After Nisan 14, the memorial day for Jesus letting his close friends know that he would give himself as a lamb for God we got to remember him breaking the bread and sharing the wine as symbols for his flesh and blood, his soul (body and life) that he gave as a ransom payment to… Read More A perfect life, obedient death, and glorious resurrection
“ «A Psalm of David. Maschil.» Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.” (Ps 32:1 ASV) “ Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile.” (Ps 32:2 ASV) * To remember Ps 1:1 {1 } Blessed is the man that walketh not… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 47 Blessedness consisting in remission of sins
The last few weeks a lot of articles have been published on the net about the Reformation and Protestantism. When we look at those articles and hear what most authors say what Protestantism means we can question if Christadelphianism belongs to Protestantism or to something else. According to Dr. of Ministry from Bakke Graduate University in… Read More Do Christadelphians belong to Protestantism
ZECHARIAH 9:9 9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of ZION; SHOUT O Daughter of Jerusalem: Behold, thy KING cometh unto thee: HE is just, and having Salvation; Lowly, and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 3 Then shall ~ YAHWEH ~ go forth, and fight against those nations, as… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 27 Rejoicing daughter of Zion for the established Throne of David
PSALM 85:9______________ 9 Surely HIS SALVATION is nigh them that fear Him; that GLORY may dwell in our land. 10 MERCY and TRUTH are met together; RIGHTEOUSNESS and PEACE have KISSED each other. 11 TRUTH shall SPRING out of the earth; and RIGHTEOUSNESS shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, ~YAHWEH~ shall give that which… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 15 Psalms 85-120 Salvation, Mercy, Truth and Righteousness
To remember from previous verses “I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him;… Read More Memorizing wonderfully 11 Serving God
In June Bro Steve Robinson brought following exhortation, As a job I work in finance and accounting. For those of you who do not know much about this work – it does involve quite a lot of judgement and what may even be called creativity. One of statements about accountants is that an answer to… Read More Reconciled and reconciliation terms very familiar to accountants
Today’s thought “Blessed people who trust in God and share the Good News” (July 27) The day before yesterday we made a call for writers. Our Readers Digest and Lifestyle magazine From Guestwriters can do with some more writers on different subjects. We can still do with people who write about family matters, like how… Read More Today’s thought “Blessed people …” (July 27)
Today’s thought “keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law ” (May 10) In 2Kings 8:4-6 we can find a direct example of how God works the circumstances for those that love Him. It is a direct example of the truth of the words in Proverbs 16:7,… Read More Thought for those who think it is not necessary to do any works any more
In this world we may find as much craziness perhaps as Paul could find by the Galatians, him even wondering if someone put a hex on them and if they had perhaps lost their senses. Today we may find lots of Christians who put on an attitude totally against the teachings of rabbi Jeshua. They… Read More Lost senses or a clear focus on the one at the stake
Being it 2020 years ago that the master teacher Jeshua was born we should think about what place we are willing to give him in our heart. This academic year we do want to ask you to wonder about rabbi Jeshua his position. Where do you want to place him and what sort of place… Read More When we think of Jesus let us strive to realise what he means to us
Questioning why to be baptised When people come to question their faith and do find an other group may have something more to offer them or has the truth and can bring them closer to God, they often wonder why such church or group demands that they become baptised. Roman Catholics and many others who… Read More Salvation, Baptism and Re-baptism
“Salvation depends upon the assimilation of the mind to the divine ideas, principles, and affections exhibited in the Scriptures. This process commences with a belief of the gospel, but is by no means completed thereby; it takes a lifetime for its scope, and untiring diligence for its accomplishment. The mind is naturally alien from God… Read More Assimilation of the mind to the divine ideas, principles, and affections exhibited in the Scriptures
Lots of people do have lots of questions where man does not seem to have some good answer for. In the world we do find enough people who utter their ideas and bring lots of philosophical thoughts. We can listen to them and they can bring us at thinking about certain things. It is nice… Read More A Word and helping sites to give answers
lessons from Josiah’s experience God’s words are life changing, but if we do not read them and act on them as Josiah did, they may as well be hidden away from us. A neglected Bible is about as useful as a lost one. Josiah only had the ‘Book of the Law’, possibly Genesis to Deuteronomy… Read More the Bible – God’s guide for life #7 Case example – King Josiah #2 Lessons from Josiah’s experience
Looking in the world and looking at people After you have wondered about your previous church, or if you had never a church, and went looking for a church but did not see one which could attract you, you must ask yourself what you are really looking for. When looking at those people and churches… Read More When not seeing or not finding a biblically sound church
Coming together From the acts of apostles and from early civil writings of the first century of our contemporary era we come to know that those who want to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ tried to come together at different occasions. There was not set one specific day in the week, but they could… Read More Why we do not keep to a Sabbath or a Sunday or Lord’s Day #6 Sunday or the Lord’s day
“You will say on that day” (Thought of the Christadelphian Bible readings for May 22) We usually have a reasonable idea of what we are going to talk about as today progresses, also some of the things that are likely to be part of our thoughts and conversations tomorrow – but it is invaluable to… Read More You will say on that day
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
