2018-19 starts without a meeting place in the region Brussel-Leuven and negative financial cyphers. We urgently look for people willing to help us building up our faith-community in this godless region.… Read More By the opening of the Season 2018-2019
Het seizoen 2018-19 wordt ingezet zonder ontmoetingsruimterond Brussel-Leuven. Met een negatieve balans zijn wij op zoek naar zo wel fondsen als ruimtes om Bijbelstudie te houden als om onze diensten met het Breken van het Brood open te stellen naar anderen.… Read More Bij de opening van het seizoen 2018-2019
This month’s issue concluded the significant series on “Unity in Ephesus” and started a new series looking at how God has ensured His word was carefully written down and preserved through the years. The exposition section also contains an article considering the structure of John’s Gospel and as usual there is an extensive Letters page… Read More September’s issue of The Christadelphian
Positive feedback keeps coming in about the new format of Faith Alive! since an editorial panel was introduced eighteen months ago. Recent issues have covered important themes such as body image, the Lord Jesus and reasons to believe. Some of the individual articles are direct and straight-talking, making up a powerful Faith Alive! issue when… Read More Faith Alive!
The Christadelphian publisher in Birmingham is working hard to have the book “Resisting the devil” ready for launch at the end of September and is looking forward to having this title available on their website. This will be the first work they have published by Brother Robert Prins, even though he will be familiar to many… Read More New publications: Resisting the Devil
Looking back over the past seven years and the upheavals generated by the so-called “Arab Spring”, it is interesting to see how the hopes of millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa were quickly dashed. A recent article entitled, “The New Arab Order: Power and Violence in Today’s Middle East” by Marc… Read More Signs of the times – “A new order in the Middle East”
Het heil voor alle volken Jesaja sprak in eerste instantie over de verlossing van het volk: hoe de afvallige knecht verlost zou worden door de volmaakte Knecht. Maar zijn roeping ging verder: “Toen sprak de HEER, die mij al in de moederschoot gevormd heeft tot zijn dienaar om Jakob naar hem terug te brengen, om… Read More Christus in Profetie #4 De Knecht in Jesaja (4) Heilbezorger, Knecht en Messias
In het vorige hoofdstuk zagen wij hoe het volk van God ging uitkijken naar iemand die verlossing kon brengen. God kent de mens en weet zijn verlangens. Een gezalfde geroepen In verband met de verlossing van het volk lezen we hoe God zijn gezalfde roept. Het woord voor gezalfde is in het Hebreeuws Messias en… Read More Christus in Profetie #3 De Knecht in Jesaja (3) Gezalfde
“Toen zei Ik : zie, hier ben Ik, in de boekrol staat van mij geschreven” De behoefte aan verlossing In het eerste deel van deze artikelserie hebben we gezien hoe God een knecht of dienaar zou roepen en hem ondersteunen. Het volk Israël als geheel had gefaald in zijn roeping om, als Gods knecht, de… Read More Christus in Profetie #2 De Knecht in Jesaja (2) Behoefte aan Verlossing
Our recent Dutch posting “De opgestane Heer” looks at the essence of our faith but also at the reality of these days there being clergymen who claim that we do not have to believe in a literal resurrection of Jeshua the Christ from the dead. We are used to hearing such statements from the mouth… Read More The resurrected Lord
Er zijn geestelijken die beweren, dat wij niet in een letterlijke opstanding van Christus uit de dood hoeven te geloven. We zijn gewend zulke uitspraken uit de mond van vrijdenkers te horen, maar hoe komen theologen tot een dergelijke conclusie? De kwestie is niet slechts van academische aard; de apostel Paulus betoogde dat ons geloof… Read More De opgestane Heer
Laat onder u de gezindheid heersen die Christus Jezus had: Die Zijn dienstwerk is begonnen in een vorm naar Gods beeld, maar er geen ogenblik aan heeft gedacht op onrechtmatige wijze te grijpen naar gelijkheid met God, doch integendeel zichzelf heeft ontdaan van Zijn goddelijke krachten, en in plaats daarvan de rol van een… Read More De gezindheid van Christus
I THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have NO hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus Christ will GOD bring with HIM.… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 73: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Sleepers with hope
COLOSSIANS 3:1 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, SEEK those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of GOD. [~YAHWEH~ Elohim Yisraail.] * To remember Eph 2:5-6 5 (ASV) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together {1 } with Christ (by grace have ye been… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 72: Colossians 3:1: Christ seated on the right hand of God
Absurd thoughts and big mistakes, plus wrong ideas about Christadelphians and Belgian Bible students or Dismantling of the wrong view concerning Christadelphians and Belgian Bible students In continuation of An attitude taken to those who attack us and other Unitarians showing how Mr. Dave Norris mistakenly takes us and the Belgian Bible Students for other… Read More Sayings about Christadelphians and Belgian Biblestudents debounced
For Christadelphians or Brothers in Christ it is important to walk in the ways Jesus Christ showed us to walk, after God. In the Bible the word “Walk” is also used to denote our conduct in this life or our walk in life. Too many who call themselves Christian do seem to forget that. They… Read More An attitude taken to those who attack us and other unitarians
Excerpt from The Guiding Light by Islip Collyer “In this world of our mortal experiences there is a strange mixture of good and evil. In many ways it seems a blighted and faulty world; yet as we increase our experience and knowledge, we become conscious of a wonderful, growing persuasion that in one respect the… Read More The Guiding Light
By the end of September the English Christadelphian publisher should be ready to publish their next new book, Resisting the Devil. Many of you will be familiar with the writings of Brother Robert Prins (Auckland, New Zealand) who has published a number of titles including Thinky Things and Thinky Things 2 and That They May… Read More New book: Resisting the Devil
Following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and military intervention in Ukraine, the US, the EU and other countries imposed harsh sanctions against Russia in an attempt to isolate her. Mr Putin’s government responded by imposing its own against the West. The rouble went into freefall – a combination of sanctions and cheaper oil. In… Read More Signs of the times – “Ukraine under pressure”
PHILIPPIANS 4:8 Finally Brethren, Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are HONEST, whatsoever things are JUST, whatsoever things are PURE, whatsoever things are LOVELY, whatsoever things are of GOOD REPORT, If there be any VIRTUE, IF there be any PRAISE? Think on THESE things. * To remember Ro 14:18 For he that herein serveth Christ… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 71: Philippians 4:8 True and Honest things
