Bible Quiz – Joshua
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Song of Solomon (Part 1)
It is common for Bible students to describe the book they are currently studying in glowing terms, often describing it as the most exceptional book in the Bible. It is only natural and allows the student to share their enthusiasm for the Word of God with others. A study of the Song of Songs will cer…
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
England and Palestine
Bible and Sword was written by Barbara Tuchman. She was Jewish and the granddaughter on her mother’s side of Henry Morgenthau (Snr), US President Woodrow Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman empire during World War I.
Throughout her book, Tuchman traces the histo…
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Surviving a Snake Bite
The mountains behind our home are inhabited by rattlesnakes. Every year many people hiking in the foothills are bitten. Most of the bites are on the hands, rather than the legs and feet. Why would that be? Rattlesnakes cannot bite hands unless the hand gets close to their fangs. Even in the Garden o…
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The Tombs of Esther and Mordecai – Hamadan
Situated on the celebrated Silk Road, modern Hamadan was once a place of magnificent splendour, an Achaemenid royal capital known in antiquity as Ecbatana.
Little evidence of that former glory remains. Today a visitor finds a town centred around a memorial to the Iran-Iraq war. One of the longest…
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Death – The Last Enemy (Part 3)
In our previous two articles, we reviewed the EC proposal that “death” and “mortality” are referring to two different unrelated concepts, and found it to have no scriptural basis. EC proponents teach that the death (Gk thanatos) that entered into the world when Adam sinned was not the normal…
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Iran’s Deepening Alliance with Russia and Growing Antagonism with Saudi Arabia
On 11 February 2014 a news headline screamed: “IRAN 1979: THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION THAT SHOOK THE WORLD. Celebrating its 35th anniversary, Iran’s Islamic Revolution shocked the world and redrew the map of global alliances.”1
The causes of the revolution lay with the increasingly authoritarian…
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Suffering and Ongoing Rejoicing
The Bible is unique but this uniqueness is not of itself sufficient evidence to demonstrate Divine inspiration. Its inspiration is seen in the nature of its message, particularly its distinct view of humankind, and its role in becoming an effective influence in changing people’s lives in preparati…
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One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago: The First Zionist Congress, August, 1897
It is impossible to separate the First Zionist Congress from the towering figure of Theodor Herzl. Without his forceful and determined personality, it is doubtful that the Congress would have taken place. But in the providence of God, Herzl was the instrument to unite the Jewish people behind the Z…
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Smart Phones, Social Media and the Internet – The Impacts, Consequences and Solutions
We live in a world that wants things instantly. A world that is constantly advancing and modernising in technology, by which means anything can be formed or improved and given to us within an instant. Smart phones, the internet and social media, are all clever and efficient ways that can be used to…
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