March – April 2011
Our theme is a challenging one. The three articles in this series are quite different in style but all portray complementary aspects of the life we should all aspire to. The first reminds us to focus our attention on the simplicity of a life in Christ. The second is a sketch of our Lord often under …
Family Life – Cultivating Good Habits Read More »
This chapter reflects the divisions in Judah in the reign of Hezekiah’s son, Manasseh. His systematic liquidation of the righteous, including at length Isaiah himself, coupled with the idolatry and debauchery which he introduced, sanctioned and practised, brought Judah to new lows and made desolat…
Isaiah 57:1–12 “Thou hast Discovered Thyself to Another than Me” Read More »
A reader enquires: Aaron and Miriam both criticized Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman, and were jealous that the Lord had spoken through Moses and not them. Yet Miriam was stricken with leprosy and Aaron was not. Why was only Miriam punished?
The record of this incident is in Number 12. The que…
2011 is the 400th anniversary of the printing of the King James Bible. Many ecclesias will be using this topic in their preaching activities throughout this year. As readers may like to have an outline of how we came to have the Bible in English, and in particular the King James Version, or Authoris…
“The Morning Star of the Reformation” Read More »
“I have set watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night … till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6–7)
In recent years we have seen how close the world is coming to completely unravelling. Just over two years ago the world economy w…
World on the Brink Read More »
Construction work on a new metro rail line in Rome will provide a unique opportunity to excavate the Forum of Peace, reports Rossella Lorenzi[1]. The Forum of Peace was built in the first century AD by the Flavian emperors, and is sometimes known as the Forum of Vespasian, after the founder of the F…
Vespasian’s Forum of Peace at Rome to be Excavated Read More »
The book of Ecclesiastes seeks to answer perhaps the greatest question of man’s existence: What is the meaning of life? What is it worth if lived as an end in itself? Is it possible for man to find ultimate fulfilment in anything that is done under the sun? In short, Ecclesiastes is The Quest for …
In the cold pre-dawn of a spring morning in 1915 thousands of young soldiers from Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the British Empire stormed beaches on the desolate Gallipoli peninsula in the Aegean Sea. They were met by determined resistance from thousands of Turkish troops desperate to f…
Galatians is one of the Apostle Paul’s earliest writings. Even in those early days of the ecclesial world there was a need for him to combat some seriously wrong thinking. He admonishes them with some rather stern words, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the t…
We feel hopeless and powerless in the face of tragedy. There can be few if any more painful trials in life than to lose one’s own child. It is considered that such a loss is worse than the loss of parents and even one’s spouse. Nobody expects their children to pre-decease them in the normal outw…
