The rules for Christ’s followers embrace all aspects of life: the mutual relationships of husband and wife; of master and servant of fathers and children (Ephesians 5:24–6:9). The duty of love to fellow man is the one unsettled debt: but the love of neighbour springs out of the love of God which is begotten in… Read More Today’s Thought (August 04): Rules for Christ’s followers
Jan Smith wrote I have watched a pair of blackbirds build a nest in the honeysuckle very close to my patio doors; I saw how patiently the female sat on the eggs and, once they hatched, I marvelled how hard both parents worked from dawn to dusk to feed the scrawny little chicks. I was… Read More Parents and children in and out our church family
Prayer Theme for June 2021 Our Father. In the United Kingdom and Belgium, June is the month where we celebrate Father’s Day. In Catholic Countries it has been celebrated on 19th March as ‘Saint Joseph’s Day’ since the Middle Ages. The date now varies from country to country but is thought to be celebrated in… Read More Prayer Theme for June 2021: Our Father
Continuing to look at the way we could form and keep an ecclesia we refer again to an early twentieth century writing of Frank Jannaway. At that time the ecclesiae could flourish, but today in the time of Covid-19 we can only notice how a lot of our members are elderly people. Some find the… Read More Leading Brethren
It’s easy to take our children for granted but, during this lockdown, how I have missed my class! At the end of March, parents in our ecclesia decided they would provide Sunday School for their own children but it soon became apparent that they were missing out on interacting with one another and so the… Read More A teacher from the Sunday class muses…
In Relationships The apostle Peter wrote about partners in a marriage where only one of them was a believer and this is what he advised: “Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their… Read More How should we worship God? #10 In Relationships
Christian Congregations The writer of this course is a Christadelphian. He belongs to a group of people who have from earliest times sought to rediscover exactly what the Bible teaches. This community was established in the 19th century and its founder members all sought to practise what we have been learning to do – to… Read More How should we worship God? #4 Christian Congregations
Did Abraham play this Royal Game of Ur? The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares or simply the Game of Ur, is a two-player strategy race board game that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC. This is an ancient game represented by two… Read More The Royal Game of Ur
Soon we enter 2020 and yesterday we took a special moment to show our thankfulness to the Sovereign Maker and Giver of all things. The beginning of this century looks just a few steps behind us, time seemingly going faster and faster as we get along being confronted with the daily troubles of politicians and… Read More Being thankful for the Word spoken to us by God
Bringing up children has always brought its challenges. However the 21st century seems to bring more challenges than previous generations experienced. The Testimony published: In the nurture and admonition of the Lord This book, in around 30 chapters written by different authors, give a Biblical perspective on the subject. It seeks to offer support and… Read More In the nurture and admonition of the Lord
Everyday we do have to face our self. In this world we encounter so many people who are not happy with their looks, their work, their politicians, their “this and that”! When not happy with the own body many look for aesthetic corrections. The Coffeeshop rabbi writes Often we adopt a resolution because there is… Read More Do we need to learn to accept ourselves as we are?
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
We pondered why the above saying rather suddenly occurs in today’s very moving and oft-quoted 1 Corinthians 15. Parts of this chapter are often read at funerals; it contains a powerful testimony to the certainty of resurrection and that “in Christ shall all be made alive” (verse 22) eternally “at his coming”, adding the qualification… Read More Bad company ruins good morals
In Flanders many Roman Catholics did not feel good with the happenings in their Catholic church and asked to be written out of the community. though there is something strange with the ciphers the Church and the state are giving, which are not in accordance with certain organisations who also send request to the church… Read More Feeling-good, search for happiness and the church
We cannot ignore what happens today and have to be conscious of what happened yesterday. We cannot remain isolated and detached from the world. Though, some people try to hide behind their cell phone or computer or television screen indulging in imaginative pictures. Today we have a lot of extraction and ways to exercise our… Read More Profitable disasters
Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuven 