On soul saving
Chain of Grace
Released 1992
FAITH AND MUSIC. Dallas Holm’s gospel album from 1992 is personal notes and reflections on saving souls. At the time, Dallas Holm had been in the gospel music industry for twenty-five years.
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Unique sounding piece – Michael Omartian’s “The Race”
The Race
Released 1991
CONNOISSEUR’S CHOICE. I’m keen on The Race, and not just because I sprinted in school sports.
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‘Focus on the future’ for national church
Shifting priorities
2005. The Presbyterian Church is consulting with parishes and presbyteries to decide on the priorities for the church’s national tasks.
Focus on the Future is a series of meetings with parishioners being held in the North and South Island and encourages written submissions.
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Ambivalence and experience
FAITH AND MUSIC. I’m ambivalent about the album Love is Reality by Al Green. Released in 1992, I gravitated towards … Continue reading Ambivalence and experience
Cafe church: the way of the future?
Envisaging and innovating the future Church
2002. Wellington Pastor Anthony Walton views writing books, including his latest, Future Church: Church by Design, as a leadership tool for producing vision, “casting a direction the church needs to head down”.
Hall extension intends to make room for all
More kids trigger expansion
2006. Knox Presbyterian Church in Lower Hutt (New Zealand) is undertaking the extension and renovation of its Grimes Hall at a cost of nearly $750,000.
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“This vision to be a place of hope and inspiration and love for all has been growing in my heart for over 20 years.”
Church steps out in faith to build $7m worship centre
2006. The Presbyterian Church in the South Auckland village of Clevedon (a town in New Zealand; see picture below) has paid $1.2 million for 8ha of rural land on which it hopes to build a $7 million “worship centre”.
Singles seeking friendship take to get-together
Singles seeking support
Members of Christian Friendship Fellowship (NZ) are gathering at Queen Charlotte Sound this Easter from all over New Zealand for one of the fellowship’s major get-togethers of the year, the “Significant Singles” camp.
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Hope for leavers
Old way is creaking and groaning
Mark Pierson, of Cityside Baptist Church in Auckland, sees huge numbers of people leaving Western churches as a great opportunity.
“After a while there was a need to have clear leadership”
Baptist churches face shortage of pastors
Larger Baptist churches are having difficulty filling senior pastor roles meaning nearly half the pastor vacancies in Baptist churches are either for congregations of 300 or more or in multi-staffed churches.
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Ways
The plan is this. That it goes to plan. What is the plan? No pain in the game that’s lived … Continue reading Ways
The giver
God loves us more than we can love God God gives more to us than we could give to God … Continue reading The giver
Body, soul and spirit for women
Encouraging women
Aglow New Zealand encourages women to become whole in body, soul and spirit in an age where it can be fashionable to focus on form rather than content.
Aged care overlooked – lobby group
Call to boost aged care
New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services is challenging the Government to sufficiently fund rest homes and hospitals of elderly people, and says a 3 percent funding increase is too little too late.
Creating good families
Impacting Christians and non-Christians
“We exist so that God, working in and through us, will use us, to help people know, apply, experience, embrace and proclaim God’s truth on marriage and family. The result is godly families reaching others with God’s truth”, explains Andy Bray, Director of FamilyLife (in New Zealand), a ministry that encourages a variety of couples at different stages in life in their marriages and roles as mothers and fathers.
‘Presence’ at the games, circa 2000
“Special Presence” at Sydney Games
The YWAM New Zealand outreach team experienced a “fruitful” three weeks at the Sydney Olympic games this year says Jay Granat, team leader.
Ecumenical appeal
Appeal for cyclone-struck Niue
Christian World Service (CWS) is raising money to contribute to the rebuilding of cyclone-damaged Niue.
Cyclone Heta devastated Alofi and the only hospital on the island on January 6.
“Academically rigorous” religious and values education
Advancing religious education in state schools
Religious education seems to have no place in a secular society, but there are those who want to change this.
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Church leaders working together
Partners in Ministry – From relational unity to functional unity
A “rookie” pastor found that churches were not seemingly co-operating as strongly as ideal and he desired a greater unity. It was not enough to motivate Stefan Schlogl, Pastor of Victory Christian Centre, to action but when God spoke to him about initiating fellowship between ministers in the Hutt Valley he immediately sent letters to some of them sharing his vision.
Christians and voting
It’s gold for Jesus’ party
Avalon Baptist Church in Lower Hutt choose a gold background for this election-related sign so as not to confuse onlookers that it supported a particular party.
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Christians stir controversy at Parliament
Enough is Enough
The Rally for Human Rights preceded hundreds who marched Monday in the Enough is Enough rally taking a message to Parliament’s steps about the sanctity of marriage, proposed legalizing of civil unions and the Care of Children Bill deemed to undermine the marriage institution.
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Intent
The previous ‘poem’ I wrote, “The Friend”, was written out of more a matter of intent than designing something artistic. … Continue reading Intent
What to do when there are no Christian films in theatres?
We’re not seeing godly movies
So why don’t we organize a Christian film festival?
FAITH AND FAILM. Movies made by Christians in the United States are not finding distribution in New Zealand, but the solution could be a small Christian-themed festival.
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Myths and facts
I have come across some odd sayings in my day. But more than odd, they were controversial sayings, but delivered palatably, with even with a hint that it should be accepted. Except when I heard it, I may have had the advantage of my knowledge over others in the crowd.
The controversies were told at church, but if one knows their Bible quite literally, as I do, you would think twice about the saying. You would recognize it as controversial and that it did not quite fit the evidence of the Bible. Maybe they were aiming for mass and consumer acceptance, but I sat there dismayed. Waiting for someone to correct. So here it is. The fallacies that appeared from time to time on my journeys. How do I reply…
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