A Special Effort
The apostles were sent out by Jesus to preach the gospel to all the woad and this still remains the prime responsibility of the disciples of Christ today With this conviction the brethren and sisters of the Vernon Ecclesia set …
Archives
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.
Ye kill and desire to have – Part two
The action needed
V. 7. “Submit to God”—note that the figure of God as a husband and the saints as His wife is continued in this phrase. Wives are repeatedly exhorted to submit (same Greek word) to their husbands as …
Is that the end?
In our last article we learned about the great tragedy which took place when the first man and woman rebelled against God. They defied God’s authority and turned their backs on His love. Adam and Eve decided to set out …
The Promises of God
Our first promise today is found in Luke 6 35, But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest for He …
My son Timothy
Introduction to Timothy
Toward the close of Paul’s first missionary journey with the companionship of Barnabas, he visited Lystra It was in this city that Paul, through the power of the Holy Spirit, healed the man who had been lame …
Signs of the Times
A change of Power
It has been a half a century since the beginning of the first world war, when on August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia The world of 1914 bears little resemblance to the world of …
Editorial
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.” These words of Robert Lynd are in no area more true than in the field …
Ye kill and desire to have – Part one
Of the five chapters that make up the Epistle of James, the fourth is without doubt the most difficult to understand. Considerable discussion has surrounded the exact meaning of the writer’s strong language and the relationship of his thoughts in the beginning …
Promises of God – Part seven
Our first promise today is found in Matthew 10: 29-31: “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all …
What went wrong?
Something must have gone wrong Think about it If God made man in His own image (and we know that He did because the Bible plainly tells us so) what happened to make man the kind of creature he now …
The Book of Life
“Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his …
Signs of the Times
Early in May, Nikita Khrushchev and his family began an historical journey that was to take them through a course that remarkably portends the very direction Russia is to take just prior to the advent of Jesus The Soviet Premier …
Editorial
“We should all be concerned about the future because we are going to spend the rest of our lives there,” observed the late Charles F. Kettering.
While it seems reasonable that we should be concerned about the future, it appears …
Promises of God – Part six
The first promise to be considered today is found in the New Testament, in Matthew 6:28-33: ” . . . Consider the lilies of the field . . . Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field . …
Light and Responsibility
“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come …
Work
“My Father worketh hitherto and I work.” Thus spoke Jesus of his Father, the great Creator and sustainer of the universe, whose manifold works are evident on every hand, and of Himself.
With David, we can stand in awestruck wonder …
Where did we come from?
Where did we come from? There is one obvious answer, we came from our parents. We owe our lives to the fact that a living seed from our fathers joined with a living seed from our mothers. That was our …
The Breaking of Bread
“Jesus said to them, I assure you most solemnly – — you cannot have any life in yourselves unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood” (John 6:53 – Amplified).
Does that strike you …
Signs of the Times
The Second Vatican Council
On December 4th, the second session of the Ecumenical Council was recessed, to be convened next September. This was only the second in a series of general councils totalling 21, that had been held at the …
Editorial
It is always a pleasure when we talk to a loved one far away. With the aid of the telephone we can feel very close to those we have not seen for a long time. A call from the right …
Promises of God – Part five
I will comfort you
Continuing our “Promises of God”, we will consider six more promises: The first one is found in Isaiah 66:13: “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort thee .
Could anything be more wonderful …
The Endeavour Magazine
I should not be accepting the invitation to write this article were I not convinced that there is a real danger to be faced, and were it not my sincere conviction that it could be faced in the wrong way. …
No Limit
The sun is one great hydrogen bomb some ninety odd million miles away from the earth. Light from the sun and all the stars travels to the earth at 186,000 miles a second and some of the light reaching the …
Jacob and Esau
In this article, we will devote a little time to the consideration of the characters of Jacob and Esau, following their typical relations through the Scriptures. In the 25th Chapter of Genesis, we have the birth and character of the …
Signs of the Times
A new year—A new President
1963 will long be remembered as one of the truly dark era’s of United States history. America buried its president and sadly went about the business of picking up the loose ends and continuing the …
Editorial
Napoleon once said, “None but myself did me any harm.” To a much larger degree than most of us are prepared to admit, this is true of us as well.
We are our own worst enemy. We do not like …
Healing the ruler’s son — John 4:46-50 – Part two
The Background — Two Days with the Gentiles
The early verses of the 4th chapter of John record how the Lord, traveling through Judea to Galilee, paused at the site of Jacob’s well, near Samaria. He was weary, and while …
Promises of God – Part four
The Lord is Nigh
Continuing our “Promises of God”, we will consider six more in this article. The first of these we will find in Psalms 145:18: “The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all …
The Promises of God
Psalms 55:22. “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
We need never falter beneath insupportable burdens when the Lord has told us to cast them upon Him, …
The Promises of God
Psalms 42:5 “Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted in me ? hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.”
The followers of the …