Showing posts with label Harold Long. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harold Long. Show all posts
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Is there a conscious existence beyond the grave? Pastor Harold Long
The late Harold Long was a long serving Churches of Christ Pastor.
He was our Pastor at the Church of Christ Grote Street Adelaide where this was recorded.
He was a very gifted Evangelical Preacher and loved teaching the prophetic message.
It was through his preaching I was persuaded to become a Christian.
Everyone needs to make sure of their salvation.
Salvation that we cannot possibly ever be good enough to earn but is a free gift from God through Jesus Christ.
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| Harold and Joyce Long |
Friday, October 14, 2016
Passing Of Joyce Long.
We had the privilege yestrday of attending the funeral of Mrs Joyce Long.
She was the wife of the late Pastor Hariold Long and mother of 5 children.
Her son Graham wrote this in his newsletter from the Wayside Chapel where he is the Pastor.
The funeral service was a wonderful tribute to a fine Christian lady.
Also is a link to the poem "My Two Mothers" that Heather Long read out as a tribute to her mum.
http://www.dementiacareaustralia.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=644&Itemid=81
Dear Inner Circle,
An old lady died this week. She was born into an Australia that knew a lot about economic depression and next to nothing about government support. It was a world of hard work. As the eldest daughter in a large family, her lot was about raising younger children and endless domestic duties. Her education finished at primary school because there were many brothers and they needed to be fed and their clothes washed. An old wood stove seemed to perpetually burn with soup for strangers and a kettle constantly ready for a cup of tea. There was no entertainment in the house except for when the family sang together or laughed together. After the lady got married she was amazed at how her parents could suddenly afford some labour-saving devices like a washing machine.
The lady’s mother had agoraphobia before anyone knew the word and so as a little girl as young as seven years, she would toddle up to the bank to bring home wages for the men in her father’s joinery. Her mother was sharp, all the prices for timber and quotes for building jobs were at the top of her head. Her father was a big burley builder. She adored her father who once every night would walk into a room full of children that ought to be asleep and say a prayer. One night she asked her father to pray for their pet dog who had taken ill. The father hesitated and she knew that he thought perhaps prayers for dogs were not in order. He prayed for the dog.
The lady fell in love with a soldier. He’d served in Darwin as an army nurse during the bombing and was on leave in her home town. The soldier came across a group of kids singing Christian songs on a street corner. The soldier thought the young girl playing the piano accordion was the most stunning girl in the world. He left the army and studied to become a minister and they married.
She loved her husband. She believed in him. She taught her children to honour him. He adored her. Every morning of their married life, he brought her a cup of tea and toast on the best matching plates they owned. Their children knew that they had been born into a love story that included them but was never all about them. They had five children but their home was constantly filled with 'strays'. The meal table rarely accommodated the immediate family. All kinds of people who had no place at any table, had a place at this lady’s table. Everyone got fed and everyone got loved.
The endless series of strays were a burden to some of the siblings. At times the siblings would roll their eyes and slap their foreheads when some lunatic remark was made. The complaints rarely broke the sound waves because nothing was clearer than these people could be loved in this family and they had as much right to love as anyone else in the world. This was love, not as ideology but as lived action and it couldn’t help but have a formative effect on the children.
Family trips were sometimes arguments between squashed kids and less than comfortable guests or they were a session of singing in at least a four-part harmony. All the songs were religious. They taught about a reverence for life, about a judge higher than any authority on Earth, about the power of love to overcome death and about heaven to come. Nothing was actually said about heaven to come, except that it was to come and so life was to be lived reverently and with a sense of purpose and urgency.
The lady had no education but she was sharp. She could smell a lie. She had no end of health tips that didn’t make much sense. Wearing a singlet seemed to be important for staving off most diseases. A brown paper bag on the chest under a singlet could prevent sea sickness. She had no interest in theological arguments. Faith was about living and loving not about reasoning. She knew that love trumped reason; it didn’t repudiate it but it trumped it. She had no interest in the television. She never got a joke in her life even though her husband was the joke teller of all time.
She watched her siblings all grow relatively wealthy and though she was one of the hardest working people to have lived in the past one hundred years, she never had any money. She banked everything on love. Even as an old lady with dementia, she loved the people who came to sweep the floors or give her a shower.
