Tony & Christine Newsletters

Christmas 2024

Kona to Manila.
Manila to Cebu & Surigao.
We got to help a number of people and bases with their Technology and Website needs.

From a conference in Manila to one in Tauranga, I think we have our quota.

Come in and see what else has been happening for us.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

December 2024

Thank you for such a good time in the Philippines over September and October.

From YWAM Together in Manila at the beginning of September, we then traveled down to Cebu and Surigao and then back to Manila at the end of October.

We got to work with many of you to see what you are doing, but more importantly, to see why you do what you do, to hear your vision, and see where you think Jesus is taking you.

Training and Manila

So, we moved into a yurt. Our neighbors are now roosters, turkeys, and coquí frogs.Living in Kona is interesting. We’re not on holiday, and our economy is very much supported by holidaymakers, so I can’t begrudge them having fun while they are here. Where we were...

2023 in review

2023. Christmas in NZ was a joy to have time with family. End of an era. Living Small. The Philippines. Campus Life. Technology. Christine.Christmas 2023 at Jenny & Joe's Home in Wellington.Jonathan had also come to New Zealand from Hawaii for three weeks at the...

August 2023

August 2023 We are back in Kona after five weeks in the Philippines. From Surigao where Chris and I met, to Cebu where we had our Honeymoon and Manila where it all began. We sidestepped a Typhoon but missed out on getting to Baguio. We met with many old friends and...

Talking to Father

Talking with Father  For me, prayer is an enigma. I have known times when God has definitely answered prayers. Like the time I flew out of New Zealand to Manila with the Airport in Manila closed due to a coup. I have also known times when God did not answer...

We have several Newsletters as our interests span a wide range of topics.

Have a look below, and please subscribe to one that may be of interest to you.

Most of all please subscript to this one.

Information Wisdom

Information is like a pile of lumber and building materials stacked on the ground.

Knowledge is turning all of that into a house.

Understanding is going and living in that house.

And wisdom is procreating a family in that house.

AI & Sustainable Abundance

What might be an unintended consequence of sustainable abundance?

Will the lack of stress to provide for oneself, the lack of suffering as you keep body and soul together, create a world of weakness where everything and everyone collapses in on itself?

In their own eyes

Judges 21:25 and Judges 17:6. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

It must be kind of important if God mentions it twice.

When we follow this course, of doing what is right in our own eyes, we are like a boat with no sails, rudder, or keel, easily blown by any wind on the waters.

Maximize Harvesters.

How can we maximize harvesters?
How can we maximize the training of harvesters?
And how can we maximize the disciplining of those harvested into harvesters?
You have really good programs running at your base.
You work hard in them.
How can we increase your harvesting without increasing your work, your hours, or your effort?
People are the body. Our programs are our food. We need to eat programs into oblivion, such that we cook a new program. From that program that gets consumed will rise the next generation, fed and ready to cook a new program.

Artificial Intelligence does not exist.

Large Language Models that can create answers to many facetted questions do exist.

They operate from a probability and informational matrix to provide answers to questions.

What I mean by this….

God’s Team

God is not on our side.
But we can be on God’s side.

Who’s team are you on?
Your own team or God’s?

Often, we start on our team, we learn that that is not where we are meant to be, we switch to God’s team, and then, unfortunately, we convert God’s team into our team and wonder where God has gone.

How do we move from being on our team to God’s team?
How do we keep ourselves on God’s team?
What are the telltale signs that I might be trying to convert God’s team into my team?
And if I find myself having converted God’s team to my team and God seems vacant, how can I get back onto God’s team?

Wrath

Wrath

Wrath

Inconceivably, I don’t think this word, wrath, means what you think it means.

I have come to consider, more often than not, God’s wrath is about him removing himself from a situation rather than God opening the ground to swallow the rebellious.

Or Him striking someone down blind.

Or covering them in leprosy.

Let’s have a look at Romans 1:18, then Romans 2:8.

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Made in God’s Image

Made in God’s Image

Yet we are not God. 
Genesis 1:26-31

Yet we are not God.

We are not all-knowing; we have to grow in knowledge.

We are not all present and never will be, and so lack complete situational awareness; we are ignorant of all the things that are happening in any given situation we find ourselves in and so need to cultivate a graciousness of ignorance that we might become better aware, not jumping to conclusions, not assuming, not pouring into situations things that do not exist.

We are not all-powerful; we are frail, weak, and temporary. And so, we must cultivate humility before others and with others.

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A Website is a tool

A Website is a tool

   A Website is a Tool.Like a hammer or chisel.You never expect to pick up a guitar or trumpet and just start playing. You have to practise. You have to get familiar with how the saw or piano works. You have many experiences from the physical world that you...

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Equipping

Equipping

Gaining New Skills I had this conversation the other day. When you are learning a new skill from someone, it is the FIRST time. How many times has the teaching taught this skill? HUNDREDS! We have poor thinking that makes us think that the first time we learn a new...

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Evident within them.

Evident within them.

Evident within them. If God made it evident to them, and God is true, then every unbeliever is a liar. The act of denying creates a character structure in them. Their sense of being becomes tied to their denying, and the denial becomes a defining part of who they are,...

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Jesus, mad, bad or God?

Jesus, mad, bad or God?

Jesus, mad, bad or God?   Preachers. Mad  Bad Or preachers of Jesus as God How can you tell what kind of a  preacher a person is? Are they a follower of Jesus or a promoter of themselves? Are they deluded? Are they a cult?The fruit of the Holy Spirit.But the...

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Three Things

Three Things

Three Things. I am not telling you anything you do not already know or believe. Rather I want to affirm in you those things we talked about the other day that you do need to focus on.Not popular media Jesus, or some western Jesus, or church Jesus. But Jesus as he...

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Thank You Philippines

Thank You Philippines

Thank You Philippines It was not easy, with mobility limitations. But our time in the Phillippines was an absolute blast. Thank you to you all.WordPress Have you ever had God push you in a direction and the job just looks too big? God's voice will take you to where...

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