Benny never actually met Kathryn Kuhlman.

 

In late November 1975, I received a phone call from Maudie Phillips, the Canadian representative of the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation. "Benny, I know you have wanted to meet Kathryn for some time and I have it all
arranged. In fact I have been telling her about your ministry. Can you be in Pittsburgh next Friday morning? She will be able to meet with you right after the service."
"Of course. I'll be there!" I replied with great excitement. The idea that I would finally have the opportunity to meet Miss Kuhlman was
thrilling. I wanted to express my gratitude for the pivotal role she had played in my life.

I arrived early at First Presbyterian Church. As usual, people were lined up by the hundreds waiting for the doors to open. A few minutes
later a staff member came to me and said, "I know that you are here to meet with Miss Kuhlman after the service. However, she will not be here today. She is sick and has been taken to the hospital."

No one could remember anything like this happening before. Kathryn never canceled a service. A few minutes later the entire waiting crowd was given the same message. The news was cause for great concern. They
were stunned. In hushed whispers they asked each other, "I wonder how serious it really is? Do you think they will tell us more?"
There was no reason for me to stay. I left Pittsburgh and returned to Canada.

It Was Meant To Be

It was only two months later that this unforgettable woman went to be with the Lord.
Many times I've been asked, "Benny, tell me about Miss Kuhlman. What was she like?"
They are surprised when I tell them, "Oh, I never had the opportunity to meet Kathryn personally."
Looking back on my journey to Pittsburgh, I believe what happened that day was in God's providence.
As I told members of my staff recently, "Had I met Kathryn it is possible that I would have forever believed she gave the anointing to me,
or that God may have used her in some way to transfer it to me." No, the Lord wanted me to clearly know that the anointing comes from Him, not from any person.

God uses His servants to influence us to walk in His ways—even to bring us into an atmosphere where miracles occur. The Lord did not give me any special power or gift through Kathryn Kuhlman, instead He used
her to help me find the anointing. God certainly uses people, but He is your only Source.

Why do I want to share this remarkable story of Kathryn Kuhlman with you? It demonstrates what can happen when an ordinary person
becomes totally yielded to the Holy Spirit.
In her lifetime she said she died one thousand deaths, yet there was great triumph. Her God was very much alive.

_ Miss Kuhlman her spiritual legacy and impact on life by Pastor Benny Hinn

Credit: Spiritual Notes

What Should We Do? We still have a solo pastor?

"We still have a solo pastor, what should we do to manouvre towards the Jerusalem model?"

1. Jerusalem Church is not a human model. 2. Jacob's sons and the 12 elder apostles are still before the Throne praying for a break out of the same thing all over the earth. 3. Those stories have strong similarities and both were horrendous in the natural. 4. However the OT version was, which extended over time into tribal elders then Gate of Miphkad, the Jesus version was within the realm of the full New Covenant which couldn't even be rolled out properly in Jesus own ministry. 5. New Covenant demands a Holy Spirit new and living way working of Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36. It's a "skinning alive " process of detaching us from the Genesis 3 lie not only in our spirit man which happens on Day 1, but of our 6000year trained cultural soul, as Hebrews 4.12 describes. Jesus called it taking up our cross. 6.Legacy church, evangelical church and charismatic church are all wrong because they speak from out of the Genesis 3 lie and pray to die. They do this because their daiy experience is still from within the independent self. They are still convinced they are soul powered beings. 7. Through preprepared teachers and ministries like Watchman Nee who describes the ps.42 Deep unto deep process, we can speak straight from our spirit to awaken other's spirits to the reality of what Jesus already accomplished. Others learn this in their leftbrain, speak from their leftbrain and are disappointed when the words drip to the floor without ever penetrating the people. 8. Humanly preaching is called folly and in many ways, to the carnal understanding , it appears that humans are not being addressed. The perceived folly is that God's Kingdom is addressed spirit to spirit and initially the only change is picked up within pure hearts that are ready as a burning on the inside. This happened on the way to Emmaus as Jesus related scriptures and now the disciples understood that these had been fulfilled. And it happened to John Wesley who used the phrase "strangely warmed".

