September – October 2013
There is a very old saying: “God helps those who help themselves”. My father called this type of advice “chimney corner scripture” because it sounds like it might be in the Bible but is not. While not a Scriptural saying, it does have an element of truth in it. It agrees with a quote of Andr…
She Did What She Could Read More »
When faced with an event or a series of events which are a challenge or a struggle, or may even get to the point of being a confrontation, we may receive the sage (and rhetorical) advice, “it looks like you’ll have to sink or swim!” Realistically there is no middle ground when in a body of wat…
When David pondered God’s all-encompassing knowledge he said, “Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off” (Psa 139:2). Later he invited God to “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in…
Our Internal Struggle Read More »
With his well-known interest in ecclesial history, Brother Ian Hyndman has produced a significant summary of the early ecclesias in country Victoria.
The appreciative Australian Christadelphian reader is going to find much pleasure in perusing these pages, either to discover where grand…
Early Christadelphian Families in Country Victoria Read More »
After protests from 25 January, 2011, Egyptian President Mubarak resigned on February 11th and handed power to the army. On 2 June, 2012, Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison and 28 days later on 30 June 2012, Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was sworn in as President. His Gover…
Seventy years ago, the then leader of the Palestinian Arabs persuaded Hitler to reject a plan to release Jewish children from Europe. In 1943, Haj Amin el-Husseini, better known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, heard of a plan to allow 4,000 Jewish children, accompanied by 500 adults, to travel to P…
Nazi Influence in Arab World Read More »
What’s gone wrong? The dream seems to have been shattered; the peaceful and comforting harmony is in discord, and it hurts. Can our happiness be recaptured? Almost always, it can.
Unexpected?
Did we really expect perfection? After all, two sinners have become man and wife and that provides fer…
Marriage Under Stress Read More »
Faithfulness receives its assurance
The two young men gave Rahab an answer of peace. “It shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee” (Josh 2:14). The men asked her to leave the very same scarlet cord hanging from her window “when we come…
Rahab The Faithful Read More »
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…
Kings and Chronicles – Why Two Records? Read More »
In the last issue we considered the need for spiritual growth and looked at the first 4 of 12 areas we can focus on as found in the book of James.
These are:
Key 1: Count trials as a joy to grow
Key 2: Saying ‘no’ will help us grow
Key 3: Read and obey the word of God to grow
Key 4:…
Continuing Spiritual Growth Read More »
