Kevin Baker Missions in Leura, New South Wales | Religious organisation

Kevin Baker Missions

Locality: Leura, New South Wales

Phone: +61 450 411 062

Address: 48 Queens Road 2780 Leura, NSW, Australia

Website: https://theucoc.org

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25.01.2022 Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

24.01.2022 He makes a way where you think there is no way + https://youtu.be/cPy65Kl7Un8

19.01.2022 QAnon modern day mystery cult Gnosticism. The kingdom of God is a counter revolutionary prophetic social order structured by the covenant of gracethe true society that God intends for mankind. This social order is what all Christians are commanded to seek now, on earth, first, before all else. It is not something that we merely look forward to in the resurrection, but something we are to seek to make a reality on earth now. Without this being the central goal of our life the assemblies of Christians, i.e. the church, becomes merely a Christian mystery cultwhich alas is what has happened today. https://religionnews.com//qanon-the-alternative-religion-/

19.01.2022 Frederick Buechner has long been a favourite author I love to read. Here is a piece I have always loved, from my favourite of his books. Questions ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, "What is the answer?" Then, after a long silence, "What is the question?" Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.... We are much involved, all of us, with questions about things that matter a good deal today but will be forgotten by this time tomorrowthe immediate wheres and whens and hows that face us daily at home and at workbut at the same time we tend to lose track of the questions about things that matter always, life-and-death questions about meaning, purpose, and value. To lose track of such deep questions as these is to risk losing track of who we really are in our own depths and where we are really going. There is perhaps no stronger reason for reading the Bible than that somewhere among all those India-paper pages there awaits each reader whoever he is the one question which, though for years he may have been pretending not to hear it, is the central question of his own life. Here are a few of them: What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? (Matthew 16:26) Am I my brother's keeper? (Genesis 4:9) If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) What is truth? (John 18:38) How can a man be born when he is old? (John 3:4) What does a man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:3) Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? (Psalm 139:7) Who is my neighbor? (Luke 10:29) What shall I do to inherit eternal life? (Luke 10:25) When you hear the question that is your question, then you have already begun to hear much. Whether you can accept the Bible's answer or not, you have reached the point where at least you can begin to hear it too. -Originally published in Wishful Thinking

19.01.2022 Sunday Meditation: These are precious words to me. So the LORD restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the LORD doubled all that had belonged to Job. So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters.... After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, old and full of days. These words are precious because Job lost his income, wealth, and children. Then, God, after allowing Job to suffer, blessed the second part of his life more than the first, gave him children to replace those he lost, and double all he had in the first part of his life. While I am nowhere near the righteous man Job was, I too have been humbled by suffering and loss. I too, have been blessed in my life 2.0 My prayer is to die an old man full of days. Amen.

17.01.2022 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. Matthew 13:12 NIV https://www.bible.com/bible/111/mat.13.12.niv Multiplying the loaves and fishes to feed the 5000 was a miracle of abundance when it occurred. I do think abundance happens miraculously and through the creative minds of people who understand ABUNDANCE. ... Here is why I have a strong hope and vision for the future. It’s the abundant life. One day, I was thinking about economic history and the zero sum game theory. In a world of scarcity, there are only limited resources in a fierce world of competition. If I get a bigger slice, someone else gets less. Then I thought, is that really true? No. It isn’t. New ways of doing things thought of by people working together make more available to more for less cost. What used to be available only to the wealthiest for millions of dollars is now available for free globally on our smartphone. When I train my mind to think in terms of abundance and possibility, not scarcity, multiplying for everyone replaces dividing and inequality. I do this everyday as an executive in a well-known Sydney building supply business. I teach a select group of leaders worldwide how to realise their personal and professional potential, achieve a true life of meaning, operate in grit and flow, and execute wealth strategies according to your family goals. The foundation of the abundant life begins with inner spiritual formation. As the mind is renewed, we learn to live in the image of the Logos, who in the beginning created all things. Creativity is our very nature. Being creators in every area of life changes the world from scarcity to abundance. More to come.

