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Do you believe in Ghosts?
I was alone in my kitchen late one night, when I heard a noise nearby. It sounded like a woman’s voice—a long groan, laden with fatigue and pain. I didn’t hear it again, all the time I lived in that house. Of course, I could have imagined it. But there are many people who hear, see and feel inexplicable things. Are they all deluded?
Two Families
We watch Cain set off with his wife to the Land of Nod, or Wandering, leaving Adam and his wife bereaved of both their sons. We can picture the agony of their discovery of Abel’s corpse, and the tears with which they consigned him to the earth, the first victim of Eden’s curse. Death had become real, for the first time, and they learnt with dismay how fragile and precious is life, passing swiftly beyond recall.
The Bible Companion
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me…. Why wouldn’t you want to read the Bible every day?
This calendar, which is in widespread use among Christadelphians, is called the Bible Companion.
Salt or Mould?
We were at a cheese-maker’s. Its small museum contained some old-fashioned tools used to make cheese years ago, and we could watch the current process through windows.
The basic methods have not changed: churning, curds, whey and preservation.
A Message from the Dead
Necromancy—the practice of supposedly communicating with the dead—was a feature of the pagan religions of the Canaanites who had previously occupied the land of Israel. God had told His people to get rid of all vestiges of false Canaanite religion, including sorcerers, charmers, necromancers and mediums.
To the Unknown God
In the course of his travels Paul came to Athens.
Athens at the time was a prominent Greek city, and notorious for its devotion to many different gods. It contained altars to every god they could think of, and lest one had been overlooked there was a spare.
Your E-mails: December 2024
NP – How will God resurrect people who’ve been cremated?
Ed – ‘Resurrection’ means rising from death to life. When Christ returns, ‘Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt’