Today we read the final chapter of Peter’s second and last epistle. He says, “I am stirring up your sincere mind … that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets” (verses 1,2). Our previous reading today was Zephaniah 1, which has a challenging message for us – especially tomorrow’s chapter 2. His first… Read More Today’s thought “Remember the predictions of the holy prophets” (December 15)
We should know that the Bible speaks about the King of the North, who is a master of intrigue and a master of deception who will become so arrogant that he thinks he can do everything he wants and shall succeed to conquer even if he has the big means of destruction.… Read More Russia could use nuclear weapons to ‘end war’
War. Again. People never cease warring with one another. War is a horrifying thing, as some of you reading this can testify from direct experience. All the suffering, the death, the destruction. Why do people keep doing it? There are countless “small” wars going on every moment — not small to those affected, of course.… Read More War, why do people keep doing it
March 2, 2022 Bombardment pulverises schools and hospitals as civilian deaths ‘pass 2,000’ amid claims Kherson has fallen. Russian forces shelled schools, hospitals and homes across Ukraine yesterday as President Putin’s invasion threatened to escalate into a long war of attrition. Moscow inflicted sustained rocket attacks on the city of Kharkiv after Ukrainian forces halted… Read More Russia-Ukraine war: Putin lays waste to cities
Happy New Year everybody. We are very much pleased to find you here as a regular reader, willing to listen to our ideas and willing to follow our activities. (For you some silent fireworks – the noise is horrible for our beloved animals.) In the year 2019 we had to do it without an external… Read More Thought on the first day of the new civil year 2020
NEW COVENANT MATTHEW 5:1&2 1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain: And when He was set, His disciples came unto Him: 2 And He opened His mouth, and taught them saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven – MATTHEW 7:13 Enter ye in at… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 28 The one teaching about the Kingdom
In Joshua we read of the people crossing the Jordan into the promised land at the time when there were enough rain-showers to provide harvest time floods and when “the Jordan overflows all its banks”. (chapter 3 v.15) Because of the Name of יהוה {Jehovah} the Elohim of the Israelites the Ḥiwwites had heard the… Read More The Right One to follow and to worship
“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
The last few weeks we looked at three ‘I am“s which are often considered to be one person or by others could be seen as two characters. English people are often confused by the saying “I am”. In Belgium and many countries where the mother-tongue is not English the problem does not seem to pose.… Read More Looking at three “I am” s
In the previous chapters the rampant evil in the world was described by Job (Job 24:2-24) and we have heard the speeches of Job’s friends who got to accuse him of gaining his now lost wealth by robbing the poor, withholding sustenance from the hungry and even abusing the weaker ones like widows and orphans.… Read More Fragments from the Book of Job #4: chapters 27-31
Job and his friends agreed that God is omnipotent, omniscient, has all the wisdom and strength, is just, and perfectly good. They could bring forwards that an omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence and has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence. God can just say… Read More Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
“The Might Niush!” says that recessions, bombardment in the news about people actually being bombarded in other parts of the world, he is feeling totally exhausted and having existential angst, with no reprieve in sight. Add to this troubled cauldron, one natural disaster after another and we have yet another a new term for our… Read More Facing disaster fatigue
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