LUKE 4:18-21 18 The Spirit of ~ YAHWEH ~ is upon me, because HE hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; HE hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 33 Preach the acceptable year of Jehovah God
Today’s thought “When in need of encouragement” (May 18) Yesterday we could see in his letter to the Thessalonians that Paul could find encouragement by the believers there of which he had many positive things to say, rather in contrast to the Corinthians. Though it appeared that there were also those in Thessalonica who were… Read More Today’s thought “When in need of encouragement” (May 18)
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Death Acts 7:55-8:1 But filled with the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. “Look,” he said, “I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” But…
In the preceding articles we looked at the reasons why it is not so goo to have one person to be in isolation. We also argued that the person or persons living in isolation should know and feel they are not on their own. In a way it might be the task for those who… Read More Being in isolation #7 Mission work
If no one died because of War — how different would worlds appear to be. You may wonder why there is so much trouble in this world. Some would say religion is the cause of all that trouble, but they should know that there are more killings by non-religious terror acts or secular related violence.… Read More If no one died because of War – how different would worlds appear to be
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
After Jesus brought the Good News of the Kingdom of God and had left this world his disciples continued doing what Jesus had asked them to do, to go out in the world and to tell all about the possibilities to find salvation and how to enter the Kingdom of God. Years passed by and… Read More The Big conversation – Antagonists
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
As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that Christians are a Moral Majority. For the Christadelphian community it was already very clear that Christendom had gone astray and that not many people knew the essence of the Divine Creator and His Plan. In certain parts of the world… Read More Engaging the culture without losing the gospel
We, personally do find Christadelphians should be more willing to come forth to the general public and should preach more. We also find it frustrating that at our call for writers for our lifestyle magazines Stepping toes and From Guestwriters we did have no response at all. Nobody replied and nobody came forward to share… Read More Positive Preaching Day 2015
Our denomination, the same as all others in Christendom has difficulties to grow. Some ecclesiae have a status quo but there are also some who see the old people falling asleep and not many joining, making the ecclesia smaller and smaller. Perhaps many may think tit does not matter so much as long as we… Read More The Big Conversation
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
Those who go up in the mountains or just go out in the fields, now in Summer, may sit there at night and count the stars. Though both the stars in the sky and the particles of sand we may find on the beach are too numerous to count. However, there is a gigantic difference… Read More Counting sands and stars
On July the 30th we have the readings of the apostle Paul, who first demonstrated that Jews and Gentiles alike are sinners in the eyes of God and therefore worthy of death but that the gentiles also can be accepted by God and though not physically circumcised can be spiritually circumcised. (This aspect was subject… Read More Hope by faith and free gift
“Showing by the scriptures that …” (Thought by the Bible readings for May 7) The references to “the scriptures” in the New Testament refer to the use of the ‘Old Testament’ in the preaching of the message of Christ. It is very disappointing that so many who see themselves as ‘Christians’ today only read the… Read More Showing by the scriptures that …
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
Typically of Biblestudents is that they do take the Word of God seriously. They also like to look at the Bible and place it in the light of what is going on today in this world. Watching what is going on many bible-students become convinced that the return of our Lord Jesus cannot be long… Read More Looking on what is going on and not being of it
Nearly 2000 years ago Paul was at pains to remind the ecclesia that the gospel had brought them out from their former life of immorality into the purity of new Jerusalem, to be presented as a pure chaste virgin to her loving husband. The apostle Paul who had a tent-making business knew about what he… Read More Sunday 7 September service: Imitate prophets and Paul
Jesus has given us life-breath. He had only a little three years to go around in the area where he could come, around his habitat. Distances in his time took many hours to travel. Today we can be somewhere far away in a couple of minutes or just a few hours. What took days for… Read More Breathing to teach
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