9. We are at point 9 and the initial question hasn't been addressed. If the original question had been what colour scheme should I paint my child's bedroom, there would first be 8 points detailing getting married....yes....then making love properly, then 9 months labour, perhaps nowadays with a baby scan.....then all the things women have to endure in later labour....then the birth. 10. So that's really the point. Our current churches barely have one super advanced leader so they usually get slope shouldered to , as what we call a pastor but we mean king, who runs everything. 11. 1 John 1 gives us some key phrases how the 12 in Jerusalem ministered, and they ministered out of a testimony....but the depth of the testimony is way way beyond anything we usually associate with that word. We mean....I used to be a smoker, on drugs, go to prostitutes,be a wife beater, gambler...... No their testimony was I denied the God of heaven in human form , who had given 42 months of His life to teach and train us, all the way to judgment and death on a Cross. Peter for one never got over that and insisted on being crucified upside down. 12. So no, we don't glide into being a thirdlevel church. Presbyterians, Quakers and Brethren have formed similar co ministering set ups, but that's not the point. 13. The point is the now thirdlevel leadership are performing together a kind of combination of Levites carrying the Ark with poles and Moses on the hillside with arms raised. 14. They are literally carrying things in the Spirit. 15. A company CEO carries his company. A successful one may appear outwardly as a very ordinary human , but on the insides he is managing all of his company which is beset by all sorts of business problems daily. 16. Paul referred to being KINGS so the other apostles could rule with the Corinthians in their area. 17. Revelation 12.1 refers to a Crown of 12 stars which is a picture to us of many facets of rule needed for Christ's ecclesia to thrive and grow even on a planet with principalities and powers pressing hard to lie, steal and kill. Within a few weeks James the socalled administrative head was killed. 18. So no we are led by the Holy Spirit who is birthing Jesus Christ Himself in the whole of our souls . Galatians 2.20. 19. We don't rush into anything. Unless the Lord build the House those who labour labour in vain. 20. There is no one pastor who is king over a church in the Bible. In the Old Testament it was not God or Samuel's idea that Israel needed a King. It spelled only long term disaster. 21. What of England? After Don Francisco summed up South Chard church in the Sunday massacre of the pulpit song, South Chard were lured back again to one pastor in the last 20 years. It was a disaster....perhaps because in recent years their mission was to be a Flagship for Britain. They have now reverted to co eldership. 22. Storrington West Sussex had such a traumatic time with a pastor they only now have elders of very different ministry gifts. 23. Peniel at Brentwood Essex, - kind of a sister church to our own one in Emasworth , receiving ministry from Argentina Intercessor R. Edward Miller.....they too had to remove their pastor in 2009 and my guess is, being all mature by now themselves 40 years on , they probably function as a co eldership. 24. The sort of onslaught from the kingdom of Darkness only increases in ferociousness the nearer to a Jerusalem church we get. But as Acts 4 shows with a very earthquake, our authority together in Christ as we fix our faces becomes so much greater too. Does that answer anything , or are you still more confused ?

I am ashamed That I never saw this

 It's one month old and it describes the time immediately after Adrian's Stroke.
If you want to learn more about Elaine's connection with this blog checkout her former name Elaine Waterfield and former husband who died, Nigel.
Adrian Trimlett Glover , Her present husband just had a stroke, and although this is a month old people can perhaps learn what to do and what not to do when others in the church or up your street go through this.

Isn't it amazing what we have been given?

 It's stunning we have the gospel in four living being frequencies. Matthew Mark Luke John.

Read Surrounded By Idiots (Not) by thomas erikson

It's stunning we have specific instructions about how Holy Spirit meetings work. ! Corinthians 11 through 14, and Ephesians 4 and a bit in James about elders.
It's absolutely amazing that we have such an incredible church blueprint made by Christ Himself using Word only, over 42 months....and the little matter !!!! of dying and walking out of His own tomb then having little restorative discussions with the very ones who betrayed Him. Sadly one had killed Himself as prophesied.
It's absolutely amazing that we have the exact description of how 12 cofunctioning elder/apostles moved through Jerusalem and functioned directly out from the Father in 1 John 1.
We have the kernel of how we pray on our own.
Go into our inner room, shut our door (to Genesis 3 and anything of the inherited habits of the independent self delusion, and instead meet in the secret place of our core with Our real live Dad, and Abba Father.
We have the core of how we gather. We gather in the specific Name of Jesus and no other order...and there He is in our midst. Which defines how the Melchizdek Order works.
It's amazing that the three main WAVES of interaction with the Holy Spirit are told us, and for the rest we have to look at the history of the Jews and Praise, and above all King David the harpist , worshipper and songwriter of deep mysteries and deep personal experiences which end in victory.
1 Corinthians 12 says the first phase is while the Holy Spirit moves individuals with any of 9 gifts of the Spirit. Also Ephesians describes being filled with the Spirit and receiving new songs.
Phase two is when gathered ministries are led to really feed the church....like good stewards bringing forth old solid stuff and new fresh rhema stuff....like manna.The third phase, people are so built up and expectant the Holy Spirit can cut out all middle men and just move in operations of the Spirit.

