This blog was originally called Life Changing Christian Sermons.(It started off with me posting recordings of cassette tapes in my collection.)That is still a good title but this new title reflects the opportunity to go deeper in our Christian Faith after the first steps.It also taps into thoughts of other Christians on the Internet who have made youtube content I think is helpful.
Monday, August 18, 2025
Gospel Blimp (1967) | Full Movie | Bob O'Donnell | Paul Bubal | Ed Mcdon... from the book by Joseph Baily.
I read this book and saw this movie back in my formative years as a Christian.It had a lasting impact.It speaks on so many levels to us as individuals and also on countries and leaders.
One of my Pastors used to tell us that the prpblem with the Church was that we used mens methods in running our churches and reaching out to people.It says in Ephhesians that Paul used God's mighty weapons to reach people.
Not man's methods.I see one of our prpblems as individuals,as nations and as leaders that we do not do things God's way.
Monday, August 11, 2025
Stranger at My Door (1956) REMASTERED WESTERN - full movie
A Movie with a strong Christian story of redemption.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Jesus would not entrust himself to them, . . . for he knew what was in each person.— John 2:24-25 by Oswald Chambers
Jesus would not entrust himself to them, . . . for he knew what was in each person.— John 2:24-25
Put trust in God first. “Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people” (John 2:24). Our Lord trusted no one except God, yet he was never suspicious, never bitter, never in despair about anyone. He simply trusted entirely in what God’s grace could do. If we put our trust in people before God, if we insist on people being something they never can be—absolutely right—we’ll become bitter and end up despairing of everyone. This is why we must never trust in anything but the grace of God.
Put God’s needs first. “Here I am, I have come to do your will” (Hebrews 10:9). Many of us are obedient to whatever we perceive to be a need. We say to ourselves, “The unsaved are dying without God. They need the Lord; they need me to come and preach the gospel.” Jesus was never obedient to a need; he was obedient to the will of his Father. Before we rush off into work for God, we have to make sure that we are honoring God’s will for our own lives. God wants us to be rightly related to him. Once we are, he will open the way for us to meet needs elsewhere.
Put God’s trust first. “And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me” (Matthew 18:5). God entrusts himself to us as an infant. He asks us to turn our personal life into a “Bethlehem,” a place where he may safely dwell, so that we may be slowly transfigured by his life inside us. God’s ultimate purpose for us is that his Son will be manifested in our mortal bodies. Are we honoring the trust he’s placed in us?
Monday, May 19, 2025
Legacy Leader Summit 2024 - Chuck Swindoll
Chuck Swindoll is one of my favourute Bible teachers. I listen to his radio ministry often. What a wonedrful testimony of God's grace.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Sheffey (1977) | Full Movie | Dwight Anderson | Harold Kilpatrick | Bene...
Ths story of Robert Sheffey, itinerant preacher. We can learn much form this man's life amd faith.
Friday, May 9, 2025
R.C. Sproul: For the Doctrine of the Trinity
The Christian Doctrine of the Trinity is under attack. While those doing so, and there have always been such people, may be well intentioned,
it has it's roots with our enamy as Christians, Satan.When we see people attacking this doctrine and the divinity of Jesus, we are reminded that we do not wrestle with flesh and blood. We do need to defend this doctrine as it is essential in our full salvation.That is becoming a Christian and staying a Christian. To become a new creation in Christ. I have chosen this scholarly address by R C Sproul for those of you who are struggling with your faith.I never knew all this when I first became a Christian but as I grew as a Christian I realised how important this is to understand.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
The Defining Christian Confession: The Trinity | James White | 2016 G3 ...
This teaching is important.
As Christians we need to understand this but also learn how to apply this doctrine to make our own lives someting beautiful.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Moral Decision about Sin By Oswald Chambers
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. — Romans 6:6
Have I decided that sin will be killed in me? It takes a long time to come to a moral decision about sin, but when I do it is the great moment of my life. In this moment, I decide that just as Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world, so sin will be put to death in me. Sin won’t simply be curbed or suppressed or counteracted in me; it will be outright crucified.
No one can bring anyone else to this decision. We may think that getting rid of sin is a good idea. We may agree that it’s what our religion asks of us. But what we must do is come to the decision Paul forces us to in Romans 6. Paul doesn’t describe something he hopes God will bring about in the future; he recounts a radical and definite experience: “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” (Romans 6:1–2).
Am I prepared to let the Spirit of God search me until I see what it means to have a sinful disposition—to have something inside me that wars against the Spirit of God? Will I agree with God’s verdict on that disposition, that it must be identified with the death of Jesus? Have I entered into the glorious privilege of being crucified with Christ, until the only life remaining in my body is the life of Christ? “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).
