Resource Manager Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 01 November 2014 "If then we find this complex life of tensions and pressure a source of distress and of uncertainty, let us learn the lesson of living with God and see Him in every room of our lives, in every part of the day, through every window and door. So it was with Jesus who, having no permanent abode, no established residence, was more surely based than any man who has ever lived, and dwelt always with God, and God with him. Thus, at the end of one of his long days we catch a glimpse of the meeting between Father and Son: “And every man went unto his own house, but Jesus went to the mount of Olives” (John 7:53-8:1)." - H. TennantAt Home (1969) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 02 November 2014 "The ransomed of the Lord are at the end of the road. The gates of Zion invite us, eternal fellowship with God is there. There too is the innumerable company of angels in festal mood, ready to rejoice over the heirs of salvation whose guardians they were. There will be heard the song of the Lamb. Ten thousand times ten thousand immortal voices will rise in a paean of praise. Like some mighty cataract tumbling into an abyss, the sound will swell, pulsating and reverberating to the ends of the earth. "Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever." - Elwyn HumphreysOur Pilgrimage (1964) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 03 November 2014 "The one standard by which Paul measured himself and everyone else was "the truth of the Gospel". He weighed everything in that balance, all his actions, and everything with which he came into contact. In all your dealings in life, in every matter in the ecclesia or outside, upon which you have to form a judgment, can you honestly say that you weigh everything in the balance of the truth of the Gospel, that that is the only set of weights you have? I wish I could say that. How often we tend to adapt our weights for the company in which we are. How seldom, I suppose, we really stand out, like Paul, for truth and uprightness. How seldom are we so devotedly single-minded in our life in the truth! Yet that is what God wants us to be like." - L.W. RichardsonA Just Weight and a Just Measure (1950) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 04 November 2014 "We do well to take courage as we see world developments, political, social and moral, take place as the Bible said they would; but let us remember that these signs are given us not as an end in themselves, though they point to an end which God will realize, but as encouragement. The end as far as we are now concerned is our service to the Lord and to His Christ. In this, what takes place in our hearts is vital, and Jesus did not hesitate to point this out. The danger is self-indulgence and absorption in the material benefits of this life. “Watch ye at every season”, Jesus added, “making supplication that ye may prevail to escape these things (including the cares of this life) that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man.” In our waiting may the Lord give us the eyes to see that it is on our preferring Him and His word to all other things that our prevailing will depend." - F.T. PearceThe Waiting Saints (1970) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 05 November 2014 "The fulfilment of God’s Word is one of our most cherished heritages as Christadelphians; that the words which God has spoken, have been, and can still be seen in palpable, living, actual reality, that the Yahweh of Israel manifested Himself in the Jesus of history is our most precious inheritance." - Sheila HarrisFulfilled (1967) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 06 November 2014 "What a solemn thing the gospel is. Does it not lay bare the things we have kept in the recesses of our life? It unmasks us and makes us to be outwardly what we are inwardly. Yet though it is solemn and searching, it is the only thing worth having." - Dennis GillettA Light Into the World (1999) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2014 07 November 2014 "Their enemy was the only completely righteous man who has ever lived. To each man, to each group of men, he was a person who did not belong. Despite their differences, all these people felt easier in each other’s company than in the company of this man. This motley crowd of sinful people had nothing in common with Jesus, the uniquely righteous man. Jesus was a challenge to the world; his teaching and the quality of his life were a rebuke to all men." - Peter WatkinsThe Cross of Christ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 08 November 2014 "The allegory of the vine and the branches is one which fittingly reminds us of our place in the divine scheme of things and the intimacy of our relationship with God the Divine Husbandman and His Son. If we abide in his love by keeping his commandments, we shall indeed be fruitful boughs and our joy ultimately fulfilled." - W.A. McLennanThe Vine and the Branches (1943) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 09 November 2014 "A new and lasting Temple will arise upon Mount Zion in which “they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light”, and a living Temple will be assembled, built up of lively stones with Christ as the corner." - C.A. MacdonaldThe Lamp of God (1951) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 10 November 2014 "He was rich", Paul tells us (2 Corinthians 8:9), "yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." From every materialistic point of view, Jesus was a poor man, "having nothing"; yet in making himself poor for our sakes he became heir of all things, and able to bestow his true and everlasting riches on all who lay in store a good foundation against the time to come." - L.W. RichardsonThe Illusion and Reality of Wealth (1971) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 11 November 2014 "God knows our abilities; we know our failings and shortcomings. "Let us give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard (and read), lest at any time we should let them slip" (Hebrews 2:10)." - Peter ForbesMaking Bible Study Enjoyable (1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 12 November 2014 "Bible study is, of course, a basic necessity for the servant of the Lord. It is right that we should bring to it all the skills and aptitudes which any student would bring to an intellectual pursuit. Even so, it is not the depth of academic knowledge of the Word which counts, although we may profit from the labours of those whose capacity is in these things. It is the quality of one’s meditation that produces spiritual insight and understanding, and this is not the province solely of the academic or the intellectual." - Alfred NichollsLetters to Timothy and Titus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 13 November 2014 "Whilst there is an intellectual content to faith in understanding the way of salvation, it also involves our emotion. Who has never been moved to tears when meditating on the significance of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ and his glorious resurrection? By faith we need to cleave to Jesus with all our being. In this sense we "abide in Christ and Christ in us" (John 15:4)." - Steven ThawThe Fruit of the Spirit - Faith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 14 November 2014 "Jesus saw plainly that the only society which would endure is that described as the Kingdom of God, where God and not man is the measure of all things. He saw, too, that the prime duty of