There is a story about a small-town business owner whose clothing store was threatened with extinction. A national chain store had acquired all the properties on his block and had told him, “We’ll build all around you and put you out of business”.
How those words must have echoed around the court of Pharaoh and in the minds of his listeners. We see a proud monarch, clinging tenaciously to his own beliefs, having enslaved God’s people, yet determined to resist His Hand. The time had come for Israel’s deliverance, and such was the scene from which God would extract a people called after His Name.
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In the previous two chapters, the problem and consequences of sin are laid out with the recognition that Yahweh is righteous in all his judgments. In this third song, the same picture of suffering is presented, but this time through the lens of the “man that hath seen affliction” (Lam 3:1). Out of the blackness of the first two chapters, this man emerges, to take us on a journey from ‘how could this happen?’ to ‘why did this happen?’
Have you ever considered the power a word uttered can have on others? What effect the words we write by way of texts and emails can have on others?
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Throughout the four gospels we frequently read of people following our Lord. Many followed out of a desperate need to be cured (Matt 4:24). Others followed him out of curiosity, purely to see miracles performed (John 6:2). Some sought him out for personal gain (John 6:26) and others sought to destroy him (John 5:16).
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In Psalm 107:23-24 we read, “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.”
In the black of night, thousands upon thousands of deep-sea animals come up to the surface to feed and collect a day’s w…
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The modern city of Ashkelon lies on the coast of Israel, approximately 13 kilometres north of the northern border of the Gaza strip.
Hebron Camp has always been billed as a venue for youth camps. But erstwhile youth also have a great need for fellowship, and the inaugural SSFW at Hebron proved its suitability for the older generation too. Modelled along the lines of seniors’ Bible Schools interstate, the week commenced with a …
From 20-22 October 2023 Adelaide held its Annual Combined Weekend where our Brother Simon Dodson from New South Wales spoke to us to the theme, “Bringing Forth Fruit to God”.
The weekend began, for the young people at least, with a combined Northern and Southern Youth Group. For those who ar…
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Many brothers, sisters, young people and children gathered in the picturesque surroundings of the Blue Dandenongs to hear Brother Mark Vincent, from the UK, deliver four addresses under the theme, “A Body I Have Prepared for You”.
We began by considering God’s power in creating us. In Psal…
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