Over the last few months, John & Hazel have ministered in eleven locations at about fifteen ministries/churches. Ministry has taken them to many places across four states in and near Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Yass, Newcastle, Tumbarumba, Brisbane. Two weekends ago John preached in Mareeba and...
'The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.' Revelation 20:14b-15. If the Lake of Fire, and final judgement in the book of Revelation is the second death, then...
In Romans 8:15 it describes something we know as sonship. 'The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”' Sonship is a...
How to describe sin? That is a tricky thing to do. The first place that sin is mentioned in the Bible is Genesis 4:7. The Lord spoke to Cain, saying, “Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over...
Catholics love Mary, and Protestants trying to avoid the appearance of idolatry minimise her. But Mary is in fact uniquely special in the Bible, not just because of being the mother of Jesus, but because of another quality. Do a search through the scriptures and find...
In the second Back to the Future movie by Steven Spielberg, set in 1985, the protagonist (Marty) travels into the future to the year 2015. It's interesting to see how people in 1985 envisaged the future in 2015 - just 30 years ahead of them. They...
Over the last two months John and Hazel have visited more than 11 congregations and ministries in three states in the Southern half of Australia. Both of them spent time ministering in New South Wales, visiting Newcastle, Sydney, Yass and Tumbarumba. After that...
Maxwell Clanfield was my grandfather. He went to be with the Lord a few weeks ago. After finding Christ at a young age, and also marrying young, both Max and Noreen dedicated their entire lives to serving Jesus. They served in both...
Imagine a church which had done things the same way for a thousand years, and then all those people were kicked out of the city by a political decision, and a new bunch of people who thought differently kept the church going. Then the original...
A few years ago while working on the house, one of my young children approached me and asked, 'Who made God?' When you have a six year old asking questions like that, its a sign of intelligence. He wasn't asking because he was trying to prove the...
