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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
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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.
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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
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...
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Dave Halls, 28/01/2011
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Gay Rights and Christian Faith
I picked this up off a Christian think tank blog
It refers to last week's court decision against the bed and breakfast owners, Peter and Hazelmary Bull, who refused service to civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy on the basis of their sexuality. I think what the Jubilee Centre has to say is important especially because it makes the point that
The church will only be able to love homosexual people to the full if we have, along with more tender hearts, a firm grasp on the searching insights and transforming power of Christian truth.
Here's what John Hayward said on his blog:
'If we are going to open our homes to strangers, then surely we should be demonstrating the love and forgiveness of Christ, rather than condemnation and judgment. Especially if we are charging for services, we shouldn't think we can refuse just because we object to the lifestyle of those who are prepared to pay us. It's obviously consistent of the B&B owners also to refuse to allow unmarried couples to stay in their rooms, but would they also refuse people on the basis of other sins about which the Bible has far more to say, such as gossip and anger? Thinking of the account in John 4, you do have to wonder how some of our Christian brothers and sisters would have treated the woman of ill-repute that Jesus spoke to at the well in Sychar!
'For more on this issue, see our Cambridge Paper Homosexuality: finding the way of truth and love, which concluded:
'The Christian community must respond to the issue of homosexuality and to homophile people in a way that combines love and truth, compassion and biblical integrity. There are homosexual people outside our churches or struggling within them because as Christians we have not yet learned to love as we should. Meanwhile, the debate among Christians about homosexuality is, implicitly, a debate about how to do theology. Homosexual behaviour can only be affirmed by Christians if the following are accepted: the repudiation of a created moral order, a shift from an objective to a subjective morality, and a new centre of gravity in theology whereby human insights and 'pastoral concern' can take precedence over divine revelation. But love and truth are not in the end isolated from, or opposed to, one another. The church will only be able to love homosexual people to the full if we have, along with more tender hearts, a firm grasp on the searching insights and transforming power of Christian truth.'
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Dave Halls, 23/01/2011
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