Her death, like her life, was hard work. Before she lost consciousness, she couldn’t swallow and her tongue had swollen so that her weak little voice could barely be understood. The last conversation was when her daughter asked her how she was going. Her last words were, "Real good".
This tiny woman, the warrior of love, died this week and I’m counting just how many ways I’m thankful that this was my Mum.
Graham
Rev Graham Long AM
Pastor and CEO
The Wayside Chapel
Kings Cross
http://www.revgrahamlong.com/
http://www.thewaysidechapel.com/
She was the wife of the late Pastor Hariold Long and mother of 5 children.
Her son Graham wrote this in his newsletter from the Wayside Chapel where he is the Pastor.
The funeral service was a wonderful tribute to a fine Christian lady.
Also is a link to the poem "My Two Mothers" that Heather Long read out as a tribute to her mum.
http://www.dementiacareaustralia.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=644&Itemid=81
Dear Inner Circle,
An old lady died this week. She was born into an Australia that knew a lot about economic depression and next to nothing about government support. It was a world of hard work. As the eldest daughter in a large family, her lot was about raising younger children and endless domestic duties. Her education finished at primary school because there were many brothers and they needed to be fed and their clothes washed. An old wood stove seemed to perpetually burn with soup for strangers and a kettle constantly ready for a cup of tea. There was no entertainment in the house except for when the family sang together or laughed together. After the lady got married she was amazed at how her parents could suddenly afford some labour-saving devices like a washing machine.
The lady’s mother had agoraphobia before anyone knew the word and so as a little girl as young as seven years, she would toddle up to the bank to bring home wages for the men in her father’s joinery. Her mother was sharp, all the prices for timber and quotes for building jobs were at the top of her head. Her father was a big burley builder. She adored her father who once every night would walk into a room full of children that ought to be asleep and say a prayer. One night she asked her father to pray for their pet dog who had taken ill. The father hesitated and she knew that he thought perhaps prayers for dogs were not in order. He prayed for the dog.
The lady fell in love with a soldier. He’d served in Darwin as an army nurse during the bombing and was on leave in her home town. The soldier came across a group of kids singing Christian songs on a street corner. The soldier thought the young girl playing the piano accordion was the most stunning girl in the world. He left the army and studied to become a minister and they married.
She loved her husband. She believed in him. She taught her children to honour him. He adored her. Every morning of their married life, he brought her a cup of tea and toast on the best matching plates they owned. Their children knew that they had been born into a love story that included them but was never all about them. They had five children but their home was constantly filled with 'strays'. The meal table rarely accommodated the immediate family. All kinds of people who had no place at any table, had a place at this lady’s table. Everyone got fed and everyone got loved.
The endless series of strays were a burden to some of the siblings. At times the siblings would roll their eyes and slap their foreheads when some lunatic remark was made. The complaints rarely broke the sound waves because nothing was clearer than these people could be loved in this family and they had as much right to love as anyone else in the world. This was love, not as ideology but as lived action and it couldn’t help but have a formative effect on the children.
Family trips were sometimes arguments between squashed kids and less than comfortable guests or they were a session of singing in at least a four-part harmony. All the songs were religious. They taught about a reverence for life, about a judge higher than any authority on Earth, about the power of love to overcome death and about heaven to come. Nothing was actually said about heaven to come, except that it was to come and so life was to be lived reverently and with a sense of purpose and urgency.
The lady had no education but she was sharp. She could smell a lie. She had no end of health tips that didn’t make much sense. Wearing a singlet seemed to be important for staving off most diseases. A brown paper bag on the chest under a singlet could prevent sea sickness. She had no interest in theological arguments. Faith was about living and loving not about reasoning. She knew that love trumped reason; it didn’t repudiate it but it trumped it. She had no interest in the television. She never got a joke in her life even though her husband was the joke teller of all time.
She watched her siblings all grow relatively wealthy and though she was one of the hardest working people to have lived in the past one hundred years, she never had any money. She banked everything on love. Even as an old lady with dementia, she loved the people who came to sweep the floors or give her a shower.
