An article in the Herald Sun newspapers today re Mandy & Nathan Ahmadi

Dear Friends,

Our office has received several calls and emails from people who want to know as to when and where would Mandy’s funeral be held. Also thank you very much for your many messages of sympathy and love for Mandy’s family. Be assured we will pass it onto her family.

As for the funeral, according to available information at this point, we understand that the Coroner has to release the body first, in order to plan the funeral. Please stay tuned into our website. As soon as we have the details of date, time and venue for the funeral, we will keep our website updated.

Please continue to pray for the rest of the family.

Mandy & Nathan

Dear family and friends in Christ,

Today’s Herald Sun newspaper has published another article regarding our dear sister Mandy, who has gone to be with Jesus. We want to thank the media for doing a great job from the time they got to know about it, in exposing this murder mystery.

Link to  Herald Sun article:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/praying-to-solve-deadly-riddle/story-fn6bfm6w-1226244894154

As we all know, with any issue some reports are not quite accurate.

1) One media outlet referred to us as “Gateway church” and not Catch the Fire Ministries.

2) Mandy and Nathan did not worship at Catch The Fire. They worshiped at Citylife Church. They have visited us on several occasions. Ps Daniel is not their Pastor, but a good friend.

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Report from 40 Days for Life: At Least 508 Babies’ Lives Saved

Aimee Herd : Nov 8, 2011 : Shawn Carney – LifeNews.com ...for today, let's look at some of the ways lives have been changed during 40 Days for Life—and thank…

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4 powerful healing testimonies at CTFM / Tumor disappears

Dear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World,

We thank and praise God for another wonderful weekend in His Almighty Presence!

Yesterday Sunday 8th Jan was testimony time at our morning service at CTFM as many people shared their amazing testimonies in giving God all the glory for the great things He has done!  People listening to these testimonies were mighty blessed. Sunday night was another glorious service with many who were gathered responding to the altar call ‘To go all the way for Jesus’! This service was also webcast live as many watched all across Australia and overseas.

1) One young woman boldly got up and shared her testimony of how she was raped 3 times and that the 3rd time she was almost strangled to death. That it is only by the grace of God that she is still alive. There was pin drop silence in the congregation. Then she said how God had used her to save two young girls aged 13 & 18 who were raped and had attempted suicide several times.  Through her testimony and love the 2 young girls are doing well. Glory to God. Everyone was mightily impacted by her testimony.

 Following are three additional powerful testimonies.

 2) Testimony of Barry Willis    29-12-2011

 In September 2011 I was admitted to hospital with severe pain on my left side, and on examination they discovered a  LUMP pressing on the Urethar tube (which joins the kidney to the bladder), it was stopping the flow. They then inserted a STENT to widen the tube releasing the flow once again and relieving the pain, but the stent was only a temporary measure,  which meant that the stent would need to be replaced after 3 months whilst they tried to discover what the lump was.

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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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Pr Daniel preaching on CTFM Live Webcast this Sunday 8th Jan at 7:30pm

Pr Daniel will be ministering at CTFM in Hallam at both the 9:30am & 6:30pm services this Sunday 8th January 2012. He will be preaching the prophetic Word of the Lord…

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CTFM Upcoming Schedule / Sydney Rising Up and Catching the Fire!

Dear friends and family in Christ,

1)  For those of you in the Melbourne area, the first Rise Up Australia prayer meeting in this New Year 2012 is tomorrow Friday 6th January beginning at 7:30pm, followed by an all-night intercessory prayer meeting that is also open to the wider Body of Christ for National Spiritual Revival, Reformation and Transformation.

2) Pr Daniel will be ministering at CTFM in Hallam at both the 9:30am & 6:30pm services this Sunday 8th January 2012.

Please note that the 9:30am service will include a special opportunity for people to glorify the Lord through sharing brief personal testimonies of the great things He has done and continuing to do!

Pr Daniel will be preaching the prophetic Word of the Lord at the 6:30pm service, which will be broadcast through live streaming beginning at 7:30pm on our website at www.reformationharvestfire.com

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Respect for the House of God

by Dr. Larry Ollison

I come from a Baptist background. As a child, I attended church with my parents every Wednesday and Sunday – morning and night. My parents made sure I participated in all the church functions, both spiritually and socially. I was in the church bell choir and sang with various musical quartets. As a child, attending church was not an option. My father never considered what I had done the day before or what I had to do the next day. How I felt was irrelevant. On Sunday morning we went to church.

