.. scoffing ..
is a proud "aussie" refuge,
that needs pulling down ..
.. pulled down ..
by
the love and forgiveness,
that is in
Theoites' Charis .....
+
.... nice to see a rich person (Gates)
encourage the rich to give funds into community ....
+
The New #Pentagon Law:
talking to a journalist = talking to the public = talking to Al-Qaeda = Communicating with the enemy = death penalty
-Wikileaks
+
"He creates [and re-creates]
on an eternal whim:
He is,
in the old phrase,
Deus Ludens,
the God who plays." .....
(RFC)
on an eternal whim:
He is,
in the old phrase,
Deus Ludens,
the God who plays." .....
(RFC)
..... and play defines our relationships .....
+
.... it is so enjoyable
when lumps of water
form up on a sand bank ....
+
that baby loves you ..... "even while she's sleeping .... "
+
ha .. while in my phone's settings page, the phone slipped thru my hands, i caught it before it fell but it had selected very huge icons and a screen that could not be traversed !! i couldn't even turn it off .. had to use the desk top to reset everything .. those programmers mustn't have thought of that one ..
+
Benjamin Dunn, Jason & Rachel
found a sweet venue for their songs in Brisbane ....
+
.... water ....
.... so glad that it is
a key analogue
in the Mystery ....
+
You can't box up God in theology
You can't box up Jesus in Christianity
You can't box up church in a building
You can't box up truth in a belief system
You can't box up grace in conditions
You can't box up Jesus in Christianity
You can't box up church in a building
You can't box up truth in a belief system
You can't box up grace in conditions
- Jim Palmer
+
Deliver me... from what they want me to be.
Deliver me... from what they expect me to be.
Deliver me... from the script they've wriiten for me.
Deliver me... from the people-pleaser in me.
Deliver me... from the fear of creating me.
Deliver me... from the fear of expressing me.
Deliver me... from the fear of being me.
- Jim Palmer
Deliver me... from what they expect me to be.
Deliver me... from the script they've wriiten for me.
Deliver me... from the people-pleaser in me.
Deliver me... from the fear of creating me.
Deliver me... from the fear of expressing me.
Deliver me... from the fear of being me.
- Jim Palmer
+
http://www.recognise.org.au/
recognition of Indigenous Australians
+
Every man, woman and child living under Indonesian rule in West Papua yearns for freedom.
.... end the oppression of the indonesian military ..
+man suffered severe arthritic pain throughout his body for over 41 years. He had to be assisted to the front in a slow shuffle as the arthritis was also in his feet and legs. He used to be a concert pianist, but life threw a few disappointments his way. After prayer, all pain left his body and his emotions were also touched and relieved. Thank you Jesus for healing every area of our lives!
- John Mellor
+
Solidarity from Scotland for Free West Papua!
Scottish activists raise the Morning Star flag at the historic Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.
+
... seen the 3: Morris, Kate & Joe;
Joe Camilleri the entertainer;
gotta love some1
who crosses himself
& then says to the audience:
get your inner peter pan on ....
+
Relax.....
the fine upstanding people
who got to experience
Theos in the flesh,
did not think of Him
as an example of Perfection,
but quite a bad egg ! .....
(RFC)
the fine upstanding people
who got to experience
Theos in the flesh,
did not think of Him
as an example of Perfection,
but quite a bad egg ! .....
(RFC)
..... He is happy & relaxed with us .....
+
.... lookin for sharkmouth,
the band, that is ....
+
... it is so enjoyable
when lumps of water
form up on a sand bank ....
+
... teehee
1st time I gotta wait
for a lull in the waves
to enter a surf club ....
here goes ....
+
.... walkin to food
beside a full moon ....
+
.... 3 quality waves
took me 1 & a half km
in the same number of hours ....
ha .... I like the water ....
+
Kaylene was legally blind but after prayer Jesus restored her sight. This miracle made 'Today Tonight' Channel 7 news national current affairs program, and various newspapers. In the comments box below is part of her interview with channel 7. We see Jesus heal blindness at most of our meetings. He hasn't changed in over 2000 years and still does the same miracles today!!! With Kaylene on the cover of the 'Ipswich Weekly' is Alwyn Denman who was crippled on 2 sticks but also was totally healed after Jesus gave him 2 brand new knees!!
John Mellor
+
.... Celebrating 30
in Greek ....
+
Hahe .... I'll let you know when the autumn leaves are knee deep to a Vera ....
+
.... listening to "My Addiction",
somethin afoot ....
+
.... got thru traffic,
free park,
Now to the band .....
+
.... great remix set
from Benjamin Dunn, Jason & Rachel
mainly off "Fable" ....
good night
and met some friends there too ...
+
.... cookin a roast for Jarah .....
+
..... short shrift to that virus,
so thankful .....
+
Jeshoa
miraculously
anointed Saul
to turn the ekklesia
from becoming law ruled .....
.....
more Pauls please .....
..... his writings culminate in
miraculously
anointed Saul
to turn the ekklesia
from becoming law ruled .....
.....
more Pauls please .....
the revelation of radical grace & love for all .....
+“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for.
The world is always just what it is now,
and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
+
.... 10mm of rain;
Now the sun is out again,
I like it ....
+
God forever intended to unite Himself to you in the incarnation.
He has pledged His very being to the human race.
-J. Crowder
+
.... clear water
on a dome shaped bank
in the sun ....
+
O region of dark ignorance where is your stinging,
O hades (grave) where is your vanquishing ......
...The stinging of dark ignorance is
missing our true reality,
and the enabling,
of missing our true identity,
are the rules we use.
(1C15)
O hades (grave) where is your vanquishing ......
...The stinging of dark ignorance is
missing our true reality,
and the enabling,
of missing our true identity,
are the rules we use.
(1C15)
.. the re-binding rules we use .. what a sting ..
..... a new rule of "I am unconditionally Loved by Eimi (I am)"
..... no sting in that .....
+
... had some time with this little baby light, today .....
+
..... cruisy day
dis one;
just took a picture
for a family
with a premmy babe;
first outing;
blessed them, ay .....
+
... pretty cool fun ....
teaching a few things
about bodysurfing
to a new mum
out on an ocean sandbank ....
+
... shared ....
lamb kofta,
middle eastern beans
& poached eggs ....
with canteen coffee ....
breakfast start-up ....
+
....we are not a delivery service
hired to take Jesus
to the "heathen"
but a "witness"
to the Christos
already in them .....
(RFC)
hired to take Jesus
to the "heathen"
but a "witness"
to the Christos
already in them .....
(RFC)
+
AGAPE - to be content with.
God was so content with man
that He gave His son to saves us from what was killing us.
What killed us was sin in the flesh activated by the LAW.
In removing the union we had with the law
we have the freedom to know and believe in Him.
His SPIRIT then raises His life up in us and so we are Saved.
- Bertie Brits
+
Been keeping going and going by the power of the fire in me
but now I'm finally happy to curl up in bed and sleep....aaah...
partying with Jesus is full-on! Its like a 48 hour love and fire festival!
-E.Piffero
+
εκστασισ ekstasis; a displacement of the mind,
i. e. bewilderment, “ecstasy”: to be amazed, amazement, astonishment.
Kinda like when God opens a woman's deaf ear
that has been deaf since birth in front of a crowd
of onlookers at a New Age festival!!!!!
-P.Mason
+
“If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you,
you haven't understood it yet.”
-Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
+
Korowai Tribe treehouse protruding from the canopy of the endless New Guinea Jungle. West Papua's Korowai and Kombai tribes are some of the only known cultures in the World to live permanently in tree houses.
Please take the time to watch this clip showing how the incredible Korowai tribe built this amazing treehouse.
Filmed by BBC Human Planet.
Please take the time to watch this clip showing how the incredible Korowai tribe built this amazing treehouse.
Filmed by BBC Human Planet.
+
Paul never said,
"If we deny God he will deny us!"
2 Tim 2:12
If we contradict ourselves (behave unlike ourselves),
God will contradict us and prove us wrong!
(The word arneomai means to contradict.)
2:13 Our unbelief does not change what God believes;
he cannot contradict himself!
((See Rom 3:3,4 What we believe about God does not define him;
God’s faith defines us.
God cannot be untrue to himself)
- Mirror Bible
+
Something came to me the second Zimri was born,
how proud and in love with her I was..
Before she could even attempt to impress me she blew me away..
Before she had done anything I was so pleased with her..
discovered that this is EXACTLY how God feels about us..
He was so pleased with us before we even tried to please Him..
So proud and in love before we could attempt to impress Him..
It's so yummy isn't it? :D
-K.McNamara
+
.... winter
seems to have assumed its position
In the sunshine state ....
+
.. seems to me that religionists,
of all disciplines,
have money supply anxiety
as a motivation of their views ..
.. sometin like :
the lust for money is the root of all hardships ..
+
Organization
+
.... under the house,
fixed a leaky pipe,
like a plumber ....
+
hehe ....
.. "I wouldn't belong to a club whose rules made me a member" ..
..... but spontaneous joyous love gatherings identified in "I Am" .....
.... now, there's a possibility ....
+
"My darling bride,
My private paradise
Fastened to My heart. A secret spring are you
That no one else can have—
My bubbling fountain Hidden from public view.
What a perfect partner to Me, Now that I have you!"
Song of Songs 4:12 The Passion Translation
My private paradise
Fastened to My heart. A secret spring are you
That no one else can have—
My bubbling fountain Hidden from public view.
What a perfect partner to Me, Now that I have you!"
Song of Songs 4:12 The Passion Translation
+
The Hebrew word : olam
and the Greek word : aionios
have been mistranslated as : eternal
dozens of times.
How can something be eternal when it has the word until attached to it?
Jonah was in the fish forever UNTIL three days later (Jonah 1:17).
The law is eternal UNTIL it vanishes away (Hebrews 8:7-13).
Animal sacrifices are eternal UNTIL ended by Christ (2 Chronicles 2:4).
Israel's judgment is forever UNTIL God restores it (Isaiah 32:13-15).
The Aaronic priesthood is eternal UNTIL Melchizadek (Exodus 40:15).
Christ reigns eternal UNTIL He has put all enemies under His feet
(1 Corinthians 15:25).
You will not come out of hell UNTIL you have paid up the last cent (Matthew 5:26).
How can people suggest or teach that the concept of eternal conscious torment exists
Jonah was in the fish forever UNTIL three days later (Jonah 1:17).
