Preaching In Antigua And Barbados
One Evening I received a phone call from a sister asking me to help her follow-up contacts on the island of Antigua in the Caribbean. While I wasn’t able to go immediately, a window of opportunity did open up and …
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.
Editorial – Suffering A Character Builder
Beloved, Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you; but rejoice… that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding great joy …
Another Look At “Today You Will Be With Me In Paradise”
As All Christadelphians Know, the Bible says nothing about an immortal soul. Nor does it teach that men and women go to heaven when they die. Sooner or later as we preach Bible truth to others,
we make these points …
Cain
Our Last Article looked at Abel and showed that even though there are no recorded words for him, his blood “cried unto God from the ground.” Abel’s powerful example spoke louder than words – and continues to speak to us …
The Theodicy Enigma (2c) – Part 4
His Month’s Installment Continues on the “amount of evil” theme raised in the previous article. The “unexpected participant” referred to in the tag line of last month’s article turns out to be a familiar figure in apologetics discussions: Charles Darwin. …
Jesus Is The Life – Part 6
We have seen how the Lord is the Way and the Truth. These concepts are the necessary preliminary to the great claim that Jesus is THE LIFE. The Old Testament uniformly witnesses to the fact that the Lord God is …
Swiss Cheese – Part 16
Many year ago, when I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois, a Nobel Prize winning scientist visited the Physics department. During the course of his seminar, he ventured an insight that defined the difference in viewpoint between …
Seeking For God
As A Community of Bible lovers, Christadelphians were once called ‘The People of the Book.’ Are we still deserving of the title? Could it be that with the demands upon our time in this modern-day society, Bible reading no longer …
Materialism – The God Of This World
An Appeal Has Gone Out from the CBMA on behalf of our brothers and sisters in the Caribbean. Much devastation has been wreaked this year by hurricanes, particularly by hurricane Ivan, in that area. The appeal set us to thinking …
Minute Meditation – The Tongue
A Braham Lincoln Once Said of someone he knew, “He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”
We all have known people that fit this description, full of many words but few …
Oil – Problem And Opportunity
According To the International Energy Agency (IEA) an extra 3 million barrels per day of oil production is needed to avoid another year of rising oil prices. It is anticipated that, without this production increase, the prices at the gas …
A Shadow Of Good Things To Come – Part 1
Poised Upon Entry Into The Land Of Promise on the east side of the Jordan River, Israel received the law for the second time. And the words of Deuteronomy were timely. The carcasses of an entire generation of men and …
Ten Lepers Cleansed And One Man Saved
In Luke 17 there is a story, just eight verses in length, about the Lord Jesus and ten sick men. In this brief episode there are 13 spiritual lessons that are very hard to accept. However, if we think deeply …
A Meaningful Moment
The First Meeting Hall of the Harvey River ecclesia was a tiny, derelict shop which had been renovated. At the dedication 45 years ago there were so many visiting friends packed into the little room that the floor gave way …
God’s Care Following Hurricane Frances
Yesterday morning we saw a rather watery-looking sun for the first time for days. I went into the garden to survey the damage and in the front garden, completely untouched by the ferocious winds, was the native rosebush which was …
At The Lord’s Table – We Must Be Born Again As We Are Dead
Spiritually if we have not experienced the new birth in Christ Jesus, we are among the walking dead: “For the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). As a result of man’s sin there are three aspects of death. In …
Editorial – Loving An Unlovely World – Upgrading Oar Opinion Of Lot
Bible Readers Nave Long Struggled with their understanding and assessment of the character of Lot in the Book of Genesis. He seems to have been strong and yet weak — godly yet unwise — a man of God, yet perhaps …
Abel’s Last Words
It is interesting to know that there is a Jewish tradition about “last words.” Any Jew finding himself in a potentially life threatening situation (for example in a holocaust death camp) was to proclaim the ‘Great Shema’ – “Hear O …
How Many Books In Our Bible?
Our English Versions of the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament) contain 39 books, while the Hebrew Scriptures themselves contain 24. Josephus (writing near the end of the first century AD) mentions 22, combining Ruth with Judges and Lamentations with Jeremiah. …
Hope
We all Know the story of Abraham, a man of God whose strong faith in a living God motivated him to “against hope believe in hope” that Sarah would give birth to a son. But Abraham’s hope was different from …
The Theodicy Enigma (2b) – Part 3
Last Month we stated the general form of the question regarding God and suffering and cautioned that, what looked like purely academic arguments, were in no way dismissing the painful human side of evil and suffering. This month we will …
Challenges To The Faith – Part 1
Our Community, a religious-based social structure, has a worldview and belief system that sets it apart from all the world’s other religious or secular communities. While various specific features and items of belief occur in other religions (e.g., sanctity of …
The Theodicy Enigma – Part 2
Typically, A Series Of This Nature, that is, a rigorous investigation of certain topics in apologetic, would begin with pages of preliminary considerations, definitions, and the like. So that I may present to the reader something of interest and substance, …
The Way To The Father – Part 5
There Were Two Messages Of Reassurance for the eleven remaining apostles in the words of Jesus, as there are for us. First, there are many abiding places in God’s house (John 14:2). We are not competing with one another for …
Were The Angels Once A Prehistoric Race On Earth? – Part 15
We Saw Previously In These Essays that there is negligible evidence linking the various hominid species that appear in the fossil record over the past four million years. The support for the Darwinist view of gradual change causing the hominid …
Son Of Encouragement
Barnabas, This Lovely Name meaning ‘son of consolation,’ is a singularly appropriate name for a disciple of the Lord Jesus in any age. But it truly expressed the supportive and encouraging service given by this disciple we find in Acts. …
Fornication – A Pervasive Problem
After Paul’s First Missionary Journey resulted in many gentiles being converted to the faith, the issue had to be faced regarding Jews and gentiles living together in full fellowship. At a great conference in Jerusalem, a solution was proposed and …
Minute Meditation – Kick The Worry Habit
Worry Has Been Described AS “interest paid on trouble before it comes due.” In order to be an effective worrier, we have to use our imaginations and play a game of “Let’s pretend.” We pretend that something terrible has happened …
Communications
Legalism vs. Faith
Dear Bro. David (David Levin, author),
I would love to find the words that could express how grateful I am to you. Your book Legalism vs. Faith has been so uplifting, encouraging, releasing and eye-opening. It deals …
Love In A Prison Cell
There Is Something Of A Mystery about a man mentioned in the book of Ezra. His name was Sheshbazzar, which means ‘May Shin protect his father.’ Shin was a Babylonian moon god. He also had a nickname, Shenazzar, which means …