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04/06/2026

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04/06/2026

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Session 1 with John Alley

Thanks for joining us for the 29th annual Australian Apostolic Summit!Session 1 / Thursday June 4th: 7:30 PMSession 2 / Friday June 5th: 9:00 AMSession 3 / F...

01/05/2026

The Lord is near to all who call on Him.

Enoch seems like one of those Bible characters so distant to us, so different to us, and so close to God. We see the briefest of mentions in Genesis 5. A big list of names is given off, and when Enoch is mentioned it pauses to comment briefly about how his experience of walking with God was so close, he never died, but went to be with the Lord.

We imagine that we cannot be like Enoch, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The first time that walking with God is an idea, it is with Adam and Eve in the garden. They walked with God in the cool of the day. The relationship of the first couple with God was close, intimate, and the communicated all the time.

But sin changed everything… so we think.

It didn’t change everything.

The story of Enoch is interesting because the world is not good now, filled with evil and violence everywhere. The world was so bad that in the very next chapter of Genesis, God is grieved and tells Noah to build an ark. But Enoch, despite being surrounded by this evil, walks with God.

Enoch had no Bible, no church or synagogue, and Jesus had not yet come. There were no patriarchs, and no history of stories about God, explaining things, and it was even before the Ten Commandments. But somehow, he was able to know God.

Why do we think that he could know God, despite all his limitations, and yet we, with all the advantages and blessings we have, are not able to know God as he did?

The truth is that we can walk with God like Enoch. Sin may have changed many things, but it has not stopped anyone from knowing the Lord who wants to know the Lord. A walk with God is possible for anyone hungry enough for it. You can become so close to Him that you realize in yourself that you don’t matter anymore, only He matters.

Enoch is actually an encouragement to us, to show us that we too, can know the Lord in the same way.

27/04/2026

We were at Mt Ararat last year, and made some videos about Noah. Here is the first.

7 likes, 4 comments. "Was the Flood Justified?"

23/04/2026

It's hard to get our minds around how gracious God is.

God is Merciful and Forgiving.

God is also Omniscient; he knows everything.

How can God forgive someone for a sin when, in his infinite knowledge, he already knows they will sin again?

Our perspective of forgiveness is a bit two-dimensional, and we think of it in very linear terms. We think that if we sin, we must confess, and then we are forgiven. If we sin again, we must confess again, and so goes the thought. Some people worry about the idea of dying and having a few sins left that were not confessed.

All of this thinking leaves out both the infinite knowledge of God and the very relational patient heart of God.

When the Lord went to the cross, his life paid for the sins of all humanity for all time. This includes all the sins you have ever committed, including all the sins you have not yet committed, but which will inevitably come.

But forgiveness is not automatic, because anyone without faith cannot access this precious gift. Even if a gift is given, it must also be received. A ticket for travel on an ocean liner may be purchased, but the passenger must still embark on the journey.

So someone comes to faith and embarks on the journey of knowing Christ. All their sins are washed away, and the Lord forgives them completely. They are clean and in Christ. They have joined his family. Then it becomes about the relationship with God.

With our own children, we know they will make many mistakes. We don’t know what those mistakes are specifically, but we know they will happen. We accept that as reality, and try to teach them and instruct them as they grow. We expect they will grow and mature. If they struggle repeatedly, a normal parent will be patient with them. But if they harden their hearts as children or teenagers and refuse to listen, the relationship becomes broken, and they no longer grow. Or it becomes very hard for them to mature, and their lives may not turn out so well.

So with God. We come in faith and are accepted into the family. He knows we will make mistakes in the future, and in fact knows specifically what those mistakes are. But he is patient with us and expects us to grow and mature. When we sin, we confess our sins, and that is a part of maintaining our relationship to God. But if we harden our hearts, the relationship is broken, or starts to break, and we no longer grow, and we fall away from Him.

Confession helps us to receive forgiveness in our experience, to make that transaction which is already paid for by Christ. It helps us to stay close to him, to stay in relationship. God in his patience, is like a parent, helping us to mature and grow.