Why is this so amazing.
Well things like the necessity to ground people in their own "personality tongue"......so Matthews or Surrounded by Idiots ...choleric reds, then Mark type samguine greens, pragmatic and knowledgeable blues....the Lukes, and the at times flamboyant at times very deep and burden carrying yellows or Johns. In the beginning Paul and possibly a different writer of Hebrews identify a beginning stage, possibly when people depend a bit too much on one person, yet are taught in their particular frequency. 1 Corinthians 12.3 As our innards are crowbarred open with material from all the frequencies we become larger freer people. There are certain fascisms that are encouraged in one person leadership settings. Only a complete crosssection of personalities and ministeries can bring forth from the Crown of 12 stars storehouse of the Kingdom and the heavenlies. Matthews might only know about pyramids Marks may only know about works, and sometimes God is not even telling us to do these....or not yet....or not in the old expected ways Lukes have loads of knowledge, but as Romans 12. 1 and 2 state, all of their minds have to be renewed and washed in the infinite Power and Person of God. It's no coincidence that Romans 12.1 is pretty similar to John 7.17. True doctrine demands people who are ready to lay their whole beings in sacrifice for another Owner and Saviour to live through them and manifest. Johns are naturally spiritual and and truther type people.....but they can be enmeshed in the occult, shamen , meditation new age, or a strange kind of Buddhist atheism that I met once on my piano tuning round. The problem with spirits giving information.....some of it is only true as we offer to make it manifest by our believing. We clean ourselves in the washing of God's Word.e must hear what Jesus genuinely speaks by the Holy Spirit and according to the Word. But I say this because from 1972 to 2009 when I was born again , I read the Bible but never never saw that the Bible does not talk about a church being a teaching synagogue under one pastor. Ecclesia particularly describes being held together by a united eldership in whose hearts are the highways to Zion .....but that being so the New Covenant is incredible. We can all be born again and baptised in the Spirit and all know the Lord. So really the elders are there to encourage us in our own spiritual hearing and seeing. It's totally different from how religion was. It's sharing the clean righteousness of God , His holy Presence together , in hope, joy , love and power. There ARE teachers but they cross every part of life as the Bible does. They are only one of 14 different types of ministries. In former times it wasn't believed that deacons could be anything other than practical, but born again Mark type people now get baptised in th Spirit and they get supersensitive in the gifts of the Spirit and in teaching others the practical walk of believing upon Galatians 2.20 and Colossians 3.3. Other Matthews got frustrated because loads are made with leadership gifts of all types but the older churches used to choose one and the others got so frustrated they dropped off their wives and went to play golf. Praise God the Thirdlevel church is arising that truly is ecclesia and New Covenant Jeremiah and Ezekiel36 being formed in our souls from out of our already born again spirits.

Another View of Ai

 We live in a "secular framework" that says different things about AI. Here is the unheard view about some of the statistics.

Why soaring like an eagle?

 

The Music question

 

What is a Baptist?

 

Chris Welch's 55 years of observation.