Her death, like her life, was hard work. Before she lost consciousness, she couldn’t swallow and her tongue had swollen so that her weak little voice could barely be understood. The last conversation was when her daughter asked her how she was going. Her last words were, "Real good".
This tiny woman, the warrior of love, died this week and I’m counting just how many ways I’m thankful that this was my Mum.
Graham
Rev Graham Long AM
Pastor and CEO
The Wayside Chapel
Kings Cross
http://www.revgrahamlong.com/
http://www.thewaysidechapel.com/
Friday, January 23, 2015
Three Minutes to Midnight
The "Doomsday Clock" has been moved again.
It now stands at 3 minutes to midnight.
See link below to the ABC article.
ww.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-23/doomsday-clock-moved-closer-to-midnight/6040208
Speculation on such things is an interesting subject always.
I prefer to look to the future from Bible Prophecy.
Notwithstanding these warnings are not necessarily incompatible with the Bible.
The following link is a good place to hear one of my former Pastors,Harold Long, giving his understanding of "the end times".
It is one of a series of addresses.
http://geoffthompsonstapelibrary.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/the-coming-world-religion-by-harold-long.html
You will find other addresses by Harold on my tape library blog and on youtube on Bible Prophecy. They are all audio tapes from the 1970's digitised and uploaded to youtube.
While the world is advised wisely by eminent scientists of the mess we are making of it, it is also important to consider,especially for Christians, what the Bible tells us and warns us about.
Sadly many of today's Christians seem to ignore this teaching.
They think it is for "fanatics" and "fundamentalists".
Not to be ignored when God speaks in His Word.
It now stands at 3 minutes to midnight.
See link below to the ABC article.
ww.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-23/doomsday-clock-moved-closer-to-midnight/6040208
Speculation on such things is an interesting subject always.
I prefer to look to the future from Bible Prophecy.
Notwithstanding these warnings are not necessarily incompatible with the Bible.
The following link is a good place to hear one of my former Pastors,Harold Long, giving his understanding of "the end times".
It is one of a series of addresses.
http://geoffthompsonstapelibrary.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/the-coming-world-religion-by-harold-long.html
You will find other addresses by Harold on my tape library blog and on youtube on Bible Prophecy. They are all audio tapes from the 1970's digitised and uploaded to youtube.
While the world is advised wisely by eminent scientists of the mess we are making of it, it is also important to consider,especially for Christians, what the Bible tells us and warns us about.
Sadly many of today's Christians seem to ignore this teaching.
They think it is for "fanatics" and "fundamentalists".
Not to be ignored when God speaks in His Word.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
From the Wayside by Graham Long
Graham Long's latest newsletter from the Wayside Chapel.
His Dad he mentions was Harold Long who some of his sermons are featured on my youtube channel Pembridge House.
Dear Inner Circle,
Our household had a bit of a fixation with Masterchef on the tele some time ago. Something about the show worried me but it's taken ages for the penny to drop. I think the thought of pantries that never end and the sight of three judges shoving beautiful food in their mouths and already full bellies and then making judgments is ugly. What has worried me is the complete lack of "gift" that is appropriate for food and for eating. I was raised by a man who stopped and thanked the holy fire before he ate any meal. Someone had always prepared the food and so at the end of every meal, someone had to be thanked. Even when we ate a pie at the Coles cafeteria (a rare highlight that was newsworthy for weeks), someone had to be thanked. I remember being embarrassed by Dad who thanked God out loud in public and I was bewildered while I held his hand and we went looking for someone to thank after eating the pie. I think he ended up thanking the lady at the cash register. I guess it was not just that he was religious but also because he was raised in Melbourne during the Great Depression and so for him, food and clothing always came to him with a strong sense of "gift".
