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Darrell DeLaine

About Darrell DeLaine

Over 30 years of spiritual experiences, including as an ordained pastor. Many work experiences and traveled throughout Australia extensively. Co-founder of Resurrection Word Ministries.
25 11, 2023

Dying

By |2023-11-25T16:16:49+11:0025th November, 2023|Categories: Death|0 Comments

There is a dying that leads to life, to God who is the God of the living and not the dead. This death is the dying that occurs IN THE LORD from this moment on (Steve Farrar). YLT Gen 2:17, “and of the tree of knowledge of good and [...]

20 11, 2023

Coping With Death

By |2023-11-20T10:19:48+11:0020th November, 2023|Categories: Death|0 Comments

It has been said that the best soldier is one that has already died in his own mind. Matthew 16:25, “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” So I can be dead and alive at [...]

10 11, 2023

Life Before Death

By |2023-11-10T21:07:44+11:0010th November, 2023|Categories: Death|0 Comments

It has been said that the best soldier is one that has already died in his own mind. Matthew 16:25, “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” So I can be dead and alive at [...]

3 11, 2023

Death 1

By |2023-11-03T13:06:29+11:003rd November, 2023|Categories: Death|0 Comments

Someone once said that life is a sexually transmitted disease that has a 100% death rate. Romans 6:23a, “For the wages of Sin is Death”.  But can we not also consider that ‘death is the cause for sin’?  We sing ‘O Death where is your sting, O Hades where [...]

22 09, 2023

Forgiveness

By |2023-09-22T18:04:37+10:0022nd September, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who have harmed you, or that you perceive to have harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.  God’s Forgiveness The vast majority of the original [...]

25 07, 2023

Creation vs Evolution

By |2023-07-25T10:13:20+10:0025th July, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

Which is true, Scripture or science?  Which can be disproved?  Science has provided much in terms of modern accomplishments because of its system of being able to replicate observable experiments.  However, when discussing origins, science cannot replicate those observable experiments.  An honest investigation of the science of beginnings shows [...]

9 06, 2023

Heart

By |2023-06-09T14:49:20+10:009th June, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

Once again, our English words seem to fail to explain the many nuances that our Hebrew and Greek scriptures express.  Even in our own culture we use the word ‘heart’ with different meanings in different situations.  Is it a muscular blood-pump?  A mystical crucible for holding warm-fuzzies?  The central [...]

2 06, 2023

Grace

By |2023-06-02T14:06:14+10:002nd June, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

Grace has been defined as: a : unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.  b : a virtue coming from God.  c : a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance.  a :approval, favour, stayed in his good graces  b archaic : mercy, pardon.  c : [...]

28 04, 2023

Idolatry – part 2

By |2023-04-28T13:59:24+10:0028th April, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

We are all familiar with the statues, carvings and paintings depicting various gods from different cultures.  In the West the gods of Olympus, Rome and Egypt have shaped and guided our psyche for millenia.  Other cultures such as the sub-continent, mesoamerica and the orient all have their own, though [...]

31 03, 2023

Law / Covenant – 07 Christian

By |2023-03-31T14:12:33+11:0031st March, 2023|Categories: Law/Covenant|0 Comments

Christian So, if Israelites were separated by the 10 Commandments from the Gentiles who have only 7 Laws, how should the two groups relate to each other, or even within their own differing cultures, especially for the new group called Christians. In Acts 15:22-29 we find that James proclaims [...]

28 03, 2023

Law / Covenant – 06 Davidic

By |2023-03-28T14:09:19+11:0028th March, 2023|Categories: Law/Covenant|0 Comments

Davidic In 2 Samuel chapter 7 God makes a covenant with David. There is nothing David needs to do to be a beneficiary of this covenant, nor does God threaten him with losing any benefits because of any of his actions. The covenant covers 7 blessings God promises to [...]

24 03, 2023

Law / Covenant – 05 Mosaic

By |2023-03-24T13:55:25+11:0024th March, 2023|Categories: News|0 Comments

Mosaic In the 6th chapter of Exodus, verses 6 to 8, we read, “Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with [...]

21 03, 2023

Law / Covenant – 04 Abrahamic

By |2023-03-21T14:17:35+11:0021st March, 2023|Categories: Law/Covenant|0 Comments

Abrahamic Genesis 12:1-3 lists the 3 promises God made to Abram. These being the promise of land, seed and blessings. The formalizing of the contract is reported in Genesis 15, with God declaring “I will” and moving between the carcasses as Abram slept. Thus making this an unconditional covenant, [...]

24 02, 2023

Law / Covenant – 01 Intro

By |2023-02-24T14:21:09+11:0024th February, 2023|Categories: Law/Covenant|0 Comments

Covenant / Law Matthew 26:28, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Mark 14:24, “And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.” Luke 22:20, “Likewise He also [...]

14 02, 2023

Captives

By |2023-02-14T14:24:58+11:0014th February, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed” [...]

10 02, 2023

Fall, The – part 2

By |2023-02-10T14:58:50+11:0010th February, 2023|Categories: Fall|0 Comments

Judgement tree revisited, courtroom no 2. Now satan’s goose is cooked, or at least it has been declared by God to be forthcoming (Genesis 3:15, Isaiah 14, Revelation 12).  He now knows that his end will be at the hand of the seed of Adam, and so he goes [...]

3 02, 2023

Fall, The – part 1

By |2023-02-03T14:00:33+11:003rd February, 2023|Categories: Fall|0 Comments

When we talk about ‘the fall’, immediately the story of the forbidden fruit comes to mind, and disobedience. But was eating the fruit the main issue here or was there something else.  Let’s go back to the very beginning, we have to go back before the creation itself as [...]

24 01, 2023

First Commandment

By |2023-01-24T17:12:24+11:0024th January, 2023|Categories: Nuggets|0 Comments

Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is the first commandment of all?”  Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And [...]

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