16.01.2022 Let us pray: Eternal Father, You made the whole World stop spinning for awhile. You silenced the noise that we all have created. You made us bend our knees... again and ask for a Miracle. You closed Your Churches so we will realize how dark our World is without You in it. You humbled the proud and powerful. The economy is crashing, businesses are closing. We were very proud, we thought that everything we have, everything we possess, was the result of our hard work. We have forgotten that it was always Your grace and mercy that made us who we are. We’re running in circles looking for some cure to this disease, when in fact we need to humble ourselves and ask You for guidance and wisdom. We’ve been living our lives like we will be here on Earth forever, like there’s no Heaven. Maybe these trials are Your mercy in disguise. Maybe this virus is actually Your way of purifying us, & cleansing our soul, bringing us back to YOU. Today as these words travel the internet, may all who see them join their hearts and hands together in prayer! Asking for forgiveness & asking for healing & protection from this virus...GOD just wipe it from the Earth! Father You have been patiently waiting for us. We’re so sorry for ignoring Your voice... and in our selfish ways, we've sometimes forgotten that YOU are GOD! You only need to say the words and our souls shall all be healed. We ask these things in Jesus name!...Amen Prayer for all Repost It Please Copy Paste. Amen

16.01.2022 A story about the ageing and needed renovations of a beautiful sacred space in Brisbane. Like this old house of worship, we all, too, need reinvention and renovation of our temples in which God dwells. How has God led you into seasons of reinvention of who you are, and brought needed upgrades to your life as the place where The Holy Spirit lives? https://www.abc.net.au//qld-historic-sinking-ipsw/12583358

15.01.2022 A CALL TO INTELLECTUALS AND PHILOSOPHERS: THE NEW RELIGION OF ANTI-RACISM I think this discussion between Sam Harris and John McWhorter serves as a position from which to have a healthy debate about racism in America. Please leave ad hominem, cancel culture, and emotional politics at the door. Philosophical presuppositions are not assumed. Participants should be prepared to defend your starting points. ... Do you agree or disagree with the foundational premise that anti-racism is the birth of a new cult or religion in America? https://podcasts.apple.com//making-sense-with/id733163012

14.01.2022 A story about the ageing and needed renovations of a beautiful sacred space in Brisbane. Like this old house of worship, we all, too, need reinvention and renovation of our temples in which God dwells. How has God led you into seasons of reinvention of who you are, and brought needed upgrades to your life as the place where The Holy Spirit lives? https://www.abc.net.au//qld-historic-sinking-ipsw/12583358

12.01.2022 My son Josh leading morning prayer daily 7.00 am New York and 9.00 pm Sydney.

11.01.2022 A CALL TO INTELLECTUALS AND PHILOSOPHERS: THE NEW RELIGION OF ANTI-RACISM I think this discussion between Sam Harris and John McWhorter serves as a position from which to have a healthy debate about racism in America. Please leave ad hominem, cancel culture, and emotional politics at the door. Philosophical presuppositions are not assumed. Participants should be prepared to defend your starting points. ... Do you agree or disagree with the foundational premise that anti-racism is the birth of a new cult or religion in America? https://podcasts.apple.com//making-sense-with/id733163012

08.01.2022 Today, think back to the first time you learned something about God. Do you remember the awe, excitement, and being drawn to follow Jesus? We never have to lose that. Yet, God wants to form deep within us the character which prepares us to let go of this world as our life on earth reaches its summit. When, for just a moment in time, we have the peak experience. When we stand on the mountaintop and see our whole life story and say, It is well with my soul. I remember whe...Continue reading

08.01.2022 Proverbs 10 for 10 September.

08.01.2022 QAnon modern day mystery cult Gnosticism. The kingdom of God is a counter revolutionary prophetic social order structured by the covenant of gracethe true society that God intends for mankind. This social order is what all Christians are commanded to seek now, on earth, first, before all else. It is not something that we merely look forward to in the resurrection, but something we are to seek to make a reality on earth now. Without this being the central goal of our life the assemblies of Christians, i.e. the church, becomes merely a Christian mystery cultwhich alas is what has happened today. https://religionnews.com//qanon-the-alternative-religion-/

