The first Daily Bible Readings of the year tells us about the beginning of everything and how man received the earth. In Genesis 1 we read on the first day of the year how the Unseen Eternal Spirit Being out of nowhere, time, space, and all the living whirl forth, as Elohim or God spoke… Read More Today’s thought “Allowed to have dominion over the universe” (January 02)
Last week we praised God for creation, for the beauty and wonder of this fragile blue planet which he has entrusted to us. The perfection of God’s creation, tragically followed by mankind’s fall through disobedience, is recounted in the book of Genesis. Have you noticed how this is echoed in the account of the flood,… Read More The Sukkah and a Harvest Festival in Newbury and in Leuven
From the chaos God had ordered everything. First the planets, than all living creatures and then human creatures or beings we call “human“, “male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27). God gave this couple (male and female) a mandate to reign over all other creatures (see Genesis 1:28) thus placing them above all other… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution
After the choice Adam and Eve made to go against the Will of God, eating of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, God came to deal with three parties in the fall of mankind: Adam, Eve and the serpent. An alleged fourth – the devil – is not mentioned in… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse
The first chapter of the first book of Moses, the Bereshith or Genesis, indicates that even in this manuscript giving a summary of the events of the evolution of all things it was recognised that there where two sexes. 27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner
Many times people ask us why we have our services also in the middle of the week and how it can be that are members can work on a Sabbath, a Saturday or a Sunday. Every day a day of and for God For us every day is a day of God and should also… Read More Why we do not keep to a Sabbath or a Sunday or Lord’s Day #1 Before rain of food from heaven
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