Background & Rationale for Initiating this project. Streetkids was started in 2012 by a member of the Freetown Ecclesia who found children on the street and felt compelled to show them the love of Jesus. Interventions in young lives can make a huge difference and prevent their children becoming Streetkids themselves, and so Meal-a-Day continues to support this… Read More Streetkids project in Sierra Leone
More than one month ago, Vladimir Putin did what he had said not going to do. This is yet another proof that one cannot rely on the words of a human being. One must always be very careful when things are denied or promised. In today’s reading (Numbers 14) we also see how people easily… Read More Perplexity among the nations
In this world where more people are interested in worldly matters, mostly material matters, having not much fertile ground for spiritual matters, it is not always easy for a follower of Christ to stand firm in the faith. The apostle Jude felt he had to write to his fellow brethren to ask them to stand… Read More Today’s thought “Standing up for the faith” (December 20)
Yesterday we mentioned the difficulties that we, Christadelphians, but also the Jeshuaists and Jews may experience in Belgium and France, and how we must always respond positively to that resistance. We must, above all, avoid the negativeness towards us through our positive, loving attitude. As Christadelphians, like Jeshuaists, are real Christians, or followers of Christ… Read More Today’s thought “Darker days, presents and Love for others” (December 13)
In this world there may be lots of unkind speech, gossip, slander, but we as followers of Christ should get rid of all such evil behaviour. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all wrong and insulting language. (1 Peter 2:1) When we are Christadelphians or when we say we are a Christian, we should… Read More Today’s thought “About our attitude opposite others” (December 12)
From friends you must have it. They may speak wisely but also can utter foolishness. Job tells his friends that they take an attitude as if they know everything. His friends might be the voice of the people. Job warns them that when they die, wisdom will die with them. (Job 12:1-2) In the previous… Read More Today’s thought “Not by man but With God is the sum total of all wisdom and of all power” (December 10)
James 3 Preaching and teaching the Word of God is a serious “job”. Willing to be “servants of God” we are fully aware of the particularity but also of the seriousness and possible consequences of our task. Those who want to teach in the ecclesia should know or be aware of the strictness or strict… Read More Today’s thought “Teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others” (December 09)
“Faith is … the conviction of things not seen” is how Hebrews 11 starts. It is a familiar chapter to all regular Bible readers; it selects examples of men and women who have lived by faith, it praises them for this. They lived with a God given vision of “events as yet unseen”. Certain things… Read More Today’s thought “Events as yet unseen” (December 4)
Great the mystery of godliness 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; [a]He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the [b]nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory. {1 Timothy 3:16 American Standard Version (ASV) It can rightfully be called an… Read More Today’s thought “Great the mystery of godliness” (November 21)
Today’s thought “Bearing fruit” (November 13) For the rest of this month our New Testament readings are the letters of Paul. It was a most remarkable time; the religious thinking of a great number of people was turned upside down in many countries in just a generation or two. We are now reading about the… Read More Today’s thought “Bearing fruit” (November 13)
Today’s thought “Showing the Gospel, teaching publicly and from house to house,” (November 07) In the 3rd reading of today we listen to the apostle Paul who from the first day that he set foot in Asia, served the Lord Most High God and His sent one, in all humility of mind, and with many… Read More Today’s thought “Showing the Gospel, teaching publicly and from house to house,” (November 07)
The mountainous country with an extensive plateau covering central Anatolia, Turkey has caused Europe enough headaches in 2020 and 2021. Though a multiparty republic with one legislative house; its head of state the president is governing the country like a dictator and trying to make it a totalitarian Islamic state. Its land area is greater… Read More Turkey 2021 update
The year started with over 18,000 brothers and sisters meeting in 538 ecclesias. Meetings very soon became impossible as the Covid-19 epidemic took hold. All teaching for baptism was also limited as the Mozambique authorities had declared a state of emergency and meetings were halted and travel was severely restricted, these restrictions did prevent any… Read More Mozambique 2020 report
The British overseas territory and remote volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, Saint Helena for 16 years were visited occasionaly, and those brothers worked hard to encourage ‘The Saints’ (that is what the islanders are called) … but sadly none have shared the desire to join us ‘as Saints in Christ’ So, due… Read More St Helena & Ascension Island 2021 update
Today we look at the Words of God to Ezekiel “Son of man” who had to go and speak to the family of Israel. “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that… Read More Today’s thought (September 07): Hardened foreheads
When the Nazarene master teacher performed his miracles, he asked the healed ones to go home and tell everything God did in them. This way, several people must have gone back to the place where they came from and told all over their village or town to their own people everything Jesus had done in… Read More Today’s thought “Proclaiming the Message” (August 27)
The topic of work and careers is a major focus of young adulthood. Becoming financially independent is a goal that can be daunting, especially in our modern economy, where pressure is high and the cost of living even higher. Though work may seem like a “necessary evil,” it is much more than that. Time is… Read More Work and career a major focus of young adulthood
Today we come to read in Mark 9 how Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain. What they came to see onto that mountains was special. Jesus his appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes. His clothes shimmered, glistening white, whiter than any bleach could make… Read More Today’s thought Mark 9 A voice out of the cloud declaring Jesus to be His son (August 14)
In today’s reading of Mark 8 Jesus called his disciples together to tell them that the crowd wss breaking his heart. “1 In those days, when there was again a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, 2 I have compassion on the multitude,… Read More Today’s thought Mark 8 Which sings from Christ do you want to see (August 13)
Today we look at Jesus who returned to his hometown. His disciples came along. On the Sabbath, he gave a lecture in the meeting place. He made a real hit, impressing everyone. many were very surprised , them having no idea this Nazarene man was this good! “ And when the sabbath was come, he… Read More Today’s thought Mark 6 A carpenter son sending out 12 men (August 11)
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