Agape Ministries Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Episode 38 Teaching:  Communities of Fence Movers  Teacher:     Bishop Cyril Ashton   Church of England. Cyril is a very humble and funny man, who just happened to be an Anglican Bishop. He tells of how Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics have helped to form his understanding of the essentials of our Christian Calling.   He told me that 2 Catholic priests Ian Petit and Peter Dolan...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 37 Teaching: Be Transformed by the renewing of your Mind. Teacher Charles Whitehead. In my life,  this topic was foundational. Daily I took to mind the principle of Metanoia, the dream of God placed in my heart, and the daily enjoyed seeing the wonderful will of God lived out in very simple, beautiful, and profound ways. May this teaching bless you as much as it blessed an...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 36 Teacher: Charles Whitehead Be Renewed by the Transformation of your Mind Part 1 . Scripture speaks of a new humanity.   A humanity free from fear and suspicion- open to living in peace and harmony.    In this insightful talk, my good friend Charles Whitehead shares the important role played by the human mind, and how we can allow the Holy Spirit to transform our thinkin...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 35                                                                                                                                                                                        Teaching   Part 2   Peace I Give you, A peace the world cannot give.                                                           Teacher     Louisa Grundy.  I remember a talk given by a wonde...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 34 Peace I give you, peace the world cannot give.  Part 1. Teacher Louisa Grundy. This is such a great talk.  Louisa is married to Andy and they have four children, she has suffered from anxiety for most of her childhood and adult life, but found peace through the teaching of the Gospel on the God of Peace.   She is a psychotherapist who specializes in the field of anxiety...

Send us Fan Mail  Episode 33  Contemplation Confidence and Fulfilment Part 2 Teacher: James Finley Our introduction " Agape Ministries a whole new way of thinking." This teaching will invite you to take or make the time to slow down. To slow down and listen to a whole new way of thinking about yourself.  To take a second look at your belief about the beaytiful creative reality we call Go...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 32: Title   Contemplation Confidence and Fulfilment Teacher James Finley I remember this teaching so well, Cathy and I had spent the night in the same convent as James. He was a warm and funny man, great company and came over as someone who loved and celebrated life.  At an evening meal James shared this image  I have never forgotten it, for it helped me with the understan...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 31  See I am doing a new thing.     Teacher Mirian Swaffield. " God is doing a new thing and its always about community, its always going to be about becoming like Jesus. " " You are blessed, now go and spread this blessing, increase in number and multiply." " Out of the Blessing of God comes fruitfulness " Enjoy this wonderful truth.  Let it...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 31:  See I am doing a New Thing Part 1 .    Teacher: Miriam Swaffield. Miriam is a real breath of fresh air.  She brings a refreshing energy in her approach to sharing the Goodnews of the Gospel.    Hear how she brings a truth that is over 2000 years in age  into the lived experience of the young people of today.  This teaching will help you talk to your family and friends...

Send us Fan Mail The two-fold blessing of God. Firstly The Father blesses us with a divine dream of our lives as co-creators with God.  Secondly, through us, Gods Spirit and presence are made flesh in our world today, and the world is blessed. To believe that you are part of the divine ongoing plan of creation is the very best feeling in all the world. It truly is " Life in all its fullness&q...

Send us Fan Mail This is a fantastic talk, Russ Parker shares with us a much-neglected teaching on the Fathers Blessing.  Jesus believed with all his heart and mind that he was beloved by God. He choose to believe that he was continually covered by the Father blessing. This belief brought him priceless understandings of identity worth and mission. Enjoy every moment of this talk, and daily enter i...

