Church In Perth - Hope To The Nations

TIMOTHY TAY is a marketplace minister serving Christ in the city of Perth since 1987. As an entrepreneur he has an IT business and hold investments in stocks and real estates. He has served at board levels in several non-profit organisations including chamber of commerce, bible colleges, city-wide conferences and local churches. Together with his wife, Teresa, and sons, Jonathan and Clement, they pioneered the ChurchinPerth e-ministry which has now merged into the Hope to the Nations, a ministry in words and kinds. His heart is for city and national transformation, fostering church unity and reconciliation and assisting churches, groups and individuals in fulfilling the commission of Jesus Christ (Matthews 28:18-20, Acts 1:8).

Election 2010	ChurchInPerth strives to be apolitical, however. we have the duty to inform our readers where political direction significantly impact the Church negatively. The Labor party is leading the electorates to belief that the election is more about personality than party politics, not unlike the American presidential campaign, for a simple reason -- Julia Gillard is the first female PM, she has a mind of her own, she is unlike Kevin Rudd whom she disposed and whom the Labor party had found to be a liability if it is going to win this election. PM Gillard had stated that she is an atheist and had warned the Church to stay out of her belief. If this election is about personality then Gillard, if voted-in for a fresh term as PM, will think she had just been given the authority to propagade her belief or unbelief. Come August 21st, Australia may well have a PM, boosted by a Greens-dominated Senate, to make wide ranging legislations that will have ungodly outcomes to the detriment of the nation and the Church.
Christians in Politics	No other Australians, Christians or otherwise, can claim to hold more political clout than the two party-bosses, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott, who stood before a gathering of Christian leaders in Canberra on a Pre-Election forum evening put together by Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) and web-streamed into churches all over Australia. The signs of impending challenge that would topple Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister were beginning to show.
GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER 2010	What is today the largest prayer movement has a humble beginning in Cape Town, South Africa, when a recently converted businessman asked the childlike question to a group of seasoned church leaders in his city when it experienced unprecedented social unrests in the midst of church disunity - 'Why can't we get the churches together in our city in one location to pray?'.
@EASTER	The crucified, dead, but alive-again Christ, is the hope of all people. He is risen with the power to change lives. He has overcome the weaknesses and brokenness which grip the human race. He reigns as Lord, the one with authority to lead us. He is the infinite reference point to guide our lives, and the near at hand friend to heal us. Salvation Army @Creation When Adam and Eve disobeyed God and sinned, God made garments of skin to cloth them from their shame. Genesis 3 circa 2000BC Abraham obedience even to the point of not withhelding his son, his only son, from God had resulted in a covenant that "through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." God provided a ram as sacrifice in place of Isaac. Genesis 22 circa 1500BC Passover lamb, which was sacrificed and its blood put over the doorposts as a sign of faith, so that the Lord passed over the houses of the Jews during the last plague poured out on the Egyptians - the killing of every firstborn except for those of the house of Israel. Exodus 12 @Easter Jesus bacame the Passover Lamb who took away the sin of the world. * Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb. Revelation 7:12 Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise! Revelation 5:12 Messages from Australian Churches Message from Archbishop Hickey Have a safe Easter - receive Jesus Christ into your life.
Build on Unshakable Foundation	One lesson we can learn from the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti is the obvious need to be prepared for impending disaster at all times. Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour says Jesus to his disciples when he foretold of impending disasters and if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved is our Lord's assurance of his return for the sake of his elect.
Christmas 2009	We wrapped our gifts in colourful wrapping paper and placed them under the Christmas tree. God wrapped his in human flesh and placed it on the tree, his only Son as an everlasting gift for all mankind.
Bills of Rights, Syaria by Stealth	Bills of Right are being passed by states and nations in recent years particularly in the western democracies with the good intention of protecting minority rights on racial, religious and sexual grounds. However, experience had shown that the new legislative power is being used to undermine the constitutional rights of freedom of expression enshrined in all democracies. By this bill which is passing through the Federal Parliament one's expression of faith can be considered as discriminatory to another person's faith. Christians are being encouraged to actively express their faith and often this very act can be interpreted under the new legislation as an infringment of privacy and discriminatory. Syaria laws in its core are prohibitions that shut the believer from interacting in any meaningful ways with infidels and this is an affront to democracy.
