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Monday, 19 May 2025

The Preaching Goose

Preaching Goose. 

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish Theologian who lived from 1813 to 1855. He related a homely parable about a flock of geese that milled around in a filthy barnyard imprisoned by a high wooden fence.

Preaching goose came, stood on old crate admonished geese for being content (ripped it into 'em).

Goose recounted exploits of fathers who spread wings and flew trackless wastes of sky and spoke of the goodness of the Creator who had given geese the urge to migrate and wings to fly.

This pleased the geese, they marvelled at his eloquent words,

nodded their heads,

applauded his preaching;



just then Mrs Farmer came in with some good corn so they waddled off; 

after having their fill they gaggled for years about the greatness of the preaching goose.

They never did fly.

Will you do what you were made for? 


acknowledgements 

Get the Point Across,  

by Graham H Twelftree

Published SCB Publishers. 


If we don't have change the past will be the present and the future

boring, lifeless, useless, dead

Abraham would still be in Ur of the Chaldees (Iraq).

Moses would have been the next Pharaoh of Egypt instead of Israel's deliverer.

David would have continued as his brothers lunch boy instead of slaying Goliath.

Esther may have lost her life along with thousands of Hebrews, Mordecai said Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this.

Nehemiah would still be serving wine to King Artaxerxes in Susa instead of motivating a bunch of no hoper Hebrews to build a wall around Jerusalem.

Peter & John would still be out fishing for lunch instead of changing the world as Christs apostles.

Paul would still be a religious narrow minded, threatening, murdering bully instead of converting the gentiles to Jesus. 



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Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Where to Now?3 -The Kingdom Speaks

Where to Now?3 - The Kingdom Speaks
What is God Saying to the Church?

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Following on from the powerful encounters of the first two Where to Now? programs in July and August 2020 and the ongoing and ever changing saga of the current health crisis, economic impacts and movement restrictions around the world, it is important we continue to explore what leading apostolic voices around the world have to say about what God is saying to His church. 

Where to Now? 3 takes us to new voices from many nations in short interviews as a part of the ongoing Combined Churches Victory meetings that BFTF has hosted for over 10 years. 

A live online zoom call Friday 4 Sep. 7.30pm Sydney, Australia time. 

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Guests

Warwick Marsh
Australian Heart Music 
Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation
Canberra Declaration
National Day of Prayer and Fasting
Wollongong, Australia


Warwick and Alison Marsh have been married since 1975, they have 5 children and 8 grandchildren,  He is a family & faith advocate, social reformer, musician, TV producer, writer and public speaker.

Prior to founding Australian Heart Music in 1988 Warwick worked in the building industry. 

In 1990 Warwick left the building Industry and with his family traveled extensively throughout Australia performing in many aboriginal communities, country towns, schools, pubs, jails and churches. Their musical family also traveled around the world performing their original music and sharing the message of faith, family, hope and love. 

Together with his family they recorded seven albums and produced many others and from 1995-98 Warwick worked with Indigenous Australians whilst coordinating the Praise Corroboree which was an annual event featuring prayer and reconciliation held in Parliament House in Canberra.

In 1998 he received a Father of the Year Award in the NSW Parliament.  In 2001 Warwick received a Centenary Medal from Australia’s Prime Minister for his Mission work and his work with Aboriginal people and youth.

In 2002 Warwick & Alison Marsh established the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation to encourage fathers and promote excellence in fathering through web, TV, radio, research and policy development, educational programs and training the trainer.

In 2010 Warwick Marsh, in cooperation with many other faith leaders, drafted the Canberra Declaration to support family, faith, life and freedom. www.canberradeclaration.org.au The Canberra Declaration website and regular email now has over 80,000 signees.

In 2011 Warwick Marsh, with other faith leaders who are passionate for prayer, helped establish the National Day of Prayer and Fasting. www.nationaldayofprayer.org.au

Warwick is a leader in the Men’s and Family Movement and he is well known in Australia for his advocacy for children, marriage, manhood, family, fatherhood and faith. Warwick is passionate to encourage men to be great fathers and to know the greatest Father of all. The father in whom “there is no shadow of turning.” 

Warwick Marsh 



Pastor Siant Surya Atmadja
GSJA Maranatha Care Community
Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia


In 1992 Pastor Surya founded GSJA Maranatha Care Community, Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. He still serves as its senior pastor.


He is the District Superintendent for Assemblies of God in South Sumatra and leads National Department of Education for Indonesian AOG.

He graduated from Commonwealth Bible College, Katoomba, NSW, Australia.