Baptists mostly got suspended in time after the revelation of new birth John3 but before the Holy Spirit versions of the covered portions of the Tabernacle and the Second Feast and baptism in the Spirit . Because the only Baptist Churches that mostly appear on TV media DO teach the experience of being born again and the experience of being filled with the Spirit John 4 most of the world do not get to see the older more suspended form of Baptist.
In the last 500 years Luther was used to put the flag in the soil of the all sufficiency of the Divine Human Lamb who took away our sins .
Folowing the Tabernacle and Feasts through as well as Jerusalem City Gate names in Nehemiah ....we progress through the Holy Spirit version of laver or washbowl ...now a complete Baptist baptism then the Pentecostal outpouring represented in the OT picture of heavenly things by priests anointing oil.
Then since 1900s God has been restoring all the gifts and fruit of the Spirit and all of Pauls 3 lists of ministry (1 Cor12.27-28, Rom 12.6-8, Eph4.11)which a lot of Baptists still shun by virtue of their strange cessationist beliefs .....very similar in principle to Anglicans belief in the cessation of being actually born again in practice .
Baptists are really divided in that baptism in the Spirit really has made them a lot more current with God's trek across His Tabernacle .
A dispassionate review must acknowledge a wink of the eye while His Church has displayed a more Wordbased synagogue teaching base with the one teacher Jesus warned against....yet neverthless represented by the portions of Shew Bread on the Table in the Holy Place and then there's the charismatic move across the earth which is much more Spirit filled and represented by the candlestick.

But God does stop winking as we trek further across His Tabernacle pattern .
As we see in revival , in Billy Grahams big events etc .....all born again people who have received of the Divine life of Jesus at some level are all one and in unity .

The Holiest Place and the Final Feast of Tabernacles is about AT ONE MENT
of God and Man
Its about unity and community in a localty like the first church in Acts
Its about rising in unity across the earth as Ezekiel 37 says , psalm 133 and the blessing declaration of mature priest saints ps 134 and the Ephesians 6 warfare.
The acacia box living of the mercy seat is Galatians 2.20 as the 12 apostles marched from home to home doing what Luke called outstanding miracles .

So yes , broadly Baptists are still stuck in the 1700s with something of an inert knowledge of Christ and a book and a baptistry and dark grey suits all instructed by one limited teacher that they arent meant to have and just changing the name to pastor doesn't fool God one bit .
If enough get born again these teaching houses get very big in America, but decades later the churches remain as they are and dont seem to understand Jesus talk of wineskins .
He warns about putting new wine into old wineskins.

So Baptists understand a lot . They are heavily stuck in mens traditions , mans way of thinking , courses of psychological counselling from Freud and Tavistock witchcraft which they try to bend more to the Bible .
They don't really trust ' flow' and the Holy Spirit . Jesus saying ' I only do what I see the Father doing ' they would translate back into separation language ....I do as I am led by a separate Holy Spirit while I continue in self powered soul godhood of Genesis 3.

Books By Steve Chalke and Dr Patrick Dixon ( and his wife)

 While I have been researching Satanic Ritual Abuse and climbing down the Rabbit Hole I don't expect either of these people believe in,  these guys have been writing books which can all be found on Amazon.

Apprentice: Walking the Way of Christ

Steve Chalke (Author, Narrator), Zondervan (Publisher)  Format: Audible Audiobook
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The quest for meaning and purpose dwells within all of us. Jesus insisted that its fulfillment lay in a relationship with him. But what does that relationship look like—really?Apprentice calls spiritual pilgrims, both Christians and non-Christians, to exchange the shallow diversions of secular and religious culture for the pursuit of our true desires.

 In a book of refreshing honesty, great heart, and rich creativity, Steve Chalke guides us into an apprenticeship with the master teacher, Jesus. Embarking on a relational journey that engages us on every level, we walk with Jesus in an organic, whole-life learning experience, exploring ten areas foundational to the meaning and depth we crave.Apprentice encourages us to ask our most probing questions, embrace our doubts, and learn why we are driven to belong. Combining story and parable with thoughtful commentary, we discover the ancient art and discipline of apprenticeship— living lives stamped with the character, presence, and impact of Jesus.

The Lost Message of Paul: Has the Church Misunderstood the Apostle Paul?

Steve Chalke (Author, Narrator, Publisher)  Format: Audible Audiobook

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We have misunderstood Paul, badly.

We have read his words through our own set of assumptions. We need to begin with Paul's world view, to see things the way he saw them.

What if "original sin" was never part of Paul's thinking? What if the idea that we are saved by faith in Christ, as Luther argued, was based on a mistranslation of Paul's words and a misunderstanding of Paul's thinking?

"Over the centuries," writes Steve Chalke, "the Church has repeatedly failed to communicate, or even understand, the core of Paul's message. Although Paul has often been presented as the champion of exclusion, he was the very opposite. He was the great includer."

Steve Chalke MBE is a Baptist minister, founder and leader of the Oasis Charitable Trust, and author of more than 50 books.

