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IT ALL STARTS HERE - Humility: "This life of entire self-abnegation, of absolute submission and dependence upon the Father's will, Christ found to be the source of perfect peace and joy. He lost nothing by giving all to God. God honoured His trust and did all for Him, and then exalted Him to His own right hand in glory. And because Christ humbled Himself before God, and God was ever before Him, He found it possible to humble Himself before men, too, and to be the Servant of all. His humility was simply the surrender of Himself to God, to allow Him to do in Him what He pleased, regardless of what men might say of Him or do to Him.”
- PRAYING FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT
- Resource 1: HELP I NEED A REAL FAITH Group Study
- Resource 2: HELP I NEED A REAL HOLINESS Group Study.
- Resource 3: HELP I NEED A REAL INTEGRITY Group Study
- Resource 4: Discipleship, Maturity & The Continuum Set
- Resource 5: My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma
- Resource 6: PRAYER - A Group starter.pps
- Resource 7: Good psychological health and the need for spirituality.
- Resource 8: Truth Justice and the Postmodern Way
- Resource 9: Worldview and the branding of the Psyche
- Resource 10: For Men - Protecting the Assets
- Resource 11 What Are Your Values - A 'Cancel Culture' Challenge Tract (Print, fold, give away)
- Resource 12: The Resurrection Changes Everything
- Resource 13: The Trinity Explained 1 x 1 x 1 = 3
- Resource 14: The Book That Made Your World - Dr V Mangalwadi
- Resource 15: Building or Demolishing Community Resilience
- Resource 16: Servanthood - Posture & Practice of the Triune God
- Resource 17: The True Love of God is This...
- Resource 18: The Origins of the current Cancel Culture Conundrum
- Resource 19: Christian Disciplines - Meditation
- Resource 20: What Makes a Nation Stand Up & Out?
- Prayer, the Language of Relationship - Are You Minding Your Language
Missionary Mentors
- Mentor: Moravians - Master Missionaries, a Model of Surrender
- Mentor: Praying John Hyde - Intercessory Icon & Utterly Surrendered to Saving Souls
- Mentor: Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneering Missionary (Good study in both Intersectionality & Social Mobility)
- Mentor: God's Image in Ebony - Short Bio of Amanda Berry-Smith (Good study in both Intersectionality & Social Mobility)
- Mentor: Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf - The Moravian Influence (Protestant Missionary Pioneers)
- Mentor: Peter Bohler - Moravian Missionary and Proto-Mentor to John Wesley
- Mentor: Relentless and Acquainted with Sorrow - Missionary James Gilmour
- Mentor: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - The Grandfather of Protestant Missions (decades before Carey)
- Mentor: Selfless - An Introduction to Amy Carmichael Mission to Children
- Mentor: John Frith - The Forgotten Reformer & Tyndale's Ploughboy
- Mentor: George Muller - Modern Day Enoch
- Mentor: Adoniram Judson - Genius, Anti-theist, Mighty Missionary
- Mentor: David Brainerd - Sickly, Depressed, Pioneer Missionary
- Mentor: Elizabeth Hooton - Pioneer Minister & Living Martyr
- Mentor: Emma Dryer - Urban Missionary & "Best Teacher of the Bible in USA" - D.L. Moody
- Mentor: Josephine Butler - Christian Activist & Feminist par excellence
- Mentor: Robert Morrison - Poor, Plodding Protestant - Plowing Pioneer to China
- Mentor: Phoebe Palmer - Proto-feminist & Mother of Holiness Movement
- Mentor: Pastor Dudley Tyng - Standing Up For Jesus, Men & Abolition of Slavery
- Mentor: Christmas Evans - Relentless Redemption
- Mentor: Isabella Thoburn - (Pioneer Educator) First College for Women in Asia
- Mentor: Billy Bray - From Alcoholic & Illiterate Miner to Dancing Preacher of Glorious Joy
- Mentor: Dr James Ramsay- The Father of Abolition of Slavery & Proposed Bill to Abolish Slavery
- Mentor: Bartolomé de las Casas - Loving the Least - Advocate for and Father to the Indians - "Christ did not come into the world to die for gold."