Kurt Erickson
Eleos Ministries, 
London, UK  


Kurt Erickson is the founder and director of Eleos Ministries and has been involved in full time ministry for over thirty-five years as church planter, pastor, chaplain and international speaker, traveling to nearly twenty-five countries, including many developing world countries and war zones. 

He has lived for the past thirty years in the inner city of London working alongside the most vulnerable including the homeless, elderly, addicted and terminally ill. 

He established the Church Without Walls in 1994, Eleos Christian Church (church within walls) in 1996 and the Eleos School of Ministry 2002 which has been involved in the training and encouraging hundreds of students including lay workers, pastors and leaders. 

In his travels, Kurt has conducted numerous Hands of Mercy Seminars / Conferences designed to teach and motivate local churches to be more proactive in mercy ministries. 

Leaving a life in show business 35 years ago, he now leads seminars surrounding topics such as ‘Christ in Culture’ and promoting a ‘Theology of the Arts’. He has established ‘Cabarets’ where performing and non-performing Christian artists can perform and exhibit their craft, while organizing poetry performance groups and encouraging younger Christian artists. 

Kurt has two sons, both serving in ministry. Wesley, also a chaplain, is studying for a double master’s degree in Theology and Missions at ACU in Texas. Adam, living in London, is a music producer, ordained minister and bible teacher who is presently studying for his Master’s in Philosophy at King’s College, London. 

Kurt Erickson 



Worship Leader 

Trevor Sampson
Johannesburg, South Africa

Trevor Sampson – an anointed singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and sound engineer from Cape Town, South Africa – has been in full-time music ministry for 38 years. He started his journey of full-time music ministry with Youth For Christ, South Africa in 1980 and has since been allowed to minister from many of the world’s most desired gospel platforms. 
For many years, Trevor has been a regular feature in the Billy Graham Global Satellite Link Up events as well as Franklin Graham’s Gospel Festivals. He was music director for Reinhard Bonnke’s Christ for All Nations evangelistic crusades and was music director and producer for Jesus Alive Ministries International’s television productions and regular crusades on the African continent for 12 years. 

Trevor has released 12 solo albums and collaborated with a number of other christian artists.
Trevor has recorded many churches live over the past 35 years, including the Rhema Bible Church in Johannesburg – the Praise Africa projects having been his brainchild as a worship facilitator there. He has vast experience in arts, sound engineering and recording and he continues to share this expertise with many at grassroots level through regular workshops and seminars. Through this, Trevor has become a mentor and father to many of South Africa’s young, up and coming artists. 

Trevor is the founder of Restoring the Sound. A ministry that reaches out to young people in at risk communities through music training. With the help of London College of Music of which Trevor is a Fellow and representative, these youngsters are able to get formal music training and be examined on a twice yearly basis. 

He has been happily married to his wife, Tricia for 34 years and they have three children together: Bianca-Maree married to Tokoloho, Jason married to Joylin and David married to Sarah. They have two grand sons Trevor and Tyson and one grand daughter Mia.

Trevor and Tricia are also the SA Representatives for Psalmody School of Worship. They have been teaching Psalmody for the past 30 years in an unofficial capacity. 
2016 has been the year of implementing Psalmody as far and wide as possible as Trevor’s Music ministry would take him through South Africa. 

Trevor and Tricia are active members at Acts Christian Church Midrand www.actschurch.co.za which is their base and sending church. A fast growing and very healthy church.

Trevor Sampson 
YouTube 



Hosts 
Howard & Joy Sands 
Beautiful Feet Task Force
Penrith, Australia

Howard is the founder and director of Beautiful Feet Task Force which recently celebrated 40 years of evangelism and leadership training in India, other Asian countries and across Africa. Howard has taken many small teams there to minister in evangelistic crusades and leadership conferences. 

Howard & Joy started the Combined Churches Victory meeting in 2010 to help the church be all it could be and have brought ministers moving in the presence of God from all over the world to participate in this event with local pastors and leaders. Since lockdown restrictions due to Covid-19 the meeting has been online with zoom and introduced a variety of cutting edge leaders from many countries. 

As  well as pioneering 2 Australian churches, they have ministered in churches across Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, UK, U.S.A., U.A.E., N.Z., Hong Kong, Fiji, Romania, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, Singapore and China. 

Howard's passion is winning the lost to Christ, teaching believers to be mature followers of Christ and bringing unity across the church.

BFTF runs a social media platform Africa Network BFTF, for ministers of all kinds in Africa and those interested in missions to Africa. His recent book, The Foundations, helps to establish new believers and is the basis for a video teaching series to establish Africa Network Ministry Training School. 