©2025 Steve Chalke (P)2025 Steve Chalke

'This important book sets out vital steps for government, civil society and key stakeholders to create integrated care for our young people.'
Sir Tony Blair

A Manifesto for Hope sets out ten tried-and-tested practical principles for how to develop joined-up, cost-effective, community-empowering work, gleaned from the hard-won experience that has sat at the heart of Steve Chalke's mission over the past four decades.

It's time to reimagine.

Our social care systems are failing us, struggling for funding, and failing to speak to one another. At the same time, we are side-lining our greatest national asset: its people - mums, dads, families, and other community members.

Steve demonstrates the stark choice facing us: keep pouring money into a faltering system, or reform and invest to improve people's lives. We need a new social covenant that empowers local charities, grassroots movements and faith groups - creating a more imaginative, more collaborative and less bureaucratic approach to community development - if we are going to transform the life chances of countless young people and families.

Steve Chalke calls for a radical reset. It's time for A Manifesto for Hope!

This is a book for anyone working with young people and the communities they belong to, and for those interested in social reform and transformation. Challenging and informing, A Manifesto for Hope comes from a heart dedicated to the service of that local community, written to support those that act every day to see something that has true life-changing impact in the places where it's most needed.

Steve Chalke takes the reader through all the necessary steps to achieve the right balance as a working parent. With real life stories and top tips, this guide will allow the reader to re-evaluate their situation and feel happy about their choices.

Getting to know the real you

Taking control of budgets

Childcare you can be 'really' happy with

Making divisions between you and work

How to re-assess things regularly

A fresh―and perhaps controversial―look at Jesus by one of Britain’s most respected Christian authors. Who is the real Jesus? Do we remake him in our own image and then wonder why our spirituality is less than life-changing and exciting? Steve Chalke―a high-profile visionary in the United Kingdom and an evangelical recognized not only by Christians but by the general public as well―believes that the real Jesus is deeply challenging. And each new generation must grapple with the question of who he is, because only through a constant study of Jesus are we able to discover God himself. The Lost Message of Jesus is written to stir thoughtful debate and pose fresh questions that will help create a deeper understanding of Jesus and his message. It is an encounter with the real Jesus of his world―not the Jesus we try to mold to ours. Themes include: •The Kingdom of God―shalom―is available to everyone now, through Jesus •The world outside your own church needs to hear of the depth of God’s love and suffering •Jesus was a radical and a revolutionary! •Jesus offers immediate forgiveness, without cost, to anyone •Jesus shows us repentance isn’t a guilt-laden list of dos and don’ts, but an inspirational vision of a new way to live Focusing on some of the key episodes, events, and issues of Jesus’ life, we will see how too often the message we preach today has been influenced more by the culture we live in than the radical, life-changing, world-shaping message Jesus shared two thousand years ago.

'Your life is precious - a precious gift. It is sacred; every moment of it. The opportunity to live rather than sleepwalk through our days belongs to us. This book is a call to wake up. It is a call to each one of us; to wake up, to live before we die.'

It's easy to sleepwalk through life without ever really considering what we're here for. But life presents us with continual opportunities to wake up - and to think about not just what we do with our lives, but who we become while living them. Ultimately it is the story that we believe about ourselves, our lives and the world around us that will shape us - for better or for worse. So where do we find a good story - a convincing narrative that makes sense of it all?

Steve Chalke suggests that Jesus' good news about the kingdom of God - a practical, lived-out expression of God's plans for the world - is the best story for us to find ourselves in. Each one of us is called to be part of the drama of the coming kingdom, and it's in this that we find a practical spirituality that helps shape our lives into everything we were meant to be.

In this short study, leading evangelical Christian Steve Chalke explores the theology of gender identity, reassignment and confirmation. This book will help individual Christians and churches to engage with the Bible's trajectory of radical inclusion and to form an inclusive theology which is both Christ-like and biblical.
The Gender Agenda also explores what it can mean to be transgender in a less than fully inclusive society and the hurt, pain and mental health issues that can arise when people feel they have to suppress their true gender identity.
The Gender Agenda has been warmly welcomed by leading Christian voices, including:
Rev Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields: “In this welcome study, Steve Chalke regards gender identity not as a problem to be fixed or a norm to be upheld but as a mystery to be entered, with grace, understanding, and the expectation of being amazed. Placing the contemporary church within the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, Chalke invigorates this discussion by reminding Christians that we are the early church, and we all need to keep up with a God who is never calling us back to a static standard, but always ahead of us imploring us to catch up. Reading this short account is an exercise in rediscovering the diverse glory of God’s kingdom.”
Jayne Ozanne, Director of the Ozanne Foundation, founding member of the Archbishops’ Council for the Church of England and member of General Synod: “‘The Gender Agenda’ forces us to take a deeper look at Scripture and understand that God’s heart is radically inclusive. Like Steve, I believe we need a Revolution of Grace that ensures the whole Body of Christ can truly flourish.”