Now we eat so often in restaurants and a natural exchange of gift and gratitude has been replaced by an exchange of money and expectation of value for money or satisfaction with the dining experience. I think we're losing something really important. In my boyhood, we ate together seated round a table and we talked to each other. None of us were keen on pumpkin and one day when Dad had finished saying grace, my sister's plate was piled high with pumpkin, including that from my father's plate. We laughed and sometimes battled and caught up with one another or listened to what ever it was our parents thought we needed to hear. Eating was a social event. Now, I think you can eat alone to nourish your body which is fine but a truly human act is social. It's a human act to eat together. I think to make a point of eating together would help to overcome the ugly sense of entitlement that is everywhere before us. I recently saw someone on their high horse, sending food back to the kitchen and I was embarrassed. In a restaurant, the natural relationship between the preparer of the food and the consumer of the food is broken. Consumers are often ugly individuals. Consumers live in economies. People live in families or in friendships or even in societies. Consumers are interested in value. People are interested in connection and sharing. This morning we had the most wonderful breakfast at Wayside. Our executive team and some other staff put on breakfast for our volunteers. Our ambassador David Wenham came and manned the BBQ. I don't think we are expert cooks but we certainly prepared and presented the food with love for our beautiful volunteers. We must have had about 70 volunteers for breakfast and the buzz was beautiful.
At a large funeral at Wayside yesterday I heard street people speak of a young man who had recently died. This was a wild lad in some respects but the thing that was said over and over was that whatever he had, he shared. There were several stories of people who on a cold night simply jumped under his blanket with him. No one was ever rejected. People who live in a world of stuff are concerned mostly with how they can get more stuff or more for the cheapest price. The world of stuff is not an attribute of wealth or poverty. It doesn't matter if you are looking to get your next meal or your next million. Stuff doesn't change lives but a gift does. You can only truly receive a gift when you see a giver. So many people came to the funeral yesterday because their lives had been changed by a gift.
Recently I gave a man a little job to do at Wayside and he's been faithful in serving others in the direction in which I pointed him. He's learning to make a gift of his life and energies and there have been a couple of hiccups as there always are on a journey like this one. He sent me a text me yesterday to say that he'd lost confidence in himself and that he was going to give up. This morning I saw him and he waved me over to his table. "I'd be sabotaging myself to stop now wouldn't I, Rev?" I could dance around the room with the joy that comes from seeing such a fellow learn how to live.
Thanks for being part of this inner circle,
Graham
Rev Graham Long
Pastor and CEO
The Wayside Chapel
Kings Cross
http://www.thewaysidechapel.com/
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Friday, November 9, 2012
The Coming World Government by Harold Long
I have posted this on my youtube channel and also on my Life Changing Christian Sermons Blog.
I thought I would also post it here.
The world has been anxiously watching the USA election this last week and now some are happy and some unhappy with the result.
This is just a reminder that there is a far bigger picture than our own views on politics where we live, and the world at large.
There is a drama of life unfolding as foretold in the prophetic messages of the Bible.
This is Harold Long's exposition on the coming world govt. as he presented it in the 1970's.
While many will scoff at this type of preaching, those who believe the Bible to be the Word of God may be blessed to hear God speak through one of His servants.
If you are not yet a Christian and concerned about your salvation follow the link below to a sermon by Frank Hunting that clearly presents the need to make a "decision" for Christ without delay.
http://geoffthompsonstapelibrary.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/spiritual-death-by-frank-hunting.html
I thought I would also post it here.
The world has been anxiously watching the USA election this last week and now some are happy and some unhappy with the result.
This is just a reminder that there is a far bigger picture than our own views on politics where we live, and the world at large.
There is a drama of life unfolding as foretold in the prophetic messages of the Bible.
This is Harold Long's exposition on the coming world govt. as he presented it in the 1970's.
While many will scoff at this type of preaching, those who believe the Bible to be the Word of God may be blessed to hear God speak through one of His servants.
http://geoffthompsonstapelibrary.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/spiritual-death-by-frank-hunting.html
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
About Harold Long
I have started putting taped sermons by the late Pastor Harold Long on this blog.Harold was a long serving Churches of Christ Minister who had Ministeries in Victoria,NSW and South Australia.
He did his Bible College Training at the College of The Bible at Glen Iris which was a Churches of Christ Theological College.
We met Harold Long and his wife and family when we were attending the Church of Christ in Adelaide at Grote Street in South Australia.
I sat under Harold's teaching for some 3 years before I ran out of arguments as to why I should not become a Christian after listening to many of his sermons.
My wife was already a Christian.
We had the privilege in our formative Christian years of both Harold's ministry and also Frank Hunting(see about Frank Hunting on this blog).
I have often said Harold was the one who God used to bring me to Jesus and Frank was the one who God used to keep me there.
Both men were Pastors in the Churches of Christ movement and were very gifted expositors of the Bible.
Harold was well known and loved for his prophetic teaching on the end times of the age and the Church and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have many tapes by both men and also other Church of Christ Ministers who have been our Pastors and many who were guest Preachers.
I will post some of the others at a later date, God willing.
One set of Harold's sermons I intend to post are a series called "What Churches of Christ Believe."
There was a time when most Churches of Christ in Australia would have believed the things Harold expounded on but sadly I think there has been a falling away in some of our Churches on what was held dearly by some.
When you listen to them you can judge for yourself.
He did his Bible College Training at the College of The Bible at Glen Iris which was a Churches of Christ Theological College.
We met Harold Long and his wife and family when we were attending the Church of Christ in Adelaide at Grote Street in South Australia.
I sat under Harold's teaching for some 3 years before I ran out of arguments as to why I should not become a Christian after listening to many of his sermons.
My wife was already a Christian.
We had the privilege in our formative Christian years of both Harold's ministry and also Frank Hunting(see about Frank Hunting on this blog).
I have often said Harold was the one who God used to bring me to Jesus and Frank was the one who God used to keep me there.
Both men were Pastors in the Churches of Christ movement and were very gifted expositors of the Bible.
Harold was well known and loved for his prophetic teaching on the end times of the age and the Church and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have many tapes by both men and also other Church of Christ Ministers who have been our Pastors and many who were guest Preachers.
I will post some of the others at a later date, God willing.
One set of Harold's sermons I intend to post are a series called "What Churches of Christ Believe."
There was a time when most Churches of Christ in Australia would have believed the things Harold expounded on but sadly I think there has been a falling away in some of our Churches on what was held dearly by some.
When you listen to them you can judge for yourself.
Friday, September 7, 2012
"The Coming World Recognition of the Messiah" by Pastor Harold Long
The following taped address is from a series of prophetic messages given by Harold Long in 1978.
This one was on 24/9/78.
I may post some of the others at a later date.
The titles were :
"The Coming World Snatching Away" (The Rapture)
"The Coming World Religion"
"The Coming World Government"
"The Coming World Dictator"
"The Coming World War"
"The Coming World Role of Israel"
and this one.
They were part of the evening gospel service of the Church of Christ at Grote St. Adelaide South Australia.
Harold was the Minister who God used to bring me to Him.
We had the privilege of Harold and also Frank Hunting(on this blog) as our joint Pastors in partnership.
They complimented each other beautifully and had worked in tandem before in other churches.
Harold was very strong on Bible prophecy and also evangelism.
On this tape there is a Bible reading by both Ministers.
Both Ministers are now with their Lord.
You will not hear preaching like this in too many Churches these days.
The message is still as relevant as ever.
It may be that the Lord Jesus returns today or in several years time but if you are alive at the time will you be ready?
This one was on 24/9/78.
I may post some of the others at a later date.
The titles were :
"The Coming World Snatching Away" (The Rapture)
"The Coming World Religion"
"The Coming World Government"
"The Coming World Dictator"
"The Coming World War"
"The Coming World Role of Israel"
and this one.
They were part of the evening gospel service of the Church of Christ at Grote St. Adelaide South Australia.
Harold was the Minister who God used to bring me to Him.
We had the privilege of Harold and also Frank Hunting(on this blog) as our joint Pastors in partnership.
They complimented each other beautifully and had worked in tandem before in other churches.
Harold was very strong on Bible prophecy and also evangelism.
On this tape there is a Bible reading by both Ministers.
Both Ministers are now with their Lord.
You will not hear preaching like this in too many Churches these days.
The message is still as relevant as ever.
It may be that the Lord Jesus returns today or in several years time but if you are alive at the time will you be ready?
Thursday, September 6, 2012
From the Wayside Chapel-Rev Graham Long
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Dear Inner Circle,
I'm
at the fountain cafe enjoying the extraordinary light that such a day
brings.
