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Pentecost, a sermon: The Holy Spirit’s Gift of Comfort
A JOURNEY TO PENTECOST I was wide awake at at 3 o’clock this morning. A mogadon sleeping tablet could not entice any more sleep… Yesterday afternoon I’d brought Jan home from a 10-day sojourn in the special care unit of the local hospital. Some bright imaging on a PET scan told us she had uterine […]
The Be-attitudes (Dave Andrews)
Plan Be We Need To Be The Change Many of us desperately want to change our world. But is an illusion to think we can change anybody else but ourselves. The truth is that we cannot change them – we can only change ourselves. We need to remember the alternate version of the Serenity Prayer, and repeat it […]
The Evangelicals are a’changing – on at least three issues
Sightings Evangelicals Change and Make Changes by Martin E. Marty Monday | April 15 2013 The familiar “Protestant-Catholic-Jew†mantra no longer defines American religion. Politicians, bloggers, statisticians, and demographers now conventionally add “Evangelical†to the classifying. When Will Herberg wrote the canonical book Protestant-Catholic-Jew in the mid-fifties, Evangelicals appeared to be marginal at best. In […]
Marriage Equality (Keith Mascord)
April 2, 2013 How The Unthinkable Might Become Thinkable For many Christians, the idea that they might ever support same-sex marriage seems unthinkable. The chasm over which they would need to jump appears too wide; the beliefs they would need to jettison too important, the fear they might fall into an irreversible moral relativism too […]
HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND
HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND Just found this in my files: some ideas might be expressed a little differently after six years… Rowland. Here’s an expanded version of a talk I gave – with two other members – to our small group. It’s a meandering chat, I haven’t put much order into it, and it’s […]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: Key resources…
MARRIAGE EQUALITY Key resources… ARTICLES (roughly alphabetical by author) A: About 60 most-read articles on all sorts of subjects, including this one AA: A fairly thorough overview: Homosexuality & the Bible (6 articles) AAA: Too busy? Here’s just one (Steven Chalke’s) Prof. Gary Bouma (One group wants dignity; the church, power) Conservative approaches: ethicist Margaret […]
Patrick and Rosemary Sookhdeo: four books about contemporary Islam
 Senait Habta, a 28-year-old university student, was held for two years in a metal shipping container, which was sweltering hot during the day and bitterly cold at night. Senait became seriously ill and was reportedly offered medical care and freedom if she would deny Christ. She refused, and eventually died on 23 April 2010. […]
A challenging prayer for Fundamentalists/Pharisees…
Give me humility in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride which is the heaviest of burdens. And possess my whole heart with the simplicity of love… (Thomas Merton). (And help me to move my thinking from simplicity this side of complexity through to simplicity the other side of complexity… […]
Same-sex relationships: a matter of inclusion and integrity (Steve Chalke)
From Rowland: an excellent article – good for discussions with friends/colleagues… A MATTER OF INTEGRITY (abridged) The Church, sexuality, inclusion and an open conversation By Rev. Steve Chalke The Government has announced that extending marriage to same-sex couples will ensure the ancient institution ‘is relevant for our century.’ Marriage, however, predates both State and Church […]
UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION
(Preached by Rowland Croucher at Blackburn Baptist Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,  sometime in the 1970s). A little note: I had a simpler faith back in the 1970s. I’d be a bit less ‘black-and-white’ about some things these days (especially about topics like hell and judgment).  Rowland Croucher December 2012. (A series of eight sermons on […]
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