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Dave Halls, 25/05/2011

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Talking about the cross from a Pentecostal perspective.

Here are a few resources that may help with my CCT Good Friday talk.

You can find my source for the statistics here.

I have been strongly influenced by recent thinking done by James K A Smith on Pentecostal Epistemology.

You can get his book here

or watch a lecture on the subject here.

My father's story can be found here and my mother's here.

The unedited script for my talk is here.

If you would like to pursue any of the ideas I have raised you should be able to comment below.
To access other resources including information about current interests, please email me at davehalls@dayspring.org.uk

Dave Halls, 21/04/2011

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The opposite spirit

This Sunday we were back to talking about the cross and made some small reference to spiritual warfare and the idea of ACTING IN THE OPPOSITE SPIRIT.

I first heard of this idea from Gerald Coates but I believe it might have developed in YWAM with Loren Cunningham, the founder.

Anyway, if you want to know more, here and here are two helpful articles which you can read at leisure.

Dave Halls, 08/03/2011

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Awesome cross of power

Its 10.20 on Saturday night. I've got tomorrow's talk as far as I can - just a case of sleeping on it and praying the detail through in the morning.

Here are the bits you might want to follow up the session.

Wordles are a neat way of summarising and analysing text. You can make your own at www.wordle.net

Col 2

Colossians 2:13-15

1 Corinthians 15:50-57

Here's the song which tells it better than I ever could.

And if you want to see the longer version of the HBO clip of the Roman triumphal procession, including a gory reminder of what happens to defeated enemies...

Dave Halls, 05/03/2011

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How to pray for Egypt

Here's a quick Sunday link from Ruth which gives a valuable prayer angle on whats happening in Egypt.

Dave Halls, 06/02/2011

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Awesome cross of freedom and forgiveness

The base from which I am working totay is Ephesians 1:7

For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is our sins are forgiven.

That says it all really but the other ideas come from Colossians 1:19b-23a and Galatians 6:1-5.

Here's the fantastic movie I am showing towards the end.

Dave Halls, 29/01/2011

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We're not the only ones...

...who like stories. Here's a new site where you can post and read about life in the church. Why not think about contributing?

Dave Halls, 28/01/2011

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THE ANGLE TO PRAY FROM

Yesterday I met with Stewart Keiller of Bath City Church. Its always valuable to listen to other pastors particularly one like Stewart who connects with a wide range of flavours of charismatic spirituality in the UK and in the US.

We got to talking about prayer and how we were aiming to get it back to the centre of Dayspring and that I wanted to get to praying top down rather than bottom up. Stewart told me about an insight from Liz Evans, a senior team member at BCC whose task is to equip people in the prophetic.

Liz uses the model of three heavens, based on a Jewish idea which is sometimes implied in the Bible, for instance in Ephesians. According to this model there is a second heaven, dominated by angels and demons which influences human life. You can see how this could be an explanation of Ephesians 6:12. What does she say:

Her point is that when charismatic Christians stop praying from the bottom up—from a shopping list of needs—they focus on this sphere of influence with binding and loosing and contesting and stuff much more than is appropriate. This can have some fairly negative stress outcomes.

Instead, we should pray from the angle of the third heaven, a perspective potentially open to us. From that angle is it is possible to pray what we see the father doing.

Once you start thinking of praying in that way, you have the chance of sidestepping some of the issues about spiritual forces in the area and occupying higher ground. All sorts of Bible ideas about prayer can be plugged into this grid and of course it fills out the strategy for praying,

your kingdom come,

your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

That’s where I got the idea for the ad. for our prayer times and why we will make sure that worshipping will form an important part of our meetings.

Incidentally, later in the conversation, Liz put her head round the door of Stewart’s shoe box of a room. After she had remembered who I was and perhaps how she had prayed over us, she said. ‘Oh yes. I really like your church’. Then she said, ‘It’s been very dark but is going to get a lot lighter’. Then she was gone; off to pick up her kids from school. Of course, Liz has never visited.

I do enjoy being around prophetic people.