Exposition / Politics and Skepticism Conspiracy Thinking and Radical Skepticism There is a strong mistrust in society today, a spirit of suspicion and skepticism that is almost pathological. The COVID-19 experience has bred a lot of it, with debates about vaccination, wearing masks, etc. Conspiracy thinking is very much on the rise. Subject matter experts are… Read More Conspiracy Thinking and Radical Scepticism
Fellowship is a wonderful means of communion, partnership and sharing with the members of a family whose Head is God, the Father, and whose Son is the Lord Jesus. Several times during his ministry he identified his followers as his brethren, and after his resurrection he said to the women who were on their way… Read More Today’s Thought: Go, tell my brethren (July 27)
Some criticism Frank George Jannaway had at some ecclesiae their exhortations at the beginning of the 20th century It is, alas, only too true that some Sunday morning exhortations are not what they profess to be. In many such there is no real exhortation in the Apostolic sense. Real exhortation is that referred to by… Read More Exhortations
Today at our service we had a live meeting on Zoom but this time without a live exhortation. For all, we include the video of this morning sermon here on this platform as well, so that we can reach also people who were not at our service this morning. We do hope you enjoy it… Read More Today’s exhortation on Mark 10 With God all things are possible
Congregational Worship Paul does not spend time in this letter explaining how worship should be arranged, but he does this in other letters. For example, in his letters to the believers at Corinth he deals with problems they were having in their communal worship. It is something to watch out for as you are reading… Read More How should we worship God? #5 Congregational Worship
The storyline is so simple yet the message is extremely powerful. The comments by Jesus are as follows; “The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, which, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.” (Matthew 13:45&46). We can imagine the… Read More The Pearl of Great Price
2tim 3:16 Every scripture, is God-breathed (2315. θεόπνευστος theopneustos), and profitable–unto teaching, unto conviction, unto correction, unto the discipline that is in righteousness,– [Inbreathing (2315 /theópneustos) relates directly to God’s Spirit(Gk pneuma) which can also be translated “breath.”] [G. Archer, “2315 (theópneustos) is better rendered ‘breathed out by God’ as the emphasis is upon the… Read More The doctrine of emanation
Three simple examples of confession call us to the ranks of those whom God can heal. Listen to Isaiah, as he cries, “I am undone”, as recorded in his sixth chapter: “I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips …”… Read More Examples of confession
In June Bro Steve Robinson brought following exhortation, As a job I work in finance and accounting. For those of you who do not know much about this work – it does involve quite a lot of judgement and what may even be called creativity. One of statements about accountants is that an answer to… Read More Reconciled and reconciliation terms very familiar to accountants
In this world we may find as much craziness perhaps as Paul could find by the Galatians, him even wondering if someone put a hex on them and if they had perhaps lost their senses. Today we may find lots of Christians who put on an attitude totally against the teachings of rabbi Jeshua. They… Read More Lost senses or a clear focus on the one at the stake
Philippians 4:1-9 The Scriptures 1998+ (1) So then, my brothers, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Master, beloved. (2) I appeal to Euodia and I appeal to Suntuche to be of the same mind in the Master. (3) And I also ask you, true companion, help these women who laboured… Read More Thought for September 8 Weak but standing strong in the ground swell
The world may be in unbalance and lots of people not knowing where to look at for finding peace in their heart. Many may be taken by the fear of what is going on now, but not knowing yet what for terrible things shall be coming unto mankind soon. They shall not be prepared because… Read More Man’s own fault and the choice to flee from fear
With all the terror attacks and with so many criticising religion lots of people are really getting afraid to tell others that they honestly believe in God and read the Bible regularly. God loving people are already a rarity. But having them hide will not help to get others coming to God. In these time… Read More Not or well Ashamed of the gospel and admitting to be a God loving person
After or in-between our series on finding a church, we would like to share an exhortation given a few weeks back by brother Simon Peel at the Newbury ecclesia which we could follow thanks to the Google Hangouts. It referred back to the second part of the two Books of Chronicles (or the Diḇrê… Read More Queen of Sheba visits Solomon
“God has not destined us for wrath” (The Christadelphian thought by the readings for May 19) We follow on from our thoughts yesterday about our “our hearts being established blameless in holiness” with Paul’s conclusion to his first letter to the Thessalonians where he stresses very strongly to them that “having put on the breastplate… Read More God has not destined us for wrath
“For it is no empty word” (Thought from the Christadelphian to the bible readings of May 15) We read today the song Moses spoke “in the ears of all the assembly of Israel”. The song is long and has a remarkable text. They were expected to learn it, to bring it to mind as they… Read More For it is no empty word
In the coming days we shall look at the way how we can look at things and how we have to be conscious about those things we see around us and how they fit into the Plan of the Creator. We shall look at that what many in this world do not see any more… Read More May reading the Bible provoke us into action to set our feet on the narrow way
A little bit late placed on this site: the exhortation of our Sunday service April 12, but we looked first at the reason why we should look at the saviour, Jesus Christ to be the man to look for and to believe in, because he is the Resurrection and the Life. We need to believe… Read More John 4 exhortation: The one that broke the mould
In this world many are not interested in God. Others are but make their own god. In the Christian world there are many who prefer to keep to human dogma‘s instead of taking the words of the bible for what they say and mean. Today there are still lots of Christians who do not want… Read More Believing in the send one and understanding that one does not live by bread alone
In serving Jesus, we must ourselves seek to show love by what we do. There will be times when we need to be gentle as he was with his disciples when they faltered, and he said “O you of little faith” (Luke 12:28; but read verses 22-31). We might think of what we want, but… Read More Message to teenagers
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