Showing posts with label glad tidings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glad tidings. Show all posts

Saturday 9 March 2013

Witnessing Glad Tidings


Those aims remain the same in today’s magazine because God’s purpose is unchanging. But over the years there have been many changes of format, style and personnel, as you would expect.

T H Elwick of Lincoln and Percy Horsman of Nottingham, England, joined forces in March 1884 as Editor and Publisher of a new magazine. They were Christadelphians and stated their objectives in that first issue as follows:
  • To set forth the truth in its purity;
  • To expunge and erase from every Bible doctrine the figments of human tradition, with which they have been darkened;
  • To make clear the great scheme of human redemption provided by the Deity;
  • To proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom of God;
  • To demonstrate that the time is at hand when this kingdom shall be established.
The packing teamAlthough the language and style of the magazine may have altered over the years, the reason for publishing the magazine has not fundamentally changed since its inception.

As the apostle James challenged believers to remain true to their calling and urged them not to be affected by changing fashions and different belief systems, the Christadelphians keep to the Words of the Bible and follow the tradition of the first century Christians.

Every day it is possible to see how people are affected by changing views and opinions.But Christadelphian people try not to fall into the traps of the world. They try to get a crystallised harmonious thinking according to the teachings of Christ Jesus the Messiah.

Newspapers and magazines depend upon something new to write about. Politicians want a new idea to present, so they can be seen to be making progress towards their stated objectives. People want new things all the time and so opinions alter and behaviours change. But the followers ofJesus recognise that fundamental things can never change and they need to be single-minded in their determination to hold fast to the teaching of Jesus about eternal things, regardless of the winds of change that are gusting around them.

We are saved not by anything we do, but by God’s grace made available to us because of Jesus' sacrifice. However we do need to respond to God’s grace by being baptised into Christ by full immersion in water. We also need to follow as far as we are able the example of Jesus in our own lives. How we do have to that, the magazine is willing to show.

The Christadelphian monthly  tries to bring people closer to the One and only God and to show the world how it can have a much better future. The magazine brings some articles on our relationship with God, Jesus and each other. It tries to show how we need to build our character and change our personality. All who follow Jesus have to undergo a process of change until at last they can become fully like him.

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Please do read more about such changes we do have to make: Gone with the wind, or the latest article

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Wednesday 27 February 2013

129 years of Glad Tidings

For nearly 130 years the Brethren in Christ or Christadelphians bring Glad Tidings.

The "Glad Tidings" Committee would like to thank everyone for renewing their
2013 subscriptions and thus allowing the magazine to continue its witness to
the gospel of the Kingdom of God for its 129th year.
Glad Tidings Issue 1456
Glad Tidings Issue 1456 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
At present we are printing 11,500 copies each month and have a few more back numbers available than usual, so for the time being we are offering these back numbers of the "Glad Tidings" magazine free of charge to anyone who is able to make use of them in their personal preaching activities. The magazines will need to be collected from one of the following addresses: Tecwyn Morgan, 26 The Crescent, Hampton-in-Arden, Solihull B92 0BP (01675 442644) Cilla Palmer,"Highlands" 78 Mildenhall Road, Fordham, Ely, CB7 5NR (01638 723959) Judith Griffiths,72 Audley Avenue, Stretford, Manchester, M32 9TG (0161 748 7207) Geoff Maycock, 8 Hale End, Bracknell, RG12 9YH (01344 420533) 
 
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Wednesday 16 February 2011

Appointed to be read

There has never been such a choice of what to read and indeed how to read it. Either by means of the printed page or electronically, everybody wants our attention and usually our money. There is only one place where we can read about the unbreakable promises of God, and that is in the Bible. There is a special reason why English readers should seize the opportunity to read through the Bible in 2011.

Appointed to be read in the Churches is what was written in 1611 in a book that shook the world.
Barker’s printing house in Aldersgate Street, London, brought a major work on the market which opened a total new world for many people. Nobody could trick them in things which were not really written in that volumes work.
400 years ago in England the landmark was set for the Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments to be read over the many years by so many people of different tongues. Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty’s special command – Appointed to be read in the Churches it became a major working tool for many Bible students.

presents a year long a series tracing the the process of Bible translation through the ages, so you can see how the King James Version came about, and why it is important that you read the Bible for yourself. By the exposition readers can see the way in which God has worked through the centuries to preserve the gospel  message. It looks at the many translations in the light of time. Free and authoritative Latin translations, Anglo-Saxon versions, the inhibited free access to reading the Bible up to the liberation of the Word of God.



Please do find : Inspiration and Early Translations; Part One: The Bible, Appointed to be Read … in the Glad Tidings of January 2011.

“Glad Tidings” is not a newspaper devoted to tracking and reporting newsworthy events.
If it was it would need to be renamed “Bad Tidings!”, for newspapers do not allow much space for good news stories.
The purpose of that Christadelphian magazine is to draw attention to God’s plan and purpose for the world, which is longestablished, as His promise to Abraham makes clear.