The Australian Christadelphian Shield was originally founded in 1893 and became associated with a grouping of Australian ecclesias known as the Shield Fellowship. After the reunion efforts in 1956 it continued to be published by the Adelaide ecclesia until the early 2000s.
Photographic illustrations help to tell the story, a principle which in the educational field is widely used and known as “visual aid”; the advantage being in the more accurate and permanent impression left on the mind than an imaginary scene …
The idea of this essay is to provide a basis for a clearer understanding of the Book of Revelation, a structure on which it is hoped that the student will by his study continue to build.
It will be admitted …
The life of Christ was an ever-widening shoreless influence, an influence that played a tremendous part in moulding the character of his immediate followers, and will have a vital effect upon our life today. Even His very presence meant power …
Jesus watched the people approaching the treasury-boxes to cast in their offerings. He saw lordly men make their ostentatious gifts, and rich men give of their superfluity; He noticed others who came quietly past and gave cheerfully with an obvious …
Eighty years have elapsed since Dr John Thomas ceased his expositions of prophecy, and the intervening years have witnessed greater changes to the face of the world than the preceding four hundred years since the epochal fall of Constantinople to …
The word “handwriting” is used once only in the A.V.: in Col. 2. 14. It is an extremely interesting word, behind which is a wealth of matter. .It literally means a holograph, a dictionary meaning of which is “any document, …
An illustration of how effective simple words can be was given by a visiting speaker at a recent New Year’s Eve meeting. On these occasions, as arranged by many ecclesias, the theme is, “Thanksgiving and Praise”, a fitting way for …
This month I would like to discuss chapters 23-25 of the book of Numbers. Here we meet with one of the most enigmatical characters of the Old Testament: Balaam. It is evident that he was a prophet whose fame extended …
Perhaps it is no over statement to declare that almost half our waking hours are spent in speaking. In the light of this fact there can surely be no truer saying than the words, “Thy speech betrayeth thee”. Whether it …
In 1928 a peasant in North Syria, when ploughing near the sea, found a long underground passage. Investigation showed that the passage led to a sepulchral vault. Syria was then under a French mandate, and when the find was reported …
Before leaving the phrase “fear and trembling” (Phil. 2. 12), the word trembling is worthy of some thought. The combination is exclusive to Paul’s letters and appears firstly in 1 Cor. 2. 3, where Paul describes himself being with the …
In our readings from mid March to mid-April we again have parts of two gospels with doctrinal epistles “sandwiched” between. Reverting to the thought of the intent, between the narratives of Luke and John. “Church Fathers” as early as the …
We have heard Christadelphian speak and denounce Joab in the most scathing terms. He has been described as “an unmitigated villain”, “an unprincipled man”, “an utterly selfish and unscrupulous person” and so on.
My own reading of the Old Testament …
During his sojourn in the land of Canaan, Abraham sent his servant to his kindred in Mesopotamia, from whom to select a wife for his son Isaac. On coming to his journey’s end, he sat on a well in the …
The servants of God in every age have found it necessary to be in a constant state of awareness of their utter dependence upon Him. This is the true position in which we stand before the Father. He requires our …
When the visiting speaker said, “No one amongst us need be lonely”, and went on to show why, we quickly realised that the thought reflected his recent experiences while touring through the great wide open spaces of our Australian inland …
“There is a fascination about Jesus Christ that we find in no other person who has ever lived. When he walked the earth men were awed by his presence, were drawn to him by an His indescribable power. He was …
Depending upon, the context in which it is used, the word “phobos”,translated fear, can have a good or bad sense. The word itself is quite neutral, and, rather like the chameleon which changes its colour to suit the surroundings, it …
Of all the sayings of Jesus, perhaps none could have greater finality than these words. They were spoken in relation to the exclusion of the five foolish virgins from the marriage supper.
The parable of the ten virgins is the …
The hour of crucifixion had almost come. Jesus had presided at the first memorial supper and had told the astonished disciples that one of them would betray him. It was with heavy hearts that they joined Jesus in singing a …
The preaching of the gospel is often likened to the sower scattering his seed in the field. Much of it is wasted as it falls upon stony ground, among thorns, or in shallow earth where it fails to take root. …
To the child from the bazaars of India or the kasbah of Algiers the desert must be a strange forbidding place. To the cave-child from the pit-dwellings of Libya planting a tree must seem a mystic ritual.
But here they …
Suppose that we could fully instruct twenty intelligent people concerning God and His purpose without letting them know of the Bible, and then ask each of them to write down his or her idea of how God would be likely …
The subject of Temples figures prominently in the scriptures.
In 1 Chronicles 29. 2-14, we read of David’s own private contribution to the Temple: “I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for …
Newspaper Editors are not usually inclined towards giving tributes to the Jews, hence our interest in a recent paragraph from the Adelaide “News”.
Entitled “Our Gain”, and opening with reference to the Jewish New Year 5722, we read:
“Australians owe …
Representatives of the Australian Christadelphian Bible Mission met with an enthusiastic reception in Adelaide on 4th December when they presented a report of Mission activities. Bro. R. Hermann had recently returned from a five months’ campaign in the Philippines, Borneo, …
It is written of the Lord Jesus Christ that he did all things well”. The saying is discriminating; the emphasis is on “all things” and “well”, which affords ample scope for reflection. In this, as in all else, he is …
There is a tendency to underestimate the contribution made by Peter to the first-century Church. We frequently hear and read much of Peter’s “denial” and too little of the man who was a very pillar in the early Christian Church.
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The goodness of God cannot be fully comprehended because of the limitations of the finite mind.
Neither thought nor word can encompass the goodness of God. A lifetime of meditation would not exhaust the avenues of thought on this matter. …
Religion is regarded by the great majority of adherents of the various churches in our midst as having relation to the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth and is termed Christianity.
The New Testament is held to be the …