Nearly 2 millennia ago a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ wrote letters to his fellow brethren and sisters in Christ. He wrote to them, who were living further away, to share the same precious faith they had. He talked about a faith which was given to them because of the justice and fairness of… Read More Today’s thought “Qualities and feasts of people” (December 14)
Today we read in Mark’s Gospel, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel”, today this message is still true so let’s do as Jesus taught and “straighten up and raise [our] heads, because [our] redemption is drawing near.” Today’s thought “The time is fulfilled”… Read More Today’s thought “The time is fulfilled” (August 06)
“37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, {1 } from within him shall flow rivers of living water. {1) Gr out of his belly }… Read More Extra memorising verses John 7:37 Coming to Christ to drink
A call to each one who want to believe or who believes in God to come to see that Jesus is the way to God and that we all should be united with the sent one from God, building one united body.… Read More Avoiding friction and distraction in the body of Christ
Jehovah God has sent His son to the world to give everybody the opportunity to come to know the divine Creator and His heavenly Plan. The sent one from God told about his heavenly Father and showed the way to Him. Jesus taught the will of God and showed mankind how a human being could… Read More The Call of Christ
**** MATTHEW 12:22 _ 22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it,… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 31 Son of David and God’s Kingdom
The 1st Adam was the beginning of man, the “head”, the first-made. Out of the seed of Adam and Eve all men and women came. “Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, humankind is sinful” is not exactly totally right. Man still has his own free will and has still the same opportunity as Adam and… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #8 Looking for the 2nd Adam
After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse
On the 2nd of January 2016 the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. This summary and the one for our Brethren site may give you an idea where we stand in the world of bloggers, were lots of words get much more viewings than ours, but where we try… Read More The Belgian Christadelphian ecclesia sites 2015 in review
We have come in a season of which people say it is “The Time of the year‘. One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions, “the regular sequence of the seasons” is also called “Time of the year“, but in this instance people do… Read More A season for truth and peace
The Jewish people struggled through the Roman/Edomite, Ishmaelite and European exile and had to face terrible times for their people on several occasions throughout history. But always they kept believing that their God, the God of Abraham, was not going to leave them abandoned. For them they had the assurance in the book-rolls which survived… Read More In a world which knows no peace sharing blessed hope
Jesus got some disciples which he made into apostles, people to sent out and to bring his messages to other places. Those apostles have listened to, which they could see with their own eyes. Their own hands have handled concerning the Word of Life and brought us also the message of the Good News. The… Read More Authority given to him To give eternal life
Trust, Faith and Prayer Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 voice of God Hearing the Voice in the Holy Scriptures Words to feed Continuing reading the Words of God in the Holy Scriptures the Holy Spirit shall feed us. He shall be prepared to come close to us and to answer our questions… Read More Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #3 Voice of God #6 Words to feed and communicate
Trust, Faith and Prayer Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #1 Kings Faith The apostle Peter may have had doubts in what his master Jesus asked him. At the time when the district ruler Herod heard the reports of Jesus and had arrested John the Baptist, Peter was perhaps not yet sure about the… Read More Trusting, Faith, calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #1 Kings Faith
God gives us a lot of answers. We may be happy He is willing to guide us. He also sheds light unto that what we do have to know. We do have to have a vision and show others what we do believe. We have to share our faith. We do have to be concerned… Read More Breathing and growing with no heir
Today let us to consider a portion of Psalm 119, to the section of verses 97 to 104. The first verse in this section expresses the Psalmists love for the words of God: “O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.” (Psalm 119:1). Characteristic of faithful The loving of the… Read More Loving the Word
The last few days we encouraged our members to spend time in the Bible this weekend, first focusing on the death of our Saviour, then celebrating how death has been defeated. We looked at how this master teacher who could do miracles was humble to take up the work of slaves. He also never wanted… Read More Servant of his Father
Eight days after his birth Jesus was anointed for the first time at his circumcision, the traditional Jewish celebration to take up the child in the community of the Jewish people, Israel, the People of God. Six days before the Pascha /Pesach or Passover when the “crucifixion” was to take place we find Jesus with… Read More Anointing of Christ as Prophetic Rehearsal of the Burial rites
Deuteronomy 18:16 according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. Deuteronomy 18:17 And Jehovah said unto me, They have well… Read More Written to recognise the Promissed One
In the previous article Manifests for believers #3 Catholic versus Protestant we pointed already at the idea of the opponents of the Manifest for believers Manifest Gelovigen nemen het woord (Religiuously or Believers take the word)who do find that a lay men can not bring a sermon and also should not be allowed to say the sacred… Read More Manifests for believers #4 Eucharist
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