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Thursday, 8 September 2016

East Africa gets BFTF Teaching, Training and Evangelism

We just want to say a REALLY BIG THANK YOU to everyone who supported us, prayed for us, hosted us, fed us, arranged meetings, conferences and outreaches, transported us, loved on our churches and families in our absence during our recent mission to Kenya and Uganda. 

 

Ministering in small churches in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. 

      


Large leadership training seminar in Mbale, Uganda. 

 

Leading crusade outreaches to win souls in Busia, Kenya.



Ministering at the Champions of Destiny believers conference.





Launching Beautiful Feet Task Force first African Bible College, 
Africa Network Bible College | Kenya 



Ministering at Kibaale Town ( a rural village in Uganda) to about 70 pastors and leaders. About 50 baptised in the Holy Spirit.



Ministering at Pastors Seminar in Kampala, Uganda. 
       




Ministering to pastors and one of the churches in the newly formed CRC Churches International, Uganda.    


Between Ps Wayne Lyons and Dr Howard Sands we ministered at:- 
7 weekend services over 3 Sundays in Nairobi & Busia, Kenya; and Kampala, Uganda. 
  • Preached at an outreach crusade, (approx 150 decisions for Christ over 5 nights, 3 preachers) 
  • Gave keynote addresses and workshops at Champions of Destiny Conference, (900+ delegates) 
  • Launched Africa Network Bible College | Kenya in Busia, Kenya.  
  • Held 4 pastors and leaders training in Mbale (600+), Kibaale Town (70+) and Kampala x2 (50 & 11) Uganda. 


We met a whole lot of awesome saints of God with passion for the Kingdom, won souls for Jesus, saw healings, deliverance and baptism with the Holy Spirit. Renewed friendships, made new ones and were thoroughly excited to see that God is moving in East Africa. 



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Saturday, 16 January 2016

What is Your Life Motivator


An unlikely farm labourer becomes warrior, hero, liberator, general and judge.


Shamgar – faithful and full of faith

Although the land we are told v30 had rest 80 years, we are also told Ch 5.6 that the roads were abandoned,
It seems that the rest (according to Matthew Henry) was not in the south east part of the land where Philistines still marauded, but rest in the north west from the Moabites. The Israelites had abandonded the roads because of these looting, pillaging Philistine thieves that controlled the highways.


Apparently one day Shamgar saw a raiding party and got up a Holy Spirit inspired anger.

The word says he killed 600 with an ox goad, 

(This implement, Mr. Maundrell informs us, in Palestine and Syria is of an extraordinary size. He measured several, and 'found them about eight feet long; and at the bigger end about six inches in circumference. They were armed at the lesser end with a sharp prickle for driving the oxen; and at the other end with a small paddle of iron, strong and massive, for cleansing the plough from the clay. In the hand of a powerful man such an instrument must be more dangerous and fatal than a sword. )



He took what was at hand.
The impulse was sudden and strong, He had no sword only the tools of his trade

God can make those whose family, finance and position are of no consequence (he was following the plough) and save a nation with them.
God can make ploughmen into judges and generals
Shepherds into kings,
Fisherman into apostles
It doesn’t matter how weak the weapon is if God directs and strengthens the arm that uses it.
Then the ox goad does more than Goliaths sword ever can.
Sometimes God chooses to work by unlikely means that the excellency of the power may be seen to be of God and not of men.

But what if Shamgar didn’t respond that day.
What if he hid in fear and the Philistines ravaged the land yet again.
Who knows how many times they had done it before and how many other men God had put the impulse in but they had shied away from the task.

Are we taken with a passion and love for His house that we won’t allow the marauding armies of the Philistines to plunder our land.
Are we the people who will stand and deliver a nation, a people, a community, an individual person.
Are we the ones that see ministry as doing what ever God requires (not just some high position that inflates our ego).

Are we consumed by a passion for His House that we come and do the work so that the house looks good, not out of a sense of duty,
Not out of a sense of “its my job”
But because I want to serve my Lord and do whatever it takes to make His house
  • a place of praise,
  • a place of excellence,
  • a place of real spiritual worship,
  • a place where others can find the presence of God that heals their hurts, bathes their emotions, softens their spirit and enables them to find the God who cares.


1 Cor 4.17 Paul spoke about Timothy as His faithful son, “faithful in the Lord”
he spoke about Moses as "faithful in all his house."
Faithful:- those that have the Lords best interests foremost in everything they do.

We are building His house full of this kind of people, not merely doing a job in church but faithful in a ministry to the Lord.




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