Without ligaments and tendons our skeletal frame would be just a pile of unconnected bones. Ligaments are elastic structures which connect bone to bone in our joints, whilst tendons are cord-like inelastic structures that connect muscles to bones. Tendons are under extreme stress when mu…
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Introduction
Some people hate to do it. Some love to do it. Some go to great lengths to avoid doing it. Some do it too much. While there are many different attitudes toward work, one thing remains constant: work must be done. Since the Garden of Eden everyone has worked or depended upon someo…
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Background
Smyrna is known today as modern Izmir; located at the south east edge of the gulf of Smyrna and situated on a long peninsula that thrusts out to the beautiful Aegean Sea. In spite of the earthquakes and other events that Smyrna suffered through the centuries, the city had pro…
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The main function of the muscular system is movement. Muscle is the only tissue in the body that has the ability to contract and, therefore, move other parts of the body. Without muscles, nothing would work in the body.
Muscles control posture and body position as well. They often contrac…
There are 304,805 Hebrew consonant letters in the first 5 books of the Bible and altogether there are 1,196,824 Hebrew letters in the complete Old Testament.
It is not surprising therefore to know that every now and then the scribes who were copying the text made a spelling mistake …
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Introduction/Background
The letter to the Ephesians gives us a good picture of what life in Ephesus was like:
Materialistic – Eph 1:7,18; 2:7; 3:8,16
Immoral – Eph 4:20-24; 5:3-5
Idolatrous – Eph 2:21; Acts 19:27
Acts 18:19 records Paul’s first visi…
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The Sparrow
The Hebrew word is tsippor, which is rendered “fowl” seven times, “bird” 64 times and “sparrow” twice (Psa 84:3; 102:7). It is used of any small “clean” bird, but in the LXX the Greek word strouthion refers specifically to the sparrow.
The sparrow be…
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Dear Brother Carl
Greetings in the One Faith we share.
We are delighted to inform you that there is now a new Central ecclesia in Kaikoura, New Zealand. A group of brothers and sisters from the Old Paths fellowship in Kaikoura made a request to the Christchurch ecclesia to joi…
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1:14 – His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; (ie purest white)
–head = Christ; hair = multitude ‘at one’ with the head
–wool: saints are the sheep of his pasture
–white: justified and washed (Isa 1:18)
and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
–eye = intelli…
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Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.
More than 40% of insect species are dec…