The law is eternal UNTIL it vanishes away (Hebrews 8:7-13).
Animal sacrifices are eternal UNTIL ended by Christ (2 Chronicles 2:4).
Israel's judgment is forever UNTIL God restores it (Isaiah 32:13-15).
The Aaronic priesthood is eternal UNTIL Melchizadek (Exodus 40:15).
Christ reigns eternal UNTIL He has put all enemies under His feet
(1 Corinthians 15:25).
You will not come out of hell UNTIL you have paid up the last cent (Matthew 5:26).
How can people suggest or teach that the concept of eternal conscious torment exists
if there is an UNTIL attached to it?
Now those that say ALL does not mean ALL may also say
that UNTIL does not mean UNTIL.
Now those that say ALL does not mean ALL may also say
that UNTIL does not mean UNTIL.
Well, it does! ♥
-K.Hinkle
+
+
.... gentle soaking rain o'night,
it came in from the west;
a start to the winter planting ....
+
His Love Words Bathe us
and remove from us
EVERY stain of failure .....
(E5)
..... a failure to see ourselves as Theiotes' sees us .....
immersed in his passionate Love,
no matter what .....
+
.... that was a blissed and full mother's day ....
..... good on all you mummas .....
+
Repentance is not a prerequisite for Salvation -
It is it's fruit.
Cheers!
-B.Dunn
+
You can't really fall from grace.
You can just forget about grace.
- J.Crowder
+
.... nice to see Inglis in full flight ....
+
Wow
there is just so excitement in me right now for Jesus.
His plan is so awesome!!
-M.Fenner
+
“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions
to participate in the process of change.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people,
can transform the world.”
-Howard Zinn
+
What we believe about Theos
does not define Him;
Theiotes' faith defines us.
(R3)
+
.... pleasant day,
time for a lunch time
motosickle ride ....
+
"as I enjoy real life,
says Kurios,
every tongue shall
openly and joyfully
acknowledge Theos"
(R14)
.. not a threat ..
..... this is a Joy .....
says Kurios,
every tongue shall
openly and joyfully
acknowledge Theos"
(R14)
.. not a threat ..
..... this is a Joy .....
+
.... railway yards developed into parklands ....
should be gud ....
nice if they put in a southbank type pool too ....
the old bridge gone already.
+
.... always luv
those unexpected people
dropping in ....
+
.... special ....
lunch @ fishhouse
with offspring ....
+
.... so nice to see
the extended family
of the interactive sweet Zimri ....
+
.... big family day with Zimri;
Josh cooked spicy enchilada tonight ....
+
.... sometimes it is just
the paddle out
& the wave in.
ha ....
& exuding sashimi oil ....
+
.... freedom to choose
is a freedom
from The Spirit .....
.... always freedom in His Spirit .....
+
.... first time
no labour day
longweekend
in May ....
+
Perfection is not defined by our perception,
but by what God sees when he says,
"It is finished!"
-F.duToit
+
"God created man and woman and placed them in a garden called Pleasure!"
What a Life! He didn't create servants, or slaves but Sons
and placed them in a garden of absolute Bliss!
This revelation is about to absolutely transform our lives,
He's raising up 'Pioneers of Life!'
How about our ministries become ones of manifesting absolute Life and Pleasure.
Deeper complacency anyone? x
-New Ecstatics
+
Cheers for your birthday love and likes.
.... a "virtual" party ! ....
the city had a jolly feel to it, yesterday.
Bold, of PJ, to put up an ancient image of me ....
Here's to the joy .....
... raw organic snickers cake ....
made by organic Jane .....
Mmmm ... date caramel .....
+
.... Charis Grace is the door into Unconditional Love ..... |
.... His "outa the box" super news of grace .....
that's how every & any one gets to this Love .....
+
Most people, 70% at least, that got set free from legalism through DLM was through the teaching I have on the tithe... I need to preach more on the tithe I think. If more grace pastors would be bold and teach we don't have to tithe and do sowing and reaping to be blessed more will be free.
I am not against giving....
-B.Brits
+
As long as we look for some teaching to comfort us or a belonging system to protect us, we will be frustrated with futility at their inability to do so and miss the greatest invitation of all—the open arms of Jesus who wants to set all our fears and doubts at rest in the knowing of him...
-W.Jacobsen
+
.... the call of the wild
garden ....
when the leaves
come tumblin down ....
+
.. yet nothing changes ..
to the "not Co-seeing";
in their worldly wisdom,
the sociopaths keep control,
and the warmongers keep killing ..
.... Co-seeing thru Love .....
+
.... yet, not 10 sec earlier,
baby was doing a big wah,wah at getting her clothes off .....
then absolute peace as she felt her body immersed in water ....
she made me giggle watching from the sidelines .....
... fullish moon
through the window
where J&K bathed Zimri ....
bit special.
+
..... Met people at a party,
ate lamb,
drank wine,
chatted of inspiration,
declared the sick well,
the sad & anxious comforted,
to be caught up in joy,
and sang of love .....
and some call it : not "church" !
+
ate lamb,
drank wine,
chatted of inspiration,
declared the sick well,
the sad & anxious comforted,
to be caught up in joy,
and sang of love .....
and some call it : not "church" !
+
.... Cruzza to Rainbow ....
Beach that is ....
Ben's gettin married ....
+
.... winding thru
the range past kinkin
down to sunshine beach;
& it feels like a sunday ....
+
Woe the feeling :
on the beach...
a dad and 3 young kids;
He was carrying a girl (3) and a boy (5) while calling a girl (6) who was running but disappearing up the beach into crowd. Distressed, he made the decision to drop them and run after the runner. We hovered near these inconsolable two. An angry dad got back 5 min later, with the 6 yr old still running. I passed by & said "ya done well"; he calmed a little in a grunt ..... We looked back to see a family group cuddle .....
+
..... i haven't made
Him my all in all;
He has eternally
been my all in all;
i'm just realizing it these days;
He is eternally
THE all in all for all .....
Him my all in all;
He has eternally
been my all in all;
i'm just realizing it these days;
He is eternally
THE all in all for all .....
+
..... Ben & Shan married;
we celebrated
on da dance floor;
at the end of a
jack johnson set;
the band said to us :
"good dancin, guys"....
+
.. goin across the road
to remember those
that were sent
to the hell of war ..
I hear a violin now ....
"Amazing Grace" on bagpipe at dawn .....
Now playing "imagine" John Lennon .....
an aspiration to fulfill .....
.. war what/who is it gud for ..
always implicated in a failure of "leadership" somewhere ..
+
.... hanging with women
talkin birthing experiences;
very entertaining ....
+
.... great family day;
i gave a couple of waves
to Bede, too ....
+
.. sadly ..
one
has a blessed inkling
of "vulgar" grace .....
then,
is back into
sin-management
of the next thing,
one is to face ..
one
has a blessed inkling
of "vulgar" grace .....
then,
is back into
sin-management
of the next thing,
one is to face ..
..... more "vulgar" grace revelation ..... yes .....
+
"..... I will ascend & rise.
I will take hold of you,
embracing every part
of my fruitful bride.
Your passion
I will drink as wine
your words
will be as mine." .....
(shepherd king - song o songs)
I will take hold of you,
embracing every part
of my fruitful bride.
Your passion
I will drink as wine
your words
will be as mine." .....
(shepherd king - song o songs)
.... Mmm .... drunk on passion ....
+
tee hee
.. notice a pattern ..
whenever something is undermining the religionists,
they do a "study" on the "disturbing trend",
and put "hyper-" on it !
ha .. the put down pre-fix
with no meaning other than to keep things under their control ..
+
Every church kid born in the 70's or 80's remembers sitting through those documentaries in which we were warned about the evils of secular music. The climax of these films was the 'back masking' section, in which they would demonstrate how playing some popular metal tunes backwards would produce satanic words and phrases.
In the modern church, however, one does not need to play most of our songs backwards to hear satanic messages. You merely need to play them as they are in order to be bombarded with Old Covenant messages of sin, separation, dirt, and distance. However, if we would play some of these tunes backwards, we might just get a picture of what eternal life is supposed to look like. :)
(Sarcasm intended)
In the modern church, however, one does not need to play most of our songs backwards to hear satanic messages. You merely need to play them as they are in order to be bombarded with Old Covenant messages of sin, separation, dirt, and distance. However, if we would play some of these tunes backwards, we might just get a picture of what eternal life is supposed to look like. :)
(Sarcasm intended)
-J.Turner
+
.... setting up shop
for a lovely six year old,
so she can sell our avocados,
back to us ....
+
.... such crisp fine autumn days,the ocean might be calling ....
+
The gospel is the divine laughter
at the problem of the ages
that was solved before it ever began.
-J.Crowder
+
.... gotta bow tied on
might go somewhere nice ....
+
.... back end of an apple store
where lots o talk & appointments are buzzin ....
+
.... rugby league
is the winner ....
+
.... "and now simply
let yourself be Loved;
as you ARE,
and not as you
should [clean yourself up to] be." .....
Brennan Manning
(Resting in The Peace)
+
let yourself be Loved;
as you ARE,
and not as you
should [clean yourself up to] be." .....
Brennan Manning
(Resting in The Peace)
+
.... from the water
the clouds looked like
desert dunes
In rich sandy light ....
wow
+
“I don’t want to have any enemies in the human race. I don’t care who you are or what you’re doing. If you want to be my enemy, I am going to love on you just the same as if you were my friend, because that’s the way the Kingdom works. I want to be a lover of all people like Jesus is.”
-G.Cooke
+
A complacent satisfaction in God
may cause you to accidentally outwork
all your religious friends.
-J.Crowder
+
.. the world is a mysterious place,
over-represented
by humans just waiting to take offence ..
+
..... it is far more moving
for 1000 to love in small things,
than 1 to do a big thing .....
+
.... a tuna jumped close to me,
the sky lit up
and the waves seemed to merge with the sky,
in the sea ....
+
Human life is human life. It is beyond precious no matter who it is. I don't care if it's someone from Pakistani bus bombings the other day, middle east war and drone victims, the hundreds killed in today's Iranian earthquake or innocent people at the Boston bombings. They all deserve thoughts and attention and the establishment media needs to step up their game, not cherry pick whose life matters while demonizing those who ask questions that need to be asked. If I'm ever killed in such an awful way I pray someone will throw political correctness out the window and ask the unpopular questions the second after it happens. RIP to everyone who has ever passed away. — Bill O.