The Parentalk Guide to Your Child and Sex

by Steve Chalke (Author)  Format: Paperback

Father of four teenage children, Steve Chalke takes an honest and humorous look at how to overcome the embarrassment factor and tell your child what they need to know about sex.

Mum, where do babies come from

How to overcome embarrassment

How and when to talk to your child

What to say to them and what to leave out

How to answer the tough questions honestly

How to help your child make good decisions

From dating to dumping, consent to condoms, homosexuality to heartache, masturbation to marriage, this common-sense Guide will give you all the confidence you need .

We have a need today to free up the Church in its ability think through and debate its ethical responses to contemporary issues. How do we think about and respond to the issues of crime, punishment and rehabilitation, consumerism - money, banks, economics and bonuses, war and peace making, euthanasia and assisted dying, same sex relationships. etc.‘We can only act within the world we can envision…. We do not come to see merely by looking, but must develop disciplined skills through initiation into that community that attempts to live faithfully to the story of God…by learning to be faithful disciples, we are more able to see the world as it is.’ Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom. Ethics provide the cultural and moral framework in which we live our whole lives. Our ethics are like the air we breathe, and though for the most part they go unnoticed, our lives and communities depend on them. But Christian ethics are distinctive. They are not just anyone’s ethics. Indeed, if the Christian vision is not distinct from other moral frameworks, then what is so special about Christ and our story? For many, Jesus has simply become nothing more than a ‘personal’ and ‘private’ motivator to the same common ideals, which are shared by all. So, how do we live distinctively in a time of uncertainty? How do we see the world through the eyes of Christ? What tools do we need for the complex choices that confront us, in order to live well; to live Christ centred lives in the 21st century? This book provides this kind of help in a clearly, written accessible style with discussion questions making this useful for small-group use.

Intelligent Church: A Journey Towards Christ-Centred Community

by Steve Chalke (Author), Brian McLaren (Foreword), Anthony Watkis (Other Contributor)  Format: Kindle Edition

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‘As St. John of the Cross said: “Mission is putting love where love is not.” This book is full of ideas. It should prompt us all to examine the effectiveness of the way local churches are organized.’—The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York ‘Everything that Steve Chalke writes is insightful and cutting-edge. Here he argues in favor of a church that thinks and acts in ways that make the Kingdom of God visible and reasonable in a secular society.’--Tony Campolo, PhD Eastern University, Pennsylvania, USA The task of the Church is “to be the irrefutable demonstration and proof of the fact that God is love,” claims Steve Chalke. An intelligent church intentionally connects the Bible and its twenty-first-century culture, is authentic and, most importantly, has thought through its practice. In other words, the way it does church is a reflection of its understanding of who God is. This foundational issue must be addressed by pastors, church and ministry leaders, small group leaders and others as we continue to grapple with the shape of effective church in the postmodern, post-Christian West. As Chalke unpacks central theological concepts, such as the incarnation, human sinfulness and the Trinity, he points us to the corresponding characteristics of an intelligent church, such as inclusiveness, messiness and diversity. Each thought-provoking chapter concludes with a ‘Yes but How?’ section, which gives practical suggestions for moving your church along this path.

Steve Chalke and Penny Relph

120 Celebrity Prayers including recently deceased Bill Oddie, Cricketer David Gower, Anthea Turner, Mr Motivator

He Never Said ...: Discover the Real Message of Jesus

by Steve Chalke (Author)  Format: Paperback

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'God helps those who help themselves.' 'The family that prays together stays together.' 'You can't take it with you when you die.' 'And now for a time of worship.

