I Want To Be Just Like...?

One of those random thoughts we all have from time to time popped into my head this afternoon...

"Who would you rather be like, whispered the voice, Pastor John MacArthur or Pastor Jim McClarty?"

Hmmm, I pondered. I doubt that I could posses a higher regard for any human being in a teaching capacity than I do for both of these outstanding men of God.

How does one compare the truth with the truth? And surely he who places the vessel on a higher shelf than the One who fills it, is still dead in his trespasses and sins.

So I opened my mouth and said something like...

Lord, while I highly respect and deeply regard these, and many more brothers just like them, and while their evident love for Your sheep in their temporary care is profound, while their shepherd's watchful demeanor is comforting and reassuring in your stead, and while their humble manner and knowledge are certainly high virtues to be admired, I just know these men and many more just like them would, in a photon of time, announce to all who would hear, that everything they have, every cell of their being, is gifted by Your Almighty hand Lord. You and You alone are the giver of all good gifts and we, Your fallen creation are the unworthy recipients.

So, if it's all the same.... I'd rather be like You!

Yes, I know that way will be hard and my companions will be few. Your Word has told me so. I am aware of, and in You prepared for, the adversity and persecution to come because my security is in You... not in me. You are completely and utterly sovereign, and I am not!

Having seen the scandalous love you shamelessly expressed on Calvary, how could I not lose my life in You and in You find it also?

I love You Lord.

Amusements

After listening to a fantastic sermon by Pastor Jim McClarty today, I have a clearer understanding as to why and how the modern charismatic sector of the professing Church is so breathtakingly oblivious to that which is so blatantly evident to all BUT them.

Lulled into la la land by their endless entertainments and seductive curtain call serenades, and for having turned inward for guidance to that mythical anthropic divinity they pamper within, they have become altogether void of any vestige of discernment. They are indeed perishing for their lack of knowledge. There is in their 'community', a drought of the preaching of God's Word. They are therefore, one might say, in a perpetual state of theological delirium. They have been dumbed down with an endless succession of demon doctrine diets. And their amusements... gifts from the master seducer.

The word Muse means To Think. When the preface 'a' is added to a word, it changes the meaning of the word following it. For example, Moral (With Morals) when prefaced by the letter 'a' the word becomes amoral and embraces the meaning Without Morality. Asexual (without sex - gender) and so on. Therefore when Muse (To Think or With Thought) is prefaced by the letter 'a' the word comes to mean Without Thought.

Therefore Amusement means Without Thought, which explains why all too often the preaching in these entertainment arcades unashamedly masquerading as the true Church, is oh so shallow, the tribal chanting oh so long, and the people oh so... weird.

Just so sad to watch.

City Life Church - Prominent 'Christian' Leaders and political party Family First embroiled in Abortion Disgrace

Media Release

28th

February 2011

By Trevor Grace

Church leaders and the bloody abortion industry

The abortion industry in Australia is a morally corrupt and evil industry. It is a massive billion dollar a year business which profits by distorting and

hiding the truth about abortion. More precisely, by providing false and

misleading counselling to distressed mothers, and ripping little babies out of their mothers’ womb or dropping them in a bucket of formaldehyde - and finally collecting their broken bodies and incinerating them like garbage. This is the abortion industry exposed: bloody, callous and shocking. So what do we say then, when we find prominent church leaders managing a company that is involved in such a horrific industry? Because this is exactly what has occurred.

In early February this year, 2011, a Melbourne woman accidently discovered that leaders in one of the largest Churches in Australia: City Life Church Melbourne, were actually Board Members of a clinical waste company called SteriHealth. No problem here, well, until she found out that the company was also profiteering from servicing abortion clinics - which included the collecting and incinerating of aborted babies. For this woman (and other Christians) this is just something that Christians, especially Church leaders, are not involved with.

This woman approached the Chairman of SteriHealth Lorenzo Coppa and the

Senior Minister of City Life Church Mark Conner raising the situation the best way she could. She also told a handful of people who likewise contacted the Chairman and the Senior Minister of City Life Church.

