‘We need community cohesion’: Ministers’ pledge to end era of multiculturalism by appealing to ‘sense of British identity’

By Charles Walford of MailOnline – 21st February 2012

The English language and Christian faith will be restored to the centre of public life, ministers pledged today.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles heralded the end of state-sponsored multiculturalism by vowing to stand up for ‘mainstream’ values by strengthening national identity.

He said the government will celebrate what people in England have in common, rather than what divides them.

And he called for local communities to use events such as the Big Lunch or the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and inter-faith activities to bring together people of different backgrounds.

Mr Pickles said there will be a strategy on community cohesion and integration which calls for people to come together around shared values.

He accused the previous Labour administration, and its equalities minister Harriet Harman, of taking the country down ‘the wrong path’ by encouraging different communities to live separate lives.

Migrants will be required to speak English, the number of official documents translated into other languages will be reduced and councils will be allowed to hold prayers at the start of meetings.

New education standards will bar schools from teaching which ‘undermines fundamental British values’, said today’s document from his Department for Communities and Local Government

But he also confirmed his commitment to tolerance, insisting that the Government will remain vigilant to hate crimes directed at Muslims and Jews. (more…)

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Putting Your Faith in Action

John Piper

The organized church is torn with strife and distrust. Ultimately, the battle is not so much between conservatives and liberals, evangelicals and activists, or fundamentalists and modernists. The issue now is between belief and unbelief: Is Christianity true or false, real or unreal?

What is deadly to the church is when the external forms of religion are maintained while their substance is discarded. This we call practical atheism. Practical atheism appears when we live as if there were no God. The externals continue, but man becomes the central thrust of devotion as the attention of religious concern shifts away from man’s devotion to God to man’s devotion to man, bypassing God. The “ethic” of Christ continues in a superficial way, having been ripped from its supernatural, transcendent, and divine foundation.

Biblical Christianity knows nothing of a false dichotomy between devotion to God and concern for man. The Great Commandment incorporates both. It is because God is that human life matters so much. It is because of the reality of Christ that ethics are vital. It is because the cross was a real event that the sacraments can minister to us. It is because Christ really defeated death that the church offers hope. It is because of Jesus’ real act of atonement that our forgiveness is more than a feeling. (more…)

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3 Media Outlets Reporting on Rise Up Australia Political Party

Dear family & friends in Christ, Following are two very good media reports of the Rise Up Australia Party. Click the following link to read the Age Newspaper from Saturday 11th…

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Holy Spirit fire falls – demons scream – people set free

Dear family & friends in Christ,

1) What an amazing few days it has been!  We thank and praise God for Pr Jay Bartlett from the US and his team who were willing to take on an area of ministry which is very much neglected in the body of Christ, which is casting out demons and setting the captives free. Someone once said Salvation is free but everything else is very expensive. This is so true.

Many believe that once you are born again that you cannot have demons. This is not true. Many born again believers of Christ are living in bondage and are crying out for help, but the church unfortunately seems to be not able to help them or not willing to help them, as it is indeed a very complicated area to step into.

I have cast demons out of many born again Christians in ministry across the nations and seen them move into complete freedom in Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour. But I must say, I don’t think I have ever seen so many people being set free from demons as in the last 4 days. The past few days has certainy taken our church into a new place in the Lord.

The CTFM worship team took the people into an awesome place in the Lord in worship, even before the pastor could minister. One young man stated, “If this is the entree, I just can’t wait for the main course”.  This young man had deliverance back in August.

He stated, ‘’I never thought that I had any demons. I thought I was a good Christian. When Pr Jay prayed for me I thought ‘What is this guy on about?’, but then suddenly I felt something beginning to start rising inside me and taking control of my mouth and body. Out of my mouth came these strange words, and then suddenly this thing left me.  From that day on I was free from these demons, Hallelujah!  I soon realised that I have been set free from the spirit of fear, anger and anxiety. Today I am a very different man than who I was. It has also really changed my whole attitude towards my wife and children”.

