Patience
It has been said that “True patience is waiting without worrying.” We see this in these seven little words that Jesus gave us, “In your patience possess Ye your souls.” What does it mean to possess our souls? Solomon says …
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The Christadelphian TidingsThe Christadelphian Tidings (1958 – 1998) is published bi-monthly for the Christadelphians of North America and provides news on Christadelphian events in that area, but also provides general articles of Biblical exposition and exhortation.
Take with you words
The inventions of man in recent years are truly fantastic. We read in our daily papers about man-male satellites and space ships and people are considering trips to the moon with no more misgivings than they experience when contemplating an …
“Bible Immortality not the Immortality of Christendom”
The term ‘immortality’ is defined by Webster’s dictionary as ‘unending life’. We hope to show from the scriptures that the doctrine as taught by the prophets and apostles is not the doctrine preached from most of the pulpits of our …
Call upon God when in trouble
“I will take no bullock out of thy house nor he goats out of thy ,folds. For every beast of the forest is Mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : …
Editorial
Jesus tells us that just prior to his second coming men’s hearts would be failing them for fear. Today we find that men are full of fear and the psychiatrist’s couches are loaded with patients who are seeking relief for …
How important is correct belief?
We live today in a paradoxical civilization. On the one hand our generation is very sensitive to the necessity for correct beliefs in the fields of science, international politics, social economics, and. it would seem, ever other phase of human …
Foolish Talk or Jesting
Wondering what the Apostle Paul meant by “foolish talk or jesting,” or as it is in the R.S.V., “silly talk or levity,” I have thought of a few things in modern conversation which could come under that heading, and which …
Thoughts on the way of the Cross
Some of the best known words of Jesus are found in Verse 6 of the 14th Chapter of the Gospel of John: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” …
The rock and the Ladder
Family life in the age of the patriarchs strikes a familiar chord. It is attuned to family life in the Truth. In Genesis 27 we are presented with the aged Isaac who was the recipient of the blessing, and God’s …
Signs of the Times
An Ecclesiastical Summit Meeting
Last month the world witnessed, or rather heard, for the occasion was private except for the presence of an interpreter, what is considered to be an historic meeting. Into the Vatican courtyard rode the Most Rev. …
Signs of the Times
Israel — the abyss of assimilation
Early in January, David BenGunon, Prime Minister of Israel, addressed the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in a searing speech that lasted for an hour and forty minutes, in which he accused them …
Editorial
Each New Year brings the feeling of a fresh start, a clean slate, a new beginning. Actually each day is a fresh start but it seems that we particularly get the feeling of beginning again around the first of the …
God’s Way
The reign of King David was a turbulent one. He had many decisions to make and, like the rest of us, sometimes he made mistakes. Scriptures tells us, however, that he was a man after God’s own heart, and the …
In Him
This phrase is the true title of Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians. It is the marvelous theme round which every aspect of his thought turns. Christ is the center and focus of all that he can think or write. Never, …
Caught away to meet the Lord in the Air – Part two
In last month’s Tidings, the words of the apostle Paul as found in 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 and 17 were considered in their bearing on the meeting place of Christ and his saints. It was pointed out that …
Caught away to meet the Lord in the Air – Part one
Here is a theory that has gained a great deal of acceptance in our days among most religious orders regarding the alleged rapture of the saints. It is taught that the saints, at the coming of Christ, are to be …
The One True Faith”
What is faith ? In Hebrews 11:1, in the revised version, we have this definition, “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen.” Faith is belief in God, trust in Him, complete confidence in …
Thank God and Take Courage
A brother recently made the statement, “We brethren and sisters of Christ should daily put our backs to the wall and shine the search-light of the Scriptures on ourselves and see how we really appear before God”.
The urgency of …
Editorial
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things which I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
There is a world of wisdom in this little prayer, wisdom …
“Are Christians Required to Keep the Sabbath?”
If someone approached you and asked, “Which day is the sabbath day ?”, what would your answer be ? Many would answer, Sunday. Some would say, no, it’s Saturday. It’s quite obvious that both answers cannot be right for there …
The imperishable Jew. What does it mean?
The Jew is a problem, has always been so, and under human rule will continue to be a problem. The Jew not only exists ; but persists, and “there’s the rub.” The meaning of his existence to those willing to …
Follow after these things
We believe that all that God has promised He is able to perform. And we believe that all God has promised we can have under certain conditions. Is it not belief in God that brings us nigh to Him ? …
Signs of the Times
“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it …
Editorial
“Conversation is the oral exchange of ideas. Gossip is the idle discussion of the affairs of others. Great people talk about ideas. Ordinary people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.”
This quotation was copied down and given …
What will become of the Earth?
“Revolving upon its own axis, and describing an ample circuit through the boundless fields of space, is a planet of the solar system bearing upon its surface a population of over a thousand millions subject to sin, disease, and death. …
Is Sincerity Enough?
Many of our readers, who are familiar with the Bible, will quickly answer our title question, “No, of course not.” But this answer may not satisfy the more thoughtful reader. It leaves unanswered the questions, Why isn’t sincerity enough ?, …
The Bible is not Human and Erring, But infallible and Divine
“We believe that the Bible, consisting of the books of Moses, the prophets, and the apostles, is the only source of knowledge concerning God and His purposes at present extant or available in the earth ; that the different sections …
Contending for the Faith
We hear a great deal of the very worthy efforts being made in the preaching of the Word — usually, it seems, in places other than our own Continent. We hope this does not indicate that the Christadelphians of America …
Thou hast searched me
“O Lord thou hast searched me and known me.”
The words give us much to think about. Others may know us to some extent but they cannot search our heart. Man looks on the outward appearance but the Lord looks …
Signs of the Times
Parliamentary Discord
“Whenever men recall the 15th General Assembly of the United Nations in years to come the image before their mind’s eye would be that of Nikita Khrushchev, grinning like a delinquent adolescent as he pounded his desk and …