The Hoddesdon Conference 2020 shall bring A weekend of praise, worship, Bible teaching and practical living. On Saturday: 16 workshops covering Bible study and practical living. On Sunday: Breaking of Bread and a study from Steve Ash (Oxford). His subject is “Life, the Universe and Everything”. Further details can be seen on their web site… Read More Hoddesdon Christadelphian Conference 20-22 March 2020
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)
Already in the first Book of books man is confronted with his surroundings, the Word of God talking about astronomic elements. By some scientists the connection of the universe and the Divine Maker is something which not only belongs to a black hole, but to something which they not seem to find to recollect with… Read More Astronomy and the Bible
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
After the fifth period in creation the sixth session brought forth ‘living souls‘ or ‘living things’ or ‘living beings’ which could multiply, making the earth having more of their sort. They were not in the image of God, but on the ‘sixth day‘ the Divine Creator decided to make some living being after His image.… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind
Thousands of years ago there was a void, but there also was the Eternal Being that ever was and always shall be, having had no birth and never having an end or not able to die. That divine Eternal Being “That is” or “I Am“, the “I Am Who Am” or the “I Am Who… Read More The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything
What do we need in life? Health. Peace. Food. Love. Freedom. Warmth. Hope. I suppose one of these would come top of most people’s list of what they most need in life. If instead of need we asked what do we most want in life the answers could be quite different. Perhaps more about possessions… Read More the Bible – God’s guide for life #2 Needs in life
INTRODUCTION The American Bill Bryson wrote a book about his experiences in Britain called Notes from a Small Island. In it he describes an the English approach to travel: If you mention in a pub that you intend to drive from, say, Surrey to Cornwall… your companions will puff their cheeks, look knowingly at each… Read More the Bible – God’s guide for life #1 Introduction
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
A taster article from the October 2012 edition of the Christadelphian magazine Book review: Science and God’s existence This brilliantly argued, and authoritative book uses powerful new evidence from the cutting edge of science to challenge aggressive atheism head on. The author is Professor in Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Mathematics… Read More Science and God’s existence