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Special Deliverance meetings only on Mon & Tues nights at CTFM (13th & 14th Feb)

Dear family & friends in Christ, The special Inner healing & deliverance meetings will be held only this Monday & Tuesday nights at 7pm (13th & 14 Feb). We have…

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Your Seed is His Word

 

by Dr. Larry Ollison 

As Jesus was standing by the Sea of Galilee, there was a great number of people who had been following Him and they gathered together to hear Him speak. (Mark 4:1-20.) He got into a boat and pushed away from the shore. Facing thousands of people, He began to speak.

He told the story of a man who went out to sow seed. Some of the seed fell by the wayside, some fell on stony ground, and some fell among thorns. None of these seeds produced a worthy crop. But other seed that was sown fell on good ground and produced up to a hundredfold. Jesus concluded by saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” (v.9).

As soon as Jesus got alone with His disciples, they questioned Him about this story concerning the seed, because they obviously didn’t understand what He was talking about.

Jesus told them that to the multitudes what He said would just be a parable or a story. He went on to say that those who were on the inside could understand the mystery of the Kingdom of God. Then focusing on His disciples, He told them that this parable was the key to all the parables. Then He began to reveal the mystery. He said, “The sower sows the word” (v.14), and He said the soil was the hearts of men. Jesus didn’t say that the sower sowed money, time, or things. Jesus said, “The sower sows the word.” (more…)

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BREAKING NEWS! RISE UP AUSTRALIA PARTY REGISTERED WITH AEC

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 10 February 2012

 BREAKING NEWS!  RISE UP PARTY REGISTERED WITH AEC

 Rise Up Australia Party was registered with the Electoral Commission this week and is ready to take its place as the new face of common sense in Australian politics at the next Federal election.

 According to Party President Daniel Nalliah, its slogan of Keep Australia Australian sums up what Rise Up Australia is all about. “We want to restore to Australia the common sense values and traditions which have made this country one of the best and most stable democracies in the world” he said in Melbourne today.

 “For too long over recent years we have seen a slide into a politically correct  “nanny state” where minorities are dictating their fringe element views to the rest of mainstream society and demanding we all conform. For example, free speech is under threat in this country under the Racial and Religious Vilification laws which prevent open public discussion about Islamization in Western countries. These laws needs to be repealed,” said Mr Nalliah.

Mr Nalliah fought a five year court battle with the Islamic Council of Victoria who sued him for reading out of a Koran in public. He was totally vindicated, but this sort of thing should not be happening in our country where tolerance, a fair go and free speech have always been part of our traditional heritage.

Rise Up Australia Party recently commented on the story from a major Dutch newspaper where Jihad was declared on dogs, when a Muslim  politician tried to have dogs banned from the Hague on religious grounds. In case you think that couldn’t happen in Australia, the Queensland media  carried a story some time back about the Yellow Taxi Cab company in Brisbane having to sack Muslim taxi drivers who refused to carry blind people because they were accompanied by guide dogs. (more…)

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Supreme Court Ruling a Victory for Religious Freedom

Teresa Neumann : Jan 12, 2012 : Staff - Fox News "The authority to select and control who will minister to the faithful is the Church's alone. The Church must…

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Persecution hotspots in 2012

Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011

There are no surprises in Release International’s list of predicted hotspots for persecution in 2012. If anything, the organisation fears the plight of Christians around the world may get worse.

The organisation has received reports from partners that Christians are coming under increasing suspicion in North Korea. Practising Christianity is banned in the closed-off communist country and anyone caught with a Bible faces torture, imprisonment and possibly death.

It is monitoring events closely following the death of dictator Kim Jong-il but there is little optimism that the change of leadership to Kim Jong-un will ease their plight.

In China, authorities are considering legalising the detention of people considered a threat to national security, a move that would put lawyers and Christian human rights campaigners at risk.

