Totally Big-Time Awesome Community Church - Your Time in Now!

Tired of ‘vanilla’ Church services? Where boring sermons are preached from a dusty old pulpit, with no relevance to today’s fast, instant and #now lifestyle?

Where natural light would otherwise blind your eyes to the awesomeness of modern highly vibrant video screens and lazer lights that are infused with manufactured fog? At our awesome servcies, all you need to do is rock up, throw your money in the bucket and we'll do the rest!... All in atmospheric, air-conditioned and ergonomically seated comfort!

Each Sunday we provide you with all the latest hype and imagery for the ultimate in sensory experience. Rock up, put your hands up, put your eyelids down and be prepared to be ROCKED by the most talented (and best looking) musicians our Church has to offer... Once the tinkling piano keys are the only thing you hear we will seamlessly drift into a highly emotive tithe/offering call in which your heartstrings will be tugged in order to empty your pockets so at to regain 30 to 60 to 100 fold of what you were already put-in.

After this you will be absolutely BLOWN AWAY by one of our gifted p̷r̷e̷a̷c̷h̷e̷r̷s̷, c̷o̷m̷m̷u̷n̷i̷c̷a̷t̷o̷r̷s̷  speakers who will no doubt sport the latest formal (yet coolest) clothing, haircut, invisible microphone, five o'clock stubble and accompanying attractive wife.

Every Sunday our speakers will Bring the Word in the most attention-grabbing yet highly vacuous way possible. So much so you will need to come back next week in order for it it to fully sink-in to your spirit!

Conferences I hear you ask?

Each year we invest in an awesome line up of gifted p̷r̷e̷a̷c̷h̷e̷r̷s̷, c̷o̷m̷m̷u̷n̷i̷c̷a̷t̷o̷r̷s̷  speakers for our yearly 'Just Another Conference-Conference'.

Each year the intensity of our conferences just grows and grows. You will be literally blown away by our worship band/lightshow spec-ta-cu-lar and be fed like circus seals with awesome kingdom tools that will cause you to influence your family and friends to meld into the culture that is our Church.

"Why all the hype?" I hear you ask...

Funny story, I asked myself the same thing years ago as I was sipping on my white chocolate mocha at Gloria Jeans one Saturday afternoon, then suddenly the vision hit me...

No longer could I suffer the brief (yet rewarding) benefits of the corporate world without giving back to the community. But instead of working within the current one, a NEW community needed to be created and people needed to be ported across into it! A phase-phrase I coined called Kingdom Shifting would start the ball rolling. After literally scouring the scriptures for hours to buttress and support my idea, the vision of Totally Big-Time Awesome Community Church was born!

With my experience in the corporate world all that was needed was a few key players who were on board with the vision, a massive building (soon to be converted) and a whole lot of faith... and 2 years later we are here!

With the size of our building, the programs we run, the smiling good looking people who adorn the amphitheatre every week and the the audio visual feast that propels every meeting... You have to ask, "How can G-d NOT be in this?!"

Tim Everton

• Author and founder of the imaginary yet awesome ‘Totally Big Time Awesome Community Church’

For more info please check our new church website,

http://totallybigtimeawesomecommunitychurch.weebly.com/

"...Could I have the Cheesecake?"

“Which one would you like?” asked the gentle man, as I looked hesitantly through the glass window in the bakery as I glanced over the wonderful array of assorted cakes and pastries before me.

My gaze was drawn to the colourful and beautifully decorated cheesecakes and solid, rich looking muds, instantly my eyes moved from these to the flat ‘ok’ looking pastries and half stale doughnuts. ‘The price of those garish pastries was way too much..’ I thought to myself, ‘After all, this was only a treat, something I would taste now and would be forever be gone, surely that money could be spent elsewhere, on something more important, where it would be more needed.’, “I’ll have that one.” I respond as I point to some generic sweet pastry that is not too outlandish but would still be regarded as a ‘treat’ for someone as undeserving as I.

“Are you sure that’s what you want?” Was his response, “How about one of those cheesecakes? (he pointed towards the one I actually wanted) They look delicious, you’d like one of those wouldn’t you?” as he asked invitingly, “It’s ok.. I’ll have that one”, I respond. As I walk out of the shop hand in hand with the kind man, I am grateful that I even got a treat let alone a rich mans cheesecake! But something else told me that it really wouldn’t have mattered to him which one I had picked...

