Do all to the Glory of God is the title of a booklet produced in recent years and containing “a short treatise on standards for Christadelphians”. We have adopted the theme of this booklet as our feature for the current copy of The Lampstand because the times in which we live are urgent and the …
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We live in a world captivated by new technology and gadgets. Billions of dollars worldwide go into developing and marketing mobile phones, computers, entertainment systems and so on. There seems to be no end to man’s insatiable thirst for this kind of consumerism and both young and old eagerly awa…
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One of the most ennobling experiences in Christ is the love and fellowship of other brethren. For many in Australia this would be very special memories of an early Youth Conference, coming to this bi-annual event as though a stranger, knowing so few of the young people who had gathered from all Stat…
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We who have received so much from our spiritual “fathers” are in grave danger of paying lip service to our heritage. We shouldn’t be surprised if, in days of self indulgence, evidence is widespread of falling attendances at gospel addresses and Bible classes, of a rising demand for committee m…
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Once upon a time reading was an activity engaged in by all the family. Evenings and spare afternoons were spent in companionable silence as members of the family of all ages read their books or, in some cases, were read to by father, mother or one of the older children. Such times were invaluable, b…
Much has been written of a controversial nature regarding the word “spirit”. The word is used in many different contexts in Scripture. It identifies, in the first instance, God’s power by which all things are made and continue to exist as described in Genesis 1:2, but it embraces a much wider …
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Men of God have always resorted to the hope and consolation of the Scriptures in times of trial and persecution. The Apostle wrote, “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now the God of pa…
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Reform or “reformation” is defined as “the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, etc; to cause (a person) to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct”. So the prophet Jeremiah cries, “Thus saith Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I w…
There is a very real danger in these perilous times in which we live that some may lose sight of or perhaps have never really appreciated what it means to be a “true Christadelphian” or “brother of Christ”. Bro Thomas once defined the matter very clearly and simply in the following terms: �…
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On Boxing Day, 26 December 2004, a natural disaster of stupendous proportions occurred. An earthquake registering nine on the Richter scale shook the seabed off the western shores of the Indonesian province of Aceh. A fault line 1200 kilometres long suddenly gave way, slipping twenty feet and creati…
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