- Mentor: St. Isaac Jogues - French Missionary to Native Americans. Self sacrificing and tortured to love the Natives of Canada
- Mentor: George Borrows - From eccentric Gypsy (transformed by reading a Bible) to Bible Translator & Intrepid Missionary
- Mentor: Dr Ida Scudder - Pioneering Medical Missionary on Multiple Fronts including Training India's First Women Doctors
- Mentor: Mary Webb - Wheelchair bound Pioneer of Women's Missionary Society, USA (Good study in intersectionality)
- Mentor: St Phillip Neri - Catholic Reformer, Pioneer of Oratorio Communities & Apostle of Rome - Evangelist to Youth and Poor
- Mentor: Dr Eleanor Chesnut - Medical Missionary to China
- Mentor: Elder Charles Bowles - A Black Preacher in a White Mans World
- Mentor: Harriet Tubman - They Called Her Moses
- Mentor: Rev William A Passavant - Pioneer, Benevolent Missionary, Mentor and Strategist
- Mentor: Raymond (Ramon) Lull - Entitled Hedonist to Pioneering Missionary to the Muslim World and Pioneer of Missional Training Strategies
- Mentor: St Pothinus - A Bishop of and Fellow Martyr in Lyon
- Mentor: Hugo Grotius: Child prodigy - at 11 yo called the Second Erasmus - Father of International Law
- Mentor: St Bonaventure - Theologian, Mystic and Author of St Francis of Assisi Biography
- Mentor: Hannah More - World Famous Author - Christian Social Justice Warrior - Educator of the Poor and prolific Poet
- Mentor: St Hildegard of Bingen - Saint, Prophetess, Mystic, Healer
- Mentor: Peter Cartwright Jr: The Lord's Plowman - Revivalist & Catalyst for America's Second Great Awakening
- Mentor: 10 of the Most Influential Roman Church Saints
- Mentor: Roger Williams - Architect of Separation of Church & State
- Mentor: Rev John G. Paton - Powerful Missionary to Cannibals and author of one of the most anthropologically important texts on mission and culture ever written.
- Mentor: Gregory Thaumaturgus (“Wonder-Worker”) 'It was said that when he arrived in Cappadocia, there were only 17 Christians, when he died, their were only 17 pagans'
- Mentor: Sadhu Sundar Singh - Divinely Called Ex-Sikh Missionary Passion for Tibet (Journey to the Sky)
- Mentor: David Nasmith - Pioneer Urban Missionary and Architect of City Mission Movement
- Mentor: Dominican Friar Antonio de Montesinos - Stands Up for Indigenous Rights
- Mentor: George Washington Carver - From Slave to Pioneering Scientist & Saint on the Way (Good study in both social mobility and intersectionality) Or
- Mentor: Howard Atwood Kelly - Scientist & Theologian (one of the Founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital)
- Mentor: Melvin Ernest Trotter - Ex-Alcoholic & The Master of Rescue Missions
- Mentor: Saint Anthony of Padua - A most gentle, but powerful Saint
- Mentor: Bishop Innocence (Veniaminov) of Alaska - The Apostle to America
- Mentor: Mary Webb - Pioneer Mission Mover
- Mentor: William of Rubruck - Missionary to the Mongols - Journey account, a masterpiece of literature
- Mentor: Toyohiko Kagawa - Indigenous Japanese Evangelical Reformer, Social Activist and recipient of Order of the Sacred Treasure
- Mentor: Robert A. Jaffray - Missionary to Asia - Founder of Chinese Foreign Missionary Union - "Let My People Go!"