This story is an allegory of what God has been showing me recently, the kind man in the story was Father God, I was the child and the pastry shop was my life, with all of the inticisises therein; what life has to offer, what’s available to me, what’s possible, what I think I deserve and what I don’t.

Growing up in household of seven children with my champion of a mother doing at home daycare together with after-school care (oftentimes unpaid) one could say I grew up in a hectic household! With so many mouths to feed we didn’t have a lot of money when growing up, to even have cordial in the house or anything other that buttered yo yo’s for recess was a real treat. My mother and stepfather did amazing with what they had and learnt to stretch everything out to supply everyones needs best they could. My father was a bit more ‘tight fisted’ I guess you could say and always had an excuse to not give, not supply and not provide, although I do love him this was the reality.

I think with all of us what we experience as children, within our families from our parents and from our fathers especially, it colours the way we see God and how we see ourselves included in his family - the trinity.

For so many years I lived in lack, in fear. A couple of years ago I was working for state government in the youth sector and I was earning good money and a position almost impossible to get fired in. But I was  still living in a state of worry of not having enough, and the anxiety that came along with that. Eventually I knew I needed to move on from my position but was so fearful of leaving in case I would not ‘have enough’. Enough money to pay my bills, enough money to pay my rent.. the basic necessities. How can you be earning good money and still be in a state of fear of lack? I guess the answer was I was living in fear because I still didn’t know who I was, I was a child of God but in reality I was still living as an orphan.

I have never been a fan of the prosperity gospel, in fact I am the first to get on my soap box and vehemently oppose it. To go around reducing the gospel to a means for material gain when the majority of the world lives below the poverty line makes me sick to my stomach. But this has been part of my journey, finding a balance of what I think I deserve (as an orphan who doesn’t realise he has been adopted by Papa) and letting myself have things or even (God forbid) deserve things because the Father loves me and wants to give me something - for no other reason than he loves me and want’s to treat me. To let myself be brought to a state of living where I have no fear of lack, where I can choose the cheesecake and not worry about how much I have left in the bank afterwards, this is where God has been leading me and it is intrinsically linked to my identity.

These last few months I have earned more than I have at any other other time in my life. God has allowed me to be in a such a position as being able to go into a restaurant and not look at the price of the meal first before ordering it, I’m finding that I don’t have to eat every scrap of food on my plate to the point of feeling sick because “it’s a waste” if I don’t, that if I’m full, then the food has done it’s job and I am sufficient until God provides for my next meal. He’s been teaching me that if I like something nice that may not be ‘necessary for my survival’ that I am able to buy it and not feel guilty.

But this state I’m currently in, it’s not all about me, neither is it just for me. I had the blessing of being able to travel to Cambodia recently (at the time I had no money, no job and even my trip was sponsored by a loving Christian woman) I visited many people while there, so many faithful to God but living on so little.

Living in my current state I was able to help sponsor an amazingly faithful man of God and his family for six months and it not even put a dent in my budget. Ironically if I was back in my previous state of lack, I just would not have been able to do that and if I was able to financially, then I would have been too afraid to because I was living in fear of not having enough afterwards.

I had to stop seeing my lack as something I deserved, if I should only have what I deserve then I should either be in a state of non-existence or I should be in hell fire! But the reality is God doesn’t give us what we deserve, his Grace and love pours over us for no other reason that it is His inexpressible joy to love us because that is His very nature. NOTHING we have we deserve, not even life itself, it’s a cliche, but its true.

We in the west have prosperity, we have the ability the come up with a business idea and with careful planning and determination become wealthy because of it, but that is not a bad thing, it may very well be if we do this for selfish reasons but if it supports us and enables us to help others it is A VERY GOOD THING.

We are blessed here, so much so in Australia that is boggles the mind compared to the rest of the world. Instead of living like paupers in a rich land we need to let Papa God show us that we are his Sons and Daughters, we are royalty of noble blood, not because of anything we’ve done but because of who God is! If we have been adopted into his Family then we are of royal blood, no matter how we act or even if we are living in the gutter it doesn’t change the fact that we are his children. This is the very heart of the Gospel - receiving what we have done nothing to deserve!

