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Western Christian Culture!

Posted by Bessie on November 17th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8 
This is a Shockingly Powerful & Biblical message preached to about 5,000 youth in a day when youth are appealed to through shallow and worldly means.
At one point in this sermon the 5,000 Youth are clapping and yelling BUT THEN the preacher makes a comment that CHANGES THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE TO WHERE YOU COULD HAVE […]

“Decision-ism” - Paul Washer

Posted by Bessie on November 9th, 2007

Sent by Andrew Strom - http://www.revivalschool.com
This is one of the most highly recommended videos that I can possibly put out there. And it is not the “video footage” that makes it that way. -It is what Paul Washer says in this brief 4-minute clip. So revolutionary! So bold and life-changing. If you have four minutes […]

Wolfgang Simson CDs available……

Posted by Bessie on November 4th, 2007

Earlier in the year, Wolfgang Simson was the guest speaker at a home church gathering in the Blue Mountains.  CDs are available at $10 each from -
Donny McGregor, Ministry Team Leader’ Springwood Family Church
Contact OIKOS for further details or checkf the web site.
Web: www.springwoodfamilychurch.info

Peacewise - Christian Solutions to Conflict Training

Posted by Bessie on October 12th, 2007

Friday 2nd,Wednesday7th-Saturday10th November
PEACEWISE –Training in Biblical Principles for Responding to Conflict. (National Launch in Sydney in Oct). Peacewise is a new national Christian peacemaking organisation dedicated to helping people learn and apply these solutions to the conflicts we encounter in all aspects of daily living. Venue: Jika International Hotel, 551 Heidelberg Rd Fairfield. 8.30-5pm. Presenters […]

Churches Struggle as Old Guard Promoted to Glory

Posted by Bessie on October 12th, 2007

(From the Australian Prayer Network - http://www.ausprayernet.org.au)
The number of Australians identifying themselves as Christian will plummet over the next 20 years as an ageing generation of dedicated churchgoers dies out, analysis of census figures shows. Painting a bleak future for the Christian faith, the Christian Research Association predicts the ranks of non-believers will steadily grow […]

A time to heal

Posted by Bessie on September 18th, 2007

From the Anabaptist mailing  www.anabaptist.asn.au
In the year since the Amish school shootings, the girls’ families have struggled with grief, anger and fear to reach ‘a new normal.’ Here, they describe that challenging journey…Families who lost daughters in the shootings say they did not know how to navigate grief until they took the journey, step by […]

LARGE MAJORITY OF AUSTRALIANS STILL PROFESS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

Posted by Bessie on September 12th, 2007

Christianity remains far and away the main religion in Australia, but Hinduism and Buddhism are growing at a greater rate.
Almost 12.7 million Australians declared they were Christian in the 2006 census, up from 12.6 million in 1996. But as a proportion of the population, those identifying as “Christians” fell from 71 per cent to 64 […]

THE STATUS OF GLOBAL MISSION IN 2007

Posted by Bessie on September 12th, 2007

Every year Prof. David Barrett, editor of the World Christian Encyclopaedia, and Todd Johnson of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, publish their Status of Global Mission. Through incorporating secular as well as church-based sources this is probably one of the most comprehensive databases in the world. The Status of Global Mission shows gradual changes in the global […]

Least & Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew’s Gospel

Posted by Bessie on September 3rd, 2007

From Ian Thomson who is a home church leader in Brisbane…..
Let’s start with Matthew 18:
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child and had him stand among them. Then he said to them, “I can guarantee this truth: Unless you […]

Someone shared this with me this morning…….

Posted by Bessie on September 3rd, 2007

Matthew 20:1-16.  The landowner hired people to work in his vineyard.  Some he hired straight away, and then later in the day, he found some standing in the marketplace doing nothing.  He sent them also to work in his vineyard.  At three later stages in the day, the same thing happened.  The person who was […]