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Note: It is strongly suggested that you print off a complete section for reading through at a later date
than trying to read the content of this website directly off the computer screen.
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These pages are given to highlight further issues of building Christian community around
the world. Jesus Christ needs to be at the centre of all efforts to building that community.
Then there needs to be a wholistic emphasis on the inner person (our spirit), middle person
(our soul of mind, will and emotions) and our outer persons (our physical body),
as being necessary for building effective community.
There are several categories here as part this Resources page:
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Websites …… the linked websites in the left hand column of this website
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CD’s and DVD’s ….. still under construction
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Recommended Books ….. still under construction
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Past E-mail Broadcasts …… the linked websites in the left hand column of this website
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Websites:
These websites have been grouped initially into two broad sections then four finer
categories in the last section of four categories based on the ideas below:
1. JESUS CHRIST ….. THE ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS:
2. INNER PERSON (our spirit):
3. MIDDLE PERSON (our soul of mind, will and emotions):
4. OUTER PERSON (physical body)
…. Practical application of our Christian Worldview And The Outer Created Order
….. how did we get here? ….. through Evolution or a Special Creation?):
see the Blog Site:
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Recommended Books: ….. still under construction
A Recommended Book Available From Koorong in Australia (http://www.koorong.com)
or another Christian bookstore in another country.
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Heavenly Man, The by Hattaway Paul, Brother Yun.
Publisher Descriptions
The true story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from
a poor village in Henan Province, China, and used him to preach
the gospel despite intense persecution.
[Publisher]
The Heavenly Man is the intensely dramatic story of how God
took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan Province and used him
mightily to preach the gospel despite horrific opposition. Brother Yun is one of
China’s house church leaders, a man who despite his relative youth has suffered
prolonged torture and imprisonment for his faith. His account challenges any
complacency about the situation in China, where international economic investment
ignores the brutal fact that religious persecution is still a daily reality for millions.
Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however,
Yun prefers to emphasize the character and beauty of Jesus. This astonishing
book will form a watershed in your spiritual life.
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A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for
our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by
national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government
that spends billions of dollars on war – where do we find hope? In this revised
and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary
culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and
point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas.
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Call To Conversion, The (Revised and Updated 2005) …
(Why Faith Is Always Personal but Never Private)
Wallis Jim (Author of the New York Times bestselling God’s Politics)
Paperback
Put Your Faith into Action!
A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for
our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by
national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government
that spends billions of dollars on war – where do we find hope? In this revised
and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary
culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point
to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas.
- Publisher
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God’s Politics
Wallis Jim (Author of the New York Times bestselling God’s Politics)
Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war,
pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing
a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care,
and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?
While the Right in America has hijacked the language of faith to prop up its political
agenda – an agenda not all people of faith support – the Left hasn’t done much
better, largely ignoring faith and continually separating moral discourse and
personal ethics from public policy. While the Right argues that God’s way is their
way, the Left pursues an unrealistic separation of religious values from morally
grounded political leadership. The consequence is a false choice between
ideological religion and soulless politics.
The effect of this dilemma was made clear in the 2004 presidential election.
The Democrats’ miscalculations have left them despairing and
searching for a way forward. It has become clear that someone must
challenge the Republicans’ claim that they speak for God, or that they
hold a monopoly on moral values in the nation’s public life.
Wallis argues that America’s separation of church and state does not require
Banishing moral and religious values from the public square. In fact, the very
Survival of America’s social fabric depends on such values and vision to shape
Our politics – a dependence the nation’s founders recognized.
God’s Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities
and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic
religious tradition – that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment,
pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family
(without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians).
Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to
continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages
of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God.
These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus t
aught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. In the
tradition of prophets such as Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Desmond
Tutu, Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by
integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation’s public life.
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Velvet Elvis … Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell.
