Dear friends and family in Christ, We’re pleased to announce that European Christian Leaders George & Evi Markakis will be ministering at 7:30pm tonight Friday 17th May and at 9:30am…
The new archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, gestures after being enthroned during a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury, Southern England, March 21. A new poll shows 54 percent of Britons believe the Church of England has struggled to give moral leadership to its constituency. (Reuters/Gareth Fuller/Pool )
Only around a half of Britons trust the clergy to tell the truth, and a similar proportion think the Church of England does a bad job of providing moral leadership, a poll showed on Sunday.
The survey by pollster YouGov commissioned by Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper further showed that 69 percent of respondents thought the Church of England, mother church of the world’s 80-million-strong Anglican communion, was out of touch.
Forty percent of those polled said they did not trust priests, vicars and other clergy to tell the truth, and overall doctors, teachers and judges were rated as more trustworthy.
Fifty-four percent believe the Church of England has struggled to give moral leadership, the poll found.
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter – April 11, 2013
Bishop TD Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas, said in a recent sermon that he is tired of the “Hollywood spirit” that has taken over the church and placed a large focus on the size and popularity of ministries rather than the value of the message they preach.
“I am so sick of this Hollywood spirit that has overtaken the church,” Jakes said, according to The Atlanta Daily World.
The preacher leads one of the largest megachurches in America, attracting a congregation of 30,000 members and celebrates its milestone 35th anniversary last year.
Despite this, Jakes, who is also a filmmaker and bestselling author, said that what is important is the message, and not how popular the speaker is.
“We do not have to have big names to have a big move of God,” Jakes said. “I got filled up with the Holy Ghost by somebody that didn’t have no name at all.”
Charisma News – 2/18/2013 – Michael Brown
The biblical message of grace is wonderful, glorious and life-transforming. We can’t live without it for one second of our lives. But there is a message being preached today in the name of a new grace reformation, mixing powerful truth with dangerous error. I call it hyper-grace.
One of the foundational doctrines of the hyper-grace message is that God does not see the sins of his children, since we have already been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and since all of our sins, past, present and future, have already been forgiven.
That means that the Holy Spirit never convicts believers of sin, that believers never need to confess their sins to God, and that believers never need to repent of their sins, since God sees them as perfect in his sight.
It is easy to see how such teaching can be dangerous, especially to a believer being tempted to compromise.
One hyper-grace teacher wrote this: “When God looks at me, He doesn’t see me through the blood of Christ, He sees me—cleansed! Likewise, He sees us as holy and righteous. He sees us, and He loves what He sees!”
Dear friends & family in Christ,
We’re forwarding the following media reports on the increasing exposure of Islamic Sharia law, close to home in Australia, for your ongoing prayerful action.
1) Channel Seven News on Sunday May 12, 2013 – Reporter: Ross Coulthart – Producer: Ali Russell
“With Dubai emerging as a major stopover point for long haul journeys, five hundred flights a month will deliver over one million of us to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the next year. Dubai is being promoted as a luxury high-class paradise in the desert, but the reality is brutally different, as Australian Alicia Gali discovered. Gali took a job in the UAE with one of the world’s biggest hotel chains, Starwood. What happened next makes this story a must-watch for every Australian planning on travelling through the region.
Gali was using her laptop in the hotel’s staff bar when her drink was spiked. She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital. What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months.”
You may click the following link to read and watch both parts of a very shocking report on the practice of Islamic Sharia law with non-Muslims in Dubai, the so called most moderate city in the Muslim Middle East.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/17094076/abandoned/
2) Channel Seven Today Tonight Program ‘Troubled suburbs’ – May 13, 2013 – James Thomas
“The shock waves of the religious war between the Sunnis and the Shias in Syria are being felt 14,000km away in the suburbs of Australia.
You may click the following link to read and watch the ‘Troubled suburbs’ as Islamic tensions arise with Muslim fighting Muslim in the streets of Sydney.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/latest/article/-/17129164/troubled-suburbs/
Recently a Sharia court in Britain told an abused wife to stay with her abusive husband and “correct” herself. Britain will see much, much more of that sort of thing (and worse) if Hopkins is not heeded, as he probably won’t be. “Ilkley MP speaks out against Mosques’ Sharia law bid,” from the Wharfedale Observer, April 13:
Keighley and Ilkley MP Kris Hopkins has written to the Justice Secretary stating his opposition to the establishment of Sharia courts.
He was speaking after Bradford Council for Mosques issued a statement calling on the Government to “recognise” the work of Sharia courts, and for them to be “better resourced with an agreed framework”. (more…)
Dear friends, Last Friday at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre at the River of Life Conference, Rise Up Australia Party had a stall to promote the RUA Party Policy Principles and…
Dear friends & family in Christ, Pr Daniel will be speaking at a Rise Up Australia Party Campaign Meeting in Toowoomba, QLD at 7pm Friday 17th May at Philharmonic Centre…
Charisma News– 4/1/2013 – Gina Meeks
Florida Atlantic University has put Deandre Poole, who had his students write Jesus’ name on paper and stomp on it, on administrative leave.
