Rowland Croucher
2007-04-03 04:37:09 UTC
Hi friends, on a very pleasant April Fools' Day Sunday, in Melbourne,
Australia)
Here's the first of these mail-outs from my Mozilla Thunderbird email
program (I got tired of Microsoft Outlook Express seizing up - and once
exploding, causing half my folders to disappear without trace!)
One of the fascinating exercises I engage in occasionally is to find out
who visits what John Mark Ministries website articles when... After
midnight (my time) 105 people, including, no doubt, some 'last-minute'
pastor-preachers read the Palm Sunday sermon at
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/17209.htm. So hopefully a number of
congregations benefited. And a growing number are also Googling for a
Good Friday sermon. Here's the most popular, based on the movie The
Passion of the Christ - http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/12508.htm .
Liberal Christian Huston Smith has written a brilliant book titled The
Soul of Christianity, in which he attempts to explain Christianity in a
way just about everyone will accept. Quite a challenge! Two excerpts:
'If Jesus had not been followed by Paul, the Sermon on the Mount would
have evaporated in a generation or two'. 'The Christian worldview
compressed into a sentence: the world is perfect, and the human
opportunity is to see that and conform to that fact'. More provocation:
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19470.htm.
Can you pass the Religious Literacy Test? Try it at
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19460.htm
On a lighter note, here's a screen-full of 'Ponderisms' (like 'There
are two kinds of pedestrians, the quick and the dead'). More -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19468.htm
Some Australian Islamic clerics believe it's OK to cheat on taxes -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19464.htm . For much more on
Islam/terrorism etc. - from many points of view - see
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/catalog/keyword/i-10.htm etc.
Is the worldwide Anglican communion about to break up?
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19435.htm
Is it ever right to kill? Conservative commentator Bill Muehlenberg
takes on his critics - http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19435.htm
A very moving poem about drought and suicide -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19437.htm
Review of Alan Hirsch's provocative/radical new book on the church (The
Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church) -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19453.htm
Humor again: how do you explain the sex of cats to a child (in
public???) - http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19432.htm
For those of you who have sons, did you know that a king-size waterbed
holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq ft house 4 inches deep? More -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19426.htm
Finally, for others like me who play with Google, try this: put John
Mark (just those two words) into that search facility and discover
something quite interesting :-)
Have fun!
Shalom!
Rowland Croucher
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/
Australia)
Here's the first of these mail-outs from my Mozilla Thunderbird email
program (I got tired of Microsoft Outlook Express seizing up - and once
exploding, causing half my folders to disappear without trace!)
One of the fascinating exercises I engage in occasionally is to find out
who visits what John Mark Ministries website articles when... After
midnight (my time) 105 people, including, no doubt, some 'last-minute'
pastor-preachers read the Palm Sunday sermon at
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/17209.htm. So hopefully a number of
congregations benefited. And a growing number are also Googling for a
Good Friday sermon. Here's the most popular, based on the movie The
Passion of the Christ - http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/12508.htm .
Liberal Christian Huston Smith has written a brilliant book titled The
Soul of Christianity, in which he attempts to explain Christianity in a
way just about everyone will accept. Quite a challenge! Two excerpts:
'If Jesus had not been followed by Paul, the Sermon on the Mount would
have evaporated in a generation or two'. 'The Christian worldview
compressed into a sentence: the world is perfect, and the human
opportunity is to see that and conform to that fact'. More provocation:
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19470.htm.
Can you pass the Religious Literacy Test? Try it at
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19460.htm
On a lighter note, here's a screen-full of 'Ponderisms' (like 'There
are two kinds of pedestrians, the quick and the dead'). More -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19468.htm
Some Australian Islamic clerics believe it's OK to cheat on taxes -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19464.htm . For much more on
Islam/terrorism etc. - from many points of view - see
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/catalog/keyword/i-10.htm etc.
Is the worldwide Anglican communion about to break up?
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19435.htm
Is it ever right to kill? Conservative commentator Bill Muehlenberg
takes on his critics - http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19435.htm
A very moving poem about drought and suicide -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19437.htm
Review of Alan Hirsch's provocative/radical new book on the church (The
Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church) -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19453.htm
Humor again: how do you explain the sex of cats to a child (in
public???) - http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19432.htm
For those of you who have sons, did you know that a king-size waterbed
holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq ft house 4 inches deep? More -
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19426.htm
Finally, for others like me who play with Google, try this: put John
Mark (just those two words) into that search facility and discover
something quite interesting :-)
Have fun!
Shalom!
Rowland Croucher
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/