The world looks crisper to me in the morning. A well dressed man
sitting next
to me is just finishing the pint of beer that he's having
for breakfast.
A woman opposite me is reading the paper and chain
smoking.
There is a skinny girl wearing next to nothing, using the
reflection
that she can see in the telephone booth to make herself
beautiful and ready
for the day. The few clothes that she is wearing are
all black and against her pale,
sickly looking skin and gaunt figure,
it looks a bit sad. I expect she will wander
off shortly looking for
customers. If the man next to me has another beer for breakfast,
she
might be in luck.
One
the worst drunks I know asked me to bury his mum. I told him that I'd
be
honoured to stand with him in this moment, provided that he could
stand.
He arrived at Wayside, very drunk but still able to stand.
"Stand" isn't quite
the right word; "dignified wobble" might describe
his best effort. On the way
to the graveside he begged me to stop at
every pub we passed for a quick drink.
I refused his requests and when
we arrived at the graveside, the undertaker was
already waiting for us.
Before I could say a prayer, my friend burst into a
drunken rage. He
thought the nursing home probably switched bodies and it probably
wasn't
the body of his mother in the coffin. The undertaker was more than
mildly
annoyed and refused to open the coffin to settle the matter.
There is no such thing
as reasoning with a drunk and so eventually the
undertaker opened the coffin so
the man could see that it was his mother
and not some interloper in the coffin.
From this rough beginning to
proceedings, I gave this dear old lady the most
dignified funeral that I
could. I understand that she'd lived a remarkable life.
Indeed my
drunken friend is fluent in three languages and travelled the world
with
a successful career many years ago and in his own way and from his
drunken fog,
he loved his mum.
Yesterday,
I did a funeral for a lady that has been part of Kings Cross for over
30 years.
Her son told me that his Mum had the capacity to be angry, sad
and funny in the
same moment. Someone else told me that she thrived on
Kings Cross gossip and that
she was the master of disseminating
information, confidentially. There is no doubt that
she was a woman who
loved people and our Chapel filled yesterday with people
she had loved.
It is an unspeakable honour to be invited by people to step into
their
lives at a time like this. I see my role as helping people find words
that are right
for them in this moment of parting. Tears are right and
appropriate. Cheers are
right and appropriate. There are no rules for
saying good bye and it seems like families
learn the lesson that "love
lets go" in their own way. Yesterday was an open coffin
and I was
surprised by how many people kissed the deceased person on the lips.
I
make no judgement but it's not what I would do.
I
must have lacked oxygen at birth because I have never understood
anything
about sport and yet all my brothers and my sister seemed to be
interested and
able to speak that language. In Adelaide once, one of my
brothers dragged
me to a baseball match. I was keen not to go but that
never made much difference
to any of my brothers when we embarked on any
activity. At one stage the guy
on the field, hitting a ball with a
toothpick, slammed a ball right out of the ground.
Everyone around leapt
in the air with joy and astonishingly, I leapt into the air with joy.
While in the air I learned that the bloke with the toothpick was on our
team and
somehow this home run had covered us all in glory. The
achievement of this one
person had somehow made us all look good and he
walked off the playing field
to standing ovations. This moment has
remained with me at every funeral that I've
done since. That dear lady
yesterday had lived a life that packed in a lot of care
and love for
people. This week she hit a home run and in the process, covered
a lot
of us in glory. There were tears by the bucket load yesterday but there
were
also plenty of cheers as this lady walked off the playing field to a
standing ovation
at our Chapel.
The
Wayside Warrior of the Week Award ...(drum roll)... goes to the four
young people
who ran a fundraiser last night as part of the challenge to
climb Mount Kilimanjaro
for Wayside next year and raise money for our
work. What an awesome night as so
many people worked together to
generate some money for Wayside. I sat next to
David Wenham who is a
genuinely humble man as well as a giant talent. Someone
paid $4,000 to
have lunch with me and David. On the way out, someone suggested
that the
price might have climbed if I'd offered not to come! Someone also paid
big money to have lunch with me and Claudia Karvan. While money was
flowing
impressively, the most amazing thing was to behold how many
people were prepared
to make an effort to make this world a better
place. Indira Naidoo spoke beautifully
and said amongst other things
that, "No one says 'no' to Graham". I was sitting
between my wife and my
daughter at the time and not game to utter a word.
There is so much to be thankful for, not least that you are part of our inner circle,
Graham
PS.
I'll be speaking at a Sydney Open talk next Tuesday, 11 September on
the
role of worship in the life of our city. We'd love to see you there.
It's at the Historic Houses Trust from 6pm. More details here.
Rev Graham Long
Pastor and CEO
The Wayside Chapel
Kings Cross
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
The new man Tape 3 Frank Hunting
Below is a a slide show of some of my pictures accompanied by a sermon on the New Man by Frank Hunting.
The pictures should point you to the creator.
How can we deny there is a God when we look at the beauty of the Natural World.
When we have recognised there is a God and we can know Him through Jesus Christ and have responded to that, we need to then start the Christian journey towards maturity in Christ.
We are not instant new creations when we become Christians although in a sense that is true.
Our position has changed and our disposition can become the disposition of Jesus.
Sadly, many of us never know the fullness of our Salvation.
The sermon is one of the many that I listened to in a five year period when Frank Hunting was our Pastor.
His colleague Harold Long preached the Gospel that God used to bring me to Him.
Frank was the one God used to keep me there when I could easily have faded away.
So the pictures are meant to compliment the message not distract you.
The pictures should point you to the creator.
How can we deny there is a God when we look at the beauty of the Natural World.
When we have recognised there is a God and we can know Him through Jesus Christ and have responded to that, we need to then start the Christian journey towards maturity in Christ.
We are not instant new creations when we become Christians although in a sense that is true.
Our position has changed and our disposition can become the disposition of Jesus.
Sadly, many of us never know the fullness of our Salvation.
The sermon is one of the many that I listened to in a five year period when Frank Hunting was our Pastor.
His colleague Harold Long preached the Gospel that God used to bring me to Him.
Frank was the one God used to keep me there when I could easily have faded away.
So the pictures are meant to compliment the message not distract you.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
About Frank Hunting
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| Frank Hunting on the left with friend and fellow Minister Harold Long.The occasion was Frank's 80th Birthday |
Frank Hunting was a Churches of Christ Minister who was my minister at the Grote St. Church of Christ when he came there in
1975 after many years Ministry in Ballarat,Victoria and other places before that. He was my minister in tandem with Pastor Harold Long from 1975-1980 (approx) .Frank is now with His beloved Lord. Frank had a very distinctive teaching and counselling ministry. His gifts were very much in counselling people with troubled spiritual and emotional problems , what some would call mental illness. He was Frank by name and Frank by nature. Without Frank’s ministry to myself and my wife and family I doubt that I would have remained a Christian. He taught such things as the necessity to keep in right relationship with God and others through going to Jesus on a daily basis. He alerted us to the fact we have a very real enemy. “ we wrestle not with flesh and blood.” who is out to destroy our homes.
He taught about prayer and also how when we become Christians it
does not mean that everything will now be a bed of roses. He taught that many of our troubles as adults have their roots in not only the effects of our sin but that often we have problems from early childhood and adolescence that we tend to push down into our subconscious minds that the Bible calls the Heart. These problems are usually to do with rejections or abuse that we might have suffered and quite often we are not consciously aware of. He counselled many including myself on how these things affect us and how to take them to Jesus for healing. Even though we may be Christians ,unless these things are brought to Jesus ,we can have much trouble in our relationships and in life and indeed may never come to know the abundant life that Jesus promises us. I have many Bible studies that Frank prepared for use in Churches , booklets on important Christian themes and may cassette tapes of his teachings.
With permission from Frank’s family, for which I am very grateful, my aim is to bring his teaching to a world that is desparate for healing and hope.I will be progressively putting up his written material for the use of people who currently call themselves Christians and those who are seekers after God’s truth.
I would recommend transcripts of the tapes of sermons on this blog called "inner peace" and "the cross of christ" I have started this blog at a time when these teachings are very relevant to my own walk with God and to our family and friends and wider Church community.
Geoff Thompson August 2009
ps Frank Hunting was also a champion Australian Rules footballer in his younger days and played 4 games for Essendon in 1933.
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