“Somewhere in my basement sits a Velvet Elvis – a painting of the King himself,
air-brushed onto black velvet in a wooden frame. What if the painter of my Velvet
Elvis announced there was no more need to paint, that he had painted the ultimate
painting? We would think he had lost his mind because of our instinctive
understanding that art is never done – it’s the endless process of learning, exploring,
shaping and forming.
And it’s no different with faith. The Christian faith will never be complete. We will
always be exploring and discovering what it means to live in harmony with God and
each other. If we don’t, our faith may end up in the basement. This book is about
the endless need to keep painting. . .Rob Bell.”
- Publisher.
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Irresistible Revolution, The
Claiborne Shane
Living as an Ordinary Radical, using unconventional examples from his own life,
Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world, and challenges
readers to truly live out their Christian faith.
Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and
inactive believers. We can write a cheque to feed starving children or hold
signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering
the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an
authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement
of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. Shane’s
faith led him:
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to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa
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visit families in Iraq amidst bombings
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dump $10,000 in coins and bills on Wall Street to redistribute wealth.
Shane lives out this revolution each day in his local neighbourhood, an impoverished
community in North Philadelphia, by living among the homeless, helping local kids
with homework, and “practicing resurrection” in the forgotten places of our world.
Shane’s message will comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable but will also
invite us into an irresistible revolution. His is a vision for ordinary radicals ready
to change the world with little acts of love.
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Books on the New Spirituality Movement:
There are two religious spiritualities vying for the modern mind:
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1. A Spirituality from Jesus Christ …. there is a great need to equip the Church to
answer, in the power of the gospel, the questions emerging in a culture dominated by
planetary paganism, for the sake of her evangelism and her intentional Christian living.
There is a further need:
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To train a new generation of scholars and leaders to understand and inform the
Church of the challenge of global paganism.
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To understand the richness of the Christian gospel and the Bible’s worldview in light
of the post-modern pagan option.
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To instruct members of Christ’s Church around the world about the implications of
living in and witnessing to a pagan world.
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To give an understanding of the counter-cultural character of the Christian
Worldview to the next generation of Christians, born into a paganized culture that
claims to be just and normative, and dismisses Christianity as mere bigoted
“traditionalism,” by giving Christian youth an understanding of the timeless character
of the Christian/pagan antithesis.
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The New Spirituality: This spirituality is quite different to the Spirituality from
Jesus Christ as described In the page Spirituality from Jesus Christ …. where they
are coming from. Each is vying for the modern mind.
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See the website at: http://www.truthxchange.com Dr. Peter Jones has written and he
Has many books which are available in the Online Store section of the website. See the
Two of his excellent books are:
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‘Gnostic Empire Strikes Back’ by Peter Jones …. Gnostic Empire Strikes Back
sounds the alarm of the New Age threat, comparing it to the ancient Christian heresy
of Gnosticism.
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Spirit Wars by Peter Jones …. Spirit Wars demonstrates that at the dawn of a
new millennium, two world views (the only two) collide: pagan monism and theism—
the earth goddess or the God who made heaven and earth. At the heart of our
culture wars are Spirit Wars.
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Robert Bell Books, DVD’s and Videos:
Robert Holmes Bell Jr. (born August 23, 1970) is a best-selling author, Christian
Grandville, Michigan. He is also the featured speaker in the first series of spiritual
short films called NOOMA, and has been tagged by some in the press as “the next
Billy Graham.”[1] Bell and his wife, Kristen, have two boys and
When you put Rob Bell into a search engine like Google, you find many listings for
Rob Bell.
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PAST E-MAIL BROADCASTS ….. See the following stories:
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PAST KEN AND HARRIET PLACE E-MAIL BROADCASTS …..
E-mail broadcasts to lighten up your day …. bring some fun, laughter and a
different perspective on life.
From a Christian Spirituality: Proverbs 15:13-15 “A merry heart maketh a
Cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. The heart of
him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth
on foolishness. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart
hath a continual feast.”
See the following e-mails:
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PAST MISCELLANEOUS E-MAIL BROADCASTS FORWARDED ON …..
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