Comrade Duch, From Zero to Hero	There is no greater story of inspiration and hope for the nation of Cambodia as that symbolised by the acts of Kang Kek Lew a.k.a. Comrade Duch. During the Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia Duch served as the head of the infamous S-21 detention centre that resulted in the torture and death of 15,000 detainees. Today he stood as a war criminal of a U.N.-backed international court of justice prosecuting key figures of the Pol Pot regime. Now a Christian he stood repentant before the court and the world as a testimony of the transformation that Jesus Christ has brought to his life.
Local Church Leadership	The New Testament churches are governed by elders who are supported by deacons. In our days a number of churches are governed by a board consisting of people who would biblically be called elders and deacons. The danger with this deviation is the tendency to adopt a democratic majority decision-making process which may undermined the spiritual oversight exercised by elders.
Love Thy Neighbor, Indonesia	Australia and Indonesia relationship experienced a chequered past but nevertheless moving in the right direction; 2-step forward and 1-step back. This is a crucial time for the Church in Australia and Indonesia to move ahead together in this fast changing political and economic realities of our times.
OBAMA -The Remaking of America	At his inauguration President Obama laid his mission statement and reinstated President Washington's plea when the nation was in its deepest crisis, "with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations." Facing the toughest economic challenges in decades, President Obama, knew that his elite team cannot accomplish the task of leading America out of the economic mess without the providence of God.
SERVANTHOOD -Foundation for Greatness & Leadership	How often in our pursue for greatness and influence we forget that the basic attribute of an enduring leader is not found just in a position of authority but more so in the innate ability to win the hearts and minds of followers.
EMMANUEL	For to us a child is born ... Mighty God, Everlasting Father
GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS -REBUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL	Former US Reserve Bank chairman, Greenspan, described the current economic crisis as an economic tsunami of the century that had caught everyone by surprise and it had yet to hit bottom. Over 40 leaders from Europe and Asia were in Beijing last week to trash out possible solutions. Following this on Nov 15 the top 20 economic powers of the world will meet to finalise a plan of actions. China, with its 2-trillion US$ reserve, will be a key player considering that this nation has contributed much to the current woes for continued to hold tight to a low exchange rate regime for its currency. However, it is the United States with its dominant economic presence that triggered the stock market fallouts. The solution to this lack of confidence in the financial world may be found when nations finally agreed on a workable plan that will bring stability and confidence back into the market -- for a plan to work it will have to be of a magnitude that will make the 40's Bretton Woods agreement look like child play. We may see before our very eyes the making of a new economic order that will have the power and authority to monitor more tightly how financial transactions are to be be conducted. How will this agreement affect the Church? Will we see the economic scenario painted in the book of Revelation becoming a reality with its conceptual beginning trashed out this coming November 15? Contrary to the groom and doom often predicted for the Church the reverse is probably true - a new era of prosperity for the children of Abraham who by faith can look forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God (Heb 11:8-10). 1. Gen 11 "Babel" is composed of two words, "baa" meaning "gate" and "el," "god." Hence, "the gate of god." A related word in Hebrew, "balal" means "confusion." <more>
Making Disciples of Nations	A fresh look at the Great Commission, in particularly, the directive to make disciples of nations.
Church in Malaysia & Election'08	The Church in this former British colony has grown slowly but steadily over the past 50 years since the nation gained sovereignty. Over the recent years the Church has taken issue with the government over the encroachment of overly enthusiastic Muslim burearcrats and religious officials over their constitution rights for religious expression. This election has brought the largest number of Christian MPs into office since 1957.
2008	There are some significant re-alignment in world politics and economies which will bring greater rather than lesser divisions in the world. Expect increase tribulation in the world but for the Church it will hold out as the beacon of hope that will shine forth the glory of God brighter than ever before.
Election2007	Australians have voted in a new government. What opportunities and challenges will the new Kevin Rudd led Labor government bring to the Church? Two views are presented, one from a leading prayer leader and another from a medical doctor who stood for the election. An interesting aspect of this election is the way Western Australians have voted which is against the trend of the rest of Australia.
Makassar	Once the trade centre of the Spice Islands but today it is better known for being the power centre of Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Yet within this city with a population of Perth God had raised up his Church strengthen through persecution and providing a beacon in a sea of hatred and ignorance.