+
.... pre-storm. post-storm
or thru-storm ?
sea timing for a surf ....
+
Bad things happen to everyone.
It isn't your experiences that define your life.
It's your responses that make or break you.
+
"We have just enough religion to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love one another."
- Jonathan Swift
+
.. so there is a political party called
Australian Independents, ay ..
they say they are local-oriented ....
+
Sozo (grk) (sode-zo)
translated "save" in the 1600s
means
"rescue from death",
"restore to original life" .....
+
.... string theory and 9 dimensions;
hahe .... the Mystery always expands ....
+
Suppose Jesus went about trying to change Rome through their own system?
In their courts, or even by force, raising up an army? If anybody would have been successful at it he would. Are we really serious about changing our nation in the world? Why don't we do it his way?
John 18:36
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
- LEO
+
Resting in the Peace - Brennan Manning
"Some have labeled by my message one of "cheap grace".
In my younger days, their accusations were a gauntlet thrown down, a challenge.
But I'm an old man now and I don't care...
My life is a witness to vulgar grace-
a grace that amazes as it offends."
- Brennan Manning
i am so glad you wrote & spoke ..... R.I.P.
"Some have labeled by my message one of "cheap grace".
In my younger days, their accusations were a gauntlet thrown down, a challenge.
But I'm an old man now and I don't care...
My life is a witness to vulgar grace-
a grace that amazes as it offends."
- Brennan Manning
i am so glad you wrote & spoke ..... R.I.P.
.... 1934 - 2013 .... I wanted to hear some one like Brennan earlier in my life .....
+
... horses ....
what amazing creatures ....
a beautiful one is racing s'arvo,
hope they telecast it ....
+
the old dear leant across, and said :
"not much longer for me, here;
still, everyone has got to die sometime."
I said : "we all go that way, eventually,
to have our wonderful divine appointment."
"oh, it won't go well for me, i'm afraid."
" yes it will."
"you don't even know me
and what i've done."
she added a few expletive deletives,
just to put me more in her picture.
"yeh, you'll be right;
you've been looked after."
we talked about stuff;
and she finished with :
"well, if i do make it,
he'll have made a mistake."
"no, he hasn't" .....
"not much longer for me, here;
still, everyone has got to die sometime."
I said : "we all go that way, eventually,
to have our wonderful divine appointment."
"oh, it won't go well for me, i'm afraid."
" yes it will."
"you don't even know me
and what i've done."
she added a few expletive deletives,
just to put me more in her picture.
"yeh, you'll be right;
you've been looked after."
we talked about stuff;
and she finished with :
"well, if i do make it,
he'll have made a mistake."
"no, he hasn't" .....
+
.... reading thought hooks
from the album cover,
listenin to the drones
like it's 1970 ....
+
"You are making the path to peace and freedom difficult
because you insist upon your conditions and preferences."
- Jim Palmer, Notes from (Over) the Edge
+
..... it will bring joy to all,
otherwise, it is not good news .....
+
.. law, condemnation and force
works in families
so it should work well
in groups and government ..
.. NOT ..
.. keep tryin it on the nations, tho .. ha ..
+
The "prophetic camp" wants a witch burning.
Where are all these "hyper-grace" ministers they're warning us about
that supposedly teach license to sin?
They don't exist.
Just an imaginary diversion boys and girls.
Every "grace teacher" I've met teaches freedom FROM sin, not freedom TO sin.
But they also teach freedom from charismatic religious formulas -
and that's what's really irritating the old order.
-J.Crowder
+
that sbs1 programme on "the Cosmos"
had all the Mystery .....
trying to be explained by science's best minds;
big bang, then unseen (dark matter) forces
keeping galaxies from collapsing back to nothing;
some matter attracting more "attention" than other ...
time not necessarily being linear & future;
and much more ..... it is a trippy creation .....
had all the Mystery .....
trying to be explained by science's best minds;
big bang, then unseen (dark matter) forces
keeping galaxies from collapsing back to nothing;
some matter attracting more "attention" than other ...
time not necessarily being linear & future;
and much more ..... it is a trippy creation .....
ha .... and space is something not nothing !!
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.... Wow ....
Joan Baez
& non-violent activism
Early 60s ....
+
.... motogp
yamaha 1, 2,
the old man, Rossi,
made a statement ....
quite the race !
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You masculine,
with intelligent understanding,
honour the feminine,
as you would a precious vessel,
being co-partakers of Grace-Life ....
1P3
with intelligent understanding,
honour the feminine,
as you would a precious vessel,
being co-partakers of Grace-Life ....
1P3
..... everyone are co-partakers in Grace-Life .....
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.... word up ....
"suneidesis" from the old greek
was translated "conscience" in the 1600s
and means "joint seeing", "seeing as one", "co-seeing",
"seeing as One in Theiotes",
which de-emphasises the modern meaning
of "an human internal voice of morals or knowledge".
.. just sayin ..
"suneidesis" from the old greek
was translated "conscience" in the 1600s
and means "joint seeing", "seeing as one", "co-seeing",
"seeing as One in Theiotes",
which de-emphasises the modern meaning
of "an human internal voice of morals or knowledge".
.. just sayin ..
.... the Joy of Co-Seeing ....
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Charisma [magazine] is notorious for uninformed slander. I've seen them attack numerous respectable ministries they dislike over the years in the name of objective reporting. How could some view them as a theological authority in the charismatic church? They are simply a for-profit Christian gossip mag. I've been named in the magazine several times by the editors, always in a slanderous way - but never once have I been contacted by them to see what I actually believe. There is enough libel written about me on their online chat forums that I could sue them and live comfortably the rest of my life. Working as an award-winning editor/journalist for a newspaper for years, I can attest that even in the secular arena, such lack of integrity in reporting would get most writers fired. Their recent string of rants against this mythical straw man they call "hyper grace" is just more of the same ... yaaawwnnn ...
-J,Turner
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. read this just now :-
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr ..
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.. teehee ..
.. i actually met a bloke
who thinks that if
a white person and a black person
have a child, it is interbreeding;
like 1 species with another ..
i tried to explain that humans are one species,
and that skin colour is but one expression
in the amazing gene pool we have in natural selection;
..... so anyone can partner for love .....
.. he said we would have to agree to disagree in this ..
.. i actually met a bloke
who thinks that if
a white person and a black person
have a child, it is interbreeding;
like 1 species with another ..
i tried to explain that humans are one species,
and that skin colour is but one expression
in the amazing gene pool we have in natural selection;
..... so anyone can partner for love .....
.. he said we would have to agree to disagree in this ..
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.... fine autumn days and rain at night ....
luv it .....
+
.. when the sociopaths next get people to kill for them,
let's just send these war-mongers
off with boxing gloves; ..
so we all can party with their latest "enemy"
with the king of peace and grace .....
+
.... "Knocked up" movie
long but got some funny scenes,
(language)
+
THANK YOU! We have an Arms Trade Treaty at last and we couldn't have done it without you!
In the UN General Assembly an overwhelming majority voted for the treaty. In total: 154 states voted to adopt the treaty, 23 abstained, and 3 voted against.
Please share this historic news!
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I've said this on many, many different occasions, but I feel it necessary to say it once more:America is not a covenant nation! What I mean, is that America, the good old United States of America (which I am blessed to call my home), is not a nation that is in covenant with God. Now, trust me, I understand that various groups throughout history, from the Pilgrims to modern intercessors, have attempted to make national, contractual agreements with God, but the fact is, such covenants do not hold any weight in the realm of eternity.
The only divine covenant in existence in that which exists between the Father and the Son, and this is a covenant which has existed throughout eternity.
-J.Turner
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.. sociopaths and warmongers, too,
need Release from the hell they participate in,
or the hell they construct for themselves,
by experiencing that they are Loved ..
... as it happens,
i'm watchin the results of these war-mongers
on "foreign correspondent" right now
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"Faith is a gift from God to enable us to see what He sees.
-G.Cooke
+
Unless we experience and soak up His presence,
our relationship becomes cerebral rather than actual.
We know about it, but we can't live in it.
-W.Backlund
+
..... liberte seu espirito .....
noticed it on a brazilian's surfboard, y'day
..... release your spirit .....
+
What does "The finished work of Christ" mean?
Your deadness is over,
your new holy life has just begun.
Welcome to endless passion and joy.
-G&W.Banov
+
.. "Tetelestai" ..
.. the law is completed ..
.. the temple of performance is finished ..
.. the body is taken down ..
+
.... the sun turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood;
between noon and three .....
+
Iceland's president explained how his country recovered so quickly from the recession: “The government bailed out the people and imprisoned the banksters; the opposite of what America and the rest of Europe did.”
+
..... He has healed us
and is co-carrying our cross;
right now .....
+
... wining, dining,
gethsemane .....
tortured night .....
absolutely amazing .....
+
.. the bible isn't the "word of god"..
..... Jesus IS the Word of Theiotes .....
.. the bible is a sample
of word pictures pointing to Jeshua ..
Jeshua IS Word Incarnate - Logos Sarx
..... totally permeated with Charis and Truth .....
(J1)
..... Jesus IS the Word of Theiotes .....
.. the bible is a sample
of word pictures pointing to Jeshua ..
Jeshua IS Word Incarnate - Logos Sarx
..... totally permeated with Charis and Truth .....
(J1)
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.. a cynic is an habitual doubter ..
+
You can't help but fulfill you destiny because you are your destiny.
- Wendy Backlund
+
. Forget
the shadow dispensation,
that was law and prophets;
fix your vision on Jeshoa,
the fountainhead
and conclusion
of faithfulness .....
(H12)
the shadow dispensation,
that was law and prophets;
fix your vision on Jeshoa,
the fountainhead
and conclusion
of faithfulness .....
(H12)
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Great testimony emailed in:
Last year you prayed for me for a miracle (Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer)
I write to let you know I got the all clear. God bless, Evelyn E
-J.Mellor
+
... Hehe ....
listening to
"because of the times"
not on spotify
cos I paid the artists
their due ....
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.. the only thing
that old-order
religious peddling has done,
is turn new-order
good news
of universal Charis
into the
bad news
of exclusivity & sad divisions ..
that old-order
religious peddling has done,
is turn new-order
good news
of universal Charis
into the
bad news
of exclusivity & sad divisions ..
