He had a custom or regular habit and it centred around the Word of God. Each Sabbath he was found in the synagogue and there he regularly contributed to the public reading of the Scriptures. It is likely that he excelled at this because he could read with authority and understanding. He would have …
The Lord Jesus called most of his apostles from the districts around Galilee. Of these, at least four were fishermen, and would have been very familiar with the Sea of Galilee and it’s changing weather patterns. The homes of some of them were in the villages along the shores of the lake, and they …
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Whatever the possible background events in David’s life from which Psalm 22 could have been written, we can certainly be encouraged by his desire to focus on the Messiah during his trials. David was God’s prophet who “testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should foll…
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It is common for Bible students to describe the book they are currently studying in glowing terms, often describing it as the most exceptional book in the Bible. It is only natural and allows the student to share their enthusiasm for the Word of God with others. A study of the Song of Songs …
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England and Palestine
Bible and Sword was written by Barbara Tuchman. She was Jewish and the granddaughter on her mother’s side of Henry Morgenthau (Snr), US President Woodrow Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman empire during World War I.
Throughout her book, Tuchman traces the…
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The mountains behind our home are inhabited by rattlesnakes. Every year many people hiking in the foothills are bitten. Most of the bites are on the hands, rather than the legs and feet. Why would that be? Rattlesnakes cannot bite hands unless the hand gets close to their fangs. Even in the Garden o…
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Situated on the celebrated Silk Road, modern Hamadan was once a place of magnificent splendour, an Achaemenid royal capital known in antiquity as Ecbatana.
Little evidence of that former glory remains. Today a visitor finds a town centred around a memorial to the Iran-Iraq war. One of the longest…
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In our previous two articles, we reviewed the EC proposal that “death” and “mortality” are referring to two different unrelated concepts, and found it to have no scriptural basis. EC proponents teach that the death (Gk thanatos) that entered into the world when Adam sinned was not the normal…
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On 11 February 2014 a news headline screamed: “IRAN 1979: THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION THAT SHOOK THE WORLD. Celebrating its 35th anniversary, Iran’s Islamic Revolution shocked the world and redrew the map of global alliances.”1
The causes of the revolution lay with the increasingly authoritarian…
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