Act as if everything you think, say and do determines your entire life

"Act as if everything you think,
say and do determines your entire life
- because in reality, it does!"
- Laurelle Adrian

"Therefore, prepare your minds for action;
be self-controlled;
set your hope fully on the grace to be given you
when Jesus Christ is revealed."
1 Peter 1:13

Lord let me always do right.
Girded me with the armour of truth and justice.
Let me always be sensible and sober in order to work on this earth for you.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Handel alsof alles wat je denkt, zegt en doet uw hele leven bepaalt
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Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it

"Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it.
Everyone must decide whether he wants the uncompromising truth or a counterfeit version of truth.
Real wisdom consists of recommending the truth to yourself at every opportunity."
- Vernon Howard

“Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:” (Pr 3:3)

“The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment.” (Pr 12:19)

“Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” (Pr 23:23)

“These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;” (Zec 8:16)

“Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there is any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.” (Ge 42:16)

“Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.” (Jos 24:14)

“Only fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.” (1Sa 12:24)

“Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.” (Ps 85:10-11)

“But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.” (Joh 3:21)

“and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Joh 8:32)

Jehovah I have chosen the way of truth and faithfulness:
Your ordinances have I set before me. I go for the truth.
Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.
Guide me in Your truth, and teach me; For You are the God of my salvation; For You do I wait all the day.
Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
Into Your hand I commend my spirit: You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, You God of truth.

Dutch version / Nederlands > Waarheid speelt nooit valse rollen van welke aard dan ook
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The Ecclesia

The Ecclesia

"Christadelphians adopt these principles by common consent in seeking to preserve their faith and way of life in each of their congregations (often called ecclesias ­ a word carried through from the Greek of the New Testament and meaning an assembly).

The community is held together by the common consent of each congregation to the agreed fundamentals of belief and practice as found in the Scriptures. The Christadelphian community has no superintending body, no hierarchy or supra-authority other than the Word of God and the overlordship of Christ. By these means Christadelphians order their affairs in submission to God and His Son. Christadelphians believe that their arrangements are as nearly in accord with first century Christianity as they can achieve.
The community has its own blemishes and has not been able to avoid schism over the years. Happily considerable healing of this has occurred in recent times.

Scripture teaches that preservation of unity is to be striven for and the tendency to fragmentation to be deplored. But unity must be upon sound principles. For this reason, ecumenism as a means of bringing together fundamentally different groups does not find favour with Christadelphians. In any case, our points of difference often make us unacceptable to others.

The weekly breaking of bread service in Christadelphian meetings is the centre of their expression of fellowship in Christ.
Members regularly assemble in this way and meet in other Christadelphian ecclesias when they are on holiday or visiting in other places or other lands. The fellowship thus expressed is
remarkably alive and there is a real family bond among Christadelphians wherever they go.

It is possible for the exclusiveness of the breaking of bread service to be regarded as unfriendly by non-Christadelphians, particularly those who like to have an open fellowship. As the reader will have gathered from what has gone before, Christadelphians base their fellowship on a common faith and a common way of life. We are heartily glad to welcome new members by belief and baptism, but we do not extend our breaking of bread service to any one who might care to come along irrespective of his belief or behaviour. We regard this as fundamental to our existence. Fellowship is not simply friendship.
It is sharing all that is precious in the truest sense. We believe that to be worth preserving."

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Brother Harry Tennant
Fellowship
The Christadelphians - What they Believe and Preach

Preferring to be a Christian

What more can I wish than that, while my brief term on earth shall last, I should be the servant of Him who became the Servant of servants for me?
I can say, concerning Christ's religion, if I had to die like a dog, and had no hope whatever of immortality, if I wanted to lead a happy life, let me serve my God with all my heart; let me be follower of Jesus, and walk in His footsteps. If there were no hereafter, I would still prefer to be a Christian, and the humblest Christian minister, to being a king or an emperor, for I am persuaded there are more delights in Christ, yea, more joy in one glimpse of His face than is to be found in all the praises of this harlot-world, and in all the delights which it can yield to us in its sunniest and brightest days. And I am persuaded that what He has been till now, He will be to the end, and where He had begun a good work, He will carry it on.

