Between September 1871 and April 1879 Brother Robert Roberts was involved in three significant debates. These debates form an interesting part of our Christadelphian heritage. In contrast to our own day, lectures or debates on biblical subjects attracted large audiences. Two of the debates extended …
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How can Israel – with only 7.1 million people, no natural resources, enemies on every border and in a constant state of war – produce more start-up companies than Japan, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom? Drawing on examples from the country’s foremost inventors and investors, geopo…
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Challenges
Following the death of Brother Thomas in 1871, and as editor of the largest circulating magazine within the Christadelphian community, it fell to Brother Robert Roberts at the age of 31 to guide the ecclesias. Within 15 years he had to deal with two major ecclesial problems and respond…
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Author: Masha Gessen
Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2012
Given we live in the latter days one of the signs of the times that we are likely to witness is the expected rise of a man the Scripture describes as Gog. He is to be the man at the top, the pre-eminent Autocratic Ruler, Prince of all the Rus…
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I have recently been greatly encouraged, whilst reading Principles and Proverbs by Brother Islip Collyer, and in particular by the chapter titled ‘Blessing,’ and I quote a paragraph that I felt we could all benefit and be encouraged by.
“The patriarch Jacob illustrated the truth of th…
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The majority view
The majority view of mainstream Christians today is that unless you believe in the Trinity you are not a Christian. The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity’s Self- Inflicted Wound is a useful resource in examining the doctrine’s history and its impact on Christianity. In a…
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Authorship and sources
Jewish tradition ascribes the books of Kings to the authorship of Jeremiah, and the two books are treated as one in the Hebrew Canon but divided in the Septuagint Version. There is no reliable internal evidence that Jeremiah was the author, and 2 Kings certainly goes too la…
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This intriguing work of 140 pages was written in the 1970s by Brother Graham Pearce and has been republished several times since. It continues to be popular because it fulfils a specific role and need.
When the angel introduced the vision of the famous 17th chapter of Revelation, he…
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This is a unique book. Firstly, the subject, as far as I am aware, has never been written about before. Secondly it has been a lengthy labour of love by Brother Reuben Thomas and will probably be his only book.
Brother Reuben uses as his basis for the history, the Adelaide Ecclesial baptismal reg…
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Readers of The Lampstand will already be familiar with Aunty Jean Galbraith from articles by Sister Janet Cresswell in recent editions of the magazine. Aunty Jean was a humble, faithful sister who, in her 92 years, rarely travelled far from her home in the small Gippsland town of Tyers, Vict…
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