Weekly Perspective

subject of authority is a difficult one because of the many negative applications we see around us. Its primary association with power clashes with the natural human desire for autonomy. In our present day the subject of authority is often confused with authoritarianism and the abuse of power, which creates a negative perception. Authority is…

mon imparts a great deal of wisdom in regard to human physical life. Although mankind was created by God and formed in His image, the decision by Adam and Eve to reject life with access to the Holy Spirit left man to live life his own way – without God. The main result of this…

e have continued to work on developing the Father’s Call website, it has been decided to concentrate our efforts on one site for now. A second site is always an option but with our limited resources (mainly manpower) it is felt we need to make every effort to make the existing site informative and friendly…

ar ago we saw God guiding us into a deeper appreciation of the spiritual nature of His governance. We embarked on a pursuit of developing an understanding of how that should function within God’s Church. We knew we did not fully understand what that looked like in practical application. We wanted God to show us…

nce held over two days in Monrovia CA was attended by 30 participants. Reports are being prepared to cover conference content and will be made available as soon as possible. It is hoped that the weekly update can be published early this week to cover the general information. It was a very successful conference and…

conference being held in the next few days comes just a year after the original conference where our lives took a new direction. As a human turns his life over to God and begins to live “the Way”, there are major benchmarks along the way. Much like the bringing of Israel out of Egypt where…

Jesus was teaching His disciples how to pray, He indicated that after giving honor to the Father and expressing a desire for His kingdom to come, that a high priority was to seek the Father’s will. We are to desire His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Christ went on…

nother Gregorian calendar year has slipped by. At this time of year when we are in the long stretch between the end of one set of Holy Day observances and the beginning of another (the true beginning of a calendar year), the world around us is heavily caught up in the cleverly blended religious system…

week I was able to read a private email from an American living and working in Russia. He had asked for advice from his peers here about the wisdom of staying or leaving to come back to the U.S. His personal summation of reality within Russia was chilling. News reports later this week regarding the…

tralia, The small group here in Southern Australia send their greetings to you all. It is the change of seasons from winter to summer and the weather is alternating between the two. I have been able to spend time individually with the members and have appreciated their warmth and hospitality. Politically speaking all that would…

week we are providing the information needed for making housing reservations at both Feast sites in the U.S. – Tulsa and Oxnard. Since the contracts were completed we saw no reason to delay releasing the information but it is not something that has to be acted on immediately. The morning after I arrived in Melbourne,…

ntended to include Feast booking information this week but the hotel in Tulsa needs some more time. Hopefully we will have the information next week. Included this week is a report on the Feast from Madagascar and preliminary information on a site in Europe for 2015. On Sunday I will fly to Australia to visit…

scripture it is obvious that thanksgiving is an attitude that is bound up in a godly way of life. For example, Paul told the church in Colossae and Laodicea, “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you…