According to Dr Avi Shapira, the chairman of Israel’s inter-ministry steering committee for earthquake preparedness, a strong earthquake can be expected in Israel within the next fifty years, reports Amiram Cohen (“Before the next big shake-up”, Haaretz.com, 17 December, 2010[1]). “Israel is…
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“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)
In response to questions from his disciples about the end of the Jewish age the Lord Jesus Christ stated, …
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The following article records briefly the remarkable way the hand of God brought Vivian Dickman to the Truth. Brother Vivian was baptised at the Mildura ecclesia on Sunday 27th February 2011 at the age of 88 years. Ed.
For some months, following the sudden death of my first wife after sixty-two y…
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Even a cursory read of Paul’s letter to Titus reveals that the circumstances and issues being addressed are very familiar to the brotherhood in these last days – travelling near and far to spread the Gospel of salvation; establishing administrative arrangements and procedures in new ecclesias; e…
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Someone once said, “I can resist everything in the world except temptation”.
Why do we give in to temptations when we know it is a mistake? The reason temptations are so difficult to resist is that they are part of our nature and they come from inside us. James says that, “Everyone is tempt…
The gospel records all take us to an upper room in Jerusalem on the night before Christ died, and to a meal and an evening that he shared with his disciples.
Week by week and day by day
As an ecclesia, week by week we re-enact parts of that meal and evening when we gather together to remember …
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“Many Samaritans from that town believed on him because of the woman’s testimony” RSV
In John 4 we have the record of a Samaritan woman and her interaction with the Lord. She remains unnamed. Her identity is unimportant because she can be any one of us. There are areas of our lives that need …
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“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith” (Rom 1:16,17).
T…
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It seems that soon after the events of the man of God recorded in 1 Kings 13, Jeroboam received another jolt – his son was struck with a serious sickness (1 Kings 14:1). The word used of the age of his son in verse 12 is used of Ishmael at 17 years old and it is quite feasible that he was a teenag…
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“I gave my back to the smiters”
When we partake of bread and wine each week we are asked to remember the Lord’s sacrifice – as his words direct us in Luke 22:19. The Apostle Paul adds the words, “let a man examine himself” as we partake of the emblems (1 Cor 11:28). This involves, among…
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