Today’s thought “We rejoice in hope” (July 30) Romans 5 and 6 need to be read and digested slowly – like rich food! Paul proclaims that believers “having been justified by faith … have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ … have also obtained access by faith in to this grace in which… Read More Today’s thought “We rejoice in hope” (July 30)
“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)
Today, in the early morning service we prayed to God and thanked Him for those who came from the Muslim faith and found our community to be under the wings of our master Jesus. You may or may not be aware of the problems with Covid widespread in Folkestone Camp. On the 20th of this… Read More Change of life and being confronted with persecution and isolation
Are we feeling hemmed in, locked up, restricted and perhaps a little ‘stir crazy’? Spare a thought for Noah and his family. They entered the ark on the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noah’s life (Genesis 7:11) and God shut them in. They did not leave the ark until… Read More Some comfort in Times of isolaton
Are we feeling hemmed in, locked up, restricted and perhaps a little ‘stir crazy’? Spare a thought for Noah and his family. They entered the ark on the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noah’s life (Genesis 7:11) and God shut them in. They did not leave the ark until… Read More For some comfort in corona times
In our life, we have to make choices and have to fin d the way to God by Jesus Christ. Like the faithful women and men of old had the ability to see beyond the present we also must have faith and trust in God.… Read More Those who choose to glorify God, and those who choose to go their own way
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
Today’s thought “Arise O LORD! Let not man prevail” (January 4) Our daily readings today provide us with many thoughts and meditations. David’s Psalms are, in most cases, prayers – and how appropriate are some of them for us in 2019 – especially the final verses of Psalm 9. “Arise, O LORD! Let not man… Read More Today’s thought “Arise O LORD! Let not man prevail” (January 4)
Today’s thought Favouritism and prejudice (January 18) Genesis 31, Psalm 35, Matthew 20 One characteristic of human nature that God does not like, which was evident in our readings today in Genesis, is the effect of favouritism and its resulting unfairness and potential to create prejudice. We see God’s reaction to Jacob’s favouritism toward Rachel… Read More Today’s thought Favouritism and prejudice (January 18)
Today’s thought “God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark” (January 04) Yesterday we came to read the history of Noah where the Divine Creator gave the people a period of 120 years, in which they could repent of their sinful ways. There we got… Read More Today’s thought “God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark” (January 04)
Today’s thought “A Damaged and Wicked World” (January 03) Reading 1: Genesis 5-6; From the void came everything into being by the divine Creator Speaking, His Word (the Logos) sounding over the space, making everything to happen like God wanted it to happen. We saw how God created man in His own image. On the… Read More Today’s thought “A Damaged and Wicked World” (January 03)
EZEKIEL 14:14 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith Adenoi ~ YAHWEH ~ #### ——- EZEKIEL 18:23 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 22 Jealous God not heaving pleasure in the wicked
“1 god blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, “be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. 2 the fear and dread of you will be upon every wild animal, every bird in the air, every creature populating the ground, and all the fish in the sea; they have been handed over to… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 16 Sign of the Covenant with Noah
“13 by the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and, yes, the surface of the ground was dry. 14 it was on the twenty-seventh day of the second month that… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 15 A ground never cursed in such way anymore
“1 god remembered Noach, every living thing and all the livestock with him in the ark; so god caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to go down. 2 also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the sky were stopped, the rain from the sky was… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 14 Flooding rain stopped
“1 {ii} \@ADONAI\@ said to Noach, “come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me. 2 of every clean animal you are to take seven couples, and of the animals that are not clean, one couple; 3 also of the… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 13 Noah’s ark and the flood
God saw how bad the world had become and wanted to bring an end to it.… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 12 Corrupted earth
European myths In our regions we do have the Celtic stories and Norse Mythology like the Bergelmir or “Mountain Yeller” or “Bear Yeller” where like in the Chinese mythology can be found a bear, who has now become a frost giant, the son of giant Þrúðgelmir and the grandson of Ymir (who was called Aurgelmir… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 6 European myths
Hebrew story of the flood In the story of the Flood that follows there are evident borrowings from the Mesopotamian stories of a flood sent by the gods to destroy mankind, but in the biblical account it is emphasized that man’s extreme wickedness is the cause and that Noah is saved along with his family… Read More The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 3 Mythic theme 2 Hebrew story of the flood
A demographic isolation is what comes not only to the Belgian Christadelphians but to many of this faith group because there are just not enough Christadelphians all over the world. That is a fact we do have to live with. The small numbers of areas in which Christadelphians are located with congregations and the movement… Read More Being in isolation #5 Isolated Biblical figures and Confessional isolation
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