What ensued from there was that several of the company’s Board Members

admitted SteriHealth was indeed involved with servicing a number of places that did abortions; although they could not say how many. They were quick to add, however, that they were not aware of the situation until this woman had brought it to their attention. The Chairman of the company, and others, gave assurances that they would take the necessary steps for SteriHealth to get out of contracts which had anything to do with aborted babies; after all, and in their words, “We’re prolife.”

It was interesting to note that even the Australian Christian Lobby waded in to defend SteriHealth and its Board Members. For example, when a former Family First candidate tried to talk to ACL’s Director Jim Wallace about SteriHealth and its link to ACL, Mr Wallace was not prepared to speak to this person.  However, another ACL’s spokesperson did respond to the former candidate and (in a rather firm manner) pointed out, “These are reputable and upstanding Christian men ... you cannot make accusations …” But no one was making accusations, merely stating what was already common knowledge at this stage, that SteriHealth was involved with servicing places which performed abortions. The Chairman of the company admitted it. The CEO admitted it. And even one of his ACL bosses admitted it.

Whether this kind of defence or nervousness had anything to do with the fact that SteriHealth regularly placed full page advertisements in the Australian Christian Lobby’s quarterly magazine: View Point, is hard to know. Just as it is hard to know whether ACL have received large donations from people heavily associated with SteriHealth, as the Family First Party has. That is, evidently Family First has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a number of the company’s leading shareholders, employees and CEO.

(eg http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/unknown-political-pipers-call-the-tune/story-e6frg6zo-1111119127500

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/court-case-taints-party/story-e6frf7l6-1225882015068 , etc.)

It should also be mentioned, that ACL’s Victorian Director (evidently an unofficial spokesperson for SteriHealth) phoned a woman in Adelaide on Thursday the 10 of February 2011; no doubt because he had been notified that she had become aware of the situation. He insisted SteriHealth was getting out of its involvement with servicing abortion clinics, and, in short, suggested that she and others had no further reason to be worried over the matter.

Not convinced, the very next day the woman sent an email to SteriHealth head

office in Victoria. Pretending that she was going to set up an abortion clinic in

Beenleigh, Queensland, she asked:

Will your company SteriHealth pick up all medical waste from our facility?

This includes aborted babies, body tissue, body fluids and so forth?

The Victorian office quickly forwarded the email onto a SteriHealth sales

representative in Queensland, who responded enthusiastically on the same day:

“We are able to offer you the services you require. We have a range of bins

for collection ranging from a 20L pail to a 240L clinical bins. … Beenleigh is

practically down the road from where our treatment facility and office is

located.”

When this was pointed out to the ACL representative and SteriHealth Board

Members, they accused this woman as “acting in an unethical manner”. Never

mind that she was merely trying to find out, for her own peace of mind, whether SteriHealth was still willing to service abortion clinics. And never mind how the email response from SteriHealth confirmed her fears.

Apart from this, another matter arose at the same time, which raised further

suspicion to an already series of troubling events. It was noticed that David

McCracken Ministries and City Life Church had removed Board Members and

Board of Elders from their website pages who were Board Members of SteriHealth, or associated with the company. When this rather unusual situation had been raised, it was said to have been “coincidental”.

So what do we make of all this?  At the very least SteriHealth was involved in something it should not have been apart of: the abortion industry. That is, servicing businesses that were/are performing abortions, and collecting the aborted babies and disposing of them in incinerators. This is horrific, particularly as the Board Members of the company are all professing Christians; furthermore, church leaders.

Whilst it is commendable, since this has come to the Board Members’ attention, that they are doing something about the situation and attempting to change their company’s practices, it does nevertheless raise some serious questions. Perhaps the main one being of how a group of Board Members of a clinical waste company did not know what their full line of business was, especially when their sales staff apparently did? Moreover, if any business collected clinical waste from a thousand places, wouldn’t it be obvious to find out exactly what it is you are actually collecting, so you can ascertain what is profitable and what is not?

Nevertheless, most would agree that the Board Members (comprising of Christian leaders) now have a moral responsibility - even a moral obligation, to tell their shareholders and all people associated with the company that SteriHealth has been involved in the abortion industry and profiteering from aborted babies. This is regardless of whether the company had done this inadvertently.

