Christenen in Tyumen, Rusland, hebben een creatieve manier gevonden om studenten op een nabijgelegen universiteit te bereiken. Zij hebben een bibliotheek opgezet vol met christelijke boeken en materialen. John Lowrey en een team van Christian Resources International (CRI) hebben de literatuur geleverd. De bibliotheek en kerkdiensten moeten ervoor zorgen dat Russische studenten in gesprek gaan over geestelijke zaken.
De Russische autoriteiten staan niet positief tegenover een dergelijk grote toestroom van christelijke literatuur. "We bidden dat de studenten in Tyumen met de juiste vragen komen en bereid zijn te luisteren en bijbelse antwoorden krijgen op vragen in hun leven," aldus Lowrey.
Friday 16 July 2010
Martin Luther King's Dream Today
Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King jr., spoke on June 22nd 2010, at a meeting of the Working Group on Human Dignity, in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Please read her thoughts on the role of civil rights movements and the protection of life, which is a main topic of interest for her.
Martin Luther King's Dream Today - Thoughts by his Niece
Dr. Alveda King
“The message I share comes from my heart, from love of life and family, and from an inherited sense of duty to defend the most vulnerable in society.
My talk today and my work as a civil rights activist are based on three very simple truths –
* that every human being is worthy of respect by virtue of his being human;
* that at no time does anyone’s life become less human or more human;
* that each human life begins at its physical beginning
As a result of these three propositions, every single human being, born or unborn, has rights and those rights should be respected by society and protected under law.
Repentance is the first step in a soul being saved; it’s also the first step in a culture being changed. I know this because I have seen my culture, my America, change in my lifetime.
So much bloodshed and heartache happened because some people in the United States thought that African Americans were not worthy of respect. We were spat upon. We were clubbed and beaten. And we were lynched. We were killed because we were regarded as less than fully human. So it is with the lives of unborn babies – who are womb-lynched today.
But racism not only oppressed African Americans, it seared the consciences of the oppressors. People found that the fabrications of racists made their own lives more comfortable, more convenient, and they became invested in those falsehoods. They depended on those falsehoods. And so they believed, what they knew in their hearts to be untrue. So it is with the lies of abortionists today.
Today’s unborn are yesterday’s blacks – best kept out of sight and out of mind lest they remind us of the injustices we commit. The problem for abortionists and their supporters, though, is the same problem racists and segregationists faced: reality. Unborn babies won’t go away. So the work of the abortion industry has been to deny the humanity of those they exploit and discriminate against.
But what if, like the Texas abortion clinic director who recently quit her job when she saw the ultrasound image of the baby she was helping to abort, we can no longer rationalize away what we’ve been doing all these years? What if the truth becomes so clear and so compelling that society simply can’t go on being indifferent or complicit in the big lie? Well, that’s when we have to do what is against our nature – we have to humble ourselves, admit our wrongs and change our ways.
And that, in fact, is what my country did because of the civil rights movement. America changed because Americans were touched in their hearts – hearts that the Bible tells us are inscribed with God’s law. We can try to deny our consciences, indoctrinate or medicate our minds so that we can’t or won’t think, but a sense of right and wrong has been given to each and every one of us. It is that very moral awareness that changed America’s culture on racism.
I believe it is that same moral awareness that can change any culture on abortion. It won’t happen overnight. But it is already happening.
In our hearts, we know this. For too long, though, we have looked the other way. We have not wanted to get involved. We have convinced ourselves that people will never change when it comes to abortion. I’m here to tell you that this is not true. I have seen change, in myself, in others, and in my nation. What happened with slavery and racism is now happening with abortion. Those in power who can speak up for the persecuted must do so, we are our brothers’ keeper and what happens to him, happens to us.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote from a jail cell, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Whether a child is aborted in Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, England, that abortion is an assault on what my Uncle Martin called the Beloved Community.
My Uncle Martin had a dream. He dreamt that we would live out that which is self-evident – that all men are created equal. He called on America to admit our wrongs and turn from them.