- Mentor: Sarah Doremus - The ‘Mother of Modern Missions' & Other Pioneering Women
CLASSICS
- Classic: The Imitation of Christ Thomas a'Kempis (The most published devotional work in Church history)
- Classic: Pensees - Blaise Pascal
- Classic: Allienes Alarm - Joseph Alliene
- Classic The Dark Night of The Soul - St John of the Cross
- Classic: CONFESSIONS - Leo Tolstoy
- Classic: The Pernicious Attitude of the Church on the Reforms of the Age: Letters on Revivals No. 23 Charles Finney
- Classic: Life Together - An Exploration of Christian Community - Bonhoeffer
- Classic: The Bible Against Slavery - Theodore D. Weld
- Classic: Letters of Samuel Rutherford
- Classic: Lex, Rex - The Law & The Prince (Rutherford)
- Classic: Evan Roberts and the Welsh Revival
- Classic: Saint Chrysostom (The Greatest Church Orator) Homilies on Titus & Timothy
- Classic: The Sentences - Peter Lombard Seminal Systematic Theology (Book One Trinity & Unity Of God)
- Classic: Paradise Lost (1667 The Classic Puritan Poem) John Milton
- Classic: Francois Fenelon - Author of 'Maxims of the Saints' Cofounder of 'Quietism' )"How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.") The Forgotten Philosopher
- Classic: Dostoyevsky: Christ or the Grand Inquisitor?
- Classic: The Rise & Progress of Religion in the Soul by Phillip Doddridge: Innovative Theologian, Non-conformist Minister/Evangelist and eminent Hymn Writer (This book led William Wilberforce to become Christian)
- Classic: The Hound of Heaven: Francis Thompson - Struggling Saint - Inspired Author
- Classic: Ecce Homo - 'Behold The Man', by Artist Domenica Feti
- Classic: The Great Awakening & James McGready - The Sinner's Guide to Hell
- Classic: Thomas Prince and America's First Religious Journal -The American Christian History Journal
- Classic: St Matthew Passion by Bach, "Had the power to convey the Gospel afresh to the one who has forgotten it!" Nietzsche
- Classic: Rev Joseph Butler's doubt drove him to understand and produce, Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature
- Classic: (Modern) The Death of a Guru - Transformational Journey Rabi R. Maharaj
Doctrine - Foundations
- Foundation: Creeds - The Apostles - The Nicene - The Chalcedonian (The Christ's Hyperstatic Union; “Without confusion, without conversion, without severance and without division.”)
- Foundation: What is the Closed Biblical Canon & How Did We Get the Bible
- Foundation: Authority of Scripture - Statements of Infallibility
- Foundation: How we got our Bible and Authorized Version
- Foundation: The Creation of the English Bible - The Tyndale Factor
- Foundation: The Peoples Bible (Discourses on Holy Scripture)
- Foundation: Arminius and the Remonstrants - Jacobus Arminius and the Arminianism
- Foundation: The Heidelberg Catechism - Instruction for emerging Protestantism
- Foundation: Zwingli's 67 Articles - The Swiss Reformers Doctrinal Offering
- Foundation: The Westminster Shorter Catechism - The Assembly of the Divines
- Foundation: Chronology of Four Gospels
- Foundation: The Canons of the Council of Orange
- Foundation: The Remonstrant Confession
- Foundation: Free Will and Salvation - Erasmus & Luther
- Foundation: Salvation from Perspective of Early Church Fathers
- Foundation: Melanchthon and Predestination
- Foundation: The Barmen Declaration (Verbum Dei manet in aeternum.)
- Foundation: Martin Bucer - Second Most Important Reformer & Author of De Regno Christ
- Foundation: The Declaration of Utrecht - The continuing Old Catholic Movement
- Foundation: The Lambeth Quadrilateral and It's Indian Beginnings - Unity of the Church
- Foundation: Erasmus Seminal Biblical Text that Changed History
- Foundation: Donatists - Proto-Puritans or Earliest Schismatics?
- Foundation: Governing Ekklesia - As One: The Church
- Foundation: The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith - R. A Torrey
- Foundation: Church History | 1st - 5th Century (Full Series)
- Foundation: Spanish Reformer Juan de Valdes and The Dialogue of Christian Doctrine
- Foundation: The Handbook of Christianity in Japan - A Reader
- Foundation: Wesleyan Theology - Holy Love & The Shape of Grace (4 All's of Wesley Theology)
- Foundation: Calvinism: T.U.L.I.P and Neo-Reformation Dogmatics
- Foundation: The Latin Rule - Based on St Benedict
- Foundation: The Decree Concerning Justification - The Council of Trent
- Foundation: Young Earth Theology and Theistic Evolution
The Marburg Colloquy - The First Council of 'Protestants'
Reformation Not Protestation - a Touch Stone
What tips a Reformer - a necessary vehicle of proactive change to bring back into 'shape' the purity of a lost truth - into a 'Protestant'?
