Listening is an important life skill. If you are driving from Adelaide to Melbourne and ignore your navigator, you could end up in Darwin. That would inconvenience you by more than three thousand kilometres. While it would be an inconvenience to you, in the grand scheme of things, it is not catastro…
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When we discuss ‘living the Truth’ we often talk about faith, prayer and habitual Bible study. However, we often miss one critical element: life stewardship. Although a similar concept to discipleship, life stewardship refers to how we manage the situations God puts in our lives. Christ alludes …
Fish come in all shapes and sizes, some are free swimming, while others rest on the bottom of the sea, some are herbivores and others are carnivores, and some lay eggs while others give live birth and parental care to their young. The total number of living fish species—about 32,000—is greater t…
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There are three references to peacocks in Scripture, two of which speak of very similar events:
“For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks” (1 Kings 10:22).
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After our Lord had spoken to the twelve about the fate of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans, he uttered a series of parables, which were designed to instruct them as to how they should live their lives during his absence.
He asked a question of them: “Who then is a faithful and wise servant,…
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The Gospel of John, penned from Ephesus around AD65[1], was written to believers living in the last days. Set in this tumultuous time, it has a context not too dissimilar from our own. Read from the perspective of its initial audience, it reveals lessons for those living in the last days; a group th…
The Lord, Whom Ye Seek, Shall Suddenly Come to His Temple Read More »
The final part of First John concludes John’s amazing little epistle of encouragement for the faithful that were holding on to the Truth, whilst also refuting the false teachings of the Gnostics that were leaving the Truth.
The familiar matrix structure of First John is shown below. The final s…
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Undisclosed day of the 8th month (Bul)
It was Zechariah’s turn. He was probably a much younger man than Haggai, chosen perhaps to appeal to a younger demographic. Remember, the people had divided along age lines when the work first stopped 15 years earlier. A week or so after Haggai had si…
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Moses’ instructions
We have considered how the 12 spies were chosen and gathered. Yet it is odd that they would even need a spying mission, since God would give them the land. The land had been promised, that was a surety, but still the spies were sent to see it. The parallel account in Deutero…
Caleb – “He Had Another Spirit” (2) Read More »
Someone once said, “When it comes to helping others, some people stop at nothing”. Do we jump in to help when needed? Doing nothing can never be right. James tells us, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin”. Jesus commends the actions of those who, “W…