Others, such as myself, further believe that because these Board Members are

Church Elders, or in high leadership roles, they have a duty to set an example of confessing to the Christian body what their company has done. Why? Because any major involvement with the abortion industry by a company that is managed and directed by church leaders is of grave concern, not only for their immediate churches, but also for the broader Christian community.

Hopefully this will be the case, particularly as SteriHealth Board Members are

“reputable and upstanding Christian men” in prominent churches.

This media release was written and authorised by Trevor Grace

Mr Grace can be contacted on 0432862865

Or through http://www.humanrightsforunbornchildren.com/

PLEASE NOTE: As of Friday 11^th February and Monday 14th

2011, a number of Board Members and Board of Elders from David McCracken Ministries and City Life Church were removed. Compare the new web pages below to the previous web pages (see PDFs attachments) -- which highlight changes in leadership.

http://www.davidmccracken.org/Board-Members.php

http://www.citylifechurch.com/church/elders.aspx

http://www.sterihealth.com.au/ click on main tab Investor Centre and then scroll to Board

** Trevor Grace is a South Australian High School teacher and has been actively involved in the prolife

movement for over 10 years.

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Dominionist Surge

A 'tweet' from senior pastor of the Paradise Community Church in Adelaide South Australia. This is dripping with the spiritual tansfat of dominionism... repulsive...

"Can't wait to preach for Dr Cho and then meet pastors of some the worlds largest churches at the global kingdom partnership meeting in seoul" 2 days ago

That's ... Doctor Yongi Cho, who was once quoted as stating his million plus church in Korea contained approximately 98% unsaved people. Very astute observation... and that was MANY years ago. Things have steadily declined since. Ashley's dad Andrew was given an Honarary doctorate by Cho which is not likely worth the paper it is written on.

Dominionism bears a striking resemblance to that other Roman Catholic insurgence in what has come to be known as the Inquistions. Same spirit, different face it occurs to me...

Shadow Senator Barnaby Joyce Comments on our lying and incompetent Federal Government's Carbon Tax Grab

Senator Barnaby Joyce

Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water

Leader of The Nationals in the Senate

LNP Senator for Queensland

25th February2011

The inevitable deceit

Now that we’ve all picked our jaw up off the ground, because Ms Gillard and Mr Swan have precisely done what they said they wouldn’t do and are bringing in a carbon tax, we have to organise the fight to stop it.

Yes, we are going to have to go through all the arguments again and we will win again. 

Let’s start from these. The people who couldn’t get fluffy stuff in the ceiling for the rats and mice to sleep on without setting fire to 190 houses; the people who decided to go on some manic building spree in the backyard of every school ,whether the schools liked it or not and in many cases in multiples of the cost of the true price on the structures ; these same people who thought they could reboot the global economy with the purchase of imported electronic goods with $900 cheques; the same people who have got you into $181billion in gross debt; yet the same people again who looked down the barrel of a camera to talk to the Australian people and stated categorically they would never bring in a carbon tax in the term of their government; they are the people who are going to bring in the carbon tax because they have the quite evident expertise, despite all the history to the contrary ,to cool the planet from a room in Canberra.

  

Not surprisingly, what they have changed is the temperature of people’s disposition. There is a palpable white fury from the deceit that people feel. People can hardly afford and in some cases not afford at all the power bills they currently have. They do not need any more motivation to use less power. They are totally focused on this because they can’t afford to pay for their current usage.

 People understand that you either have cheap power or cheap wages. There is another alternative, no jobs and Australia’s manufacturing industry, or what’s left of it, is well and truly in the sights of this absurd decision of Ms Gillard. I look forward to AWU Secretary, Mr Howse, in his next Mussolini impersonation behind the podium, to go into bat for these jobs, but I haven’t heard boo from him today.

In the background, literally and photographically, are Mr Windsor and Mr Oakeshott. Mr Oakeshott, well you can just make your own mind up about him, but Mr Windsor’s statement at the press conference is peculiar. He said, “and please don’t construe through my presence here that I will be actually supporting any scheme”. Well, Mr Windsor, what were you doing there? Did you get lost on the way to the toilet and just stumble across the Prime Minister doing her press conference and decide to stand in on it?

Please don’t tell me that we have to go through this teeth pulling agony as you stand at the front of the political church in the big white fluffy dress saying ,” I don’t know how I got here and I don’t know whether I shall say I do. Don’t construe that this dress means I’m getting married to another Labor/ Green party decision.

  

I was not in the least bit surprised about the white fury I’m hearing in Sydney and how some of the illuminati misread that there would be such an overwhelming reaction against the announcement of the carbon tax. I am not surprised in the slightest by the almost monastic silence of Mr Bill Shorten as he sits back salivating on Ms Gillard and her Green cohorts happily mounting their own political pyre. 

Day one, round one, and we, the National Party and the Liberal Party are ready for the fight.

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The Heart of Worship

If I were to ask you, "What is Worship?" how would you respond? To bow down before a deity? A God? To prostrate yourself before an image of something purporting to be divine? To sing songs of adoration to a heavenly being?

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God. They look for a feeling, and if it happens, they conclude that they have worshiped. Wrong! In fact, God often removes our feelings so we won't depend on them. Seeking a feeling, even the feeling of closeness to Christ, is not worship.

Then, to many believers "worship" is something you do to the sound of music when you're in church. In fact it's even given its own category. It's often accepted that "Worship" is the soft, slow, intimate kind of music that causes one to close their eyes, lift their hands and enter into a kind of heavenly euphoria, while "Praise" music is the upbeat, boppy, clap your hands, stomp your feet kind of stuff. Well that's not quite right.

Matt Redman, a worship leader in England, tells how his pastor taught his church the real meaning of worship. To show that worship is more than music, he banned all singing in their services for a period of time while they learned to worship in other ways. By the end of that time. Matt had written the classic song "Heart of Worship": The lyrics go like this . . .

I'll bring You more than a song, for a song in itself

Is not what You have required.

You search much deeper within than the way things appear.

You're looking into my heart.

When it comes to Worship, The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart.

Beyond the music, the truth is we worship God with our lives - each moment, and the most precious offering of worship is sacrificed to Him on the altar of suffering. We are to offer ourselves up as living sacrifices the Good Book says "Praise" is to be offered up as a sacrifice. Sacrifice implies suffering. If it doesn't hurt you to give friend, you haven't truly given!

The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, thanking God during a trial, trusting him when tempted, surrendering while suffering, and loving him when he seems distant".

Philip Yancey once said, "Any relationship involves times of closeness and times of distance, and in a relationship with God, no matter how intimate, the pendulum will swing from one side to the other". That's when worship gets difficult, but then that's when worship comes from the heart not the lips.

Matthew 15:8, "they draw near to me with their MOUTHS and honour me with their LIPS but their hearts are far from me".

The Father is not interested in lip service. Are you ready to worship Him from you heart today? Do you trust Him enough to praise Him, to worship Him despite your present, temporary pain? If you can worship Him in the midst of pain, you have worshiped Him indeed!

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Climate Change Reality Check

While wolf Brian Houston preens his politically correct bane every chance he can before our agenda riddled media, supporting the complete LIE of anthropogenic Climate Change, Moriah Ministries Australia has from the outset, insisted that the Man Made Climate Change issue is a complete and utter hoax designed and or utilised to facilitate the institution of a one world govenment. The evidence for this reality is overwhelming.  We insist people remember the proponents of this great hoax for they all need to be brought to justice when it is finally done and dusted. Ladies and gentlemen, those you trust are LYING to you.

The following is eye opening to say the least.... The source file can be found here: http://lowveld.womf.com/blog.php?id=240756.

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet – all of you.

Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress – it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.

I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire YEARS on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year – think about it.

Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus “human-caused” climate change scenario.

Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention “Global Warming” any more, but just “Climate Change” - you know why? It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme – that whopping new tax – imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.

But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!

PS: I wonder if Iceland is buying carbon offsets?

John MacArthur Exposes The Deadly Purpose Driven Deficiency

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9EzMWZoag&feature=player_embedded
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