The 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.
A wise man once observed, “There is a time to speak, but there is also a time to be silent, which too often comes and goes without being discerned.” This statement is a modification of the words of King Solomon, …
Regarding Bro. John Launchbury’s May article, Bro. Ken Sommerville writes:
“I have enjoyed Bro. John Launchbury’s series very much. I believe it has raised our awareness and interest in the current work of our Lord Jesus …
Horace Greeley, contemporary of Bro. John Thomas, had the right idea if not the right application. His famous editorial quote advised young men to go west in order to improve their lives. A westerly direction is consistently presented in scripture …
Not long ago, my grandfather passed along to me an expression of his father’s: “God is never in a hurry, but He is always on time.” There is a lot of truth in this saying. God has no reason to …
Solemn oaths are an essential part of every nation’s laws. Without some form of legally self-binding promise, there would be no hope of justice and no way of punishing false witness and perjury.
However, the Lord Jesus and James both …
Did the Apostles abandon their daily work and their families to follow Jesus? Did any of them have children? How did their families survive after they left home to take up missionary work?
Answer:
Luke 5:11 says that Peter “left …
We’ll begin this article by considering the concepts of righteousness and sin. As we often do, we start with a question.
What is sin?
There are a number of definitions we could try out from Scripture. For …
As I have written in the previous two articles, we want to look at the literal bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, not as a matter of religious doctrine, but as a matter of history, in the same way one might …
It Is Convenient, But Mistaken, to think, as many people do, that copyright protection is a new idea for protecting wealthy singers and artists. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is actually enshrined in the American Constitution, which …
The Apostle Peter Is Plain and clear in his first letter. The password is submit. Yes, submit to the supreme authority: king, queen, emperor, president, prime minister, governor, mayor. Submit to every authority instituted among men. That is very comprehensive …
After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the two-drachma tax?” “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the …
There are many complex words in the scriptures that can send one to a concordance searching for the meaning. On the other hand, there are deceptively simple words of two or three letters that can change the whole tenor of …
In this issue we give thanks to and pay tribute to Brother Don Styles, who served as editor of The Christadelphian Tidings for 20 years. In this his second “retirement” (his first being from his workaday job some time ago), …
The coming of the June issue of the Christadelphian Tidings marks the occasion of the passing of the baton, as it were, to a new generation of leadership. Brother Don Styles, Ann Arbor, Michigan, steps down as Editor-in-Chief of the …
Here’s A New Twist On An Old Saying: “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly — until you can learn to do it well.” Far too many of us won’t try to do the difficult until we feel that we …
Dear Bro. Don,
How does one approach a person off the street who walks into one’s meeting hall on a Sunday and is told that he/she cannot break bread?
How is he told without offending …
The Small State Of Israel is literally surrounded by their enemies. With Egypt to the south, Jordan to the East and Lebanon and Syria to the north, Israel is surrounded by countries that would like nothing more than to see …
The Account Of The Man Born Blind is the sixth of the eight miracles recorded in John’s gospel. In this account we have set forth a contrast of those with and those who are without spiritual sight, and it shows …
The Truth Reached Guyana (British Guyana) in the 1890’s as a consequence of the vigorous preaching of Bro. Blenman in many parts of the Caribbean. In Guyana, the gospel light dimmed in the first half of the 1900’s until, in …
Society Today bears several trademarks. One of them is insecurity. People want to feel more secure — financially secure, secure in their social standing, secure in their family relationships, secure in their jobs, secure in their homes, on the streets, …
A concept often linked to the work of Christ is that of covering. “Jesus is a covering for sin,” is a popular way of expressing it. The evangelical movement since Luther has had the concept of our being “covered …
The End Of Last Month’s Article, I shifted the focus of the exclusivity argument to the subject of resurrection. I stated that an effective OF apologetic stance for an exclusive religious world-view must presuppose an objective basis of religion, one that …
The Family had an interesting learning experience last spring.
We purchased and planted a variety of bulbs: blue hyacinth, paper whites, and a red amaryllis. Our children thought the pictures on the boxes looked so pretty and could hardly wait …
The Proverbs Contains many “Better is… than…” passages. The format of the Proverbs (with their short, concise phrases) seems especially suited to this kind of comparison. Following is a more or less complete table of such comparative statements, with the …
Samuel Johnson Made A Wise Observation when he said, “Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.”
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Fellowship Practice
Dear Bro. Don,
For many years our ecclesias in Jamaica and the Caribbean have had visits from brothers and sisters, some of whom are called Unamended and some just ordinary Christadelphians. There are some visiting us right now …
As One Might Appreciate, having nuclear weapons developed and deployed in Iran is most dangerous for the nations that lie close to Iran, such as Russia. It was, therefore, a startling change when on March 8, 2006, after discussing the …
The Events Of John 6 occurred over a two-day period. During that short time, Jesus healed many sick people and performed two of his most notable miracles, the feeding of the 5,000 and walking on water. Like the other miracles, …
When We Are On Our Way Home, and we are not sure of the way, or even hopelessly lost, the best aids to reaching our destination are a road map and a mobile cell phone. The principle is the same …
We Have Discovered Two Things so far in this series of articles.
The first is that Jesus’ present work of High Priest is very practical and pragmatic as he involves himself in the day-to-day aspects of our salvation. The second …