(RFC)
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When you have to fundamentally change and restructure the entire personality of God in order to keep hold of certain eschatological ideas, or concepts about the afterlife, it is best to reanalyze your doctrines, and not the character of your God. A theology that makes you out to be a better parent, a more loving friend, or a more effective disciplinarian than the Ancient of Days, is a theology formed in the womb of mythology. Unfortunately, we are much more apt to change the image of God to fit with our pop theology than we are to alter our theology to fit with the character of God.
Not good.
Don't eat something just because it's being spoon fed to you. Don't say "Amen" just because everyone else is. And don't follow the lemmings just because they're all running in the same direction. There are many popularly held to beliefs that the present reformation is forcing us to reanalyze and put to the fire. God is purging His body of the toxic, Adamic mythologies that we've been clinging to for so many years. Much of what the church is presently saying, "Amen" to, will turn their stomach in just a few short years.
Buckle up. Change is taking place. The Reformation has begun!
Things. Will. Never. Be. The. Same. Again.
Not good.
Don't eat something just because it's being spoon fed to you. Don't say "Amen" just because everyone else is. And don't follow the lemmings just because they're all running in the same direction. There are many popularly held to beliefs that the present reformation is forcing us to reanalyze and put to the fire. God is purging His body of the toxic, Adamic mythologies that we've been clinging to for so many years. Much of what the church is presently saying, "Amen" to, will turn their stomach in just a few short years.
Buckle up. Change is taking place. The Reformation has begun!
Things. Will. Never. Be. The. Same. Again.
-J.Turner
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..... Love this from Paul .....
.. the performance driven mindset
triggers the lawsystem into action
and distorts the picture,
the deceit of a fleeting moment
of "performance pleasure"
seems more attractive than Grace .....
(H12)
triggers the lawsystem into action
and distorts the picture,
the deceit of a fleeting moment
of "performance pleasure"
seems more attractive than Grace .....
(H12)
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.. the religionists dealing with their evil ..
.. rip the babies off the unmarried mothers ..
.. has much changed ..
..... start with a heart-felt national apology .....
+
The great divide
is not between good and evil,
as such,
but between two
diametrically opposed ways
of dealing with good and evil .....
(RFC)
is not between good and evil,
as such,
but between two
diametrically opposed ways
of dealing with good and evil .....
(RFC)
.. law, force and compliance are attributes of one of the ways ....
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hadeha ..
justice dept could not not find evidence to convict
even 1 high priest of banking in the GFC meltdown;
but a local film maker had no trouble !
a fella, duckin for cover, said
greed is not a crime !!
(4Corners ABC)
justice dept could not not find evidence to convict
even 1 high priest of banking in the GFC meltdown;
but a local film maker had no trouble !
a fella, duckin for cover, said
greed is not a crime !!
(4Corners ABC)
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.... Ecstatic magazine and Capon books ....
... got some readin to do .....
+
.... Abolition of evil
by mass destruction;
God tried with the flood;
He changed His mind
On that course of action,
with a Rainbow
that says
This won't happen again .....
(RFC)
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by mass destruction;
God tried with the flood;
He changed His mind
On that course of action,
with a Rainbow
that says
This won't happen again .....
(RFC)
+
.... stroked a goanna on the tail
then it looked back
from the bush ....
+
.... sunshinie day
people moving slowly,
& kickin back ....
+
....roadhouse whiskey bar lunch,
then in at the pocket ....
+
. more education,
more religion,
more alpha-type leaders,
more weapons,
more laws,
more systems,
and we will ..
still NOT have more religion,
more alpha-type leaders,
more weapons,
more laws,
more systems,
and we will ..
Paradise on Earth ..
+
.... a restored v8 SS torana,
he asked me to push start it;
now i'm anaerobic ....
+
.. the party / celebrity / institutional failure ..
.... time to get out of those institutional lines ....
love and grace is here .....
+
.... watchin a lively ocean
from the flat white deck ....
+
No need to have it all figured out.
Just rest and suckle.
"Beware, then, of drinking wine while you are still a suckling infant.
There is a proper limit, time, and age for every doctrine."
Martin Luther
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I once had dinner with 6 other friends where we enjoyed eating, drinking and conversing in my home. They were all Christians who were part of an institutional church. Knowing I was no longer going to a 'church', I was asked "But don't you think it's important to meet with other believers and fellowship?" - to which I replied "What do you think we are doing right now?"
This amazed me, and caused me to later reflect on why I was asked the question. I concluded it is because to some the only real way to have relationships/fellowship with other believers is if someone organizes it for them and it revolves around some form of religious program.
There we were, all invited into my home, to enjoy being together as believers, and the whole time they failed to see this as fellowship, simply because I was not first part of some organization that programmed the evening for us, but rather, I simply organized it myself because I wanted to enjoy an evening with them, no strings attached and no religious program or bible study planned.
Why do Christians come so quickly to the conclusion other Christians who don't want any part of organized religion and institutional church are therefore saying they don't want, or don't have, an active community of believers they interact with? This is a ridiculous conclusion to come to. The institutional church is not the gatekeeper to fellowship. Not by a long shot. In fact, not even in the slightest.
This amazed me, and caused me to later reflect on why I was asked the question. I concluded it is because to some the only real way to have relationships/fellowship with other believers is if someone organizes it for them and it revolves around some form of religious program.
There we were, all invited into my home, to enjoy being together as believers, and the whole time they failed to see this as fellowship, simply because I was not first part of some organization that programmed the evening for us, but rather, I simply organized it myself because I wanted to enjoy an evening with them, no strings attached and no religious program or bible study planned.
Why do Christians come so quickly to the conclusion other Christians who don't want any part of organized religion and institutional church are therefore saying they don't want, or don't have, an active community of believers they interact with? This is a ridiculous conclusion to come to. The institutional church is not the gatekeeper to fellowship. Not by a long shot. In fact, not even in the slightest.
-M.Mooney
+
..... exceptions and paradox
should keep religionists
from enforcing
their doctrines/hypotheses .....
+
.... drifted down
the magnificent mile,
got 4; nothin broke;
a bit of stoke ....
+
Everything He does:
crying in a manger,
teaching lawyers at age 12,
drinking and eating with scammers & prostitutes,
healing in compassion,
dying for Love,
rising, ascending, and presencing;
draws ALL .....
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crying in a manger,
teaching lawyers at age 12,
drinking and eating with scammers & prostitutes,
healing in compassion,
dying for Love,
rising, ascending, and presencing;
draws ALL .....
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Hebrews 12:27
The phrase "one last shaking" means a thorough housecleaning, getting rid of all the historical and religious junk so that the unshakable essentials stand clear and uncluttered.
+
.... the creeks and gullies are flowing clear
in the mellow afternoon sun;
i heard the calls of bellbirds where i photographed.
rode home before a darkening cloud ....
..... blessed .....
+
..... i get the impression,
people who say
"grace is not a license to sin, but .."
are actually lawmakers, de-powering
its mind-blowing relevance to everyone .....
+
There is no gospel in Rom 3:23
It's in the next verse!
The law reveals what happened to man in Adam; grace reveals what happened to the same man in Christ.
-F.duToit
+
..... Kurios has defined us ALL innocent in Him,
He has completed, perfected, finished, this defining
in His faith to endure and kill our fails in the cross sacrifice ..... amazing .....
+
The message of Grace
is the most appropriate
and attractive response
to season every situation .....
(C4)
+
is the most appropriate
and attractive response
to season every situation .....
(C4)
+
"Greasy grace" is a term used by some who say
that grace is a slippery slope toward just doing whatever we want to do.
They miss the point that authentic grace
*does indeed* allow us to do what we want to do.
(see 1 Cor 10:23)
The secret is that authentic grace changes our wants!
(see 1 John 5:3)
Steve McVey
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I've noticed a strange phenomenon over the years. If a Christian author or speaker makes a splash by edging his or her way more towards a Grace focused message, more often than not, they cause a huge controversy, and are labeled 'heretics' by other members of the pastoral fraternity. They have books published against their books, sermons preached correcting their sermons, and countless blogs and videos published in order to tarnish their reputation. Their message will be called a "devilish, end-times delusion", and accused of, "giving people a license to sin in the name of grace".However, if a similarly well known author or speaker publishes a book on getting back to "old fashioned holiness standards", and launches into rants about non essentials, and sometimes even slips squarely into full blown legalism, the book will be hailed as a "trumpet call to a sleeping church".
-J.Turner
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.... ahh,
so they want to add more rocks to kirra groin,
wonder if they have considered
large geotextile sand bags as an extension/surf break ....
+
"Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
--Pablo Picasso
+
+
Humans try to handle good and evil by control,
manhandling good into what
we think are improvements of it ..
Ours is the "same old same old" war choice since Eve,
... trying to elbow evil out of the picture, entirely.
Our power is plausible and right handed;
Theiotes' is mysterious and left handed .....
(~RFC)
Humans try to handle good and evil by control,
manhandling good into what
we think are improvements of it ..
Ours is the "same old same old" war choice since Eve,
... trying to elbow evil out of the picture, entirely.
Our power is plausible and right handed;
Theiotes' is mysterious and left handed .....
(~RFC)
..... the violent force of humans .....
the unconditional Love of Theiotes .....
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The tree
of the knowledge of good and evil
isn't a choice between them,
and not an obedience test,
but a knowing of them as states of being,
[previously unknown to Adam].
God's moving is a "strange work"
that leaves creation
free to do anything it likes.
(~RFCapon)
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of the knowledge of good and evil
isn't a choice between them,
and not an obedience test,
but a knowing of them as states of being,
[previously unknown to Adam].
God's moving is a "strange work"
that leaves creation
free to do anything it likes.
(~RFCapon)
+
.. a fella, protesting against child abuse,
dressed as a cardinal,
near got into their voting conclave;
but didn't quite get all the dress code right ..
* vote for marriage at the same time guys ! *
+
"There is no place to get to:
you are already there.
All we are learning is
how to abide in, explore and discover all that God is for us."
-G.Cooke
+
It is an absolute truth and horribly sad
that "the world" does
forgiveness and reconciliation
far better than the church.
-C.Miller
+
+
..... Theiotes is certain that Creation
will be for free creatures,
particularly free human creatures,
bizarrely, even to His own hurt .....
+
... nice rainy night roast
and fine catch-up
at our fun bluesfest friends place
last night ....