Today, I call on all of us, regardless of nationality, race or religion, to admit our wrongs and turn from them. I believe that the denial of the right to life is the greatest injustice we face in the world today. There is no compassion in killing. There is no justice in writing people out of the human race.
I only ask: How can such a dream live on - the dream of equality for all - if we kill our children? How can the dream live on if we deny others their basic human dignity and respect? How can the dream live on if we do not act on their behalf?”
- "Europe for Christ!" 
Thursday 15 July 2010
Ik ben Vrij
Door christus zijn wij bevrijd en kunnen wij het uitzingen.
Met een beter begin en einde, maar een veel te statisch middenstuk
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Israel Gods people
Was Moses being too starry-eyed, too close to the Israelites to see things in perspective, when he spoke of them as the "chosen people"?
The idea that God has a special relationship with the nation of Israel does not go down well today. Our society is pre-occupied with equality and equal opportunity. Why should God choose one nation out of the many that fill the globe? What is so special about that tiny strip of land between the continents, the country we now call Israel, for which He seems to have such a deep regard?
Did every detail of the prophecy come true: the sojourn in a foreign land; the slavery; the taking of a spoil; the 400 years?
In case the murder of God's Son was the ultimate act of rebellion by the Chosen People, were the Israelites punished whe they, as Moses had foreseen, became the Wandering Jews after 70AD, to be found in practically every country of the world, despised, reviled and hounded by persecution from city to city? For long centuries, exactly as the cursings had warned, they had no rest for the soles of their feet.
"Has God rejected His people?"
This month's survey question:
God's People? God's Land?
> http://thisisyourbible.com/
The idea that God has a special relationship with the nation of Israel does not go down well today. Our society is pre-occupied with equality and equal opportunity. Why should God choose one nation out of the many that fill the globe? What is so special about that tiny strip of land between the continents, the country we now call Israel, for which He seems to have such a deep regard?
Did every detail of the prophecy come true: the sojourn in a foreign land; the slavery; the taking of a spoil; the 400 years?
In case the murder of God's Son was the ultimate act of rebellion by the Chosen People, were the Israelites punished whe they, as Moses had foreseen, became the Wandering Jews after 70AD, to be found in practically every country of the world, despised, reviled and hounded by persecution from city to city? For long centuries, exactly as the cursings had warned, they had no rest for the soles of their feet.
"Has God rejected His people?"
This month's survey question:
God's People? God's Land?
- The people of Israel are God's people and an integral part of His plan.
- The people of Israel are NOT God's people nor is Palestine their land.
- The notion of a chosen people is irrelevant and wrong-headed.
- Don't know.
> http://thisisyourbible.com/
Monday 12 July 2010
Weekly World Watch July 4 - 10, 2010
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In this weeks WWW
Israel promises peace
Russia promises Iran reactor ready soon
The Queen makes a promise and is about to break it
- Obama: Bond between U.S., Israel ‘unbreakable’
- Russia, U.S. swap 14 in Cold War-style spy exchange
- Moscow to have Iran's reactor running by September
- Pope's UK visit 'could cost taxpayers £12m'
- Anti-Israel ‘Lawfare’ in Europe
- Increased quake activity predicted for California faults
About first ever state visit of a Pope to Britain. This is hugely significant.
A state visit is a formal visit by a foreign head of state to another nation, at the invitation of that nation's head of state. State visits are the highest form of diplomatic contact between two nations. In other words the Pope has been invited by the Queen and he will have all the ceremonial pomp and recognition that goes with a state visit.
The Queen is breaking her vow here and will be judged for it. She swore an oath at her coronation. Archbishop: “Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law?” Queen: “All this I promise to do.” A protestant is someone who rejects the authority of the Pope and accepts the Bible as their ultimate authority. In welcoming the Pope as the head of the Vatican State, the Queen is acknowledging his authority and breaking her vow.
God said a latter day Tyre would sing as a harlot. We see these words coming true….
