http://www.coveredinbees.org/v1/taxonomy/term/50/0 en http://www.coveredinbees.org/v1/node/115 <p>Sydney has just hosted about 35,000 people from around the world at a huge <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Praise-the-Lord-and-pass-the-chequebook/2005/02/18/1108609391134.html">Hillsong</a> conference. Hillsong's CEO is Brain Houston, author of the (oddly absent from Amazon) 'You Need More Money: Discovering God's Amazing Financial Plan for Your Life'. (<a href="http://www2.hillsong.com/conferences/hillsong/default.asp?pid=1013">Here's the conference website...</a> wait for the wonderful Christian Rock...)</p> <p>Joseph Prince was there, preaching. It's a little awkward writing about it, since my current landlady is a keen Hillsong member, and has been getting up at 5.30am and returning at gone 11 to help at the conference. She also gives something like 10% of her earnings to the church, I think. Anyway, this is from his (mainly merchandise-selling) website:</p> <p><cite>Do you look at yourself and see only lack in the natural? Do you say, “I don’t have a good education”, “I am poor”, “I am too old” or “I am a divorcee”? I have good news for you. As a blood-bought believer and child of God, you have the supernatural favour of God!</cite></p> <p><a href="http://www.coveredinbees.org/v1/node/115">read more</a></p> http://www.coveredinbees.org/v1/node/115#comment 3 stars god The world Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:48:36 +0100 dan 115 at http://www.coveredinbees.org/v1