
DID THE RESURRECTION HAPPEN? - August 25th, 2010
Did the Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (IVP 2009).
Here is a transcript of the third of three debates between Gary Habermas and Antony Flew - and it's one o...
LIFE-COACHING AND LEADERSHIP: Three Publications - August 24th, 2010
In Greek the word 'to follow' not only means 'to walk in the
footsteps' of a master but also to accompany, to be with (Jean Vanier).
Life-coaching is 'in': anyone (thinks they) can do it; there ar...
Control and Surrender - August 24th, 2010
Thoughts on control
by Nils von Kalm
http://soulthoughts.com
U2's song Moment of Surrender has a line which simply says 'to be released from control'. It is yet another line from a U2 song wh...
THE IMPACT OF T.S. ELIOT'S CHRISTIANITY ON HIS POETRY - August 21st, 2010
By Barry Spurr
ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 16 AUG 2010
ELIOT'S CHRISTIAN POETRY NEVER IMAGINES THAT RELIGIOUS BELIEF MAKES LIFE, WITH ALL ITS DEMONS, EASIER.
By the time that T.S. Eliot, aged 39,...
Tom Frame: A House Divided? The Quest for Unity Within Anglicanism - August 16th, 2010
Bishop Tom Frame is the author or editor of twenty three books, including A Church for a Nation: A History of the Diocese of Canberra & Goulburn; Church and State: Australia’s Imaginary Wall; Angl...
Sydney Carter: 'The Dance is All I Am' - August 15th, 2010
Sydney Carter
The composer of Lord Of The Dance, his life was a musical journey in search of an unconventional God
Paul Oestreicher
The Guardian, Wednesday 17 March 2004
The songwriter S...
The Modern Search for the Historical Jesus - August 4th, 2010
Some time ago at a conference we both attended, Robert Crotty gave me the hardcopy ms of a book he'd just written. Its title: The Modern Search for the Historical Jesus. It was later published by Harp...
WAS JESUS GOD? - July 24th, 2010
In the 1960s I spent several years wandering around the campuses of Australia (as an InterVarsity Fellowship staffworker). Here's an evangelistic broadsheet which was reproduced a six-figure number of...
A Personal Note from Rowland Croucher - June 17th, 2010
JOHN MARK MINISTRIES serves Christian denominations and churches around Australia, and elsewhere, via seminars, counselling, consulting, mentoring, preaching and writing. We have three full-time staff...
The 'New' Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don't Hold Water - June 3rd, 2010
The 'New' Atheism: 10 Arguments that Don't Hold Water (Michael Poole, Lion, 2009)
Somewhere in Surprised by Joy, before he became 'the most reluctant convert in all England', C S Lewis wrote that h...
Review: Quarterly Essay - May 13th, 2010
Quarterly Essay is (in my view) a 'must-read' Australian publication, with a 25,000-word essay in each issue by a prominent academic or political commentator.
The last-but-one had a brilliant off...
Netiquette - November 21st, 2005
From a netfriend:
My mail reader does nasty things when links get too long. it's not hard to shorten links, if you use a link shortener (http://linkfrog.net, for example). Then I would't have t...
F.W.BOREHAM - March 27th, 2004
Dear friends of John Mark Ministries
For many years our ministry collected and bought/sold books, booklets and memorabilia by/associated with F W Boreham - Australia's and NZ's most collectible r...
Lovers Of Pleasure More Than Lovers Of God - July 2nd, 2003
Whoever loves pleasure will suffer want; whoever loves wine and oil will not be rich. We ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures... but whe...
Howard Smith - January 5th, 2003
Howard Smith is a physician trained in New Zealand. After research fellowships in New Zealand, USA and Scotland, he worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry for 20 years, first as a research scientist ...
Remember The Poor 1/5 - January 5th, 2003
I have wept in the night For the shortness of sight That to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret For being a little too kind. (Anonymous)
Christianity is about ...
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