Friday 9 July 2010
www.加쒔.org Chinese Christadelphian Home Page
http://www.shengjing.org/
Chinese website of the Christadelphians. Chines website van de Christadelphians.
基督弟兄会主页
Chinese website of the Christadelphians. Chines website van de Christadelphians.基督弟兄会主页
Chinese Cd Website
For those who have Chinese friends, they can direct them to the Christadelphian Chinese pages.
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Weekly World Watch 27th June - 3rd July 2010
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System Could Help Tehran Dodge Israeli Strike; a Blow to U.S. Strategy on Damascus Iran has sent Syria a sophisticated radar system that could threaten Israel's ability to launch a surprise attack against Iran's nuclear facilities, say Israeli and U.S. officials, extending an alliance aimed at undermining Israel's military dominance in the region.
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEKS WWW
In this weeks WWW
Russia gets involved in Israel v Palestinians.
Moving around looking for a homeland
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| "Home at Last" (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
But sometimes travelling people let their minds wander and dream of a lovely place to stay, the ideal living space.
Millennia ago many had to leave their house to some promised land. It happened even in the history that for 1000 year a people was spread over the entire earth. Taken away from home they hoped for a promised native country. They counted there on that their patriarch who received the promise of the All Father would bring them rescue and a country of peace for forever.
A holocaust did their people awful shrink but their hope remained and came closer to existence in 1948. the State Israel might become a reality and would become populated by the Jewish community. Again once an exodus, that the whole world event would change, took place.
Read more: A displaced people returning to their home country
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Ver weg van huis
Het is weer vakantie tijd en velen gaan voor een tijdje ver van huis. Wanneer zij vertrekken hebben zij de zekerheid dat zij naar hun veilige stekje zullen terug keren.
Sommige vakantiegangers durven hun gedachten wel eens de vrije loop laten gaan en doen dromen van een veilig stekje of een nieuwe thuishaven. Zij denken dan een land te vinden waar het beter toeven is, een ideale verblijfsplaats.
Millennia geleden moesten velen hun huis verlaten om naar een ander land te trekken.Het gebeurde zelfs in de geschiedenis dat voor 1000 jaar een volk verspreidt geraakte over de gehele aarde.Ontheemd hoopten zij voor een beloofd vaderland. Zij rekenden er op dat hun aartsvader van de Aller Vader dé belofte had gekregen die voor hen redding zou brengen en een land van vrede voor eeuwig zou werkelijkheid worden.
Een holocaust deed hun volk erg inkrimpen maar de hoop bleef bestaan en in 1948 kwam ze nog dichter bij. De Staat Israël mocht een werkelijkheid worden en zou mogen bevolkt worden door de Joodse gemeenschap.Weer eens greep er een exodus plaats die het hele wereldgebeuren zou veranderen.
Lees meer: A displaced people returning to their homeland
Sommige vakantiegangers durven hun gedachten wel eens de vrije loop laten gaan en doen dromen van een veilig stekje of een nieuwe thuishaven. Zij denken dan een land te vinden waar het beter toeven is, een ideale verblijfsplaats.
Millennia geleden moesten velen hun huis verlaten om naar een ander land te trekken.Het gebeurde zelfs in de geschiedenis dat voor 1000 jaar een volk verspreidt geraakte over de gehele aarde.Ontheemd hoopten zij voor een beloofd vaderland. Zij rekenden er op dat hun aartsvader van de Aller Vader dé belofte had gekregen die voor hen redding zou brengen en een land van vrede voor eeuwig zou werkelijkheid worden.
Een holocaust deed hun volk erg inkrimpen maar de hoop bleef bestaan en in 1948 kwam ze nog dichter bij. De Staat Israël mocht een werkelijkheid worden en zou mogen bevolkt worden door de Joodse gemeenschap.Weer eens greep er een exodus plaats die het hele wereldgebeuren zou veranderen.
Lees meer: A displaced people returning to their homeland
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