+
.... Israeli PM reckons
it is Mossad and their military
that produces their "tranquility" ....
(big doubt)
+
Indulge .....
in the benefits of charis
not transactionalism (sacrifice) .....
(H13)
+
.... P & I caught up with a bloke
we haven't seen
for ~35 years ....
Loving this .....
Now for another surf
In the rain on my bank .....
+
.... watchin "my sea, my soul"
under an open sky ....
+
The POWER OF SIN is the LAW.
Get rid of the law,
see yourself as a person under Grace
and sin has lost its power over you.
Reckon yourself as DEAD TO SIN AND THE LAW.
-B.Brits
+
Unity of heart is better than unity of mind
because united hearts can look past differences.
-FBN
+
.... my thirst is not for Moses,
the one drawn from water,
but for the One
who is the Water of Life given freely .....
+
Bobby Ray who was healed of Liver cancer 5yrs ago in Augusta. He saw me on tv and got someone to bring him to the meeting to get healed. He'd only been given sick months to live. He's still healthy and well having put on 50pounds. His niece and friends got saved in the meeting to day:) We love You Lord!
-K.Ruonala
+
... watching foreign correspondent on Sandy Hook;
brave mother to speak out
about registering guns and rifles ....
+
... enjoyed
"Silver Linings Playbook" ;
liked soundtrack too ....
+
".. the real cause [of joyous laughter]
we know not !
It is of itself disgusting,
and a direct insult
to the realism, dignity
and austerity of hell .. "
- Screwtape
(a CSLewis character)
we know not !
It is of itself disgusting,
and a direct insult
to the realism, dignity
and austerity of hell .. "
- Screwtape
(a CSLewis character)
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I watched an episode of American Greed recently where several victims of a scammer were interviewed who made similar comments of never forgiving the offender and hoping he "rotted in prison for life".
Sadly they all displayed the turned down mouth and hollowing eyes of a bitter spirit. No one had showed them that their apparent virtuous attempts at justice were already destroying their lives while the perpetrator was getting on with his life.
Make no mistake a decision to never forgive is a decision to end your own possibility of freedom. YOUR prison is much worse than any man made building.
-forgiveness guy
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goz-lay-may
gozleme (turkish)
2nd time i've enjoyed it
1nce in sydney,
now,
PJ made a spinach & cheese goz-lay-may.
the dough is so soft,
like a pan fried stuffed bread,
... el dente ....
gozleme (turkish)
2nd time i've enjoyed it
1nce in sydney,
now,
PJ made a spinach & cheese goz-lay-may.
the dough is so soft,
like a pan fried stuffed bread,
... el dente ....
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the parable,
where the fellow buys the whole field;
that's not me, throwing everything into it,
that's Kurios laying it ALL down to get ALL .....
He is the master risk-taker.
(m13)
where the fellow buys the whole field;
that's not me, throwing everything into it,
that's Kurios laying it ALL down to get ALL .....
He is the master risk-taker.
(m13)
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Roman got bitten at day care by another kid fighting over a dinosaur. He goes to us when we pick him up " Look mum! My arm hurts ". I go " what happened! Roman says" he bite me..."he pauses and says "mum he tried to eat me" .
P.Draper
+
apparently ..
the universe comes from nothing..
this nothing is nothing like the nothing
that humans can think about ..
.. expert said so ..
.. so .. that will stand ..
(teehee)
the universe comes from nothing..
this nothing is nothing like the nothing
that humans can think about ..
.. expert said so ..
.. so .. that will stand ..
(teehee)
+
.... throwing out years of my filed papers
and magazine stuff ....
it's got an unbinding feeling in it ....
+
"There is a condition
where people have imaginary friends,
it's called facebook."
(Rob Brydon)
hahe ....
+
..... from first day to last,
He makes ALL things NEW -
ekklesia is a sacrament,
a sign, to the world,
even in its estrangement,
that they are just as NEW .....
(RFC)
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He makes ALL things NEW -
ekklesia is a sacrament,
a sign, to the world,
even in its estrangement,
that they are just as NEW .....
(RFC)
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Neither Jesus nor Paul told people to “get born again”!
You couldn’t even get yourself born the first time,
how are you going to get it right a second time?
Jesus did say to Nicodemus unless you’re born from above
(meaning unless you realize that you originate from above)
you would have no interest or appetite for heavenly things! John 3:13
God is not man’s idea;
mankind is God’s idea.
Man began in God, not in his mother’s womb.
God says to Jeremiah, “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb” Jer 1:5
Mankind is by design the god-kind.
(You'll enjoy "Thoughts on the new birth" in my book Divine Embrace! Kindle or print)
-F.duToit
+
+
.... "The Other Guys" movie is funny,
the commander at the hotshots funeral says :
".. let's pray that god makes a special case,
so these heroes can take their guns into heaven.."
ha ... heroes & guns .... phew !
+
. scientific papers
make one think of
laborious, incessant,
almost rational economic activity
of a banker !
...but species do silly, fun, stuff ..
(CSL)
+
make one think of
laborious, incessant,
almost rational economic activity
of a banker !
...but species do silly, fun, stuff ..
(CSL)
+
I've been labeled
"hyper grace," "extreme grace," "religiously anti-religious" and "legalistically anti-legalistic."
Thanks for the compliments.
I've been delivered from balanced, palatable, partially good news.
-J.Crowder
+
+
pretty sure .....
Kurios wants ALL of Earth Loved
into the Tree of Life .....
i think He understood
that if force works to get the right outcome,
He could have called angel bombers ..
+
Kurios wants ALL of Earth Loved
into the Tree of Life .....
i think He understood
that if force works to get the right outcome,
He could have called angel bombers ..
+
I am…
An Inclusivist
I believe all of life is sacred, every human being is beautiful, and each moment matters.
An Atheist
I don’t believe in a “God” whose love and acceptance is conditional, or who advocates fear, shame, oppression, injustice, ignorance, repression or hatred.
An Agnostic
There is twice as much that I don’t know, than I do know. The mystery of it all cannot be cloaked in certainty.
A Student of Jesus
I want to be courageously human, a powerful expression of love, acceptance, peace, beauty, goodness, freedom and compassion in this world, and live without separation from myself, God, others and life… as I see Jesus did.
A Possibility-iest
I believe in the possibility of humankind awakening to our profound interconnectedness, and the possibilities of the power of love to transform our world.
An Inclusivist
I believe all of life is sacred, every human being is beautiful, and each moment matters.
An Atheist
I don’t believe in a “God” whose love and acceptance is conditional, or who advocates fear, shame, oppression, injustice, ignorance, repression or hatred.
An Agnostic
There is twice as much that I don’t know, than I do know. The mystery of it all cannot be cloaked in certainty.
A Student of Jesus
I want to be courageously human, a powerful expression of love, acceptance, peace, beauty, goodness, freedom and compassion in this world, and live without separation from myself, God, others and life… as I see Jesus did.
A Possibility-iest
I believe in the possibility of humankind awakening to our profound interconnectedness, and the possibilities of the power of love to transform our world.
-J.Palmer
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.... talked to a bloke at a shopping centre
who reminded me of the uncle
in "A Moody Christmas" ....
... still giggling ..
+
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble
should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
+
..... do any stupid thing,
or any brilliant thing,
under the freedom in grace,
but don't think it's worth a damn
in His rescue of us.
R.Capon
+
or any brilliant thing,
under the freedom in grace,
but don't think it's worth a damn
in His rescue of us.
R.Capon
+
This man not only had his spine healed but the blindness caused by macular degeneration was healed as well. We see many forms of blindness healed virtually every meeting. Do a google video search 'John mellor blind' and you will see many great blindness healing clips. Jesus saw the blind healed 2000 years ago and we should be seeing it healed today as well!
J.Mellor
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... all day dough prove,
now, fresh baked
seed and nut bread ....
+
.... quidity ....
Experience each offering of life
for what it is;
look for the fun in it,
there might be an adventure
of unexpected and neglected delight.
(CSLewis)
Experience each offering of life
for what it is;
look for the fun in it,
there might be an adventure
of unexpected and neglected delight.
(CSLewis)
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.... sitting on cardboard stools,
drinking water out of jars,
sipping toby coffee,
in a tagged laneway ....
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... ok ..
love celebration day is over;
get back to earning one's significance ..
(hahe)
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The conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.
He is your constant reference to bliss!
I am not just saying this to be repetitive,
joy is your fortress!
There is no safer place to be, but to be ecstatically happy!
Phil 3:1Mirror Bible
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.. in eschatos,
hard to bear times come,
sociopaths,
so intent on their own interests,
will try to bind the silly
with depressing, sunk, law.
(2T3)
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hard to bear times come,
sociopaths,
so intent on their own interests,
will try to bind the silly
with depressing, sunk, law.
(2T3)
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The gospel is "good news" (what He’s done), not “good prophecy” (what He’s going to do)! The good “news” of the gospel is that God has already forgiven, healed, delivered & prospered you!
-A.Wommack
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Yahwey sent Me
to announce the age of
His grace, pleasure, delight,
favour, goodwill, acceptance,
and desire .....
(Is61)
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Yahwey sent Me
to announce the age of
His grace, pleasure, delight,
favour, goodwill, acceptance,
and desire .....
(Is61)
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In Hebrew the term, “fathered you” in Deut 32:18,
also has the nuance of “danced with you!”
This reminds of the Greek word the early church fathers used
to illustrate the relationship of the trinity had with itself…
the Perichoresis. Peri = arround, and Choresis = “choreography or Dance”.
Can you imagine it, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
circling around each other in a divine dance.
In complete unity!
The mystery that has been revealed in the Good news is that God himself invited mankind,
his highest expression of himself,
created in his image and likeness
into that dance with him.
In the Garden we lost our role in the dance
but through Christ it has been restored for ever more!!!
God has invited us BACK in the DANCE!
F.duToit
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It does not, therefore,
depend on human desire or effort,
but on God’s mercy.
(Rom. 9:16).
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God’s grace is the same towards everybody because it’s not based on, or tied to, what you do. God, by grace, has already brought salvation to every person on the face of this earth.
-A.Wommack
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Whatever we thought we were
could never match what God always knew we are.
1 Cor13:12
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.... mmm
nectarine buttermilk cake
with lemon/orange zest
fresh baked by P ....
... photos soon .... mmm
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Life of Christ,
sanctifies me .....
