How time flies! The Mount Barker ecclesia will be thirteen years old on 11 March 2007, and it is astonishing to look back over those years and consider how our members and their families have grown, how the ecclesial world has changed, how the nations have careered on toward Armageddon! May the Lord…
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Tribulation. It’s a strange word. It’s an uncomfortable word. It’s a word that spells trouble—severe affliction, suffering, distress, oppression. It’s not the kind of thing we welcome. It’s the kind of thing we actively avoid. We do everything we possibly can to keep it at arms’ length…
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How can ecclesias most effectively respond to the new interpretations that are now being promoted in regard to the role of sisters?
Begin by understanding
An effective response calls for wisdom, a combination of insight and practical action. But understanding must come first – an understanding o…
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“Why should I bother with events that took place when my grandparents were going to Youth Group? The Unity Basis of Fellowship was published in The Christadelphian of March 1958, and the Unity Book which documents the Basis was first published in 1963. We need to look forward, not backward. How ar…
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This article is the second one dealing with aspects of our service involving our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The first, in the previous issue, entitled “Lord, Teach us to Pray”, considered the matter of prayers in relation to him. They are important matters not often considered in detail. It …
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Taking the whole armour of God
Forewarned is forearmed. If we understand the process by which temptation takes hold on heart and mind, we are that much better prepared to resist it. That is why Paul urged us, “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the d…
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D. The Allegory of Hagar and Sarah (4:21–5:1)
Paul returns to his exposition of the true relationship between the Promises and the Law, concluding with a master-stroke. In these verses we are reminded of the exceptional student, engaged in his rabbinical studies at the feet of Gamaliel. He has …
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III. C. A series of appeals (4:1–20)
And now Paul launches two passionate appeals, the first to the head, the second to the heart of the Galatians. In the first (4:1–11), he affirms that they are no longer slaves to the Law, or young children under the Law’s oversight, but the sons and daught…
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III.B.v. The Law’s role temporary (3:19-25)
19 “Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is o…
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What does God want? A man came to the Lord Jesus, and that is what he asked: “Which is the first commandment of all?” (Mark 12:28).
1,500 pages, 66 books, one of them comprising 150 individual pieces, 1,189 chapters in total, 31,103 verses, rich with stories and laws and drama and praye…
