| Multimedia Church The Church service co-ordinator, asked
if I would be interested in preaching again. This
was a parish without a minister and they are
experiencing a great variety of services. We were
booked for the 30th July. I asked him to prepare
the congregation for radical changes which he did
two weeks before the service...
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Church Access In this new millenium, some 2000 years
after the birth of Christianity, while the
western church is in decline and the second and
third world churches are in advance, one has to
ask "How Accessable is the Church?"
While the physical doors are unlocked and the
population warmly welcomed in the press and by
external signage, yet still the masses stay
away...
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| Lessons from Job How much do you know? What do you know
of God? One can say "I know this" and
another "I know that." But when it all
adds up in the end what do we really know? This
is I believe the inference of the book of Job...
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Parenting Parenting is the most important thing we
will do in life yet it is the one thing that we
are not specifically trained or qualified by
examination to do. We are mostly left to our own
devices and fumble around with a very breakable
package in our often clumsy hands...
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| Divided Church Just as our Government swings between
the left and the right of politics so our
churches have these two tensions over the
politics of the things of God...
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Poisoning the River Picture for a moment you are standing on
a bridge and towards you flows a great river.
This river is your source of sustenance...
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| Prayer Too often we hear the
eloquent prayers that hardly make the ceiling let
alone the floor of the throne room of heaven,
myself included at times. We must learn how to
pray in the realms of principalities and powers,
heavenly hosts and rulers of ages rather than the
realms of flesh and blood. Above this though we
need to incline the ear and render obedience to
the often quiet voice of God, speaking strange
things through His children...
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Prophetic Word I had just watched the opening scenes of
The Magelane Sisters, a DVD my father hired for
the new DVD player I had installed at my parents.
The young Irish lass Margaret wept as her eyes
met her father's after rejoining the wedding
party. She had just been raped upstairs by her
cousin finishing his beer nearby. I couldn't
watch anymore...
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| Prophecying 1 Chronicles 25 we read
about the musicians that they should prophecy
with harps, stringed instruments and cymbals,
Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp to give
thanks and to praise the Lord. This makes me
think about all Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 14.
Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts especially
that you may prophesy...
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Religious Spirit There is an issue that has wide
ramifications in the church today that can not be
ignored by anyone who has been touched by the
Holy Spirit. The measure of who we are is
determined by the ground we stand on, that is the
beliefs we hold on too. The group who hold firmly
to precise boundaries or rules of existence find
the freedom of the Spirit led very difficult to
accept...
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