Today we’re going to go back to Exodus. So, if you’ve been with us for a while, you know that I’ve been looking at the lessons we can learn from Israel’s wanderings through the wilderness. And we now come on to the Ten Commandments passage. The centre-point if you like, of the Exodus story. And indeed, of the whole of the Old Testament, the Hebrew scriptures, in which God...
David Stone Before 1967, I would say that most Western liberals were fairly sympathetic to Israel. After 1967, when Israel became an occupier of Arab territory, that changed. There was a rapid cooling of attitude. But bizarrely, despite the fact that Israel was the party that was constantly striving for peace, that was accepting UN resolutions while the Arabs were rejecting them, that was...
What does this prophecy say? What’s it about? Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a...
Why does a good God allow bad people to have their way?
How does Habakkuk’s conversation with God relate to our situation now in the light of the last days prophecies?
Rejoice in the Lord in all circumstances.
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David Stone So, let’s move forward now into the 20th century which is where we’re going to be mainly focusing on. During the First World War, the tectonic plates of international politics were moving and there was a growing consensus around a principle that president Woodrow Wilson of the United States had articulated in his 14 points. The idea of the ‘universal right to self...
God’s name is holy. God is in His name, His nature is in His name.
Tony Pearce
Unless it’s the God of the Bible, you’re praying to a god that cannot save; it’s a waste of time.
Tony Pearce
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He who has an ear, Let Him hear.
Revelation 13.9
Do you know who the Christ was? A simple Jew like your father. A kind of Hassid.’
André Schwarz-Bart – The last of the Just
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour, if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Jeremiah 7.5-7