Archive for October, 2005

Soaking Prayer Conference

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Hi
Julia and I together with Eilish and Rachel attended the first soaking prayer conference in Toronto last week. It was awesome and amazing. Thousands were in attendance and sleeping bags and pillows were everywhere.
The teaching was on the trinity and the love of the community. Miracles happened with many people with pain [...]

Traditions

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Over the last few weeks I have found our Monday night bible studies very beneficial in the way we approach doctrines in Christian teaching. Some doctrines are so widely referenced to and spoken about that we sometimes just take them as “he’s a preacher and I’ve heard so many other preachers preach about it that [...]

Soaking Prayer

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Last wed night a small group travelled up to the airport and met for soaking prayer in Billy and Mary McCarth’s farmhouse. Present were Dan Day, Rob & Keren Lily, Gail & Jay Dixon (USA), Eilish Forrest, Doug Heffernan and then family members Rachel Ciara William Fiona and Miriam. Also Catriona and Emma the [...]

A Useful Table

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

A synopsis of the 5 baptisms

Baptizer
Element
Baptizee
Purpose

John
water
repentant Israelite
seal of repentance.

God
suffering
Jesus
redemption.

Holy Spirit
body of Christ
a sinner
new birth

a saint
water
believer
discipleship

Jesus
Holy Spirit
a saint
indwelling
of Spirit.

From the above chart we can clearly see the 5 baptisms mentioned in the new testament.
For the repentant sinner there is now a participation in the last three baptisms, that is in water , in the Holy [...]

Notes for the Baptism studies

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

These are the notes that I am using as the basis for our current series of studies:
The Baptisms of the New Testament
The baptism of repentance.
The baptism of suffering.
The baptism into Christ.
The baptism into water.
The baptism into the spirit and with fire.
1. John’s baptism of repentance.

Matt 3:1
Mark 1:4
Luke 7:24-30
Acts 18:23-25
Acts 19:1-7
Luke 20:1-8 (authority)

A baptism [...]

Baptism

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

In our Bible Study we have turned our attention to Baptism as there are a couple of us interested at this time in this subject.
Firstly, we can look the word baptism itself. The word baptisma in the greek is generally the word translated as “baptism”. This word is the noun form of the [...]

Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa Christian Union

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Just to let everyone know, Ger and I have started off a Christian Union in Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa. We had our first official meeting last Thursday and had a suprising turn out. Four people turned up (not having seen the posters) and decided to call in when they saw the sign on the door. It [...]

Angels on the loose or are they?

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Jude , 1 Pet 3, 2 Pet 2 Gen 6

American talk on Evangelising

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

I have been enrolled as Editor for the Bible Studies for the moment and if I miss out on anything or make spelling mistakes please tell me( but that won’t happen since I am PERFECT ).
Sean and Josiah gave a talk on Monday 10th of Oct about the steps towards Evangelising and gave [...]

What to do next??

Monday, October 10th, 2005

With the group of Americans over and who are so into Evangelism it is a great chance to look at ourselves and learn from them to see how we can Evangelise here in Cork.
With the right tools and direction I would without a doubt be up for the task and see so many [...]