Elevation of the human spirit in Christ 19/1/25 Zion Fellowship Bible Reading Luke 23:44-49 [] omitted from sermon note on footnotes https://youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5wdc1KeOk&si=mMRRwCJCgYlqPUI- Introduction One of the outstanding problems of contemporary Western Christians is the widespread tendency to stop growing in … Continue reading
The End of Disability “you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. … Continue reading
Healed from Trauma: United with the Eternal Intercessions of the Son of God 12/2/25 St Marks Bassendean https://youtube.com/watch?v=ASIXLmAoA4E&si=GlKFx2W_a2vlhUI9 Readings Ps 141:1-10; Isa 52:13-53:12; Rom 8:18-34; Luke 3:21-22 [] = omitted from sermon address “he/Jesus is able to save to completely … Continue reading
Healing Nations in Trauma St Marks Bassendean 29/12/24 29/12/24 Ps 22:1-8, 27-31; Num 14:11-19; 1 Cor 15:35-49; Matt 27:45-53 [] = text omitted from sermon preached Prelude This sermon is part of a series being prepared for my trip to … Continue reading
Heavenly Home “Country road, take me home To the place I belong, West Virginia, mountain momma,Take me home, country road.” (John Denver) “Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds … Continue reading
Power, Prayer, Blood and Water “And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart…will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he … Continue reading
Healing in the Fulness Background: This teaching started with a prayerful sense that the Spirit wanted to communicate something of his fulness in Christ to me. Following this, the direction I was led became quite different from all my usual … Continue reading
Plan of God 5: Eternal Destinies Bible Reading Eph 3:14-21 Rev 20:11-15 Introduction [] =omitted from address https://youtube.com/watch?v=LjlW8iSp0VI&si=8U-GIL10h_ZRMCrA “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or imagine, according to the power … Continue reading
Completing the Tapestry Disclaimer Even though I have been in Perth since 1988, and am quite widely connected across our city, the teaching below can be no more than a personal impression of the present dynamics of the kingdom of … Continue reading
The Plan of God 4: Christ and the Idol Powers Reading: 2 Cor 6 https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKYFB49LGec&si=Yzb5IQq5ovm4Lq5C Introduction At the start of Revelation, Jesus summarises his own personal ministry, “I died, and behold I am alive forevermore” (Rev 1:17) unapologetically speaks of … Continue reading
Plan of God 3. Betrothal Bible Reading: Song of Solomon 3:6-11; 4:16b-5:1; 8:6-7; Eph 5:1-33 Introduction [] = omitted from sermon https://youtube.com/watch?v=wWymjiM32js&si=AQjPhJRtkbjQdgxx Over the decades, I have seen many changes in the Church, including the treatment of the Bible. As … Continue reading
The Plan of God 1. Beginning and End https://youtube.com/watch?v=BDQ004TQnPw&si=pvfuy63iZPmacsOP Bible Readings: Eph 1:1-14 [] omitted from sermon Prophetic Witness Since this a prophetic teaching series, I should start with a personal testimony to Jesus (Rev 19:10). After recently being righteously … Continue reading
Revelation Today Introduction I am not a “seeing” prophet in the usual sense of having visions and dreams (Num 12:6; Deut 13:1ff; Jer 23:2), but the Lord at times marvellously enlivens my thinking through events from decades ago. These are … Continue reading
40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” Luke 12:40 ESV Dear friends and family…, wise servant kept his lamp burning all night; Master’s house must be made “ready” and right. … Continue reading
Excitement, Exaggeration, Moderation? Your Choice in Jesus. Introduction My beautiful bide, coming up 50 years on Jan 5 2025, said to me a few days ago, “You moderate everything.” She made this exasperated utterance in response to my relatively muted … Continue reading
Empowering Joy Introduction In many ways, this teaching is the opposite to my sober warnings recently given (https://cross-connect.net.au/fear-of-death-hinders-revival/ ). There I attempted to expound that the great obstacle facing the Church’s growth in Christ was the lack of the fear … Continue reading
Fear of Death, Hindering Revival Introduction This teaching is a response to a wonderful event last week when over a thousand believers gathered together in unity to hear powerful teaching, inspired praying, and join in rousing praise to the Lord. … Continue reading
Kingdom Time and Space Introduction This teaching follows Glory Through Blood, which highlighted the complexities of Gen 3:21, “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made … Continue reading
Glory through Blood: the Investiture of the King of Kings “And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.” (Gen 3:21) Investiture: the action of formally investing a person with honours or … Continue reading
17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 27:17 ESV Dear friends and family…, good friends will tell us just where we went wrong; so that we change and do right and stay strong. Christ’s … Continue reading
Gracing Humanity On the Edge Introduction My darling wife, who knows me more intimately than could ever be described, or comprehended, says, “You cannot be subtle. As soon as you open your mouth you stop being subtle.” If her testimony … Continue reading
Eldership in Crisis Introduction A major problem that godly people bring to me from time to time for prophetic wisdom and teaching concerns eldership. My grievous observation is that, in practice, elders are either absent, for example, in Anglican/Catholic/Orthodox circles … Continue reading
10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Hebrews 4:10 ESV Dear friends and family…, Joshua and his mob at last reached “Promised Land”; God had done great work for his … Continue reading
Intimate Partner Violence and the Church “Marriage symbolism is … personal…dramatic…eschatological. To love someone is to tell them ‘you will never die’” (Olivier Clement citing Gabriel Marcel, as to Jesus and the Church) Introduction Marla Bore is about 1000kms north … Continue reading
Simplicity In Christ “all things were created through him and for him.” (Col 1:16) Introduction Paul’s concentration on Christ expounds him as both the centre and circumference of the life of his Body and Bride. Or as maths teacher Donna … Continue reading
Hope From James for a Broken Divided Church Today “The glory that you have given me (cf, 17:5) I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, … Continue reading
Beyond AI “Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let … Continue reading
Welcome to the Supper 22/5/24 Sparrows College Bible Reading Rev 1:9; 19:1-10 Introduction In ways that are both in line with his earthly life (https://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Luke-Food.htm) and radical discontinuous, the climax of Jesus’ history with humanity involves a meal. This is … Continue reading
Lord of the Nations Pentecost Sunday 2024 Acts 2:1-21;Ps 104:26-36; Rom 8:17-27; John 15:26-27; 16:4-15 https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/1202-pentecost-2 Introduction [] = omitted from sermon [It is indispensable to Christian authenticity that] we must interpret Pentecost as a climactic event in [the Spirit’s … Continue reading
Unthinking Heretics “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all … Continue reading