In a previous issue of The Lampstand (Volume 7 No 6) we published a feature on Shepherds and Sheep. In this issue we consider a complementary theme under the title The Rôle of a Watchman. Both of these themes occur in consecutive chapters in Ezekiel 33 and 34 and are significantly located in the se…
“I Have Set Thee a Watchman” Read More »
Have you ever considered that doing daily Bible readings is not something peculiar to the Christadelphian Brotherhood of the last days? In his final words to Israel, Moses stressed the importance of daily mental stimulus from, and familiarity with the Word of Life. To parents in Israel, the mothers …
Daily Bible Reading: The Duty of Kings Read More »
Just below Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to the Holocaust, is a new memorial of a different kind. It is called “The Valley of the Communities”, a stark and ugly collection of huge rooms, no roofs, the walls made of very large slabs of roughly hewn rock. The visitor is not impressed with …
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Nothing is more definitely set forth in the gospel than the fact that its very heart is the work of Christ. Do we think of the gospel as the covenant with Abraham concerning everlasting inheritance of the land promised? Then we find that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth …
Forgiveness and The Gospel Read More »
From the earliest days of the Christadelphian Community, our pioneer writers have emphasised the need for regular daily Bible reading. As a young man of fifteen in 1854, Brother Robert Roberts compiled the Bible Reader’s Companion otherwise known as The Daily Bible Readings Chart, which is still r…
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Under the present conditions of imperfection forgiveness is something that affects both men and God: it affects man in relation to his fellows and man in relation to God. Although we may think of forgiveness as something inwrought in human behaviour and universally recognized, it is really a Biblica…
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Matthew 24:42, 45, 46
We cannot be exactly sure when our Lord will return. We know from the signs that it will be soon. We do know that before his appearing there will be a time of trouble such as never was, distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring. Our Lord warns us to ex…
Blessed is that Servant Read More »
Salvation depends upon the assimilation of the mind to the divine ideas, principles and affections, exhibited in the Scriptures. The process commences with a belief of the gospel but it is by no means completed thereby; it takes a life-time for its scope and untiring diligence for its accomplishment…
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Luke 21:36
Knowledge
Academically we know that the day of our judgment is fast approaching. Intellectually we understand that Israel’s present day push for security tells us that Christ is at the door. We see the nations of Europe being moulded and welded together by a common currency and open b…
“Watch Ye Therefore, and Pray Always, that Ye may be Accounted Worthy” Read More »
Mary, the Lord’s mother, was the “virtuous woman” if anyone was—her price was “far above rubies”, for she was to be the mother of the Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who said through His servant Nathan the prophet, “He shall be my son”. Uniquely, he is “the seed of the …
Two Marys—The Lord’s Mother and Mary Magdalene Read More »
