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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Un-F/fathered: the national shame of Indigenous deprivation “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did … Continue reading →

Indwelling All Things Background I have been reading, Is the Great Commission still Great?) by Steve Richardson, son of Don Richardson (author of the famed Peace Child and Eternity in Their Hearts). The central thesis of these books is that … Continue reading →

Christian Anti-Semitism Today “I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means!…. For the gifts and the calling of God can never be withdrawn.” (Rom 11:1, 29) Background After the atrocities initiating the Hamas-Israel war, I was approached … Continue reading →

Known By God “Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” (Hos 6:3) … Continue reading →

A Patchwork of Protective Prayer Background A major shift on my spiritual journey came decades ago when the Spirit of the Lord persistently, and uninvitedly, challenged me to change my prayer life. Whilst the outstanding dimension of this was the … Continue reading →

Change the Culture 1: Re-laying the Foundation “no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 3:11) Introduction Whilst many contemporary Western Christians are appalled by the “woke” culture flooding our … Continue reading →

Seeing Angels Gen 28:10-18; John 1:43-51 Introduction  https://youtube.com/watch?v=wu5X_PZys84&si=yjiQ09sH4k0CDIhb Today’s Gospel story, unlike the remarkable miracles (walking on water, feeding the 5, 000) and famous teachings of Jesus (Sermon on the Mount), is virtually unknown to many believers. “Who after all … Continue reading →