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My Partner’s Ex-wife ‘Stole’ My Inheritance
A WOMAN has been forced to pay more than half a million dollars to her partner’s ex-wife after being trapped by a bizarre law. LJ Charleston news.com.au OCTOBER 15, 20184:24PM What you need to know about your pre-nup DEB* was madly in love with her new partner Jim* and they were looking forward to their future…
My Abusive Ex Wants Half of Everything I Have
Name Withheld20:24, Mar 22 2018 123RF.COM She finally left her abusive partner, now he is trying to take half of everything. Starting a relationship in your mid-fifties should be OK. You’ve experienced the ups and downs of life, and should be steering towards a comfortable retirement. But what happens if you are financially secure and your new…
What is a De Facto Relationship?
31/08/2016 | Posted by Ellen Snedden (nee Harbidge) Are you already in a “de facto relationship” in the eyes of New Zealand law and you don’t even realise? New Zealand law defines a de facto relationship as being between two persons (whatever their gender), who are both aged over 18 years old, who are not married to…
Married, Ready or Not
Married, Ready or Not Recently, Stuff NZ published an article by a freelance Australian journalist, Dilvin Yasa, headlined: ‘It’s never been a priority’: The couples living in unwedded bliss.” In telling the stories of three couples who have lived happily together for decades, Ms Yasa triumphantly notes: Today, de facto couples have substantially the same…
‘It’s never been a priority’: The Couples Living in Unwedded Bliss
Dilvin Yasa 13:32, Jan 27 2019 ALMOS BECHTOLD/UNSPLASH For many long-term couples, what holds them together are love and commitment, not a piece of paper. OPINION: It’s been a long time since anyone’s heard the expression “living in sin” bandied about. And with good reason: changing social attitudes towards the end of last century saw an…
The 144,000
The 144,000 The following is an excerpt from Graeme’s book: Gotta Serve Somebody – The Mystery of the Marks & 666 Chapter 12 – The 144,000 The 144,000 We now come to consider the 144,000 in Revelation 14 who, as mentioned earlier, bear the names of God and of Messiah on their foreheads: And I looked,…
Believing the Best of Both
Believing the Best of Both Having listened carefully to the testimonies of both Dr Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh, I personally found them both sincere and credible. So, who should we believe and why? Tread carefully now – it’s quite possible we should believe…
Staying Free
Staying Free Staying Free It’s one thing to be born free; it’s another to be set free, and it’s quite another staying free. How ironic it is, for example, to watch the Antifa movement’s black-clad and hooded, club-wielding activists trying to silence anyone they think holds to far-right and/or white supremacist ideologies. I too loathe…
Leadership in the Kingdom Appendix B – What About?
“But What About…?” Here are eight more common objections, thought to prove that leaders have to use authority: (i) ‘HE GAVE THEM AUTHORITY’ (Matt 10:1; Mark 3:15, 6:7; Luke 9:1, 10:19) … having summoned His twelve disciples, He gave them authority Doesn’t this mean that Jesus gave His leadership authority, the right to enforce obedience?…
Pt 8 – Conclusions
Pt 8 Conclusions Servant Leadership Although I have covered these points at length, attempting to correct some major misconceptions, most of this study is straightforward and simple. Many of the concepts are already understood and widely taught but as bit pieces rather than as the coherent whole so, as I see it, they are not…
Upon This rock Pt 3 – Hades’ Strategies
“Upon This Rock” – Pt 3 Hades’ Strategies Part Three – Hades’ Strategies As soon as we come to Jesus and are born again, we are standing on the sure foundation of the two revelations – we now know who Jesus is, and we have a new identity in Him. However, Satan won’t give us…
Pt 2 – On Being Examined
Pt 2 On Being Examined A Feature of Humility Those of us in leadership today must not only explain and teach the way as we ourselves walk in it, but we must also remain totally relaxed at being examined, both in our characters as well as in all the leads we are offering. It is…
Leadership in the Kingdom Appendix D – The Fallacy of Delegated Authority Over Believers
As we saw at the beginning, ‘authority’ has two very different meanings. It can mean either an expert on a particular subject or ‘the right to enforce obedience; delegated power’. One attempt at justifying Christian leaders exercising authority draws on the latter, that of ‘delegated power’. We also saw Watchman Nee’s ideas on this from his…
Appendix C – Church Discipline
From Kingdom Leadership Appendix C Church Discipline LEADING WITHOUT EXERCISING AUTHORITY If, as Jesus taught, Christian leaders are not to use authority, how can there be any church discipline? Won’t sin among the saints be allowed to go unchallenged and unpunished? Not for a moment. It is my belief and personal observation that sin can…
Appendix B – What About These Objections?
From: Kingdom Leadership Appendix B What About These Objections? “But What About…?” Here are eight more common objections, thought to prove that leaders have to use authority: (i) ‘HE GAVE THEM AUTHORITY’ (Matt 10:1; Mark 3:15, 6:7; Luke 9:1, 10:19) … having summoned His twelve disciples, He gave them authority1 Doesn’t this mean that Jesus…
Appendix A – Obedience cf. Spiritual Formation
From: Kingdom Leadership Appendix A Obedience cf Spiritual Formation OUR GOAL The damage caused by the rejection of the first-hand government of God is first and foremost spiritual and therefore invisible until it becomes manifest in our behaviour. It can only be properly understood when we consider how a human spirit, our innermost being, should…
Pt 7 – How Leaders are to Lead
Pt 7 How Leaders are to Lead Hearing God for Yourself Perhaps one of the best ways of gaining perspective, to step back from the trees so that we can see the woods, is not to consider how a Christian should lead another Christian but how a Christian should lead a non-Christian. How can we…
Pt 6 – The Spirit of the Antichrist
Pt 6 The Spirit of the Antichrist Usurping Christ in Our Leadership The apostle John wrote about false prophets in his day being inspired by ‘the spirit of the antichrist’1 and it is clear he saw this as nothing unusual. Today, we too can be inspired by that same spirit in the way we lead.…
Pt 5 Closer to Home
Pt 5 Closer to Home A “Pope” in Every Assembly? We all need to look in our own home church or assembly. Have we appointed a king? Someone has said that at least in the Catholic Church there is only one Pope for a billion Catholics while in the Protestant and Pentecostal churches we can…