In our busy, fast-paced lives, it can feel like the hours fly by and we don’t have enough moments to devote to the activities and pursuits that truly inspire or energise us. We are so taken by our daily duties, we often forget Who is giving us all the hours and minutes of the day… Read More Busy, fast-paced lives, thinking there are not enough hours for God
If we are going to be a Christ centred people we need to be a church centred people, because that’s where Christ centres his love. We cannot love Jesus and hate the church or ignore it’s pivotal position to our lives.… Read More Zoom sessions and gathering in real life
There is no doubt at all that the problem of suffering is one of the greatest problems a Christian has to face. It has probably caused more people to lose faith, and prevented more people from finding faith, than almost any other problem. It is the argument most often used by atheists when they want… Read More Suffering and the God of Love #1 Intro
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? An autobiography for a church sounds weird. Though, certain churches can use some history exposure. Throughout history, there have been many groups of people who tried to form a community or religious group where they wanted to worship the Divine Creator of heaven and earth. Like there… Read More How the autobiography of the Belgian Christadelphian community would look like
The seven letters to the seven different assemblies of believers that we read in Revelation 2 and 3 always challenge our thinking. They are representative of all the different types of congregations that have existed over time and each of us should be able to see in one or more of them, a “picture” of… Read More Today’s thought “Those whom I love I reprove and discipline” (December 22)
It is God’s inspired scriptures that are the only source in our Godless world for “building (y)ourselves up in (y)our most holy faith”, as Jude wrote so long ago. But first let us see how our chapters today in Job are very special. Job was inspired to write of God’s creation and describe how the… Read More Today’s thought “Building yourselves up in your most holy faith” (December 20)
Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God and can not be a Child of God.… Read More Today’s thought “Those who can be a Child of God” (December 17)
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)
About love that is patient but is also given to us and making that we can share that love given to us and the world to bring us closer to the Kingdom of God in a growing brotherhood.… Read More 2022 December 11: By the ‘birth’ of two new members
Did you notice that James 3 begins with a pretty serious warning, telling that teachers will incur a stricter judgment. The writer of the letter tells us that with that tiny thing in our head, our tongue, do we bless our Lord and our Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made… Read More Today’s thought “A serious warning for teachers” (December 09)
In this world we encounter lots of people who say they are a Christian. But when we look at their behaviour we could wonder if they could be worthy to call themselves Christian. We may encounter lots of Christians who call other names or who say others shall burn in hell for ever. They love… Read More Today’s thought “A person who calls himself a Christian should not be doing things that are wrong” (November 25)
We should remember that the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that not always people shall be willing to follow the right teachings of Christ Jesus and that in the last times some in the church will turn away from Christ and become eager followers of teachers with “devil-inspired ideas”. These teachers will tell lies with… Read More Today’s thought “Nourished in the words of the faith not falling away from the faith” (November 22)
The Bible gives many practical suggestions that can help your life now. One such advice is to work hard. Paul went around the world preaching about Jesus and God’s plan with the earth but stressed that he continued to work so that he did not burden other people with feeding him. In 2 Thessalonians 3:10… Read More Today’s thought “Bible Tip for Life: Work Hard!” (November 20)
Today’s thought “Putting on the robe of compassion, kindness, humility and meekness” (November 15) How many in this world say they are a Christian but do not worship the God of Christ nor act as a follower of Christ is supposed to act? As a Christian do you find you belong to the chosen or… Read More Today’s thought “Putting on the robe of compassion, kindness, humility and meekness” (November 15)
The Divine Creator Who made man in His image provided them with ‘spiritual nutrients’ which can be absorbed most efficiently at the start of each day by taking up the Book of books, the Bible, the infallible Word of God. To stay alive we have to eat regularly and have to eat healthy food to… Read More Today’s thought “Nutritional spiritual food” (November 14)
(An excerpt from Beginning at Jerusalem, by Brother John M. Hellawell, page 317) “Paul now asks the key question which was the difficulty with which Festus struggled during the earlier hearing, when Paul affirmed that the Jesus of Nazareth whom the authorities had executed was alive again (25:19). “Why should any of you consider it… Read More Today’s thought: Paul’s defence before Agrippa (November 10)
Black skin with its splendour, though not considered by many to be as beautiful as white in human eyes, was never created by God to be inferior or less glorious. In fact Adam was earthy and there’s scientific evidence that those who are considered white today had very dark ancestors.… Read More A white very handsome Roman/Italian/European Jesus with blue eyes and long hairs or a polished bronze or dark skin coloured Jesus
Although atheism is rife in many countries, but worshipping God in a way He does not care for is also a problem. We must not be judgmental, which is God’s prerogative, but we cannot help seeing some of the differences between first century Christianity and that which exists today. Our first aim must be to… Read More Today’s thought “In vain do they worship” (August 12)
Pleased to find you here. For those who wonder what Christadelphians are … we are brothers and sisters in Christ, united by the bond of the spirit — a bond that is as unbreakable as the flesh-and-blood ties between actual family members. Our church is not just a building. It’s a home for our family.… Read More Brothers and sisters in Christ, united by the bond of the spirit
The triumph of Jesus points the way to victory in the lives of all those who follow him. We do not require the extreme rigours of the wilderness to tempt us to make stones into bread. Most men live by bread alone, and do not discover until too late that all is vanity and vexation… Read More Man does not live by bread alone
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