If a believer dies before they have a chance to confess their final sins, the grace of God is such that, because they are in Christ and in his family, the mercy of God triumphs over judgment.

30/01/2026

Have you ever set about doing something, but never got permission to do it? How did that work out for you?

On the Eastern coast of Australia, near the town of Eden, New South Wales, lies a strange stone tower, with an even stranger story. Watch along as David expl...

15/12/2025

Is it when your body physically dies, or something else?

‘The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.’ Revelation 20:14b-15.

If the Lake of Fire, and final judgement in the book of Revelation is the second death, then what is the first death?

It would seem from the thoughts of a number of believers, that the first death is physical, it is when your body ceases to exist. But there are a few reasons to question this idea. Firstly, the Body doesn’t actually cease to exist in eternity. While the Body does die an decompose on Earth, we are told that in the resurrection our bodies rise, some to glory and some to contempt. In other words, the resurrection is something that takes place in the body both for the righteous and the wicked.

The body does die however, so it doesn’t completely extinguish the suggestion. There is however an even more powerful idea in the Bible. There is a death that precedes the death in the Body, and it is the one which the Bible itself labels as death.

The Lord warned Adam and Even, ‘in the day that you eat of it, you shall die.’ Gen 2:17.

Satan of course challenged that thought saying to Eve, ‘you shall not die.’ Gen 3:4 But when Eve ate and then gave it to Adam who also ate, something did happen to them. The Bible calls it death. And it is this death that is the first death. It is first both in the sense that it is the first death anywhere mentioned in the Bible. It is also the first death anywhere in human history. And it is also the first death any one individual person experiences.

St Paul knew it well. He wrote to the Ephesians saying, ‘You were dead in your sins.’ Ephesians 2:1. But when they found Christ something changed inside of them, and it saved them. They lived because of that. Paul wrote about that too, saying, ‘Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.’ Ephesians 2:4-5

Anyone who has been truly born again knows they have changed. The experience of living for the first time is undeniable. And all of that occurs inside the same physical body which was already alive.

So it seems the first death is the death we are born into. If we don’t find life in Christ (aka the first resurrection) we enter Judgement and ultimately the lake of fire, or the second death. Our physical death is a third death, but has no bearing on whether we end up with Christ or not. It is state of our soul before God that counts.

So where is your soul before the Lord? If you are dead in your sin, it is time to confess your sins, reach out for his mercy, and the receive the gracious gift of eternal life.

10/12/2025

In Romans 8:15 it describes something we know as sonship.

‘The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”’

Sonship is a remarkable thing, open to all people male and female, it is the idea that we become children of our father in Heaven. We are adopted into his family, and given an inheritance. We have relationship with God. This scripture, and other parts of the Bible make it clear that sonship is most definitely a heavenly thing, even while we are living here on Earth.

But is sonship also Earthly?

What do we mean by that?

The relationship described in Romans 8 is between us as God’s children and our heavenly father, but are we also supposed to have father-son type relationships between people, here on Earth. And no, we are not talking of biological relationships, but of spiritual father-son style relationships. The answer from both example and teaching in the Bible is yes.

We have examples of Jesus and the twelve disciples, of Elijah with Elisha, of Moses with Joshua, of Paul with Timothy and so on it goes. There are many examples of heart relationship where two people belong together like a father and son while living on Earth. In 1 Timothy 1:2, Paul wrote to Timothy saying, ‘To Timothy, my true son in the faith. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.’

Timothy was not a biological son to Paul, but according to the Bible was a ‘true son.’ What we observe there is a meaningful relationship, which was ‘of the heart.’ It was a relationship where one helps the other to grow in Christ, and the other helps the one in doing what God has called them to do. Just like a son works together with his father to achieve something, and the father uses that to teach and mature the son, such a type of thing is also supposed to be found throughout the Body of Christ.

But it is rare to see and observe. Why?

For many human reasons. Firstly true fathers in the church are rare. Paul also wrote in 1 Corinthians 4:15, ‘you do not have many fathers.’ So while there are many leaders, not many know how to be fathers. Also many people are too independent to be sons. Others are wary and mistrusting, or suspicious of leadership, not willing to risk opening their heart. In many cases the idea, or thought has never occurred. Others may have abused positions of trust. It can all be quite complicated.