Send us Fan Mail In this beautiful and practical talk, Clare shares a wonderful and powerful truth.  We all carry the presence and energy of God into our daily lives. Imagine a local situation where the council and church communities work together for the well being of all. No more winners and losers, no one left out, no one left behind. That's true justice, that's the Kingdom of God in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode No 26 we share the teaching of Clare Thompson. She shares her beautiful witness of faith, hope and loving service in her hometown of Bristol.   She shares how the Spirit called her and her husband to a new experience of freedom and faith.  She also shares a story of a YouTube video with Pope Francis and Bishop Tony Palmer, if you wish to see it here is the YouTube...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Father Pat encourages us to prayerfully and carefully find another person with whom we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings. For me, this is where the quality of Christian relationships becomes a beautiful reality. I invite you to imagine this situation.  A person hears the freedom giving teaching of the gospel and commits themselves to the daily psycholo...

Send us Fan Mail John 15:15    I no longer call you servants, I call you friends.  Jesus tells us that friends share the deepest things in their lives.  Hopes, dreams, fears and failures. Where can we find friends like these, well that's what we set out to be as a community. Within our small imperfect community, we have a number of informal friendship groups who meet together, at times social...

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of Father Pats excellent teaching on Self Esteem.  Jesus baptism in the Jordan was his experience of the inner presence of Gods Spirit deep in his human nature. It is this experience that Jesus wants to share with us. Jesus daily invites us to allow Gods Spirit to dream of a new quality of human relationships, relationships in which Justice and Compassion are prim...

Send us Fan Mail Fr Pat invites us to take 3 steps to free us from a poor self-image and low self-esteem.         1. Accept yourself   2. Be yourself  3. Forget yourself These steps set you free to ENJOY BEING YOUR NEW SELF Every Blessing Archie and Cathy

Send us Fan Mail When Jesus spoke about the human condition, he raised it to a whole new level. He spoke of humanity as a wonderful, beautiful creation of a wonderful and beautiful creator.  Our prayer is that this teaching helps you to think of yourself and others in this way because the immortal Spirit of God is in all things  The book of Wisdom 12:1 Every Blessing.stay safe, healthy and happy ...

Send us Fan Mail This is a great teaching from Michelle, both prophetic and practical. Her call to help Pope Francis is so timely.  We know that our response to the Coronavirus requires global cooperation and collaboration. No more us and them, winners and losers.  It's fantastic, that at a time when the world needs to see the wisdom of interdependence lived out in every village, town, city,...

Send us Fan Mail The Beatitudes:  The Beautiful attitudes. Part 2. In John 8:31 Jesus says this to you reading this today. If you make my word your home, you will be my disciple you will learn the truth and the truth you learn will set you free. I used to think that discipleship was a daily practice that took from me freedom, to act in certain ways, but I now see that discipleship is a practice th...

Send us Fan Mail The Beatitudes:  The Beautiful attitudes. In this talk, Father Chris reminded me of an aspect of Matthews Gospel that I had completely forgotten.  I had forgotten that the writer of Matthews gospel believed Jesus was the new Moses. Just as Moses led the people out of slavery from the Egyptian empire, an outer reality.  Now Jesus leads his people out of slavery to fear and violence...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 17 . In this wonderful talk, Ruth reminds us of the power of our minds and the power of belief. She encourages us to allow God to dream a beautiful dream using your mind. A dream of a kinder happier world for our children and grandchildren.  Talk to them about the dream God has placed in you, and they will see how you take practical steps every day to help Gods dream becom...

Send us Fan Mail Luke 1:68-79  " To give light to those who live in darkness, the shadow of death, and to guide us in the way of peace"   In this episode, number 16 in our series, we hear from a woman in Northern Ireland who heard the call to be involved in the Jesus way of peace. Through all the troubles, because of the gift of faith, she kept this precious dream of God alive and access...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of Charles talk is so good, his sharing of how, without any previous diplomatic contacts, he ends up on speaking terms with the top Vatican officials is just so mind-stretching.  Another great sharing is the story of the man who speaks in tounges in an ordinary church setting. The response of the congregation and then the blessing this gift brought into the life of the pers...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Whitehead is one of those people used by God to do wonderful things. From an office in the city of London to an office in the Vatican is a culture shift that not many business executives would imagine or desire.  But this is how the Holy Spirit changed the life of Charles.  A new life with a new set of goals and aspirations.