Scripture is significant in its silences no less than in the information conveyed. The common run of biographers would have given us a mass of detail about the early years of Christ; the four evangelists are strikingly reticent. We are grateful to Matthew and Luke for their nativity narrat…
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When the Apostle Paul wrote to Christian believers in Rome, the most important city in the world in his day, he confirmed that the earth’s inhabitants have no excuse if they try to deny God’s existence: “What can be known about God is plain … clearly perceived in the things that have bee…
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Over a decade before the State of Israel was established, the Palestine Symphony Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in Tel Aviv on 26 December, 1936. With the Orchestra’s first note a new era opened for the Jewish people, and marked the start of their impact on the international musi…
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This is the second article on Charlemagne, or Charles the Great. He was the most significant personage in Roman history from Constantine to Napoleon and that is the way the Bible sees him. The “beast of the earth” superseded the “beast of the sea” in Revelation chapter 13, and was answ…
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“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murde…
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This is the first of 2 short articles about Sister Jean Galbraith that were presented at a Dorcas Class at Aberfoyle Park Ecclesia some time ago by Sister Janet Cresswell.
Sister Jean Galbraith wrote our beautiful Hymn 383, “Rejoicing in hope and the joy of salvation”. The story of Jean’s lif…
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In this editorial we shall explore how the grace of God shown to the Apostle Paul at his conversion transformed his character and was inevitably interwoven in the teaching in his epistles. Saul’s implacable hatred of Jesus Christ and his followers in the Jerusalem ecclesia could not be restr…
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My journey to the Truth, in hindsight, was a tapestry of God’s handiwork with each thread and stitch woven into an intricate pattern that finally led me to Him.
On reflection, God knew the end result before I had even begun to question.
I was fresh out of school when I started working as a…
While doing some research on the multiculturalism of the Antioch Ecclesia back in the 1st century, I was intrigued to note the unique emphasis on people from Cyrene. Acts 11:20 records, “And some of them (brethren fleeing from the persecution of Saul) were men of Cyprus and Cyrene.” A further …
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Last year we looked at Israel striving to make friends both with Russia and the Vatican, friendships that will end in disaster as scripture has foretold. Those Israel is beginning to put her trust in will prove to be treacherous friends, who far from supporting her in her time of trouble, will tur…
The View From Over There. The Lion is Getting Restless Read More »
