THERE are times when we have to start again. It happens in simple things like taking the wrong turning when we have to go back to the crossroads; or, when we wrongly follow the knitting pattern and have to undo rows of stitches.
Does this happen in marriage? A recent report in a newspaper describ…
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MARRIAGE begins before the wedding day. Not, as we have seen, in the most intimate physical sense; but in the building of a new relationship. Marriage is a structure, a true building, and not merely an event in time.
Take your time about marriage. Knowingly to cement a wrong relationship is askin…
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ONE of the surprises about marriage can be to discover that we now have four ‘parents’ instead of two. This can be a joyous realisation or a painful one. We have to learn to come to terms with our new and enlarged family. Not only have we four parents but we have extra brothers and sisters, some…
This article first appeared in The Christadelphian Magazine some twenty years ago and addressed an issue which is just as relevant in some parts of our community today. Even if we feel that our ecclesia is not affected by such activities as the article addresses, it is nevertheless a timely warning …
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YOU can buy a clock that is accurate to millionths of a second, but it cannot give you more time. Everyone has 24 hours each day, neither more nor less. But there are some days when we seem to cram a week into a day, and others when we say, ‘I have nothing to show for it’.
Marriage’s port…
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WHY marriage today? Is marriage different these days? Is the basis of Christian marriage different from marriage in Old Testament times? God made man and woman and their creation took place in two steps, first man and then woman. Man came from the dust, but woman came from the living Adam. E…
IF you are like me, you have a go at making your new gadget or computer programme work without reading the directions. The computer programme has a plaintive, ‘Read me’, section and even a ‘Help’ key to succour the desperate: nevertheless, most of us push ahead on our own. There seems to b…
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IN Britain, it is compulsory by law to take out insurance to cover injury or damage we might cause to other persons and to their vehicles when driving our own. It is a sensible law and provides some redress when other people suffer loss or injury.
We live in a world where third party damage t…
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What’s gone wrong? The dream seems to have been shattered; the peaceful and comforting harmony is in discord, and it hurts. Can our happiness be recaptured? Almost always, it can.
Unexpected?
Did we really expect perfection? After all, two sinners have become man and wife and that provides fer…
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Royal weddings are special events. They provide a spectacle not to be missed. The bride’s dress is first a subject for speculation and then a cause of wonder and admiration as she steps from her coach into the sunlight. The bridegroom, though usually higher in rank, takes second place.
The invi…
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