Florida Atlantic University has put a professor who taught a controversial lesson last month on administrative leave.
The institution announced Friday that Deandre Poole, who had his students write Jesus’ name on paper and stomp on it, was placed on leave for safety reasons.
“As a result of the reaction to a recent exercise in Dr. Poole’s intercultural communications class, the instructor’s personal safety has been compromised,” the university said in a statement.
“Because of this, Dr. Poole will not teach any classes, conduct office hours, or be present at any of FAU’s campuses or sites. Alternate instructors have been assigned to teach Dr. Poole’s classes. Students have been notified and classes will continue as scheduled.”
Dear family & friends in Christ, We’re excited to announce that a very special guest speaker, Christine Sneeringer from the USA, will share her miraculous testimony of God's redeeming love…
Dear family & friends in Christ,
We thank and praise God for a great weekend for CTFM & RUAP in Wagga & Albury, NSW.
Pr Daniel & team spoke at a RUAP campaign meeting in Wagga on Friday night, a Breakfast and another campaign meeting in Albury on Saturday night.
Following is a very interesting comment that was made by a gentleman after the Breakfast. ”Firstly, I am not a political person , not by a long shot. But I would like to commend you Daniel on your stance. It is a long time since we have seen any leadership in this country. Personally, I’d have to say I thought Australia as the majority of us have known it, was finished! No hope. But now I can see some light in the darkness. This nation has been sold out. I reckon your party and your own guts give an old Aussie digger like me some hope …I’ve got kids and grandkids. And we’ll be praying for you. Australia may not be finished yet!”
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Sunday Pr Daniel preached at the AM & PM services at Albury Church of Christ.
Those who attended the meetings were greatly touched and challenged to take a stand to protect our Judeo-Christian heritage and to ‘keep Australia Australian’ for generations to come.
We thank God for very positive media coverage before and after the meetings. You may click the following links to read two more newspaper articles from Wagga & Albury that appeared today Monday the 6th May.
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1479726/one-culture-for-everybody/?cs=11
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/story/1479696/school-teacher-selected-for-rise-up-australia/?cs=14
by Ben Johnson – Mon Apr 01, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – By a two-to-one margin, blacks reject the notion that homosexual rights compare with the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and ’60s, according to a new poll commissioned by Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television.
The poll found that more blacks oppose redefining marriage and believe clergy are right to denounce homosexuality.
In all, 55 percent of blacks deny the idea “that equal rights for gays are the same as equal rights for African Americans.” Only 28 percent believe they are the same.
Despite the endorsement of prominent black leaders including the president, 42 percent of blacks still believe marriage should be “restricted to a man and a woman,” more than those who believe gays should be able to marry (40 percent).
Bill Muehlenberg - CultureWatch - 01/05/13 The two biggest threats to faith, freedom, and family today come from militant groups dedicated to the destruction of the West, democracy, and Christianity.…
Dear friends & family in Christ, You may click the following links to read three more newspaper articles from WA, SA & NSW regarding Rise Up Australia Party. http://riseupaustraliaparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Geraldton-Guardian.pdf http://riseupaustraliaparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Border-Chronicle.jpg…
Dear family & friends in Christ,
Could your personal faith play a part in your Political life?? Should people of faith be involved in Politics?? This is a very interesting question.
Very often, you hear the statement, “Church and State should stay separate. Christians should not be involved in Politics.”
May I humbly ask you a question, “How many times in the past year have you said something or complained about our Government?? When did you last do something to help the Government or the Nation??”
Whether you like it or not, Faith plays a major role in Politics. Even the Atheists cannot deny that their Faith that there is no God, very much moulds their world view on everything they do. One of the greatest lies that we in the Church have accepted is that ‘Church and State should not come together’, based on a misinterpreted statement of a speech, completely taken out of context, made by Thomas Jefferson, one of the first US Presidents.
Following is a link to a short video of an absolutely fantastic speech by former US President Ronald Regan. It is a must watch as it will definitely challenge you and make you want to get involved in the Political life of the Nation you live in.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OvN1jTkzXbY?rel=0
Cindy Jacobs, a great woman of God from the US, made the following statement in her book ‘Reformation Manifesto’.
She stated, “’This gospel of the Kingdom will be preached Mathew 24:14’ echoed in my spirit as I read this. For my whole adult life I had thought that we would preach the gospel of salvation to all the world, and when everyone had heard, Jesus would return, but this is not what scripture says.
