Te ingoa o to ratou Atua, ko Tama i Rorokutia, he Atua pai, otira, ka ngaro ano te tangata. The name of their new God will be ‘The Son Who was Killed,’ a good God, however the people will still be oppressed… – East Coast patriarch Arama Toiroa, 1766, prophesying a new religion three years before Captain Cook arrived. Christianity came to Aotearoa at the invitation of Māori. In 1811, Chief Ruatara invited Samuel Marsden to come to Aotearoa and preach the Gospel. The year the G

Welcome back, we’re up to article three and it’s time to back the truck up and get some perspective on where all this is going. Yes I am going to share on tithing, on offerings, on receiving God’s abundant release and all those things, eventually. And yes I am an ardent believer in all of the above (in spite of my provocative article titles). But if you’re going to build a building, the first thing you build is the foundations. Foundations are the part that is hidden undergro

In the first article we talked about mammon and how he seeks to control us through money. Today I want to expose mammon a bit more. Pornography is a terrible thing and the statistics for the number of people caught up in it are scary. The problems the human race faces with pornography are huge. What is more sinister is that the issues around money are and it seems many of us live our lives unaware of the issues around mammon. You can stand up in pretty much any church and del

There is a line of teaching floating around Christendom that says that if you have financial problems, just tithe or give what you have to God and He will sort the rest out for you. I know people who have (under guidance from their pastors) tried to tithe to get themselves out of debt but because their finances were in such a mess all they did was put their tithe on their credit card each week and worsen their already overburdened debt problem i.e. they just got into more deb