In the special creation of Eve, a very deliberate detail is recorded. Eve’s creation was noticeably different from Adam and the animals. A rib was taken, establishing in Adam a special sympathy: “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” (Gen 2:23). Why a rib? God meant there to be a side-by-sid…
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We all have many competing options for how to spend our Saturday afternoons, but very few would be more important to the overall direction of our lives than attending the annual Prophecy Day. In the Olivet Prophecy, our Lord urgently exhorted us at the end of the age to ‘watch…and pray always�…
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The Bible commands us to gather together for worship. “Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching” it says in Hebrews 10:25. But what if you just don’t enjoy being there? What if yo…
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Since 1982, the Pinetown Ecclesia has been involved in the organising and running of a Summer Bible School in South Africa, which is held at the end of December each year. We have been fortunate to secure speakers from oversees on many occasions, which has added tremendous value to those attending,…
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About 2000 years ago, on a spring day in Galilee, thousands of people were gathered together in a desert place to hear the words of one man; to feel his healing touch on their illnesses and to watch in amazement as the lame walked, the deaf heard and the dumb spake. It was on this hillside in Galil…
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A recent study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface reports on “A feedback control principle common to several biological and engineered systems”. The researchers, Jonathan Y. Suen and Saket Navlakha, show how harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) use a feedback control algo…
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“When doubts and fears arise”
HAVING DOUBTS does not mean that we lack faith. “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (Mark 9:24) is a plea to which all may relate. As frail, mortal believers we should expect that we will sometimes struggle to understand the ways of God. As God says, …
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Tabor is situated in Lower Galilee at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley in the Northern District of Israel, 17 kilometres west of the Sea of Galilee. Its elevation at the summit measures 575 metres above sea level and it is geologically called ‘a horst’ which is a non-volcanic fault block b…
The opening chapter of John’s gospel provides a wonderful introduction to the work of redemption in Christ. Beginnings always propose something important. Whether it is the beginning of God’s creative majesty in Genesis 1, or the rearrangement of the calendar to commemorate a great act of nation…
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In Paul’s epistle to the Romans, he dedicates nearly all of chapter 4 to argue (using the example of Abraham) that we are made righteous through faith, not by works of law or circumcision. However, in a chapter which talks extensively about Abraham’s faith shown in his implicit belief that God w…
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