These popular sayings are more than mere proverbs - they've become modern-day creeds for us to live by, in society and even in the Church. But in his groundbreaking new book, Steve Chalke asks if they're the kinds of statements that would ever have crossed the lips of Jesus

Based on his fascinating new series in Christianity magazine, this book combines social analysis, celebrity analogies and present-day stories with Biblical study to debunk 25 common modern myths and philosophies.

'You can't kill an evil ideology by taking down a person, a thousand people, or even ten thousand people. All you will do is feed it. It will transmute, return and bite you harder. If we are going to overcome the escalating problem of extremism and terrorism that our world faces, we need a different answer. We need to find a narrative that is radical enough to turn the tide.'

Steve Chalke reminds us that although Islamic extremism presents our contemporary world with an unique threat, radicalisation is much more than an Islamic problem. It is a human problem, fuelled by the fact that so many young people - from those enticed by the lure of gangs and guns to those seduced by the sinister world of extremism and terror - do not feel that they have a place or voice in mainstream society.

The issue, he says, is that our suggested counter-extremism and counter-terrorism solutions don't make this connection at the moment. As a result, they fail to get to the heart of things. Instead of tackling the roots - the fundamentals - of the issue, they attempt to deal with the symptoms of its growth. In a phrase, they are just not radical enough.

Artificial Intelligence will create gigantic benefits for humankind but will become more powerful than many governments, with purposes and plans of its own, and the ability to alter the very basis of life on earth. Many believe that AI poses a threat to human dominance.

In this punchy, follow-up to his bestselling The Future of (Almost) Everything, leading futurist Patrick Dixon has written an in-depth but accessible exploration of AI, looking at the future of the subject and assessing both threats and benefits - from health and education to cybersecurity, business and the world of work.

How AI Will Change Your Life looks at likely outcomes for both individuals and businesses in all areas of life and provides advice for the reader and a charter for governments to exploit the benefits and avoid the risks.

The Future of Almost Everything: The global changes that will affect every business and all of our lives

by Patrick Dixon (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition

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From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. This new and updated edition looks even farther into the future, predicting trends past the first decades of the 22nd century. Patrick Dixon looks at how the future will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical - a future of boom and bust and great economic change as the emerging markets grow up; a future of great advances in medicine and also greater threats from viral epidemics; a future of political shocks and greater conflicts; a future in which people will strive for more privacy and businesses will change the way they relate to their staff and their customers; a future in which there will be driverless cars and solar power generated in the desert will power cities thousands of miles away.

In this updated edition, Dixon shows how recent developments confirm his predictive scheme:

Artificial intelligence and robotics - profound power and influence over our future world

Beyond Brexit - the longer term future of the EU and UK

The long-term impact of the MeToo movement

The future of Truth - Fake News, propaganda and impact on democracy

Presidential leadership - rise of powerful figureheads across the world, and potential future conflicts

And in an entirely new chapter, Dixon extends his predictive horizon to see how the future will look one hundred years from now.

Building A Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

by Patrick Dixon (Author)  Format: Paperback

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How to build a better business by one of today's most influential business thinkers.

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Salt in the Blood: Two philosophers go to sea

Patrick Dixon (Author, Narrator), Sheila Dixon (Author, Narrator), Adlard Coles (Publisher)  Format: Audible Audiobook

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Bloomsbury presents Salt in the Blood by Patrick Dixon and Sheila Dixon, read by Patrick Dixon and Sheila Dixon.

“Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds.”

Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at University College Hospital, while his wife Sheila was a magistrate – high-pressure careers that demanded long hours away from their home, family and passion for sailing. It is a frustrating story many occasional sailors can relate to, but unlike most, Patrick and Sheila realised early enough that they could only bend so far before something snapped, they could only take on so much before they drowned.

This is their story of how they made changes (some more challenging than others) that they knows other sailors could make too, regardless of where they are at the moment – how they changed their priorities but managed to sustain a new career that fitted in around life rather than the other way round.

It is also the story of their personal journey, both physically (across the Atlantic and to little-visited corners of the Mediterranean) and metaphorically – how a doctor who treated cancer patients coped with a partner facing the same battle. Neither of them wanted to let that flood things either.

Through their personal story, with plenty of mishaps that led to insights (both about sailing and life in general), and encounters that turned into opportunities, Patrick and Sheila explore the importance of prioritising the right things in life, and the simple benefits of travel. The book is packed with inspiring but practical advice for all those who have salt in the blood.

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