Reading Hillsong

Reading Hillsong

The Houstons of Hillsong have written and promoted many holy texts over the 40+ years they've been in business. Some of them are still promoted, or quoted, and others have become rarer and rarer as time goes on.A group of us felt it was important for people to be able to access these books and for these gospels to be read aloud for research and history purposes. We are the community of those involved in The Australian Assemblies of God movement, Hillsong, C3, ACC, et al and/or those affected by such religions. These are our cultural texts, written by the Houston men and women of Christian Life Centres and Hillsong who say they hear directly from their Christian God. We are a culture now that so many years have passed.Some of these texts are too rare to access, some too expensive, and some forbidden by the author. But they are OUR texts, and they were sold to us once as being urgent to read and absorb. To disregard them as no longer meaningful would cast infinite doubt on the current texts being touted as the new bestseller.Reading Hillsong is an audible presentation of literary works of the Pastors Houston with the words they wanted others to imbibe not that long ago. Each chapter has its own reader to ensure diversity and prevent the bias of a single narrator.Each reader is from our culturally Pentecostal community and is brought to you from the heart.Leaving Hillsong is delighted to present to you for your education, history, and listening pleasure:Reading Hillsong Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

July 13, 2023 5 mins

"Why would God give you the ability to get wealth, if he didn't want you to HAVE ALL THAT MONEY?"


THIS fantastic logic continues on through Chapter 6, but wasn't applied to any other illegal, immoral, or fattening behaviours.


However, when it comes to money, the message is clear: POOR people CAN'T help ANYONE.


RICH people are THE BEST because they CAN HELP everyone. all over the world. ALL THAT MONEY.


Just like the B...

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We read Deuteronomy to get scared about money.

We make jokes about McDonald's.


We discuss how you shouldn't have debts you can't pay.

Just rent buildings for $1 a year. Brian was able to pay the rent 'all by myself'!


Get yourself a miracle. Don't pay your Mastercard with your Visa and then your Visa with your Amex.


Lots of other good advice.




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The prodigal son was not the problem in the Parable of the Prodigal Son.

It was the son who stayed behind and complained and didn't want to splash out.

Sort of like people who have depression. Somehow.

Listen close...




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June 20, 2023 11 mins

Brian finds himself in L.A., NOT loving money and sees Jack Nicholson give money to a beggar even though NO ONE else is around. This has a profound effect

BCH recalls selling his car to a congregant (probably at a great tax-free, cash profit, then leased a new one) and randomly the buyer finds the car all keyed up and we wonder if it's another Hazel Houston car story mystery.


References to tax dodging and millionaires and the iro...

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June 16, 2023 14 mins

money is good. it's great. money is the best.

some people say that whole camel/eye of needle thing is a big deal. it's not.

there's more verses in the bible that if you say with more emphasis and different pauses make it sound like God insists you run after the cash in your life.

Gaslight gaslight, you make god happy when you prosper.


Go for the gold!


with Leaving Hillsong Queen Natalie Moses




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June 16, 2023 9 mins

Poor people are gross. They are losers who aren't going anywhere. You don't want to be like them.

There's a bible verse that if you look at it sideways in the dark supports this idea.

Rich people are the best.


with Glen Moses



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June 16, 2023 3 mins

Introduction to why money is so, so good by a Christian pastor who can feel a pyramid scheme in his bones


with Glen Moses



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June 8, 2023 2 mins

You're not gonna believe this! Frank had a vision! and Hazel was there to enable it!


What a fantastic ending to a cult handbook!



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June 7, 2023 5 mins
It's graduation day and there's a banquet to be shared, alongside some great memories... the students will find out where their posting will be... and it's an exciting time all around for CLBC staff and students!

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May 3, 2023 3 mins

Music has always been a major part of any movement of God, says our author, Hazel Houston.

And what a predictive text this whole episode has been!

Those rascally students chasing girls instead of god .. well, they'll know all about it - when chapel goes way too long!


Don't miss the bitter irony of Music, Music, Music,



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May 1, 2023 3 mins

Love is in the air at bible college! and Hazel is right there to make sure it doesn't run away with the college fees and students!

There are rules! and there are rule breakers... find out more about the hijinks and lowjinx of those pesky students in Affairs of the Heart



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April 13, 2023 5 mins

OH THOSE STUDENTS!! and their HijinX!!

oh Hazel and her way of only half telling a story about how the student got his bed down from the roof.

Gather round as she regales us with stories almost told about those naughty students and their crazy, zany ways at college!



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April 10, 2023 4 mins
The students are keen to reach out and share the spiritual gifts they've witnessed and learned

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March 29, 2023 4 mins

What would a college be without cooks? How to keep all those future kingdom builders full?

This quick review of what the kitchen was like with an odd story of a woman faking her age to work there, makes for more fun and games in Lower Hutt's brightest bible college!



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March 28, 2023 7 mins

Scrubology! Fun times continue at LHCBC under MATRON'S supervision and Matron knows everything!

She supervised chores and more chores, and students' wives meetings, where used clothing and vegetables could be shared.


Matrons get rotated and oh how the students must adapt and learn to the changes! the pranks and tears continue!


Then there were the house parents and finally, Matron's Memos...don't miss Matron's love at bible co...

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March 27, 2023 11 mins

Lecturers came and went at the Lower Hutt bible college and Hazel drops many a name including her husband's. But oh the laughs and the tears as the "long-winded but boring" classes (according to her son-in-law) carried on and on. Neville Johnson and Hetrick and all the gang were there making for a college of strong patriarchal and conservative values and introducing the visiting preacher circuit!

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March 20, 2023 8 mins

Hazel cracks out her sense of humour in the title, given it's a college, but hey, growth is here and here to stay.


Hazel uses a telephone and meets 'a dark fellow' but all ends well, because, it's all part of 'the plan'. :)



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March 16, 2023 9 mins

Bible college is tough so the students get treated like guinea pigs and get up to all kinds of pranks and silliness.

Sometimes they study too hard and sometimes not enough.

Some like rules. Some break them. But Lower Hutt was never the same once the Houstons hit it up, that's for sure.



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March 15, 2023 8 mins

Frank has a vision of growing wheat which means souls. He decides to open a bible college.

But he needs 100 men!



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June 6, 2022 11 mins

Hazel and Frank refuse to see sense in stopping the lifelong lived delusion even when Frank gets sick but not enough to die. 

The book finally ends. Yay.



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