Blood of Christ,
inebriates me .....
(Ignatius of Loyola)
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sanctifies me .....
Blood of Christ,
inebriates me .....
(Ignatius of Loyola)
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.... Go the Indigenous Allstars ....
followed by
Joel Parkinson's "a day in the life" ....
when too much tv, is barely enough !
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Whenever one
rejoices and laughs
from the bottom of one's heart,
Theos loves it ! .....
(Luther)
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rejoices and laughs
from the bottom of one's heart,
Theos loves it ! .....
(Luther)
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transported to Trogg days
& ba bababa ba ba - ing round the house :
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"Well love is all around me,
and so the feeling grows.
It´s written on the wind,
it´s everywhere I go ..... "
(RIP - Presley (the Troggy 1))
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& ba bababa ba ba - ing round the house :
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"Well love is all around me,
and so the feeling grows.
It´s written on the wind,
it´s everywhere I go ..... "
(RIP - Presley (the Troggy 1))
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.... (our truths)
should appeal more to our sense of humor,
than to our sense of our (own) importance.
(RFC)
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..... yet those who embrace Charis,
as God's original intent,
hit the bull's eye every time .....
(R11)
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"There was a time when Christians generally accepted, or even vigorously advocated:
the persecution of heretics,
the subordination of women,
the practice of religious intolerance,
the divine right of kings against democratic freedoms,
the institution of slavery,
indifference about cruelty to animals,
the suppression of civil rights,
white supremacy,
racism,
religious exclusivism,
opposition to scientific progress,
the burning of witches,
and the state's enforcement of the Christian religion on the whole of society.
But over and against religious authority, the God-given spirit of truth that resides inside us knew that these attitudes and practices were not acceptable, even if they were justified in name of God or Jesus or the Bible. The church is not infallible and it often stands in direct opposition to the truth, rather than dispensers of it."
- Jim Palmer, Notes From (over) The Edge
the persecution of heretics,
the subordination of women,
the practice of religious intolerance,
the divine right of kings against democratic freedoms,
the institution of slavery,
indifference about cruelty to animals,
the suppression of civil rights,
white supremacy,
racism,
religious exclusivism,
opposition to scientific progress,
the burning of witches,
and the state's enforcement of the Christian religion on the whole of society.
But over and against religious authority, the God-given spirit of truth that resides inside us knew that these attitudes and practices were not acceptable, even if they were justified in name of God or Jesus or the Bible. The church is not infallible and it often stands in direct opposition to the truth, rather than dispensers of it."
- Jim Palmer, Notes From (over) The Edge
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I think Jesus is on the side of anyone who is being judged by another. If I look at someone and in my heart judge them, then I'll find myself going up against Jesus who will be defending them. It is not to say Jesus condones their action, but he refuses to let anyone play God, for only God is the One who can judge. (and his way of judgement is to ultimately take it upon himself in the place of others, as witnessed in the Cross)
The gospels reveal to us how whenever anyone plays the judge, they find themselves up against Jesus. The ultimate point is that we should live our lives from a position of grace and love, for to live judging others' motives and actions only causes us to clash against Jesus for all the wrong reasons.
To live with grace, love and compassion is to not only be on Jesus' side, it's to truly experience the active blessing of living IN him. Live the way of Christ. Love fully. Live fully.
The gospels reveal to us how whenever anyone plays the judge, they find themselves up against Jesus. The ultimate point is that we should live our lives from a position of grace and love, for to live judging others' motives and actions only causes us to clash against Jesus for all the wrong reasons.
To live with grace, love and compassion is to not only be on Jesus' side, it's to truly experience the active blessing of living IN him. Live the way of Christ. Love fully. Live fully.
-M.Mooney
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..God so loved the world (assuming you love him back) that he gave (because he didn't have any other option) his only son (fair skinned, long blonde hair) that whoever believes in him (and prayers the sinner's prayer, attends the right church and obeys most of the rules) will not perish (spend eternity in hell) but have everlasting life (spend eternity in heaven)...
Could also be...
...God so loved the world (regardless of whether we return the affection) that he gave (because giving is something we as human beings can understand) his only son (we are all the sons and daughters of God) that whoever believes in him (anyone, any race, gender, age, religion) will not perish (continue in a state of being like death, seperated from God in their mind and heart) but have everlasting life (right now, abundant living full of love and free of guilt and shame)...
The difference is all in how you look at it.
Could also be...
...God so loved the world (regardless of whether we return the affection) that he gave (because giving is something we as human beings can understand) his only son (we are all the sons and daughters of God) that whoever believes in him (anyone, any race, gender, age, religion) will not perish (continue in a state of being like death, seperated from God in their mind and heart) but have everlasting life (right now, abundant living full of love and free of guilt and shame)...
The difference is all in how you look at it.
-FBNetwork
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
~Thomas Merton
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.... euaggelion (grk) = good news; a reward for good news
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.... yeh, Peter would party .... and the rest would, at least, love discussions over the table of lamb, bread & wine ..... |
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.. tapas @ birthday girl's home,
impromptu offering,
too gud .....
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God's declaration of your innocence
is his most urgent invitation to you to encounter intimate oneness!
F.duToit
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You were never called to be a "world changer", or a "history maker". You are called to be a son of God, accepted in the Beloved! Oh, sure, when you truly grasp all of the implications of sonship, you will, no doubt, impact your sphere of influence. However, when God dreamed His dream of your life, you changing the world was not the first thing on His mind, or in His heart.
According to Ephesians 1:3-5, the Godhead's original dream was to adopt us into their own wholesome, and functional family unit, that we might be holy just as they are, and enjoy a life saturated in their presence!
That, and that alone is God's original design for man. Man was predestined to walk out this reality in His everyday life. Will "world changing" happen as a result? Sure, but our aim ought always to be the enjoyment of our sonship, and the awakening of others to this same glorious reality, which is true of them as well!
The moment your aim becomes "changing the world", or "taking a nation", rather than embracing the opinion of God, and revealing Jesus Christ to the world, is the moment that you will begin learning of toil, blood, sweat, and tears. Friends, this is not about you changing the world, it's about you and I waking up to the fact that CHRIST has changed the world, and then waking others up to this same truth.
According to Ephesians 1:3-5, the Godhead's original dream was to adopt us into their own wholesome, and functional family unit, that we might be holy just as they are, and enjoy a life saturated in their presence!
That, and that alone is God's original design for man. Man was predestined to walk out this reality in His everyday life. Will "world changing" happen as a result? Sure, but our aim ought always to be the enjoyment of our sonship, and the awakening of others to this same glorious reality, which is true of them as well!
The moment your aim becomes "changing the world", or "taking a nation", rather than embracing the opinion of God, and revealing Jesus Christ to the world, is the moment that you will begin learning of toil, blood, sweat, and tears. Friends, this is not about you changing the world, it's about you and I waking up to the fact that CHRIST has changed the world, and then waking others up to this same truth.
-J.Turner
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The law reveals what happened to man in Adam;
Grace reveals what happened to the same man in Christ.
F.duToit
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Jesus loves ALL
nations & races .....
His self sacrifice
is permanently POTENT
for everyone .....
Grace is Risen
to endorse
everyone's innocence .....
nations & races .....
His self sacrifice
is permanently POTENT
for everyone .....
Grace is Risen
to endorse
everyone's innocence .....
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.... post party lasagne
overlooking bangalow palms
... operated a big
Espresso machine too .....
+.... spinning turns on a ride-on mower, drifting down slopes while cutting grass ....
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That first miracle,
that pre-celebration of the Marriage;
Here was heady wine
and swooning love
from the cellar of His heart.
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My lover spoke and said to me,
"Arise, my darling,
my beautiful one, and come with me.
See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.
The fig tree forms its early fruit;
the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
my beautiful one, come with me."
My lover spoke and said to me,
"Arise, my darling,
my beautiful one, and come with me.
See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.
The fig tree forms its early fruit;
the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
my beautiful one, come with me."
from Song of Solomon ..the most beautiful love song ever written
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Faith is not our gift to God, but God's gift to us!
-J.Turner
(EPH 2:8, HEB 12:2)
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.. Django : Pulp Fiction with horses !
some funny moments; aussie scene too;
darwinian justifications in mid 1800s;
"eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" stuff ..
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Language is insufficient to communicate His incommunicable nature.
Yet His Word was breathed through human lips.
-J.Crowder
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Paul and Barnabas persuaded
the Jews and the religious proselytes
to get over the law
and remain positioned in
Charis Theos .....
(A13)
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the Jews and the religious proselytes
to get over the law
and remain positioned in
Charis Theos .....
(A13)
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Play (fun, joy, non-derisive laughter)
is a way to humanise
those who would be tyrants
or even experts .....
(GKChesterton)
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is a way to humanise
those who would be tyrants
or even experts .....
(GKChesterton)
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.... i saw a magpie,
wetter than a shag,
on the ground in the rain,
sing the most whole-hearted song ....
luved it !
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Institutional religion attempts to make its theology and doctrines 'air tight' so they can withstand arguments made by opposing views. They don't want to be wrong, nor do they want to be lacking an answer. So every belief is carefully constructed. And by doing so they remove all the mystery, all the wonder, and in my opinion all the fun out of spirituality.
-FBN
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"When I think about Kurios,
my heart is so full of joy
that notes dance and leap
from my pen."
- ( FJ Hadyn )
( hahe -composer )
my heart is so full of joy
that notes dance and leap
from my pen."
- ( FJ Hadyn )
( hahe -composer )
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Ha !
.... watched a vampire dvd,
more bags of blood
in a tour de bicycle ....
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People are always saying "give glory to God" -
but the simple fact is -
He already HAS ALL of the glory and wanted to give HIS glory to US!!!
We are joint-heirs filled with God's fullness!!! (Colossians 2:10)
Flipping awesome, right??? :D
"I have given to them the glory and honor
which You have given Me,
that they may be one [even] as We are one."
-Jesus in John 17:22
_A.J.Nichols
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This lady was born deaf and could only barely hear with a powerful hearing aide. After prayer Jesus healed her and she could hear unaided for the first time in 28 years! Watch this miracle unfold as it was captured on video. Jesus is awesome!!!!
-J.Mellor
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.... just enough time
for some outdoor cookin
.... tasted yuom ....
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.... soaking rain o'night,
the avocado trees really needed this ....