07.01.2022 Our friend Rev. Wilson Fernandes at Warringah Christian Church in Sydney today. https://youtu.be/0KJyCLnV4m4

06.01.2022 Let us pray: Eternal Father, You made the whole World stop spinning for awhile. You silenced the noise that we all have created. You made us bend our knees... again and ask for a Miracle. You closed Your Churches so we will realize how dark our World is without You in it. You humbled the proud and powerful. The economy is crashing, businesses are closing. We were very proud, we thought that everything we have, everything we possess, was the result of our hard work. We have forgotten that it was always Your grace and mercy that made us who we are. We’re running in circles looking for some cure to this disease, when in fact we need to humble ourselves and ask You for guidance and wisdom. We’ve been living our lives like we will be here on Earth forever, like there’s no Heaven. Maybe these trials are Your mercy in disguise. Maybe this virus is actually Your way of purifying us, & cleansing our soul, bringing us back to YOU. Today as these words travel the internet, may all who see them join their hearts and hands together in prayer! Asking for forgiveness & asking for healing & protection from this virus...GOD just wipe it from the Earth! Father You have been patiently waiting for us. We’re so sorry for ignoring Your voice... and in our selfish ways, we've sometimes forgotten that YOU are GOD! You only need to say the words and our souls shall all be healed. We ask these things in Jesus name!...Amen Prayer for all Repost It Please Copy Paste. Amen

06.01.2022 Sunday Meditation: These are precious words to me. So the LORD restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the LORD doubled all that had belonged to Job. So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters.... After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, old and full of days. These words are precious because Job lost his income, wealth, and children. Then, God, after allowing Job to suffer, blessed the second part of his life more than the first, gave him children to replace those he lost, and double all he had in the first part of his life. While I am nowhere near the righteous man Job was, I too have been humbled by suffering and loss. I too, have been blessed in my life 2.0 My prayer is to die an old man full of days. Amen.

05.01.2022 Our friend Rev. Wilson Fernandes at Warringah Christian Church in Sydney today. https://youtu.be/0KJyCLnV4m4

04.01.2022 Death is the baseline of life. If you do not understand death, you will never know life, nor can you handle life, because life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They exist together, inseparably.

03.01.2022 For years, we in The Church have lamented that 11:00 Sunday morning was the most segregated hour in America. Right now, I am interceding that Our Father, The Ancient of Days, who has witnessed the situation now facing His people in America, will reach out His might hand and outstretched arm to save and heal by repentance and remembering, Blessed are the peacemakers. I have seen a pastor I don’t know well, but always have been friendly with put forward that Jesus leaves t...he 99 to save the one. The application was justification that people should not say all lives matter in a time that belongs to BLM. I would suggest that scripture interprets scripture. That what the original author’s intent to the original audience, and the context of the times and grammatical conventions govern the meaning of a text. The canonical sense of scripture as the basis for motific analysis. So, Jesus, the Great Shepherd of His Flock, the Church, will go outside the sheepfold to save the lost. In this time, could it be that Jesus would seek the lost police, those blinded with anger, unforgiveness, and hate based on the colour of one’s skin? Would he offer salvation for the wrongs we have done, and the wrongs done to us in history and today? Would he save Simon the Zealot? The tax collector Matthew? Zacchaeus? The enemy of God’s people Saul of Tarsus? Those who deny him like Peter? Search me Oh God, and know my heart today.

02.01.2022 One of my favourite Christian hip hop albums from when I was in seminary and my children were all 5 and under. Danny Rodriguez was a tragic death, son of Cookie Rodriguez who was saved under David Wilkerson’s ministry in New York and then Texas. Nu Life D-Boy Ministries.

01.01.2022 Where God provides us as our shelter is always a reminder that He is our shelter. After a major life reinvention in 2015-16 and my relocation to Sydney, Australia from Oakfield, NY-USA outside of Buffalo, we have been navigating the transition for four years. Three years in, God blessed us with a house. It was billed as the worst house in the best zip code in Australia. We saw the potential; knew it would be a lot of hard work, but we’re convinced God gave us this house. W...e said thank you, and set our hands and finances to making beautiful what most saw as an ugly wreck. I am usually a prolific writer. I haven’t been blogging or posting much because we bought this house 11 months ago and have been renovating it ever since. It took vision. It was an uninhabitable party house for local kids where no one lived. It’s an old split level beach house on a hill on a peninsula in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Last weekend we moved in. It’s an exhausting process, and with toddlers, and Katie being 25 weeks pregnant, we are taking it slow, and the kids are adjusting. We are still living out of boxes. We are living in the lower level now, while the upper level continues its transformation. On the outside, we rebuilt the verandah, but the new cladding (siding) is still to come which will be the big transformation visibly. The learning for us, is, have eyes to see the blessing. Receive what God provides with thanks.