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Will Islam produce anti-Christ?
Since the beginning of the war on terror we have become increasingly aware of Christian voices crying out to warn us that Islam bears all the hallmarks of anti-Christ...

2010-05-15 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: prophecy | View all in category

Their day, our day
Verses written for Israel and the New Testament church, with brief comments relating to today

2009-07-23 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: bible | View all in category

Parachute Music Festival

Parachute Music Festival (Christian?)
Flicking through the parachute music festival magazine is like entering an alternative reality where up is down and down is up. All you see are staunch faces, satanic imagery and every outward expression of the world's music industry, just wrapped with...

2009-07-21 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: christian-culture | View all in category

The fine line of cross-denominational fellowship
Looking at the value of true cross-denominational fellowship, as opposed to politically motivated ecumenicalism

2009-05-21 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: churches | View all in category

A billion transistors per human
Soon a ubiquitous network of over a trillion devices including cell phones, computers, sensors and scanner nodes, will mesh together to start harvesting real-time data about us and the world we live in.

2009-05-07 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: political | View all in category

Global financial crisis and the New World Order

Global financial crisis and the New World Order
Will the financial crisis become a category five storm? What will the new world order look like? How will all this change affect the lives of Christians?

2009-03-18 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: political | View all in category

Israel, Gaza and the Palestinians
It’s truly amazing the polar opposite views I’m receiving in my inbox as Christians write, or forward, perspectives on Israel, Gaza and the Palestinians. If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was ever neutral ground amongst Christians, it is rapidly...

2009-01-12 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: israel | View all in category

Children of Rocky Cape, Summer 2007

Evangelicals and Plain Folk
Anabaptists, Mennonites, Hutterites, or the rather endearing title of Plain Folk. All labels with close connections to one another and various nuances of meaning; yet I’m not sure if the people at Rocky Cape wear any of them completely.

2008-12-30 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: christian-living | View all in category

horse and buggy

Team People (vs Car People)
With all the logic I could muster I explained to Ivan how driving a car is not wrong or sinful in itself. Just that buying cars, and coming to depend on them for transportation, leads one into a lifestyle that always ends up taking people into the world.

2008-12-15 | Submitted by: peter | View all by peter | Category: christian-living | View all in category

outflow

Outflow
It has been said that the only difference between The Red Sea and The Dead Sea, is that, while both have water flowing into them, only The Red Sea has water flowing out. Have you ever experienced filling yourself up with Christian teaching...

2008-12-13 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: christian-living | View all in category

Ambitious service
In 50 Years In The Church Of Rome, Charles Chiniquy comments that pride is the daily bread of the Catholic priest. But is it the daily bread of the Catholic priest only, or does this sickness permeate the protestant and evangelical worlds also?

2008-11-18 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: christian-living | View all in category

Religious Right RIP
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, he will do so in the 30th anniversary year of the founding of the so-called Religious Right.

2008-11-17 | Submitted by: cal | View all by cal | Category: political | View all in category

Prophecy against the church
The Old Testament Prophets got into some serious trouble with their fellow countrymen because they often prophesied against them. Indeed God was trying to correct them and sent the prophets to warn them.

2008-11-14 | Submitted by: chris | View all by chris | Category: churches | View all in category

Barack Obama

Worried about Obama?
The election of Barak Obama as president has a number of Christians suddenly quite rattled. I’ve heard concerns ranging from his stance on Israel to his almost cult like following; and even some people hinting that he could be the Antichrist.

2008-11-05 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: political | View all in category

Israeli flag

Modern Israel in prophecy?
The other day a friend forwarded me an email by Jerry Golden from The Golden Report , a portion of which included the following:

2008-10-25 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: prophecy | View all in category

Promise Keepers Auckland

Promise Keepers
I think I’d imagined Promise Keepers as some kind of big overgrown, slightly cringey, Christian men’s support group; a thing you might go to if you were having trouble with your marriage or something. I’d also lumped it into the whole American style...

2008-10-12 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: ministries | View all in category

Anxiety attack
Have you ever had anxiety build up to the point where it feels like you’re going to completely crumble? Where you have a permanent headache and there is a sickening sensation through your whole body?

2008-10-01 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: counsel | View all in category

Peter and team of horses

Compassionate capitalism
Not long ago I picked up a book at the City Mission in Launceston, Tasmania. Compassionate Capitalism. Its remarkable title caught my eye.

2008-09-22 | Submitted by: peter | View all by peter | Category: money | View all in category

Robert Fisk

War with Iran?
The way I see it our world has two distinct futures; one if Israel does NOT attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, and a very different one if they do. At last week’s lunch with Robert Fisk I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to ask for his estimate of...

2008-09-11 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: political | View all in category

TV undermines fathers
In the mid 1960s television featured a lot of what were called family sitcoms, short for family situation comedies. They were all produced in the USA and were regarded as family entertainment.

2008-09-09 | Submitted by: tony | View all by tony | Category: christian-culture | View all in category

The Beast is now

The beast now
Back in the early nineties I imagined a time when everything would start rapidly changing. A time preceding the great tribulation when the normal state of things would start to morph into end times.

2008-08-18 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: prophecy | View all in category

Natural versus spriritual
There is terrible confusion in Christendom today between the natural and the spiritual. Recently my daughter came home and told me about hearing someone speak of a girl who felt called to be a missionary, yet was wrestling between this and her love of...

2008-06-27 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: christian-culture | View all in category

2 Churches : Real and Counterfeit
The real church is made up with Jesus as the foundational rock. The prophets and apostles through the old and new testaments embrace Him to form a structure. We as living stones, a testament to Him, may make up the rest of the structure.

2008-05-22 | Submitted by: chris | View all by chris | Category: christian-culture | View all in category

The Times They Are A Changing
In my lifetime, I have witnessed a great falling away in Christianity, particularly in the countries that make up what was once called western civilization. E.g. England, the USA, Australia, NZ etc.

2008-03-17 | Submitted by: tony | View all by tony | Category: christian-culture | View all in category

The Emperor Constantine

Jesus, not Constantine
Constantine, the first "Christian" head of state, a murderer, adulterer, despot, founder of a long dynasty of incredibly bloodthirsty and perverted tyrants -- all of them Orthodox Christians -- glows from the walls of the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom)...

2008-04-12 | Submitted by: peter | View all by peter | Category: christian-history | View all in category

Beyond church
During the past year I found myself playing down the fact that I no longer go to church, initially because I had my own uncertainties about it, and later because of all the assumptions people make.

2008-04-09 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: churches | View all in category

Central America

Voluntary Poverty
Stock market crashing? To this K'ekchí man and his son, fishing beside their house in Toledo District, Belize, Central America, it will not make much difference.

2008-03-19 | Submitted by: peter | View all by peter | Category: christian-living | View all in category

Balancing Christian life
For many years of my Christian life I struggled to understand the correct balance between what you might call ‘the radical Christian life’ and, for lack of a better expression, the ordinary Christian life.

2008-02-09 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: christian-living | View all in category

The mustard tree
The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed…the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches. (Matt 13:31-32)

2007-11-18 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: churches | View all in category

The distant church
What did I see today? Am I wrong, because it seemed like I saw a man drowning. Desperately pulling out all the old catch phrases that used to work, trying to hide even from himself that the old magic had gone.

2005-09-05 | Submitted by: john | View all by john | Category: churches | View all in category

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