TEACHINGS FROM THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
(a selection of posts & podcasts)
A brief introduction to all the teachings that follow…
A SPIRITUAL SMORGASBORD
Listening to God 1.01– a theological start-point
Can we Enter into God’s New Thing?
Good News or Bad News – A Better Telling
Contemplative Prayer – Rediscovered!
Art, Performance and the Spirit of Pentecost
Jesus and ET’s – Plato and Human Evolution
God & ET’s – Mystics and the Unified Field
THE LUKE 10 ROAD-TRIP
In Luke 10 Jesus sends out his second wave of emissaries to carry his message. 72 of them. This missional enterprise is traditionally called the “apostolic life.” Today, churches often orient around persuading others to become Christians, join the Church and contribute to the growth of their congregations. Yet not one of these themes is present in Jesus’ apostolic instructions. The Luke 10 Road-Trip reframes the very idea of “apostolic life” and explores how to imbue our relationships with Divine Love and follow the timeless principles Jesus laid out for his 72:
Part 1 – Fixing Attitudes, Multiplying Channels & Occupying Territory
Part 2 – Giving Away & Sharing the Journey
Part 3 – Finding and Recognizing People of Peace
Part 4 – Being Good Guests in the Lives of Others
Part 5 – Acts of Befriending – Churching or Discipling?
THE GENESIS OF US
Genesis contains some of the world’s oldest narratives. The presence in those texts of YHWH the Holy Name for God, not revealed until the time of Moses, clues us that we are not reading the earliest version of these narratives. Rather we are sitting at the feet of a narrator from after the time of Moses. Today there is a broad consensus among scholars that the scribes did their final work of redacting and harmonising the Hebrew canon sometime between Israel’s captivity in Babylon in the C6thBCE and the C1stBCE. Their narrative, which reframed many of the old stories of Hebrew cultural memory with in aframework of Yahwist monotheism, offered the world beautiful and important truths – most fundamentally that there is only one True God; one ultimate Source of all things. What can we draw from this top layer of story? How does it frame our understanding of God, Jesus and ourselves?
Scrolls, Stories & Creation – Genesis 1:1-3
All about How we Listen and How we Feel – Genesis 1:1-2:3
The Story of Us and what The Fall wasn’t – Genesis 2:15-3:24
Did Jesus have a sinful nature? And what The Fall wasn’t – Genesis 2:15-3:24
It’s about Soul Work and Keeping…Genesis 4:1-24
THE EDEN SERIES – Escaping from Eden, The Scars of Eden, Echoes of Eden, The Eden Conspiracy, The Invasion of Eden, and The Eden Enigma – examines the vestiges of the sources with which the C6th-C1 st BCE redactors reworked to produce the Bible we all know. What was the story of those source narratives concerning who we are and where we all came from? Were the source narratives stories about God in the way the Hebrew versions are, or did they present a different picture? What is the Bible’s own report concerning the marrative shoft from what went before to the establishment of Judaic monotheism? Thebooks of the EDEN SERIES drill down into these unfamiliar layers in a way that might just reframe your whole vision of Judaism and Christianity.! Read more…
THINKING AGAIN
The Great Reformers established the importance of perpetually returning to the Scriptural sources of Christian faith and asking afresh, “Have we read this right?” From time to time our habitual patterns of thought and doctrine find themselves challenged by a refreshed reading of the Scriptures. In that spirit, enjoy the following…
Re-discovering the Kingdom of God…
De-Constructing Hell – Carlton Pearson “Come Sunday”
Beauty, Sex and Babies, and what Augustine got wrong…
Women’s Leadership & the Bible
Did Jesus believe Yahweh was an ET?
NOTES ON MY SPIRITUAL ROOTS IN VINEYARD
Carol Wimber talks about Vineyard’s Roots (8 PODCASTS)
Five Step Model for ministering with Healing (PODCAST)
Saying Thank You to St Andrew’s Chorleywood
Vineyard and the Avoidance of Hype
The Heart of Vineyard Worship – No Small Gift
Rare Live Vineyard Worship 1984 (PODCAST)
Vineyard DNA & New Wine (PODCAST)
Vineyard’s Vital Debt to Quakerism
RECOMMENDED READING FOR GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THINGS
"People can be very attached to their familiar story of human origins. As an eleven year old I saw a shortfall in science's ability to explain how and why we became our planet's alpha species. I also saw a shortfall in religion's ability to explain how come it is clear that we are just another primate. It was the parallels between the Biblical and the ancient Mesopotamian accounts, and the correlations with Nigerian, Greek, Norse, Mayan and Zulu story that broke my paradigm wide open. This light-bulb moment led to the EDEN SERIES, to The 5th Kind, the Paul Wallis Channel and to the formation of ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE ACADEMY. Like so many around the world today, I have an appetite to get to the truth of of who we really are and where we have come from. My journey has led me to understand the Bible as curating vital narratives, full of important information, narratives which belong within a global family of ancestral stories which speak to our identity, our origins and our true potential. Join me in this incredible journey of discovery!!" PAUL WALLIS 2026
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