Religious Books

Anti-smacking legislation has recently been passed here in NZ. I just want to help give some biblical perspective to it, so I want to talk about this whole issue of the smacking issue, of whether to smack or not to smack but it's a lot deeper than that. What does God have to say about this matter?

Would you rather be Right, or would you rather have Relationship? Hurt people hurt others, without even realising. We have no power really to stop painful things happening in our life. We do have the choice how we respond. Relationship conflicts reveal our heart attitude. (Sermon Audio Transcript)

E. D. Slough was the preacher at the church of Christ; Terre Haute, Indiana in 1914 when, “The Indictment Of Eternal Torment, The Self-negation Of A Monstrous Doctrine” was printed. It has long been out of print and used copies are hard to find. It is now in pubic domain and can be...

The head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. (1 Corinthians 11:3) God showed Adam a big garden, representative of the possibility of inheriting the whole world, if he handled it right. He said: I want you to dress it, keep it, cultivate it, so...

The Bible tells us, that of the people of Israel, the majority of them, God was not really pleased with. He loved them. He saved them. He got the Holy Ghost on them. He did miracles for them. But He was not well pleased with them, it says in 1 Corinthians 10. It takes faith to please God. They...

Weird things we do in church, that make us hard to relate to. If you're going to love anyone, you have to connect meaningfully with them. We're going to look at some stuff that stops us actually being authentic and moving forward.Your personal testimony of what God has done, and is doing, is going...

Victim mentality is a way of viewing yourself, and a way of viewing life, that causes you continually to fail in relationships and life. The person will not take responsibility. Instead they choose to make excuses for why life is like it is, and to find someone or something to blame. When...

Jezebel set out to destroy all messengers of the Lord, she destroyed prophets wherever she could find them, and raised up instead her own prophetic messengers. They brought a message which they called prophecy, but it was actually speaking words that were demonically empowered and seduced the...

Adam heard God speaking to him when he was in the Garden, even though he'd sinned and walked away from God. People can hear the voice of God. We need to learn what it's like and how to recognise it. Once you become a believer Jesus expects not only would you hear His voice clearly, but you would...

The 7 different ways that Jesus bled on the cross represent 7 different things that Jesus came to redeem us from, 7 things that the blood of Jesus Christ addresses. This series discusses the first use of blood during the passover in Egypt, and then onto the Day of Atonement, where the blood...