The DNA of the reforming church has been tarred, and not unfairly, with a pejorative brush, that of 'Protestant'.
If reformation is the goal and the touch stone of this necessary reshaping is the Head of the Church - Jesus Christ, then one must believe if we are all heading toward that focal point, then as we all get ever nearer, our unity (which does not have to be created, only maintained) is strengthened. (Ephesians 4:3) So, what is it that more often keeps an ever dividing schismatic posture in so many? I will not attempt to furnish a full answer, or even a thoughtful opinion, suffice to say, my own internal vanities and foibles are evidence enough of how easily this is done. My Biblical fervour for transforming truth gets disconnected from His Cross of suffering and the undeserved favour it freely bestows to lead us into His Holiness; and instead is harnessed to the 'wild horses' of my triumphalist control and its preferred homogeneity and all the inadequacies that unleashes.
The Marburg Colloquy (a formal conversation) the first council of protestants as it is often referred to, is both encouraging and distressing. The details of this event and what followed have many commentators, I will not attempt to add that here in this vignette. I do, however, want to focus on what is perhaps seminal, in an approach to bring genuine divine truth pursuing factions together to step ever closer to the 'conforming to the image of His Son' (Ephesians 4:13).
This Council, a sponsored gathering (by a politically motivated ruler, whose primary goal was not the pursuit of Divine best-practice in the Body of Christ) was to bring together the Swiss and Germany Reformers into one more unified movement. Zwingli ,the leader of the Swiss movement and Luther, the head of the German Reformers, met to deal with many of the errors of the medieval church, but also come together on key points of doctrine. They essentially achieved all their ends, with only one issue outstanding - the substance of the Holy Eucharist.
It was recorded that Luther was the one who, not only couldn't come to a mutual agreement, but was exceptionally belligerent, even refusing to shake Zwingli's right hand of fellowship at the conclusion.
However, it is the following prayer of Zwingli who sought to return to Father God's best-practice, not the ideologies of men, gives us a real insight into the posture that reformers need to adopt, that can prevent them from becoming just another ego driven schismatic. An earnest prayer to change our hearts to be the people Father God can use to bring His best Kingdom practice to bear.
"Fill us, o Lord and Father of us all, we beseech Thee, with Thy gentle Spirit, and dispel on both sides all the clouds of misunderstanding and passion. Make an end to the strife of blind fury...Guard us against abusing our powers, and enable us to employ them with all earnestness for the promotion of holiness."
Ulrich Zwingli
S.W. Varcoe - Disciplesplanet
M.A.P - Kingdom Ambassadors (Musicians-Artists-Poets)
- Communism, Cuba & Christ: The Prisoner Poet - Armando Valladares
- T.S. Eliot: Modern Poet, Christian Commentator - Nobel Prize Winning Artist
- Caedmon: The ‘First English Poet’ - “…the gift was a blessing from God.”
- Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer & Christian Perspective
- John Donne: From ‘Player’ to Poet of God's Love
- The Hound of Heaven: Francis Thompson's profound, despairing insight into God's Grace
- The Man Who Would Be King: Seminal Gospel Contextualization for 20th Century - Dorothy Sayers (The Only Female member of the Inklings)
- Paradise Lost: John Milton - The Blind Poets Epic 12 Book Vista
- Silent Night - Holy Night: First Hymn for Guitar - The Joseph Mohr Story (from ignominy to posterity)
- Evelyn Brand: Artist and Missionary “grandmother to a people”
The Harvest Mentality
- Handout: An Awakening to Kingdom Discipleship
- Handout: How to Create a Non-Disciple
- Handout: The 5 Basic 'A's of Discipleship
- Paper: Meeting the Welfare 'Need' Primer - A Disciple-making Mission Approach
- Paper: Righteousness Exalts a Nation.
- Interview: Engaging Cancel Culture - A Discipleship Perspective
- Mentor: Dawson Trotman - 'Apostle of Follow-up' & Founder of NAVIGATORS
Christian Exclusivity - Audacious Hubris or Profound Unassailable Uniqueness?