Recently, I asked a husband and wife how their child was doing because I hadn’t seen him at church for a while. Their response startled me. They said, “He hasn’t been wanting to come lately.” I thought to myself, Who’s the parent in this household? Those same parents do not allow their child to decide whether or not he goes to school. They require school attendance, regardless. However, they let him choose whether or not he attends church. Without realizing it, those parents are instilling in that child the thought that education is important, but God isn’t.

Likewise, when children are required to show respect for teachers at school, but not required to show respect for elders at church, it also sends the wrong message. (more…)

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Churchgoers More Likely to Be Optimistic, Report Says

The Christian Post Sat, Nov. 12 2011 By Anugrah Kumar | Christian Post Contributor

Those who attend religious services regularly are 56 percent more likely to have an optimistic view of life and 27 percent less likely to have depression than those who don’t, a study by Yeshiva University in Manhattan suggests.

Published in the current issue of the Journal of Religion and Health, the Women’s Health Initiative observational study is based on a survey of 92,539 post-menopausal women from diverse backgrounds and over the age of 50. This group was chosen as women generally live longer than men, and seniors are a growing group.

“We looked at the religious practices of nearly 100,000 women and – like it or not – found a strong connection between going to church or synagogue or any other house of worship and a positive outlook on life,” Medical News Today quoted Eliezer Schnall, an associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva University who headed the research, as saying. (more…)

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Jesus’ name ruled ‘unconstitutional’ – Judge says prayers to Christ ‘do violence to America’s pluralistic, inclusive values

FAITH UNDER FIRE – World Net Daily – By Drew Zahn © 2011 

A board of county commissioners in North Carolina is asking the Supreme Court for help: Its members don’t believe they should have to forbid volunteers from mentioning the name of Jesus in prayers offered before their meetings.

But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are standing by their victory in a U.S. circuit court decision that states even “a solitary reference to Jesus Christ” in invocations before the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners’ meetings could do “violence to the pluralistic and inclusive values that are a defining feature of American public life.”

Furthermore, wrote Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals majority opinion, legislative invocations offered in Jesus’ name are inherently “sectarian” and thus should be censored lest they make some attendees feel “uncomfortable, unwelcome and unwilling to participate in … public affairs.”

What is Christianity’s role in the nation? Find out in “Christianity and the American Commonwealth”

But the board disagrees, and with the help of the Alliance Defense Fund is asking the Supreme Court to trump Wilkinson’s ruling. (more…)

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Hillary Clinton goes off-script, suggests that Islamic governments fear religious debat

Posted by Robert on December 15, 2011 12:16 PM 

Off the cuff, Hillary says things that are likely to get her in dutch with the boss. “Hillary Clinton suggests Islamic governments fear religious debate,” by Neil Munro in The Daily Caller, December 15:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used an international conference on religious freedom Wednesday as a platform to suggest that Islamic governments which suppress Christianity are secretly afraid Islam will lose out in a public debate.

“Every one of us who is a religious person knows there are some who may not support or approve of our religion, but is our religion so weak that statements of disapproval cause us to lose our faith?” she asked the attendees, who included national representatives from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

“Especially when one person’s speech seems to challenge another person’s religion’s belief, or maybe even offends that person’s religious beliefs … we defend our beliefs best by defending free speech for everyone,” she said, while citing her own experience as a Methodist — a Christian movement made up of many Protestant denominations, and where debate is common. (more…)

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Exciting News – Australia Day National Prayer Gathering 2012 at Scots Presbyterian Church in Melbourne City / Other Events

 Dear family and friends in Christ across our nation of Australia, It’s with great joy that we wish to bring to your attention that the Australia Day National Prayer Gathering…

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Protect Your Man of God

by Dr. Larry Ollison

At a recent ministers’ conference, there was a seminar entitled, “Protecting the Anointing.” I overheard one minister comment, “Why should we try to protect the anointing? I thought it was the anointing that protected us!” Although his statement is true, it is also true that many times a good message from God can go unheard because of the senseless words of a third party. Let me explain.

A few years ago, I was prepared to deliver a specific word from God to my congregation. I spent much time in prayer and preparation in order to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. I wanted to deliver the message accurately and in the spirit that I received it. As I turned a corner in the hallway to the auditorium, an usher stepped forward, pointed his finger in my face, and began to tell me how he and his family would be leaving the church because of a letter someone in our church had written. I let him rant and rave for a couple of minutes.

When I asked him what the letter said, still huffing and hyperventilating, he said, “Well, I haven’t actually read it myself, but I know what it says.” The letter wasn’t the issue. The enemy knew that I had a message from God. The enemy also knew who he could use to attempt to spoil the message. The incident did not affect the teaching that day, although it took me a while to refocus. Actually, it made me more determined to deliver God’s message to the people.

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