There are additional concerns that the change in leadership later in 2012 may prompt authorities to tighten their grip on Christians and potential dissidents.

Bob Fu, of partner organisation China Aid, said: “Religious freedom conditions are at their lowest point since 1982.” (more…)

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Modern Day Paul – African Warlord Who Killed Thousands Repents; Now Christian Evangelist

23rd Dec 2011 – http://www.christianpost.com

It’s a story of transformation that has surprised thousands and shocked all who have heard: a brutal African warlord with a violent past finds Christ and dramatically turns his life around.

Selected for The Economist Film Project, an initiative by The Economist in partnership with PBS NewsHour, “The Redemption of General Butt Naked” is a chilling documentary about the changed life of Joshua Milton Blahyi, once dubbed to be one of Liberia’s most feared warlords.

Now renouncing his violent past – which includes confessing to killing nearly 20,000 people during Liberia’s 14-year civil war – after converting to Christianity, Blahyi seeks to reinvent himself as an evangelist, traveling the nation as a preacher and asking for forgiveness from those whom he had hurt in the past.

Filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion spent five years with Blahyi, closely following his troubled life as he sought forgiveness from his former soldiers and his numerous victims.

Strauss had become interested in Blahyi after he read about him in a book called The World’s Most Dangerous Places.

“It was just a tiny blurb about a notorious warlord who had killed thousands and was now walking the streets preaching truth and reconciliation,” Strauss told The Los Angeles Times. “I wondered, ‘Could someone like this really exist?’”

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Exciting Australia Day Vision / DVD orders / CTFM website passes 5,000,000 visits / RUA prayer and upcoming schedule

Dear friends and family in Christ,

1) We received the following email from Brother Peter Kentley of Australian Marketplace Connections in regard to an exciting prophetic vision he received at the National Australia Day Prayer Gathering in Melbourne on Jan 26th, 2012.

We’re forwarding it to you for your ongoing prayerful participation.

Hi Danny,

Thanks for allowing me the honour of participating in the Australia Day Service at Scots Church.

During the worship before we sang the national anthem I saw in the Spirit the floor of heaven being cracked open in thin parallel slots that allowed the shekinah glory of God to start to be released downward like thin billowing clouds emerging through the roof of the meeting as an expression of God’s pleasure, and for the purpose of extending His blessing on Australia. (I could see this in the Spirit but not in the physical).

It was not a pouring down but a beginning. It was an outcome of human penetration of the floor of heaven that released the “early rains” of the magnitude and power of heaven that can accomplish anything God wants.

I understood that the power of heaven is constrained from the natural because the difference between heaven and the world is so vast that God does not give his shekinah glory lightly or easily. It is withheld from man’s grasp due to our rebellion and hardness of heart, as with Cain, Esau, Dan, Ephraim and Judas.

But at the Scots service heaven was taken by force (Matt 11:12).

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700 Aussie Christians, including 35 Pastors, Unite as Body of Christ to Prayerfully Storm Heaven for Australia’s Transformation

Dear family and friends in Christ,

The Australia Day National Prayer Gathering at the Scots Church in Melbourne, organised by Catch The Fire Ministries and supported by many churches, and ministries, was a great success for the unity of the Body of Christ and the advancement of the Kingdom of God.

 Around 700 Aussie Christians, along with 35 pastors and many other Christian ministers, filled the church in the city of Melbourne. Many carrying their Australian flags were so excited to see so many people of God lift up their hands to worship Jesus as King of kings and LORD of lords! There were people from every single state from across Australia present at the united prayer meeting for our nation’s transformation.

The interdenominational multi-ethnic prayer service started with the the minister from the Scots Church welcoming the people, and a great time of worship led by the CTFM worship team. Then the Uniting Church Minister prayed for Government & Leaders, followed by the AOG Pastor who prayed for protection from bush fires and thanked God for the rain.

