Michael Hardin, The Jesus-Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus - February 3rd, 2012
The Gist of Michael Hardin's The Jesus-Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus, JDL Press, 2010.
When well-read Christians list the most influential exponents of their faith the names includ...
Overcoming Depression - February 3rd, 2012
From a friend:
Over the last 2 years I have experienced a very significant decrease in the severe depression I had been struggling with for 40 years since adolescence. Prior to 2 years ago I was ...
'Embrace Christ Not Religion...' - February 3rd, 2012
So... Was Jesus a Christian? See http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/9664.htm
PRAYER OF A HUMBLE SERVANT - February 3rd, 2012
(Some of you might pray this 'Covenant Prayer' regularly in Communion Services):
I am no longer my own, but Yours.
Put me to what You will,
rank me with whom You will;
Put me to doing, put...
PRAYER OF A HUMBLE SERVANT - February 3rd, 2012
(Some of you might pray this 'Covenant Prayer' regularly in Communion Services):
I am no longer my own, but Yours.
Put me to what You will,
rank me with whom You will;
Put me to doing, put...
Humo[u]r - February 2nd, 2012
During a Sunday-morning worship service, a mother tried everything she could think of—including rewards, scoldings, and threats—to get her fidgety 7-year-old to be quiet. Nothing worked. Finally, ...
EGYPT: THE GROSS INSECURITY OF THE DHIMMI - February 2nd, 2012
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 144 | Wed 01 Feb 2012
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By Elizabeth Kendal
In an Islamic State, a Jew or Christian may keep their religion as
long as they live in total submission t...
Confronting Religious Demons - January 30th, 2012
A sermon on Mark 1:21-28 by Nathan Nettleton
Message
Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.
...
"You Raise Me Up" (Do they sing this at your church?) - January 29th, 2012
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so...
LIVING A WHOLE LIFE (Richard Rohr) - January 29th, 2012
LIVING A WHOLE LIFE
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Candlemas Day or Groundhog Day
(both longing for Springtime)
All-or-nothing reformations and all-or-nothing revolutions are not true reformat...
Copyright vs free information-sharing (a new religion) - January 27th, 2012
Sightings 1/26/2012
Shared Paradise
-- Robert M Geraci
There’s a new flying spaghetti monster in the spiritual marketplace: the Church of Kopimism. The newly “established” religi...
THE NEW EVANGELICALS: HOW CHRISTIANS ARE RETHINKING ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE - January 26th, 2012
Marcia PallyABC RELIGION AND ETHICS28 DEC 2011
In 2005, no less a publication than Christianity Today wrote, "George W. Bush is not Lord ... The American flag is not the Cross. The Pledge of Al...
The Parents Poem (Robert Bly) - January 20th, 2012
Robert Bly
The Parents Poem
It’s a good idea to figure what to do with parents.
One man I knew, after caring for them for years,
Led them across a busy street—two lines of traffic.
He start...
Ministry Mistakes - January 13th, 2012
Stupid Ministry Tricks: The Best of My Bone-Headed Ministry Mistakes (+ A Bonus!)
7JANby Chaplain Mike
Classic iMonk Post
by Michael Spencer
From June 2009
It came to me today that many ...
Jesus is all you need! - January 13th, 2012
If you never felt pain, then how would you know that I am a Healer?
If you never had to pray, How would you know that I am a Deliverer?
If you never had a trial, how could yo...
Movie Review - The Iron Lady - January 3rd, 2012
by Nils von Kalm
http://soulthoughts.com
There is a sense of irony in the fact that this movie, told from the point of view of an ageing, frail, and dementia-suffering former Prime Min...
25 LISTS OF EVERYTHING INTERESTING/IMPORTANT - December 30th, 2011
Dear friends
I'm making 25 lists of 25 important/memorable/helpful items/ideas. Anything missing? We'll have to factor it in to one of these (watch this article):
25 LISTS OF 25
1 M...
Review: The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage, Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch, Baker, 2011 - September 24th, 2011
‘You tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try’ (Homer Simpson)
The Devil in The Brothers Karamazov: ‘Everything would be transformed into a religious service: it would be h...
C S LEWIS: A Christian for all Christians (H&S 1990) - September 19th, 2011
C S LEWIS: A Christian for all Christians (H&S 1990)
Some rough notes after reading this interesting compendium of essays about the great man, in Macao September 2011:
In Letters to Malcolm:...
Pastor Burnout Statistics - June 20th, 2011
You can easily find pastor burnout statistics all over the internet. Some are very overwhelming - like saying that 48% of pastors marriages end in divorce. I for one have my doubts about that one. As ...
My Story (Rowland Croucher) - April 30th, 2011
(Written for our church's bulletin - East Doncaster Baptist Church (30th April, 2011).
Rowland Croucher: (A Little of) My Story
In his new book Falling Upward Richard Rohr quotes a Native Americ...
How Pastors Fail - March 8th, 2011
By Bob Smietana
Religion News Service
(RNS) Sometimes being a pastor is a real pain.
But few pastors want to admit it.
J.R. Briggs in trying to change that.
That's why Briggs, a blogg...
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...
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 ...