When looking around us we can see how man is nothing against the powers of nature. Man also tries to create a lot of things, but never can succeed to create such marvellous things as the divine Originator of all things. In the Book of books, the Bestseller of all times, we can get an… Read More The Greatness of the eternal God
Today’s thought “Worthy to suffer dishonour” (April 28) Deuteronomy 15, Ecclesiastes 7, Acts 5,6 We continue reading the laws which Moses set out in great detail for the people who would become a functioning nation in the promised land they were about to enter. These laws challenge our thinking, seeing they are divinely ordained laws –… Read More Today’s thought “Worthy to suffer dishonour” (April 28)
We have seen how God created out of the chaos and ordered universe in which He placed carnal creatures. In His Kingdom He had His Royal Garden where He placed human beings with a free will. Jehovah the divine Maker God set out to create a perfect creation but alas the very workmanship of His… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #7 Promise and solution
Salvation, trust and action in Jesus 3. If you have received Jesus Christ as your Saviour, as a Christian you should: Keep doing the things as Jesus did them. “Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.”… Read More Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #3 as a Christian
As Kevin Miller writes in his blog article about Job “Job is a book of tragedy, foolish counsel, mourning, but also great strength.” For us it can be counted as such a real romantic film: Job begins and ends happy and cheery, but in-between we get drama of high calibre. By the end of the very… Read More Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue
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
