Everyone believes All people from all walks of life, in all ages, base their lives on what they believe. Belief is intrinsic to the human being, and knowledge is built upon our beliefs. What we believe is founded mostly on what we have been told and today, possibly more than ever before, exist a multitude of voices crying for people to believe as they do-from the playground to the retirement village we are hounded to believe and to conform. Our core disposition to believe is beyond religious or non-religious thought, and so the question becomes, what will we believe? The impetus for human actualisation has given us, in the Western world, the freedom to possess our personal beliefs-so long as we do so privately, but that has also lead to a fracturing of society in ways reminiscent of Humpty Dumpty's end-without a strong coalescence of belief, a society builds with iron and clay.This book explores the widespread nature of belief as the foundational reason as to why human beings do what they do, how others want to rally us to their beliefs and vilify those who don't, and why even within the broad spectrum of common belief be it religious, political, scientific or military, we so often find ourselves at enmity with those with whom we largely agree. The truth is, we can't all be right-anyway that's what I believe, what about you?
In a rather miraculous set of circumstances at one time in my life, I found myself pastoring a church where the congregation largely considered themselves Christians but did not believe the Bible and had had no experience of the Holy Spirit. This was a situation that I had never encountered before and thus I was totally unprepared. God was with my wife and me through it all; we learned much and hopefully helped some reconnect with Him, and for some, introduce them. The experience was not without its battles and through it all God was challenging those people and inviting them to not only come to Him, but also to engage in the great mission Christ Jesus has given His church. When we moved on at God's call we found ourselves involved in a ministry with a completely different theological foundation-one with which we were much more familiar and comfortable. Ironically, virtually the same issues we faced in the previous place of ministry with such obvious unbelief were replicated in the new situation-obviously our eyes were in need of being opened. It led me to coin the phrase, 'Different day, same devil'. I had never thought too much of it before. As Christians the world over, we rejoice in the fact that we have the same God, same Saviour and same Holy Spirit, but we also have the same enemy. Our mission work overseas has only reinforced this conclusion as exactly the same problems abound within all the cultures among which we get to minister. There is the same enemy and human beings are certainly no different from culture to culture-only superficialities separate us-what makes us all human is naturally the same.What perhaps alarms me the most are the false notions of salvation that are epitomised throughout the institutions of the church. God's word makes it very clear what it means to be in Christ and yet there is all manner of deviation, perhaps the most common is the institutional parading of itself as the vehicle for salvation-to which all the denominations and movements are guilty to some degree, some more than others. Belonging to a church institution might provide a sense of assurance, but it is a splintered reed of assurance and eternally can do little more than pierce the hand that leans upon it. God has given no totems (or idols) to rest our faith upon, only His Son.I would, if it were up to me, have no one spend eternity where the devil and his angels will spend theirs (Mt 25:41), and of course neither would God, hence He sent His Son. That is the purpose for this book-my intention is to present a clear picture to all who read it, of what salvation is meant to be and what it is not, but so often falsely presented as. My success with that intention will be seen in time, however, the intention is to help people to find God or return to God and live for Him by following His one and only Son, by the empowering of God's Holy Spirit.This work is not intended to be a systematic theology on salvation, rather a practical handbook which is comprehensive from a Charismatic Evangelical perspective, but in no way exhaustive-there is so much more that could be said. My prayer is that it will be beneficial to those who read it and be of immense help as you journey with our God and our Saviour, whose love for us is beyond measure.
Can one person really change the world? The voice of God has been silenced and the anti-Christ wrestles the world to himself amid the chaos of a disintegrating creation. No longer constrained by the moral voice of the Christian church another voice is loosed and the people of the earth can now be what they have always wanted to be-but there is a price. The remnant of God's people go into hiding, their voice muzzled. The little horn wages war against them and turns God's people into an amusement that keeps people blind and hypnotised as they lap up their insatiable appetite for blood. As the world falls apart and darkness settles the gruesome realities are concealed from its peoples by an ever-present media machine whose architect draws the adulation of the masses into worship that is a fa ade behind which is the flimsiest, yet greatest of all lies.Continuing the story from Two Witnesses, The Little Horn tells the story of perseverance and faintheartedness, determination and vacillation, redemption and perdition as the heart and minds of all are exposed at the end of the age and the last trumpet sounds.
Can one person change the world?On the precipice of the last of all battles one person retells the events that lead their family to this place of life with the King in the millennium (the first in a series of four). Told as an historical recount we join the story as a young boy, profoundly devoted to God, discovers his destiny; not only affecting the lives of those around him, but also the world in which he lives. Nations begin to conspire over diminishing resources, spiritually finds unprecedented growth, Earth begins to revolt and the Christian Church begins to separate between true and false, and somehow this young boy is entangled in it all as he submits to the purposes of God who is bringing the consummation of this age and preparing a bride to receive her bridegroom.As he and others around him begin to understand his destiny so too does the enemy of all that is good and will do whatever it takes to stop this youngster from inheriting his calling and ensure he is worshiped in place of God. Spiritual realities are played out in the real world.