As passionate Aussie Christians kept pouring into the auditorium, the place was full of excitement and the mighty presence of God filled the house. More worship was lifted up to heaven as people started interceding and praying for Australia’s revival, awakening, reformation and transformation.

Then the Baptist Minister led prayer for the nation and for revival in Australia. We also had prayer for the business and marketplace led by Brother Peter. Then Pas Daniel spoke on forgiveness and read a message from Pas Mark Conner of City Life Church.  At this point people gathered together and spent time searching their hearts and repented before the Lord from any anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, offence, etc.

Click the following link for Pas Mark’s message https://reformationharvestfire.com/rise-up-australia/the-blessing-of-unity-by-mark-conner-senior-minister-citylife-church/

Then the Indigenous elder Aunty Margorie from Darwin led in prayer and a song of worship about welcoming the Holy Spirit from the highest mountains to the lowest valleys throughout our nation and hearts. Following this the Catholic priest led the congregation in the Lord’s prayer.

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Mighty weekend in the Presence of God in WA / 6PR Radio Interview / Australia Day Prayer / CTFM Schedule

Dear family & friends in Christ,

We are so excited to see the way God is moving in our nation of Australia, across this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit!

Even though it seems like that there is no major breakthrough, we thank God for the remnant He has preserved who have refused to bow down to political correctness in our nation and within the Church. We believe the Lord will use this remnant to awaken the Church and to shake our nation with the power of God.

On Friday 20th Jan Pr Daniel ministered at Bunbury, where around 70-80 people gathered to hear the Word of God and his personal testimony. He also shared the vision and mission God placed in his heart to take Australia for Jesus by 2020. The people were absolutely challenged and many stated, “Thank God we have now once again received hope to see revival in Australia!” At the end of the meeting there was great excitement and many signed up for membership with Rise Up Australia Party.

Pr Daniel was also interviewed by Howard Sandler of 6PR Talkback Radio in WA regarding RUA Party. Pr Daniel had the opportunity to do the interview live from the radio station.  We thank God for a very productive interview.  Click the following link to listen.

https://reformationharvestfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Daniel-Nalliah-mp3.mp3   

On Sat 21st Jan at 11am Pr Daniel met with a group of very excited committed Christians in Perth for 3 hours. Some drove 5 hours to be at this meeting. Here we saw the birth of the State Executive for Rise Up Australia Party to Keep Australia Australian in WA. This 12 member team comprises of Doctors, Teachers, a Businessman, some who have been in Politics for many years, a Journalist, Housewives and a couple of Pastors.  Some others were so happy that they wanted to know more about RUA Party that they all met with Pr Daniel for coffee after the meeting, and finished up around midnight.

Pr Daniel stated, “I thank God for a very good state executive team that He has now given us for WA. They are all full of excitement and passion to keep Australia  Australian and see her come back to Jesus. I am very confident that they are going to do an amazing job at the next federal election. With God’s grace we will run candidates in all lower and upper house seats in WA.”

Sat night and Sun morning He ministered at Dream Life Church in Wangara where the Lord moved most powerfully at both meetings with many mightily touched by the power of God. Many responded to the altar call, including many youth. So many were just sobbing and crying at the altar as they were being prayed for. Many others just could not stand in the presence of God. Some received healing and some others were set free from bondages.

Here to many signed up to take membership with RUA Party. At the end of the meetings people were just buzzing with great excitement and joy. (more…)

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RISE UP AUSTRALIA PARTY MEDIA RELEASE – AUSTRALIA DAY 2012 – KEEP AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN

Dear friends and family in Christ, We’re forwarding the following media release from Rise Up Australia Party for your prayerful interest and participation (if possible) at the Australia Day National…

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U.S. Navy Chaplain Preaches Jesus Christ on Christmas Eve

 by Dr. Verna Linzey - Dec 29, 2011 - Bishop Janice Hollis - Military Bible Association "We have choices to make. We can follow apparent distractions by implementing destructive coping…

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