dream
I
was within a corporate building upon a floor with lots of rooms and
offices. Within one of these rooms I was speaking with a young lady, of
the Islamic faith, who I used to work with in the kitchen of a nursing
home. As we spoke my left arm rested atop her right arm, including our
hands. In knew in this acton great affection was being expressed.
interpretation
According
to muslim dream symbolism, limbs represent family amd arms brotherhood.
A muslim to dream of holding a woman represents...
19 Dec 2011
ezekiel 34
To prevent people scattering, to keep them from falling prey to wild animals, God asks his shepherds to…
Feed his people
Take care of the weak
Tend the sick and injured
Look for those who have wandered away and are lost
Guide people with gentleness and love
To ignore this is to become God’s enemy, he will hold you responsible for what happens to people. He will…
Take away your right to feed people
Destroy those who are fat...
5 Dec 2011
The following is a response to a spoken message by Tony Rainbow of Victory Church (Adelaide, Australia) to the people of Fusion City Church (Palmerston, Canberra - Australia)
audio link
introduction
Tony
began by stating how there were about 120 believers gathered in one
place after Christ's ascension (Acts 1:13-15). It was to these people
Peter stood and spoke.
Please note this is the only scripture Tony uses during his entire...
27 Nov 2011
Do
you need to regularly attend a local church? Is it needed to be part
of God's family? And if you do, does it need to be one single
congregation?
Is it inappropriate to visit various church locations without settling down, without becoming a signed member?
Why is it important to join one particular local church to the exclusion of all others?
Is
it to gain consistent preaching from a single person (pastor or
priest)? ...
The following is a response to a spoken message by Tony Rainbow of Victory Church (Adelaide, Australia) to the people of Fusion City Church (Canberra – Australia)
audio link
Topic being shared: Staying the Course
For the most part this message shared was positive. However, part way through Tony stated:
"a
person's church attendance reflects their real relationship with God.
If they are not attending they are reflecting...
20 Nov 2011
After leaving a factory - electrical supplies
waited for a bus but missed it by moments
therefore caught a taxi to get ahead of it
the route of the bus was around a lake
the taxi stopped at a mountain observatory, near the lake
while waiting we noticed tomatoes that had been planted (like at work)
but as I looked an orchid spring from one of the fruits
This dream is similar to others revently where I have missed the bus while getting to work
Another was at an observatory in a mountain where waiting for transport
SYMBOLS
electrical parts factory...
15 Nov 2011
background context
The
'head pastor' of a local church in Canberra, Australia, announced in
December 2010 that a recognised prophet said God was "forcing Fusion
through some doors". He then explained this as evidence of the "coming
to pass" of a building opportunity in Crace (purchase land and build a
church building/centre).
discernment
Note:
There is often a gap between revelation, interpretation, and
application. As...
13 Nov 2011
Is church authority is limited to this one role?
spot the difference? Are elders and pastors the same thing?
In other words, if someone is qualified to be an elder (as justified by scripture) does this make them a pastor?
If
so, then anyone can and must be a pastor once they have the correct
attributes. And while I do not dispute that pastors need to have these
attributes, I do hesitate after reading Ephesians. This letter suggests
God...
3 Oct 2011
Watch
out for people who cause divisions and upset people’s faith by teaching
things contrary to what you have been taught. Stay away from them. Such
people are not serving Christ; they are serving their own personal
interests. (Romans 16:17-18)
features of a sectarian church group
Members point to the importance of their group and/or leader instead of Christ alone.
They
claim to support the universal church, the body of Christ,...
2 Oct 2011
When Paul wrote to God’s people of Ephesus, he praised God. Why?
God blesses us with every spiritual blessing because we are united with Christ.
God loved us and adopted us into his own family, by making us holy and without fault in his eyes through Christ...
Who is part of God's family? [LINK]
Paul then explains God’s plan regarding Christ:
Everything would be brought together under Christ’s authority
We receive an inheritance...
1 Oct 2011
introduction
We
are confronted with a choice: feed our own personal desires or align
ourselves with God’s purposes. Are you fighting for your own rights,
preferences, opinions, and visions or those of God's? Are you, are we
ready and able to do as God requires? (Preparing the Army of God).
Currently,
the church is fragmented. It recognises itself as a single unified
people in theory only. Christians identify themselves more with where...
24 Sept 2011
Saw a beshabbled woman in a prison cell. Her hair wild. Her
fingernails long. She was picking at the scales of the bars. However,
these scales were not paint or rust. The scales were like dried mucous
or pus, hers she had once put there but now spent her time picking and
flicking off. Yet her mind was not even focused.
Josh
claimed a desire to have a local church with global outreach. There is a
desire for Canberra commitment. Yet there is an issue of recognition,
connection to a specific...
19 Aug 2011
introduction
When
Paul first came to the church in Corinth he didn't speak about God's
plan with big words and impressive wisdom. Instead, he chose to focus
only on Christ and rely upon the Spirit:
Paul used plain words ... people understood not because of what he said
Paul was timid and trembling ... because did not know what would happen next
Why did Paul behave this way? Because he wanted people to trust in God's power not human wisdom (1Co 2:1-5)
Yet,
when he was among people who claimed to know God well, he chose...
21 Jul 2011
An
intercessor as defined in church terminology is a person who goes to
God on behalf of someone else (e.g. in prayer or request) to seek
something for them. It is generally understood that intercession is a
God-given calling or role.
But is this true?
Are
only some people called to be intercessors or is it the responsibility
of all of God’s people? Indeed, is intercession a special gift at all?
What does Paul mean when he asks the church of Ephesus to be persistent in their prayers for all believers everywhere (Eph 6)?
If Paul...
1 May 2011
It
was recently stated in a church setting that "the person who benefits
the most from the gift of forgiveness is the person who forgives.
Forgiveness is not so much about the benefits the other person gets.
Forgiveness is actually about you." The preacher then went onto explain
all the benefits a person gets when they forgive someone else.
But can this be true?
When
God forgave us, was this action more about him...
18 Apr 2011
adapted from a reflection by Brian Medway & Graeme Hush
introduction
Over
the past twelve years of the Grace Canberra (Grace Christian
Fellowship) congregation we have had opportunity to review a number of
aspects of structure and ministry. Since we separated from our previous
denominational structure we have thought, prayed and studied in order
to try and link Biblical revelation to contemporary circumstances. The
objective...
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