This article is compiled from some thoughts prepared by Brother Mark Giordano of the Norfolk Ecclesia in Virginia, USA. The original and fuller version was recently presented to ecclesias involved in “reunion considerations” in North America but it was felt that the important principles involved…
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The following excerpt is taken from the well-known work “The Land and the Book” by WM Thomson, who recorded his observations during a visit to Palestine in 1857. His comments on the behaviour of shepherds and sheep is quite remarkable and it is very easy to see why the Lord chose the illustratio…
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The following words from the pen of Brother Robert Roberts remind us of the wonderful work that has been accomplished for us by the Good Shepherd who gave his life for the sheep and by the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the Sheep, through the blo…
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Misrepresentations regarding the doctrine of grace were being promoted even as the ink of the New Testament was drying. Paul protested with a “God forbid!” in Romans 6 to a gross misuse of grace—“Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” Jude also records a similar deviation by men…
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With the world in a state of crisis and near hysteria, we who have “known these things before” by the grace of God and through His Word, cannot be complacent about the state of affairs. We have hope that the end of all things as at present constituted is at hand; we mourn the terrible loss of li…
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A quick perusal of recent articles in this series reveals how clearly the prophecies are fitting into place. The working of the ‘frog like spirits’ throughout the earth, the burdensome stone of Jerusalem, the uniting of Europe around a strong Germany and a Franco-German alliance with Russia, are…
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The story of Jonah is a masterpiece of brevity. Its few verses reward the reader with vivid human drama and suspense; with passionate prayer; with faith and defiance. But above even these things it favours us with an intriguing insight into the mind of a man who is at once an erudite scholar, a love…
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In England recently different religious groups decided they would take steps to bring about greater unity among themselves. To do this they invited young people from different groups to join together in a ‘soup kitchen’ to serve the poor and needy in their local area. The objective was that thro…
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A few months ago, two Sydney ecclesias combined to conduct a series of seminars for Indonesian people. All up, eighteen people attended over the three Saturdays, with most of them being present at all sessions. The final session was the crucial one. It was entitled, “One Bible, Many Churches—Doe…
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The factors of justification are three: all are definable in scriptural language. We are “justified by grace”, we are “justified by faith” and we are “justified by the blood of Christ”. These are not alternative ways of justification; the terms all converge on the one act by which God ch…
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