If you haven’t done it already, make the moral decision about sin. Take time alone with God and tell him what you want. Say to him, “Lord, identify me with your death until sin is dead in me.” Only when we’ve been through this radical moment of decision can we consider ourselves dead to sin.
1 Samuel 15-16; Luke 10:25-42
Monday, April 7, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Spiritual Hypocrisy By Oswald Chambers
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If we aren’t mindful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. Instead of interceding in prayer when we see another person failing, we’ll turn our discernment into criticism.
Be very careful that you don’t act like a hypocrite and try to fix other people before you yourself are right with God. The Holy Spirit isn’t revealed to us through the intellectual workings of our mind, but through the direct penetration of our souls. If we aren’t alert to the source of the revelation—to the fact that it is God, not us—we will become cauldrons of criticism. We’ll forget what Scripture says about our dealings with others: “You should pray and God will give them life.”
One of the subtlest burdens God puts on his disciples is this burden of using discernment when it comes to other souls. Why does he reveal certain things about others to us? It isn’t so we’ll criticize them. It’s so we’ll take their burden before God. It’s so we’ll form the mind of Christ regarding them, interceding with him on their behalf. God says he will give them life if we pray in this way.
To intercede in prayer isn’t to tell God our opinions or to let him in on the workings of our minds. It’s to stir ourselves up to get at his mind, his thoughts, about the people for whom we intercede. Is Jesus Christ seeing the workings of his soul in us? He can’t—not until we are so identified with him that we strive to know his mind. If we want Jesus to be satisfied with us, we must learn to intercede wholeheartedly on others’ behalf, as he intercedes for us: “Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25).
Sunday, March 23, 2025
"How To Pray For Nature" by Agnes Sanford
Agnes Sanford believed Christians could pray about natural events including natural disaster concerns like earthquakes.She built her house
on the San Andreas fault lines beleiving that while she was living there there would not be another "big" earthquake.Maybe we should be praying about climate change.My pastor used to say we could learn things from Agnes. I heard her speak in Adelaide when I was a new Christian. She did make a lasting impression on me.Frank Lauback was also one of the "Christian Mystics" who taught many good things about prayer.Saduh Sundar Singh was also a Christian man who some of us woukd finf fault with but has much to teach us. These tapes are from the CFO (Camp Farthest Out) movenent founded by Glenn Clarke.
Monday, March 17, 2025
Testing the Spirits
We are told in the Bible the following.
"1 John 4:1-3
On Denying the Incarnation
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. ..."
There are people who have exercised a ministry in doing just this in various countries. There are some in Austalia who have worked in this area.Some in America and I woukd guess other countries as well.What do you think it means? I have put a link below to an audiotape on the internet by the late Stan Motherwell. I have a copy of this and first heard it many years ago.There have been many extremes in the Charismatic and Pentecostal movement.This is a message by Stan challenging the movement as it was gaining much momentum in the 1970's.I have not been involevd in this ministry.This shoukd be listened too with discretion and discernment.
In talking to my minister who alerted me to this practice he advised that usually those who agreed to this test discovered the spirit giving their tongue was not from God.
These people were Christians who had been deceived.
https://promiseboxaudio.com/stan-motherwell-the-movement-of-gifts/
Friday, March 14, 2025
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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Monday, February 10, 2025
Is Your Hope in God Faint and Dying? By Oswald Chambers
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. — Isaiah 26:3 (kjv)
Is your imagination stayed on God, or is it starved? A starved imagination is one of the greatest sources of exhaustion in a disciple’s life. To attain the perfect peace Isaiah describes, we must set our minds steadfastly on God, trusting entirely in him.
If you have never used your imagination to put yourself deliberately before God, begin to do it now. It is no use waiting for God to come to you: you must go to him, turning your gaze away from the faces of idols. Imagination is the greatest gift God has given us, and it ought to be devoted entirely to him. If you learn to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, it will be one of the greatest assets to your faith when the time of trial comes, because your faith and the Spirit of God will work together.
“We have sinned, even as our ancestors did. . . . They did not remember your many kindnesses” (Psalm 106:6–7). If you find that your mind is not steadfastly set on God, if you cannot remember his kindness and love, drive a stake through the heart of your forgetfulness. Remember whose you are and whom you serve. If you do, your affection for God will increase tenfold, your imagination will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Sunday, January 26, 2025
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE AM 26th JANUARY 2025 - Kim Hay 'PARABLE OF THE S...
We met Kim and Grant many years ago in the early stages of their Christian life and marriage.It is wonderful to see this couple ministering to others.An important message for all Christians.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Friday, January 10, 2025
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