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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint - April 25th, 2017
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint JULY 16, 2014 Â Corrected/and reposted 25/4/2017 [To be updated] Note from Rowland: This article has been pub...Questions & Responses
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint - April 25th, 2017
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint JULY 16, 2014 Â Corrected/and reposted 25/4/2017 [To be updated] Note from Rowland: This article has been pub...LGBTI
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint - April 25th, 2017
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint JULY 16, 2014 Â Corrected/and reposted 25/4/2017 [To be updated] Note from Rowland: This article has been pub...Apologetics
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: KEY RESOURCES - April 24th, 2017
MARRIAGE EQUALITY Key resources… Find these by googling titles etc. and adding jmm.org.au ARTICLES (roughly alphabetical by author) A: About 60 most-read articles on all sorts of subjects, in...Sermons
ANANIAS & SAPPHIRA - April 23rd, 2017
We 'peregrinating preachers' tend to have a store of favourite themes. Here's one version of a sermon I've preached hundreds of times (that's not a misprint)! You ask, 'Should anything be preached ...Jesus
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? - April 23rd, 2017
LET'S MAKE IT SIMPLE: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? (A sermon) Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and do...Theology
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? - April 23rd, 2017
LET'S MAKE IT SIMPLE: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? (A sermon) Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and do...Spirituality
WAS JESUS A CHRISTIAN? (I doubt it) - April 22nd, 2017
WAS JESUS A CHRISTIAN? (I DOUBT IT)
 Christians come in about 13 varieties. These varieties (or mindsets) can be found in all religions. You mustn’t judge any religion simply on ...Family
MARRIAGE: Find the Acronym - April 22nd, 2017
MARRIAGE (FIND THE ACRONYM!) On the 15th April, 1995, the Rev. Jan Croucher (my wife) and I 'celebrated' the marriage of our daughter Amanda, to John Southwell. The beautiful service at the Heathmo...Books
Happiness - March 26th, 2017
(A chapter in my forthcoming book Questions and Responses: the toughest questions I've ever been asked). + A young friend had a baby out of wedlock, and when he was born the hospital d...Devotion
 Running Up the White Flag: Surrender as the Way to Follow Jesus - June 2nd, 2016
 by Nils von Kalm Text copyright © 2016 Nils von Kalm All Rights Reserved ( Note from Rowland: this looks good: check it out on http://amzn.to/1VVG93R } “Scrip...New Christians
 Running Up the White Flag: Surrender as the Way to Follow Jesus - June 2nd, 2016
 by Nils von Kalm Text copyright © 2016 Nils von Kalm All Rights Reserved ( Note from Rowland: this looks good: check it out on http://amzn.to/1VVG93R } “Scrip...Social Justice
ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO - A Great 20th Century Martyr - May 10th, 2016
The Portuguese and Spanish conquistadors came to what is now Latin America in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries ‘with a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other.’ The Republic ...Business
Ethical Culture in Corporations - April 14th, 2016
Business values need to be consistent with society's ethical expectations. The current buzzword in the financial services sector is "culture". From bank executives proclaiming employee (mis)cond...Bible
Pentecost: the Holy Spirit's Gift of Energy - April 11th, 2016
THE HOLY SPIRIT’S GIFT OF ENERGY! Pentecost Sunday is sometimes called ‘the birthday of the Church’. Pentecost is a Greek word meaning ’50′, so we celebrate Pente...Humor
Police who harass people... - March 18th, 2016
Recently, the Townsville Police Department ran an e-mail forum with the local community (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, "Community Policing." One of the civilian e-mail part...Islam
Sexual Slavery the IS way... - March 15th, 2016
Islamic State uses birth control to maintain supply of sex slaves Date: March 13 2016 Rukmini Callimachi Dohuk,Lifestyle
EUTHANASIA: A doctor's confession: She took my advice and died as planned - February 23rd, 2016
February 5, 2016 She was the first person who ever asked for my medical opinion, so I suppose that made her my first patient, although I was only a final-year medical student at the time. She took ...Leadership
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: The Big Short is long on the human predicament - January 15th, 2016
We all remember the Global Financial Crisis, or GFC, as it was called. It was a time when the world stood on the brink of economic catastrophe, to the point that it was being talked about as leading t...Missions
Album review - The Inbreaking, Eden Parris - December 18th, 2015
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com The Inbreaking is Eden Parris' third album, and his music still impacts me the same way it did when I first heard it about five years ago. Having known...Music
Album review - The Inbreaking, Eden Parris - December 18th, 2015
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com The Inbreaking is Eden Parris' third album, and his music still impacts me the same way it did when I first heard it about five years ago. Having known...Internet
Mobile/cell-phones and cancer - December 15th, 2015
Why Devra Davis wants the world to hang up and take notice December 12, 2015 Ian Cuthbertson American scientist Devra Davis has an impressive record in public health, helping to expose ...Church
Southern Baptist Missionaries come home - November 3rd, 2015
Missionaries Come Home By MARTIN E. MARTY NOV 2, 2015 2015 Conference poster, Grace Baptist Church of Kankakee, Illinois (creative commons license) Newspeople and commentators outside the South o...Pastoral
Vanishing Clergy (Martin Marty) - August 7th, 2015
By MARTIN E. MARTYPrayer
Fasting may be good for you... - January 28th, 2015
Manage hyper-consumption with the 'modern' fast DateJanuary 24, 2015 Time to take a digital fast? How do we cope in a world full of constant reminders to eat more junk food, drink more alco...Poetry
LIVING UNTIL I DIE - October 4th, 2014
My aim is to die young as late as possible. I am determined to live each day till I die rather than die a little each day that I live. For me, life is a gift, and the way to make the mos...Friends
Graham Tyson: a eulogy - September 30th, 2014
A Son’s Eulogy for Graham Roland Tyson (Note from Rowland. I knew Graham and his family while I was pastor at Blackburn Baptist Church. This is an excellent eulogy by his very gift...Sunrise Sunset
Homily/Eulogy - for a good man, Rob Haley - May 23rd, 2014
Today we are saying goodbye to a very special person, Rob Haley. Rob was born on a cold, foggy evening on the 19th of July 1924, in Bunyip, a small town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia: ...JMM
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...Clergy Mail
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...Links
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...Boreham
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...
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