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I am not a survivalist with hidden guns and grain, hiding until the anti-christ kills me or a hoped-for rapture rescues me. I've chosen to be a triumphalist because of two words:
Resurrection Power!
-B.Simmons
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enjoy 'stray' day .....
looks like a sleep-in or water activities
is da go round here !
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hadeha ..
that codified judgement :
"that's unaustralian"
got used on the weather by a newsreader ?!!
.. what next, a pissing koala ..
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looks like a sleep-in or water activities
is da go round here !
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hadeha ..
that codified judgement :
"that's unaustralian"
got used on the weather by a newsreader ?!!
.. what next, a pissing koala ..
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.... " discover that the rhinoceros does exist
& then take pleasure
in the fact that he looks as if he shouldn't. "
- GKChesterton
( wonder world at one's feet
even before the imagination kicks in ! )
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& then take pleasure
in the fact that he looks as if he shouldn't. "
- GKChesterton
( wonder world at one's feet
even before the imagination kicks in ! )
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Remember: the enemy uses false images and illusions to deceive and ultimately destroy you. Jesus is the TRUE image and reality of humanity; and He destroyed the false image of man on the cross and the enemy was broken. Just as Jesus is the substance and evidence of the nature of man as the image and likeness of God, even so are you. Amen.
-J.Pate
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This lady was advised by doctors several times to have her baby aborted because the child's kidneys hadn't formed. She kept refusing to have an abortion declaring that Jesus would give her a miracle. The doctors kept trying to reason with her but she stood her ground. She came to a healing meeting and after prayer she began to feel 'fire' in her abdomen. The doctors were totally blown away when kidneys later suddenly appeared on the scans.The child was born normal!!!
-J.Mellor
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Esau could not get Isaac to change his mind ......
but God's mind is made up about our new life .....
(H12)
( we are SO favoured in Jesus)
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.... floods to the north
fires to the south
cyclone to the west
hot in the centre ....
this is an edgey island !
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"A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others." -Albert Einstein
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"images like play and dance for the highest things
is a stumbling block to you ..
but ..
Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
- (CSLewis)
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is a stumbling block to you ..
but ..
Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
- (CSLewis)
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.... I've come a long way since starched shirts ....
( literally & figuratively )
..... so uncomfortable .....
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Arise My darling!
Come quickly my Beloved.
Come and be the graceful gazelle with Me
Come be like a dancing deer with me.
We will dance in the high place of the sky
Yes, on the mountains of fragrant spice!
Forever we shall be
United As One!
Song of Songs 8:14 TPT
Come quickly my Beloved.
Come and be the graceful gazelle with Me
Come be like a dancing deer with me.
We will dance in the high place of the sky
Yes, on the mountains of fragrant spice!
Forever we shall be
United As One!
Song of Songs 8:14 TPT
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Jesus is
the source of grace, the epitome of grace, the manifestation of grace.
Jesus is grace, and grace is Jesus.
-J.Smith
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Grace is not a movement.
He's the Alpha and Omega.
J.Crowder
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.... "where are we now?"....
the inquiry of a
whimsical (resigned) David Bowie
in a music vid .....
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My question:
What are God- worshipers like?
Your answer:
Arrows aimed at God's bull's- eye.
Psalms 25:12
and those that reveal Charis
hit the bull's eye everytime .....
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..... i hear :
the sports use it,
the economists use it,
the sentimentalists use it,
the media use it;
the religious use it,
the courts use it,
so, so, so glad,
my Kouros NEVER uses it,
".. disgraced .."
never possible in His world !
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the sports use it,
the economists use it,
the sentimentalists use it,
the media use it;
the religious use it,
the courts use it,
so, so, so glad,
my Kouros NEVER uses it,
".. disgraced .."
never possible in His world !
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Instead of your shame
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.
(Is61)
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.
(Is61)
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"..... but we had to be merry
and rejoice ..... "
..... Prodigious Dad
(L15)
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... an old friend, who i re-found this year,
travelled through our way, yesterday,
he brought his new family;
the two children, Ebony & Flynn,
climbed our big tree;
i haven't seen that done for a while.
Delightful .....
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The blood of Christ is not a magical amulet that protects you from the fury of an angry God.
His blood is the evidence that God has never been angry with you,
but has loved you throughout eternity!
It's also an eternal testimony to the fact that there is *NO* length that God won't go to
in order to rescue that which He loves!
(Rom 5:8, Rev 13:8)
-J.Turner
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Scripture divorced from the living God of the scripture
becomes impotent and deadly.
Even the infallibility of the text is a dependent infallibility.
-J.Crowder
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The need for another revival dwindles
in the light of the revelation of man revived in Christ.
If people can see and believe this truth about what happened in Christ,
the 2000 year old, never ending revival,
will manifest in them.
-B.Brits
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..... David Bowie
on 1 knee @ Wembley Stadium
speaking the Father's Mystery,
during Freddie Mercury's
memorial concert.
1st time I've seen the images,
Loved it .....
on 1 knee @ Wembley Stadium
speaking the Father's Mystery,
during Freddie Mercury's
memorial concert.
1st time I've seen the images,
Loved it .....
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.... from sandbank
to bloodbank,
Life is in the Blood .....
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Grace AND truth is what came by Jesus!!
Unfortunately the AND TRUTH part can easily be used to slip in some law
if truth is not understood.
Some think the LAW is the TRUTH and Jesus is the GRACE.
It is not so...
B.Brits
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Ever wondered what is the mountain Jesus asked you to throw into the sea?
Sinai.
-S.Yap
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..... up to mine,
change to the paradigm,
now is the time .....
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“God is vague about organization structure, but profound about life and relationships. Get together, support one another, and create! Give each other freedom to love and relate! Be significant and develop your own relational order to facilitate further exploration and discovery.”
-G.Cooke
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12 Things It's Not:
God is not a belief system.
The Bible is not a book of theology.
Church is not a place you go.
Love is not a theory.
Grace has no exceptions.
Jesus did not start a religion.
Your humanity is not the enemy.
Being you is not bad.
Being a woman is not inferior.
The abundant life is not a checklist.
Transformation is not behavior modification.
Ministry is not measured in numbers.
God is not a belief system.
The Bible is not a book of theology.
Church is not a place you go.
Love is not a theory.
Grace has no exceptions.
Jesus did not start a religion.
Your humanity is not the enemy.
Being you is not bad.
Being a woman is not inferior.
The abundant life is not a checklist.
Transformation is not behavior modification.
Ministry is not measured in numbers.
-J.Palmer
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...The hands of fallen man struck the body of Jesus with the blows of their religious hatred and fury
when they nailed his bloodied body to the tree;
they did not realize that in the mystery of God’s economy Jesus was the scapegoat of the entire human race!
[Isa 53:4, 5]
Col 2:14Mirror Bible
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Obedience to law principles to have a good life is disobedience to God
for it is called FORNICATION by HIM .
We cannot be MADE PERFECT by observing the commandments of the LAW. -B.Brits
So, then, if with Christ you've put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you,
So, then, if with Christ you've put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you,
why do you let yourselves be bullied by it?
"Don't touch this! Don't taste that! Don't go near this!"
Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention?
Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice.
"Don't touch this! Don't taste that! Don't go near this!"
Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention?
Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice.
They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and ascetic.
But they're just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important.
Col 2:20-23
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1. You don’t go to church anymore
If a person’s involvement in a church feeds and reinforces a message and perspective that hinders their knowing God, then it makes complete sense not to involve yourself there anymore. Many Christians receive their understanding about God through the institution of Church and when they discover this understanding is deeply flawed and they see how this flawed understanding has damaged their lives, they remove themselves from their church. The reason most people object to this is because these confuse leaving one’s church with leaving one’s faith. Research shows that “church leavers” grow stronger in their faith, as opposed to digressing in their faith. The issue is also controversial because people wrongly equate “church” with their specific form of church. There are an endless number of forms of church ranging from highly organized to practically no organization at all. Many people who leave organized church eventually connect in smaller, more informal types of community, which may not comply with the letter of the law when it comes to institutional church but fulfills the true spirit of “church.”
2. You are reading some really weird books
Many Christians in the “shedding religion” process will read books that: a) looks at their Christian faith with a critical eye, b) promotes spirituality over religion, c) offers a different and fresh view and perspective on faith and God. Shedders will be drawn to authors who offer something beyond institutional Christianity and offer the prospect of knowing God and following Jesus as a way of life as opposed to check-list Churchianity. many of these authors, including myself, get hammered by the Christian establishment. If you mess with city hall, you’re going to pay for it. People criticize such authors as having “bad theology.” In my opinion, many of the criticizers have “bad theology,” and so I’m not sure where that argument ends. People who are “shedding religion” are also drawn to books that promote and speak to spirituality over religion or books that focus on nurturing your inner world. You’d be surprised to know even how many church-going Christians secretly read Eckhart Tolle books but would never admit it. For some people, reading one chapter from The Power of Now was worth more than one year of sermons. This is also the reason why some Christians become interested in Buddhism and Eastern spirituality; these seem to speak more deeply to the root condition of humankind and one’s inner spiritual world as opposed to the focus of a lot of pop-Christian writings. At first, some people are not aware that there is a rich Christian tradition of contemplatives and mystics who lived a very robust Christ-centered spirituality. A few contemporary examples might be Thomas Merton, Ricahrd Rohr, Bede Griffiths, and Flora Wueller.
3. You are in danger of going off the deep end
Perhaps one of the most annoying things (to those who judge them) about people who are shedding religion is that they begin thinking for themselves. Some Christians have come from churches where the idea is fostered that congregants should only expose themselves to church-approved leaders, teachers, writers, musicians, politicians etc…because doing otherwise would be the equivalent of purchasing a one-way ticket to the flames of hell. Apparently, only a very select few people are capable of discerning truth on their own, the rest of us are ill-equipped for doing so and would be easily lured into all kinds of error if left to our own. I know this may be difficult for some to believe, but people are capable of being exposed to all kinds of differing views of God, and can discern for themselves what truth is present in these views, and what of these views seems inconsistent with truth. I have a Buddhist friend; i have detected truth is things he believes but i did not become a Buddhist. I have an Atheist friend, and I totally agree with this person’s views on all kinds of things, including some of their objections to God, but i did not become an Atheist. I have a N.Y. Yankees friend, i agree that the Yankees have some of the best baseball players but I did not become a Yankees fan. People are truly capable of doing this sort of thing.