But what is clear is that God does want us to trust others, and to trust our leaders. God wants leaders to be trustworthy, and to care for those under them sincerely. God wants us to put others first. And when we do, such father-son relationships can fill the Body of Christ and like reinforcing in concrete can strengthen it and make it substantial.

Sonship relationships are certainly heavenly, but they are also to be earthly as well. They are to be found between people as well as between us and God. They are for here and now as well as for later in Heaven.

08/12/2025

I remember when I received the cure... what a difference!!!!

How to describe sin? That is a tricky thing to do.

The first place that sin is mentioned in the Bible is Genesis 4:7. The Lord spoke to Cain, saying, “Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Cain ignores the Lord’s warning, and sin ends up ruling Cain rather than Cain ruling sin. This isn’t the only instance of sin in the Bible; sin first enters the world in the previous chapter of Genesis through Adam’s disobedience, although it isn’t explicitly called sin there. However, the consequences are very real—it brings death.

Sin has been described in various ways, and most of those descriptions are true and helpful. Because sin is hard to describe exactly, many illustrations can be useful. One effective illustration is to liken it to a virus, which alters its host’s behavior and always proves fatal.

If anyone has seen the old Spider-Man movie with the black goo—a living symbiote that attaches itself to Spider-Man and transforms him from someone with a desire to help into someone motivated by revenge—this movie illustrates the idea of something that, once it gets onto or into you, changes you.

Imagine a virus that corrupts your body so that, once you expected a long life, you now find yourself in a process of decay. Imagine that the same virus changes your feelings so that joy is gone, it becomes hard to be grateful, and you have little motivation to do good. In its place, there is motivation to harm others, to seek only your own advancement, and to care little for anyone but yourself. Imagine a virus that takes away your compassion for others and replaces it with actual happiness when others are hurt. Imagine a virus that causes you to blame everyone around you for things that go wrong and to avoid taking any responsibility.

Sin is like that black goo. It changes a person to prioritize themselves over anyone else. People naturally blame others, are self-focused, care little for others, find it hard to be thankful, and struggle with motivation to do good.

But when the Lord takes away that virus… can you remember the moment it was gone? It is like you are a new person. A weight is lifted off you that you never even knew was there. You were so accustomed to carrying the burden of sin that you felt like a whole new person. And that’s because you did become a new person.

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” —2 Corinthians 5:17.

It’s easy to blame others for their bad behavior, but it may be that they are struggling with a virus in the soul that changes their behavior. It’s natural for them to behave that way. They need Christ, so pray for them.

28/11/2025

The Bible in a number of places has a positive message about God's plans for the future of the world. In Isaiah 9:7 it states, 'Of the increase of His government and of peace, there will be no end.' So what would a future world be like if the Lord tarries 1000 years?

In the second Back to the Future movie by Steven Spielberg, set in 1985, the protagonist (Marty) travels into the future to the year 2015.

It’s interesting to see how people in 1985 envisaged the future in 2015 – just 30 years ahead of them. They envisaged hoverboards instead of skateboards, and holographic advertising, but didn’t see smart phones, the internet, or social media coming, which have been way more significant both in good and bad ways.

What about the world 1000 years from now?

The chances of accurately knowing what technology and society will be like that far into the future, are obviously low, but taking into account things I have read in the Bible, I’ve written a novel set at about 3200 AD.

I’m fairly certain I will be wrong about at least some aspects of the technology, although my novel has some pretty amazing tech in it. You’ll find private mind conversations between people. Future humans have the entire internet in their thoughts, and the ability to share emotions with people so they actually feel them too. There are pain sticks, gilltech suits, and translation pairs that beam people between two locations instantly. So no more walking to school.

Be careful when someone hijacks the other half of your translation pair and puts it somewhere random, like in the toilet.

I’m probably wrong about a lot of the tech, but I’m certain in myself that I’m NOT wrong about where society is headed, which is into stronger and stronger faith in Jesus.

How can I be so sure?

Why don’t you read my novel and see for yourself.

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