In reality it wouldn’t have mattered which treat I chose from that bakery window, to the kind man it would have been all the same, all that mattered to him was that he wanted to give me a treat for no other reason than it pleased him to do so. It is exactly the same when we want to treat our children, our grandchildren or or nieces or nephews, we do it because we delight in them and it brings us joy to do so, God invented this expression of love, not us! He just includes us in it. The irony is that when we have this revelation of who we are, we learn it’s ok to not live in lack, we are then able to help others that actually do have less in such greater ways!

I haven’t reached the end of my new revelation of who I am and I still struggle with old mindsets of lack and what I think I deserve, but God is showing me as much as my heart is able to comprehend that I am his Son. We need a deeper revelation of who we are as sons and daughters of the King and only God can do this by his grace, we just need to be open and even broken if need be to receive it. It will change the way we see ourselves and unless that is changed we are of little help to others around us because as one preacher I heard recently said, “we are living in a puddle.” And God doesn’t want us living in a puddle, a puddle of lack and one of fear but He wants us living in a river of life that flows out to the world bringing hope, blessing and love to those who don’t know of it.

A word for the Warrior

Have I not called you for a time such as this?

Have I not led things to such a point as to have you right here? 

....To be among those who are called by me who are attentive to my move, who are at the ready, vigilant, humbled and trained?

"What has overtaken you that you have suddenly forgotten what I have brought you through and where I have taken you from?"

Your thoughts and emotions and the situations you are going through right now seek to bring you down. But what are these? You have been through much more than these and come through victorious by my strength. The small trials you are going through now are NOTHING compared to what I have brought you through in the past. The enemy seeks to make you think they are bigger than they actually are and he seeks to blind you to the reality of how powerful you actually are! You are one called to destroy the enemies camp and take back what he has stolen. 

I have taken you through the fire and burned what has been holding you back, so don’t let these minor emotions and petty life circumstances dictate what your path should be, for I have called you to be more than a conqueror, I have called you to leave a righteous raging path of fire in your wake!

My warriors are scattered all over and this is a call for them to reclaim their identity. The enemy has for too long robbed them of what is most powerful - the realization of who they truly are (Sons and Daughters of the Most High) and thus blinded them of the power they posses. He has stolen the knowledge of who they are, of what their true standing is and how favoured they actually are. 

Subconsciously you have played along with this and you have sought to gain your lost identity through all manner of methods, but I am shaking these... I am taking away all that is false and all that is illusionary in your life, I am taking away all that gave you your sense of 'self' for this false self only perpetuates the idea that you exist anywhere but in Me. 

It is a time to stand, for when a warrior is not in battle he is in training and when he is not in training he is standing - at the ready. Be vigilant. Be open. Listen for me and look all around for movement for I want you to pre-emptively act, not react. A season of intense training has finished but you must still discipline yourself and remain ready. 

When a warrior is in a time of peace he does not lay down and imagine vainglory or dream of past victories, relishing in the good feelings that they bring. He is anticipating the next move. His past victories are only for preparation as to what is to come, the next wave of battle, the next skirmish and to foil the next move of the enemy. 

There is a calm but that is ever more reason to stay trained - to be at the ready. It is easy to lose spiritual strength when there is peace for there is no need for constant spiritual exercises. But this is where discipline is most important, in realizing you have the actual time to sharpen your sword, to tighten your bow and to re-leather your shield. Peace is not a time for complacency, it is a time for scouring the horizon as to what is to come, and come it will and I want you to be in a place of strength and readiness when it does.

I want you to face the battle with strength and fortitude, almost in excitement as you scream "Bring it on!!" into the face of the enemy and to strike fear into the heart of what has for so long has robbed YOU through fear. What have I not already brought you through that could now stop you now? Has all this been for nought? For you to skulk away when the enemy seeks to keep you down through emotional manipulation and intimidation? You can laugh in the face of battle, and while in that battle you could be knocked to the ground by the heaviest of blows and lay there laughing at the sky... 

It was once said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but I would say that to you that if you have already died... then you are invincible. 

Whoever this is read by, reclaim what the enemy has stolen - take back your identity. You a favoured and mightily powerful child of the Most High and this is the call you to be vigilant and to stand ready, for if you are I will be choosing YOU for the next move to come.