We do hope you enjoyed a lovely holiday or that you still may come to enjoy a great period of rest and tranquillity without worries. Who would not love the Summertime, having more time for oneself, not having to go to work, not having to face the daily traffic jams, etc. Having more time to… Read More A marvellous Summer ending
Between 1995 and 2007 Mr. Marcus Ampe (M.A.)and the “Man from the North” Mr. D.H. (D.H.) were very active on the internet and MSN Groups, defending the “Faith in One God”. At a certain time there were serious problems in the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) organisation because of child abuse and several Witnesses having problems with… Read More The untiring response of some Christadelphians
From the southern part of this globe, the last few weeks we got several requests for financial help. Several of those people who contacted us via Messenger on our Facebook pages and one person here on this website admitted they even do not believe in God. We wonder if they believe in the devil Satan,… Read More The post-Christian world
Two weeks ago we had a bible study in Newburry, Mons and Leefdaal, about The Great Flood and the floods in this world and time system. Today we are going to look at more than just some floods or water rises which took place on this globe. We are going to talk about more than ordinary… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 1 Flooding and Water-waves
Today’s thought “Circumcise your heart” (May 12) 6 The Lord, your God, will circumcise your hearts[a] and the hearts of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being, in order that you may live. (Deuteronomy 30:6 New American Bible Revised Edition) 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskins… Read More Today’s thought “Ability to circumcise your heart” (May 13)
Intro Last year, for the Newbury ecclesia, I gave a bible class about our Belgian situation of isolation. From the beginning of our existence we could not count on many members and can we not say we had many contacts and exchanges with worldwide members and other ecclesiae. We every year where happy to receive… Read More Being in isolation #1 Baptists making an important choice
Yesterday and today’s readings (2 Kings 7-8, Lamentations 3-4, 1 Corinthians 16– 2 Corinthians 1-2) bring to us very practical chapters demonstrating how God knows the future but also how He is willing to share His knowledge with us so that we can prepare ourselves for the hard times to come. In this week where… Read More Listening to the lessons of the Bible and looking for ways to please God
One week after the 14th of Nisan we have come to read the familiar story of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. After weeks of hearing the stories of Jesus walking around proclaiming the Kingdom of God we once more come to see how he was considered a danger to be get rid off. Hanging… Read More Internet meeting 2016 March 30, Tuesday
On the 2nd of January 2016 the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. This summary and the one for our Brethren site may give you an idea where we stand in the world of bloggers, were lots of words get much more viewings than ours, but where we try… Read More The Belgian Christadelphian ecclesia sites 2015 in review
In the United Kingdom people may find several villages and towns where there reside Christadelphians, a body of Christians who try to base their beliefs and practices wholly on the Bible, which they regard as God’s word. They try therefore to rid themselves of the various ideas and rituals which have attached themselves to Christendom… Read More The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom
The reason why the Belgian Free Christadelphians made an opening to thoughts of others is explained in Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings. We can not go beyond the fact that the Christadelphian community has problems getting enough people coming to their ecclesiae. In Belgium, which you also could call a A-religious country,… Read More Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church
After being questioned about keeping the Sabbath or Sunday people ask us why we do not have our worship services in a ‘normal church with bell tower’ and why we do not have any priests leading the service. First of all followers of Christ should come together regularly. Nowhere is specified it should be in… Read More Why we do not have our worship-services in a church building
Dave Burke asks: Why is our local preaching so unsuccessful while our overseas evangelism rises from strength to strength? It’s not that we don’t know how to evangelise, or that preaching the Gospel isn’t important to us. Instead I believe it’s because overseas mission work is largely unfettered by the restrictions of the pervading culture… Read More Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
There can be bad and good days in a persons life. The same for organisations, companies and communities there may be moments which are very much liked and others they would prefer to forget as soon as possible. We also were not saved from the ups and downs. The season 2013-2014 got started with lots… Read More Belgian Christadelphians 2013 & 2014 in review
Originally posted on Stepping Toes:
In the readings of today we look at the brothers and sisters in Corinth some 2000 years ago. In Belgium the community has been troubled by persons perhaps wanting to claim to have the right to make foundations and to direct the groups of people wanting to come together under…
Originally posted on Belgian Biblestudents – Belgische Bijbelstudenten:
Figures in history Photograph of Charles Taze Russell. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Throughout history lots of religions had troubles with certain figures wanting to have control over everything and wanting to be the main leader. The Biblestudent movement is no different than any other Christian denomination. In its…
Dear readers of this and other websites from the Belgian Christadelphians, We would like to apologise to you for having had an enforced silence in our little circle. Some people wanted to gag the Belgian Christadelphians and managed to silence some of our websites, the Facebook page Christadelphia and the Google+ page of the responsible… Read More Delay in publications because attack from outside
The previous weekends our thought were with the many people who died in the many wars. In World War I it looked for many as if the world would come to an end. And after the horrible battle was finished many thought it would never happen again. Chris Adwards, in the first weekend of November… Read More A day without taking the symbols
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
Religious Practices around the world, Compiled and Explained – posted by Andy Rau — How many Christians–or Hindus, or Muslims, or Buddhists–are there in the world? What country contains the highest percentage of atheists? What and where are the largest churches in the world? All of these questions and hundreds of others are answered at adherents.org[1],… Read More Religious Practices around the world