When people begin thinking for themselves and base their opinions on firsthand personal experience, they realize that the world doesn’t fit so nicely into all the labels and boxes that religion is sometimes prone toward imposing on things. Religion and politics seems to share a difficulty in disagreeing with others without demonizing them, and wants to slice up the world into the “us” and “them” camp or the “right” and “wrong” camp. I’m not talking about turning a blind eye to evil in the world, or pretending that one’s beliefs doesn’t fuel such evil. All religions, including Christians, have justified evil in the name of God.
4. You can’t give a straight answer
Lots of questions aren’t so easy to answer anymore for Christians in the “shedding religion” process. For example, questions like: “Are you a Christian?” or “Do you believe in the Bible?” or “Do you go to church?” or “Do you believe in the gospel?” are no longer “yes” or “no” questions for a person who is “shedding religion.” He or she is immediately wondering what is your definition of a “Christian,” and what is your interpretation of the Bible, and how you delineate what “church” is, and how do you understand the “gospel?” By not answering “yes” or “no” it is not a sign that the person is “dodging the issue;” they legitimately cannot answer with a simple “yes” or “no.” It would be better to ask more open-ended questions like, How is Jesus Christ relevant to you?
-J.Palmer
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This equality in faith,
given to us
lets us begin to know ourselves
the way Jesus
has always known us,
so
be engulfed in
the Grace & Peace
that amps within us.
lets us begin to know ourselves
the way Jesus
has always known us,
so
be engulfed in
the Grace & Peace
that amps within us.
(2P1)
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... NE blew all night,
it is more a sea than swell,
& has stirred in
some cooler water;
small fish, i am guessing,
are eating the broken pepper
of blue bottle stinging cells;
gulls land near me
to try for the small fry .....
pleasant beach day.
it is more a sea than swell,
& has stirred in
some cooler water;
small fish, i am guessing,
are eating the broken pepper
of blue bottle stinging cells;
gulls land near me
to try for the small fry .....
pleasant beach day.
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... carporting with E and P;
summertime,
and da livin is easy ....
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"We have long known that many early followers of Christ were condemned by other Christians as heretics,
but nearly all we knew about them came from what their opponents wrote attacking them."
- Elaine Pagels
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".. thinking about
other people's faults:
and in the proper sense
of the word "morbid",
that is the most
morbid pleasure in the world."
(CSLewis)
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. "the problem
for devils, pharisees and ascetics
is that it is
God who created
pleasure and play,
[and they are at their
most pleasurable,]
as good things."
(CSL)
for devils, pharisees and ascetics
is that it is
God who created
pleasure and play,
[and they are at their
most pleasurable,]
as good things."
(CSL)
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“For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through Him to reconcile to Himself ALL things.”
Col.1:19-20
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“Previously, my old way of thinking was always pushing
to control, regulate, contain, protect, tame and systematize spiritual realities.
God was defined by a creed, Church was squeezed into a 501c3,
and unconditional love…well…had conditions.
I talked a lot about “becoming like Christ” and asked “What would Jesus do?”
but it never occurred to me back then that the answer might involve an entirely different way of thinking
and living that would necessitate breaking from with my religious tradition,
even if it was “Christian” one.”
- Jim Palmer, (explorefaith.org interview)
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... the water is pushy
across the bank,
a N to S sweep has started
in the NE chop swell;
broken up bluey tentacles
are peppering the skin ....
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Surprised by joy,
impatient,
as the wind
I turned
to share the transport.
(WWordsworth)
impatient,
as the wind
I turned
to share the transport.
(WWordsworth)
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... those men in lycra
are a chatty bunch;
i might have been cycled over
if they weren't tho ....
+
.... i like my coffee shop start,
it's the people
as much as da caffeine ....
+
A participator
is mesmerized
by what one sees,
a logic that Frees one
from the restrictions
of self-effort and self-will power;
one is a mirror
of His perfect liberty,
by which one lives the life
of His original intent:
is mesmerized
by what one sees,
a logic that Frees one
from the restrictions
of self-effort and self-will power;
one is a mirror
of His perfect liberty,
by which one lives the life
of His original intent:
spontaneous,
poetic,
practical .....
(Ja1)
poetic,
practical .....
(Ja1)
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.. golden late light this arvo,
paddled out to small waves,
jellyfish were magnified in them
and green-backed fish jumped close -
now off for a walk with me P,
beside the sea ....
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A spectator
hears and sees his true origin,
but decides Grace
is too good to be true
and returns to his usual way
of seeing himself .....
(Ja1)
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hears and sees his true origin,
but decides Grace
is too good to be true
and returns to his usual way
of seeing himself .....
(Ja1)
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eklesia (grk)
translated church;
primary meaning from
ek=origin &
kaleo=to surname,
i.e. the individuals have identity
in the surname of "I Am".....
not in the "club".
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translated church;
primary meaning from
ek=origin &
kaleo=to surname,
i.e. the individuals have identity
in the surname of "I Am".....
not in the "club".
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.... the ocean
is my best personal trainer,
she gets me to do things
I hadn't thought of doing,
at the most surprising times ....
+
.... reading a book
on the comic world of
c.s.lewis ...
he must have inspired
monty python ...
hearing words like
dither; boorishness;
on the comic world of
c.s.lewis ...
he must have inspired
monty python ...
hearing words like
dither; boorishness;
and "a rum thing that" ....
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... dying swell;
sparkly this morn,
the fish surfboard makes for
late take-offs, bottom turns
and little else ...
+
..... walking appears
to be a simple action,
but i'm fascinated
how individual it is .....
(from my carport)
+
.... some greenies @ Greenie
never too meanie;
then met
my bro, mick & karissa
@ bambi deluxe ....
(another by "chance")
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".. Not on my watch .. "
gets used so much
by the self-righteous,
giving themselves "cause"
in religion or politics.
Ours is a grace walk,
and it is outside cause .....
gets used so much
by the self-righteous,
giving themselves "cause"
in religion or politics.
Ours is a grace walk,
and it is outside cause .....
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+
.... experiencing
about 15 hours
of daylight, lately ....
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Hahe ... my shark sighting story,
from yesterday,
had my new friend,
the lifesaver barista girl,
speeding away from my table
(ah, didn't expect that)
I think the coffee took longer !
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Enjoyed some hours
in the carport
with an old friend ....
her oldest son married R
this morning ....
so good .....
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The ekklesia,
most emphatically,
is not a fellowship of
insiders versus outsiders .....
From 1st day to last,
He makes ALL things NEW -
most emphatically,
is not a fellowship of
insiders versus outsiders .....
From 1st day to last,
He makes ALL things NEW -
ekklesia is a sacrament,
a sign, to the world,
even in its estrangement,
that they are just as NEW.
(RFC)
a sign, to the world,
even in its estrangement,
that they are just as NEW.
(RFC)
.... not an insiders club with "superior" rules .. Hahe ..
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.... nice paddle & a few waves, felt like I was way out to sea .....
+
.... so gud to just
meet people by "chance"...
has happened a few times
this week .....
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How terribly unfortunate we are,
that faith has become a prerequisite to knowing Him
instead of a fruit of it.
This is a system I'll no longer be a part of.
My faith is a fruit of my union with the godhead,
not a method of obtaining their presence.
-C.Miller
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
― Norman Cousins
+
.. the closer i get to the end
of "Genesis; the movie",
the slower I read ! .....
+
... Enjoyable time,
an atmospheric dinner,
at long time friends' home.
I heard about, and experienced,
"enthusiastic agreement" .....
+
.... 20 degree air
on 25 degree lively water ....
it was yum !
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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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.... same patch of view,
always new,
gotta luv it .....
+
Just spent some time
with a family
Whose Dad turned 50 today.
Not allowed to disclose
This salt o da earth's name !
But Big Cheers to you, M .....
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Enter HIS REST?
Yes enter the fact that he is at rest with you...
The HOUSE where he rests is His temple which is you.
Simply amazing!!
-B.Brits
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This lady was healed of painful fibromyalgia instantly and then her spine straightened and discs moved back into place. To top it off her long term sinus condition and ringing of the ears were healed as well. An another result of her fibromyalgia healing was losing 5 kilos in less than 4 months!!!
-J.Mellor
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"My Love has gone down
Into His gardens of delight
The place where His spices grow
To dwell with those pure in heart.
I know we shall find Him there.
He is within me—
I have Him fully and now He fully has me!
Song of Songs 6:2-3 The Passion Translation
Into His gardens of delight
The place where His spices grow
To dwell with those pure in heart.
I know we shall find Him there.
He is within me—
I have Him fully and now He fully has me!
Song of Songs 6:2-3 The Passion Translation
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.... jumped in at the bar,
evaded the desperate,
enjoyed it there ....
+
Ha ... I know the guy next door,
we went to school together,
he just helped the girls
get their iPads linked to an
iPhone data stream .....
they look content now ...
+
... wow .. swell still hangin in,
the wind has sent the players
to the bar,
which looks a little desperate
for what's on offa ....
+
That tension one feels,
that:
"i can't put my finger on it", .....
is it not the soul's search
for Charis .....
+
Since before time began
no one has ever imagined,
No ear heard, no eye seen,
a God like you
who works for those who wait for him.
Is.64:4
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... the waves that were imploding on the shallow bank
are feeling the outer bank now,
the wind wonk made it hard
to paddle onto them tho ...
+
.... now a dad and daughter
are involved in a dance
on the beach ....
she is directing,
he is enjoying,
it involves steps
after winning or losing
in paper-rock-scissors .....
are involved in a dance
on the beach ....
she is directing,
he is enjoying,
it involves steps
after winning or losing
in paper-rock-scissors .....
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Since before time began
no one has ever imagined,
No ear heard, no eye seen,
a God like you
who works for those who wait for him.
Is.64:4
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..... "All things
are engaged in a
priestly Dance
of mutual offering." .....
Capon
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are engaged in a
priestly Dance
of mutual offering." .....
Capon
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.... small fish swirled
by big fish,
birds looping,
water boiling,
another dance offering .....
+
.... the sea has that
lumps of water
swell look today.....
time to check the point ?
and the dancing crowd ..
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.... made the paddle out;
and the beach peaks were dancin rough ....
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ha, yes , the waves are offering a priestly dance .....
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Look north, fireworks,
Look south, fireworks
Look east, band plays
"auld ang syne"
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