In the religion of Jesus Christ, there are clusters even on earth too heavy for one man to carry; there are fruits that have been found so rich that even angel lips have never been sweetened with more luscious wine; there are joys to be had here so fair that even cates ambrosial and the nectared wine of Paradise can scarcely excel the sweets of satisfaction that are to be found in the earthly banquets of the Lord. I have seen hundreds and thousands who have given their hearts to Jesus, but I never did see one who said he was disappointed with Him, I never met with one who said Jesus Christ was less than He was declared to be. 

When first my eyes beheld Him, when the burden slipped from off my heavy-laden shoulders, and I was free from condemnation, I thought that all the preachers I had ever heard had not half preached, they had not told half the beauty of my Lord and Master. So good! so generous! so gracious! so willing to forgive! It seemed to me as if they had almost slandered Him; they painted His likeness, doubtless, as well as they could, but it was a mere smudge compared with the matchless beauties of His face. All who have ever seen Him will say the same. I go back to my home, many a time, mourning that I cannot preach my Master even as I myself know Him, and what I know of Him is very little compared with the matchlessness of His grace. Would that I knew more of Him, and that I could tell it out better!

Charles Spurgeon

 

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Aim High: Examples of Godly Characters to follow

Aim High: Examples of Godly Characters to follow

Dutch version / Nederlands > Mik Hoog: Voorbeelden van te volgen Goddelijke karakters

Be Abraham in faith.

Be Isaac in fear (Gen 31:42).

Be Jacobs in wrestling.

Be Abels or Noahs in righteousness.

Be Enochs in holiness.

Be Jobs in patience.

Be Moses' in sacrificing the pleasures of sin.

Be Jethro's in rejoicing (Exod 18:9).

Be Samuels in upholding obedience.

Be Josephs in forgiveness.

Be Davids in prayer and praise.

Be Nehemiahs in fearlessness.

Be Calebs or Joshua in whole heartedness.

Be Johns and Jonathans in love.

Be Josiahs in tenderness.

Be Aarons in consecration.

Be Jeremiahs in lamentation.

Be Pauls in enthusiasm and zeal.

Be Habakkuks in holy trembling.

Be Esthers in noble resolve (Esther 4:16).

Be Persis in labour.

Be Cornelius' or Dorcas' in benevolent work and arms deeds.

Be Isaiahs in sublimity.

Be Phebes in service and succour.

Be Stephens in irresistible argument.

Be Antipas' in faithfulness.

Be Nathaniels in guilelessness.

Be Arimathean Josephs in looking after the body of Christ.

Be Daniels in courageous devotion.

Be Marys in sitting at the feet of Jesus, and in expensive expressions of love.

Be John the Baptists in burning and shining testimony.

Be Mordecais in seeking the good of Israel.

Be Timothys in reading the Scriptures.

Be Gideons in valour.

Be Samsons in strength.

Be Solomons in wisdom.

Be Elijahs in fervent prayer.

Be Lydias in worship.

Be Sarahs in quietness and subjection.

Be Titus' in "earnest care".

Be Mark's in profitableness (2 Tim. 4:11).

Be Appolos' in eloquence, and might of the Scriptures.

Be Annas in testifying of Christ (Luke 2:38).

Be James' in faithful admonition.

Be Peters in boldness (Acts 4:13).

Be Philemons in refreshing the saints (Phil 7).

Be Lois' or Eunices in unfeigned conviction.

Be Hezekiahs in tearful recognition of the chastening hand of God.

Be Abigails in bountiful recognition of service rendered.

Be Nathans in straightforward accusation (2 Sam 7:7).

Be Elishas in discernment, as to time and circumstances when gifts may be

received and when refused (2 Kings 6:26).

Be Ezras in uncompromising counsel.

Be Ezekials in the faithful exhibition of wickedness and its consequences.

Be Lukes in writing to the excellent of the earth (Luke 1:3).

Be Malachis in bearing faithful testimony against evil.

Be Jepthahs in keeping your word (Judges 11:35).

Be Ruths in resolution and purpose.

Be Zadocks in not going astray.

Be Andronicus, and Junias in noteworthiness.

Be Priscillas and Aquillas in helpership.

Be Samaritans in neighbourly kindness.

Be Ephesians in refusing complicity with evil.

Be Pergamians in holding fast to the faith.

Be Thyratirains in works of faith, patience and charity.

Be Philadelphians in keeping the word, and confessing the name of Christ.

In a word, be Christ's in Spirit and in truth (Romans 8:9).

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Several characters from the game; left to right, Eliwood, Sain, Dorcas, Lyn, Rebecca, Hector and Serra (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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