man was to seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, and so fulfil the specific object for which he was created. In these verses (Luke 17:26-30) Jesus shows us that sin is more than corrupt conduct, it is any way of life which leads away from God. The way of life that leads away from God is not a way of life at all; it is a way of death, and its name is humanism." - Gordon HunningsThe Failure of Humanism (1960) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 15 November 2014 "The right combination of the theoretical and the practical is nowhere more important than in the life that is lived in Christ. God’s revelation gives us the view of the end and the way. Constant reading of His word can make it more than a brief hill-top vision: it can accompany us daily in all the way we travel, and we need it at every step. To spend all our time in study or contemplation as ends in themselves is to lose contact with reality and to end with a barren and unfruitful life. To spend all our time in busy activity—however good the things we do—is to become blinded to the object for which we do them. The ideal is given in one phrase of the Apostle Paul’s—two nouns and a verb—in which every word tells: “Faith that worketh by love.” That is the true and fruitful life in Christ." - L.G. SargentSound Mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 16 November 2014 "Let us give primacy in our thoughts, words, and deeds, to the gospel of salvation. It is the most precious thing we have. To impart it is the most valuable service we can render our fellow men ... He who said "I am the true bread", he who could impart that which would satisfy eternal desires, he is the one whom we now serve and now remember, and by following his example in this as in all things, we shall indeed learn how to fulfil faithfully the mission that has been entrusted to us." - A. DaggDoctrine and Daily Life (1962) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 17 November 2014 "Clearly the flowers are not one of the major creations of God, for their life is so very brief and ends so witheringly. Yet their beauty is universally recognized and, equally universally, is recognized as superior to the highest attainments of human art. The comparison Jesus wanted men to make was not of suitability for use, for the majestic qualities of royal robes do not enhance their utility as clothing, but to see that beauty for beauty God’s creation outmatched man’s best." - J.G. BucklerConsider the Lilies of the Field (1956) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 18 November 2014 "We need not fear that we shall be excluded, if we really desire to be in the Kingdom of God, even though we are plain men with little of the hero in our make-up, and nothing in our characters to command the admiration of the world. If we follow the patriarchs in their one outstanding virtue of obedient faith, we shall be guided to the other things needful. Our names are not mentioned in the Scriptures nor in the rolls of human fame, but they are written in the Book of Life." - Islip CollyerPrinciples and Proverbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 19 November 2014 "What is this “edifying?” It is more than entertaining. A man may be an entertaining speaker, without being an edifying speaker. Edification is building up, strengthening the convictions of the mind in things pertaining to God." - Robert RobertsSunday Morning (1891) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 20 November 2014 "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but of the world." In this striking passage are given the distinctive marks of what is worldly. They are pride and sensuality, pomp and power, the vanity of material wealth, the glory of place and position. This test of what is worldly is as valid in the second half of the twentieth century as it was in the first century when the apostle wrote. The world today offers to all much that is good, bad and indifferent in its pleasures, its art, its literature, its music, its sports and its philosophy. Clearly we need to cultivate the discriminating mind and that is best achieved by attaining the spiritual mind—the mind of Christ. It will then be no difficult matter to recognize the things that are true and honourable, that are just, pure and of good report—and very easy to perceive the things that are not." - Ralph SmalleyAlong the Road (1959) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 21 November 2014 "We need to build and strengthen right character, and cast "all your care upon him (God), for he careth for you" (1 Peter 5:7). Paul recognised that God’s care is a constant factor for every season and in every situation. “The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus” (Philippians 4:5-7)." - Claud LambBe Careful for Nothing (1981) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 22 November 2014 "How could the Word of God be any other than “a word of power”? It has been created by the power of His Spirit upon chosen men. It is the full expression of His mind, His will, His Spirit, Himself, in contrast with the spirit and mind of human flesh. Every revelation of the spiritual mind of God is capable of exerting a profound effect upon the minds of men and women—upon one condition: that, like “the good seed” in the Parable of the Sower, they have “good and honest hearts”. There is great instruction in this thought." - Fred Pearce God’s Spirit in Work and Word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 23 November 2014 "We look at these scriptures to-day as Jesus looked back, and endeavour to indicate our part in fulfilling them, for it amounts to that. God has called us to His kingdom and glory in our Lord Jesus Christ, and in this we feel that we are thus far fulfilling the scriptures. My mind has been drawn once more for the thousandth time to the little handbill we are sending out incessantly, and which states that the things the Christadelphians believe are founded on the following facts: “God hath spoken” (Hebrews 1:1). “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21). “Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning” (Romans 15:4). “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God” (1 Peter 4:11). “To the Law and to the Testimony: if any speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20)." - C.C. WalkerIn the Beginning, God (1932) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 24 November 2014 "When we receive the written Word of God, we are accepting something which has latent power to save us. This is because the thoughts that are released into our lives, by our understanding of God’s purpose, begin to transform the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we behave. It is the vital challenge of life, to learn to think like God, to see things from His point of view, and to learn to love as He loves." - Tecwyn MorganStudies in John (1990) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 25 November 2014The Lord we remember calls us to an active, growing, living faith in which we are constantly open and ready to learn. Only thus can Christ be formed in us. And it is in this opening of our minds and in allowing his mighty works to be done and seen in us that we render to him and to the Father that honour which is his due. He is now not just the carpenter of Nazareth but Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Saviour of the world.- Paul WassonIs not This the Carpenter? (1986) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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