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Pt 4 – The Mistake of Ancient Israel
Pt 4 The Mistake of Ancient Israel The Rejection of God as KIng As already discussed in “Elders”,1 under the Old Covenant Israel had eight different leadership roles: the patriarch, the elder, the prophet, the priest, the Levite, the army commander, the judge, and the king, this was no mistake. Failure to accept the lead…
Pt 3 – Jesus’ Explanation
Pt 3 Jesus’ Explanation Leadership vs Authority Jesus gave an explicit explanation to the Twelve of the difference between authority and leadership on at least two occasions and the Scripture records them six times.1 While it took a while for the apostles to get it, and we can even laugh at their slowness, they at…
Pt 1 – The Way
Pt 1 The Way The Predestined Way of Leading INTRODUCTION In a previous study in this series, Elders,1 we looked at how God rebuked the shepherds (leadership) of Israel over two and a half thousand years ago, in Ezekiel’s time. However, as we also saw, shepherding is only one of many different kinds of leadership.…
Palestinians Imprison Journalists for Exposing Corruption
Gatestone Institute International Policy Council Palestinians Imprison Journalists for Exposing Corruption by Khaled Abu Toameh September 18, 2017 at 5:00 am Harb’s ordeal began in June 2016, when she published an investigative report that disclosed how Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) were using medical care to blackmail Palestinian patients. Her report exposed how some physicians…
Expert says Palestinians Don’t need Financial Aid
Expert says Palestinians don’t need financial aid / Ex-International Monetary Fund official says investments, not donations, needed more to rebuild economy of territories — James Sterngold, Chronicle Staff Writer Published 4:00 am, Sunday, September 4, 2005 With Israel’s disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank largely completed, the Palestinian Authority is struggling to provide a new kind…
Identifying the Issues
Identifying the Issues Responding to Philip Church’s blog,‘More Dialogue With Graeme Carle’ (1st Feb). So Much Agreement… One of the problems I’ve had in discussing today’s secular state of Israel with Philip is that he doesn’t seem to realise that I already agree with much of what he argues for – our premises are pretty…
Rejecting Rejection & Strange Teachings
‘Rejecting Rejection’ & Strange Teachings I recently came across Rejecting Rejection: My Journey to Becoming an LGBTI Ally (in its entirety at the bottom of this page), a paper presented in November last year at the N.Z. Salvation Army’s Booth College of Mission by Major Christina Tyson.1 In her zeal to atone for the Army’s leading…
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ARTICLES INDEX Peacemaking Specific to New Zealand Israel and the Middle East Society Today
“Upon This Rock” Pt 2 – The Third Metaphor
“Upon This Rock” Pt 2 The Third Metaphor Returning to Matthew 16 Happily, there is a way we can resolve this seeming impasse and at last understand what Jesus was saying to Peter, beginning with un-mixing some metaphors. (i) Bedrock is singular; foundation stones are plural. As seen above, there are two metaphors for foundations:…
Phillips Church’s Response Critiqued
Philip Church’s Response Critiqued The following is Philip’s blog with my critique inserted in blue… A response to Graeme Carle, “Promised Land or Not?” December 31, 2017 Recently Graeme Carle published his opinions on Israel and the promised land here. In his post he challenged anyone from Laidlaw College or Carey Baptist College to respond. I am…
“Upon This Rock” Pt 1 – Petra vs Petros
“Upon This Rock” Pt 1 Petra vs Petros I believe this is the most important message God has given me in over four decades of ministry: (i) On the historical side, it addresses and resolves the controversy over the church’s foundations that led to the blood-soaked schism between Roman Catholics and Protestants. (ii) On a…
Balfour Declaration: Changing History with One Small Statement
Dominion Post Op-Ed by Paul Moon, 31st October 2017 wikipedia: Arthur James Balfour, right, whose commitment to helping the Jewish people find a home, laid the foundation for a new nation and a tumultuous period of history. OPINION: One sentence was all it took. On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour made a commitment in…
The Distorted Israeli Lens on History
Dominion Post Op-Ed by SERENA MORAN: 13 November 2017 REUTERS: Lebanon’s Hezbollah supporters hold banners and wave Hezbollah, centre, and Palestinian flags, left, during a demonstration against Israel’s military action in Gaza, in front of the United Nations headquarters in Beirut. OPINION: The current publicity about the centenaries of the Balfour Declaration (Paul Moon’s Changing history with one small statement, Oct 31) and the Battle…
History Ignored
History Ignored In an op-ed in our local Dominion-Post The Distorted Israeli Lens on History (3 Nov, 2017), Serena Moran wrote that “there is nothing to celebrate in the hundred years since the Balfour Declaration. And the gallantry and promise of liberation at Beersheba [by our ANZAC troops] equally has become a betrayal.” She claims that…
Peacemaking Only For the Mature
Peacemaking Only For the Mature Every morning and night in our news feeds, we hear of conflicts far and near. Living in New Zealand, we see Middle Eastern wars, suicide bombings, and terrorist attacks as a world away but domestic violence is always near. Neighbours quarrel, racism flares, communities divide, churches split – sometimes it…
Promised Land or Not
Promised Land or Not? “Save the Children!” Recently, our City Council was forced to apologise to Sir Tim Rice after the name ‘Israel’ was removed from one of his songs in our annual children’s festival, Artsplash. The kids were to sing a selection from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat but the lyric sheets were…
Justice for Jews
DONATE ABOUT JJAC LEADERSHIP REPORTS MEDIA CENTER CONTACT JJAC SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER MAIN FACTS Frequently Asked Questions Justice for Jews from Arab Countries: Main Fact Sheet I) The Issue ” When the issue of ‘refugees’ is raised within the context of the Middle East, people invariably refer to Palestinian refugees, virtually never to Jewish…
Tears as Crown apologises for Parihaka atrocities
POLITICS TE AO MĀORI 9 Jun 2017 Tears as Crown apologises for Parihaka atrocities 10:12 pm on 9 June 2017 Share this Shannon Haunui-Thompson, Te Manu Korihi Editor @SHaunui shannon.haunui-thompson@radionz.co.nz Robin Martin, Taranaki Reporter @robincharles robin.martin@radionz.co.nz The Crown has officially apologised for the atrocities it committed when it sacked the peaceful Taranaki settlement of Parihaka…
Unity at All Costs
Unity at All Costs I was recently at a Christian leaders’ conference called ‘Difficult Conversations’, and subtitled ‘How do we maintain unity’? The subjects for conversation included Islam, gender issues, same-sex marriage, and how Maori see our Pakeha-European churches. As I listened to the presentations and discussions, I thought of my friend Marcus Ardern who…