January – February 2012
“Such rigorous discipline would naturally be resented then, as it certainly is today, when women are getting to be as nearly men as nature will permit, and are usurping and asserting independence which is changing the whole domestic relationship of the nations. The instance which the apostle set f…
God Christ Man Woman Read More »
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…
I Don’t Have the Time Read More »
“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night … till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” (Isaiah 62:6–7)
The above heading was for a report in the Sydney Morning Herald on 8th November which amongst othe…
“Beware the Ticking Iran Time Bomb” Read More »
A reader seeks comment concerning those passages where God is spoken of as hardening the heart. Did Pharaoh, and do we truly have freewill in such circumstances?
When God had brought Moses from the deserts of Midian back to the land of Egypt he declared: “When thou goest to return into Egypt,…
“And Yahweh said unto Moses … I will harden Pharaoh’s heart.” Exodus 7:1–3 Read More »
From 1948 until the early 1970s, life in Israel was dominated by the Histadrut, the federation of labour set up by Jews in the land before the Jewish state was established. Cooperative and collective settlements, such as the kibbutzim, were the way of life for the majority of Israelis. Marketing…
Living Standards in Modern Israel Read More »
What does God want? A man came to the Lord Jesus, and that is what he asked: “Which is the first commandment of all?” (Mark 12:28).
1,500 pages, 66 books, one of them comprising 150 individual pieces, 1,189 chapters in total, 31,103 verses, rich with stories and laws and drama and praye…
“With all power and signs and lying wonders.” 2 Thessalonians 2:9
Among the more grotesque lying wonders of Roman Catholicism is the doctrine of transubstantiation. For eight hundred years the Church has taught that by some miraculous force a priest celebrating Mass is able to change ordinary b…
Transubstantiation, a Weird Lie Read More »
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…
The Life and Work of Brother Robert Roberts (8 April 1839 to 23 September 1898) Read More »
59:9–15 Confession of sins: the cause of calamities acknowledged
59:9–10 “Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity [rsv ‘darkness’]; for brightness, but we walk in darkness [rsv ‘gloom’]. We grope for the wall…
Isaiah 59: 9–15 “Truth is Fallen in the Street” Read More »
What do we think of the resurrection of Christ? That is, what do we really think, not what we might feel we are supposed to think. The burning question is what does the resurrection of Jesus mean to us personally?
At the very least it ought to be accepted as a fact, which was more than some of …
The Resurrection of Christ Read More »
