Clowne Christadelphian Ecclesia
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Bible Exhibition
at Clowne Christadelphian Hall
Creswell Road, Clowne, S43 4LS
Mon 25th to Fri 29th August 2025
10am to 4pm
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What's in the Bible?
July/August 2025
If you pick up a copy of the Bible and open it around the middle of the book, you should find yourself looking at a psalm. These are a collection of 150 songs, and they are wide-ranging. Some of them are cries for help. Others overflow with joy. Others look at the history of Israel, and still others prophesy a joyful future for the whole earth.
The page you opened at may be around Psalm 118, which includes the words, “It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.” (v8). This is a message which is central to the whole Bible. From the first chapters (Genesis), we learn that humans make mistakes and they don’t live forever. Even the most reliable and well-meaning person will not always be able to do what they promise. But God isn’t like that. He is eternal and all-powerful. If He says he is going to do something, it happens.
If you open your Bible around three quarters of the way through, you will probably be looking at the gospel of John, which is the fourth book of the New Testament. The first four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are called the gospels and they tell us about the life of Jesus. When Jesus began teaching people about the kingdom of God, he was very popular. He was able to heal disease and he attracted crowds wherever he went. But as time went on, some people found his message too hard to take. At one point a number of his disciples stopped following him. He had twelve disciples who were close to him, and he asked if they would leave him too. Simon Peter answered, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life”. (John 6v68). Peter realised that Jesus had a life-giving message. It might not always be easy to understand, but he was willing to stay close to Jesus and learn as much as he could.
This attitude is exactly what we need as we learn what’s in the Bible. If we give up as soon as we find it difficult, we are missing a life-giving opportunity. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, and it includes the words, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”. (v105). However difficult the writer found the word of God, he stuck with it because he found it enlightening. There are many written words clamouring for our attention in this busy world. Often we spend only a few seconds on something we read before moving on. It would be a shame to lose something important because we failed to recognize its value. It’s worth persevering and finding out what it actually says, rather than what people think it says. Like Peter, we can learn about the life-giving message God has given us in His word the Bible.
To find out more visit a FREE
Bible Exhibition
at Clowne Christadelphian Hall
Creswell Road, Clowne, S43 4LS
Mon 25th to Fri 29th August 2025
10am to 4pm
God willing
Being Good
June 2025
What does a good person look like? Obviously, it’s not about looks at all! When a man came to Jesus and addressed him as “Good Teacher”, the reaction was not what he expected. “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” (Mark 10:18). Yet the Bible tells us that Jesus spent his life doing only good. Perhaps we need to examine what “being good” actually means.
The bestselling book of all time
May 2025
The bestselling book of all time is probably one of the least read books. This book is the Bible. You probably have one, but have you ever opened it and read it? The Bible is one volume comprising of sixty-six books. Books containing accounts of heroes and villains, acts of bravery, love stories, books of historical record, and books of poetry, letters and prophecy. The Bible claims to be a revelation of God’s plan and purpose for mankind, and uniquely it invites us to test and challenge what it says: “Test all things; hold fast to what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5 verse 21). The revelation of God’s plan and purpose was given by the prophets through prophecy. These prophecies concern all the nations on the earth and particularly the Jews. It is said that the Bible stands or falls by the prophecies it contains, some of which have yet to be fulfilled, many of which have been fulfilled in full or in part. Consider one of the prophecies that has been partially fulfilled which is found in the second chapter of the book of Daniel, where there is recorded the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire. Historical artefacts confirm the existence of this king. In his dream he saw the statue of a man. This image had a head of gold, breast of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron and feet made of iron mixed with clay. The prophet Daniel explained the dream to the king, four great empires of which the king was represented by the head of gold. After the fall of the last empire there would be no further great empire, but a mixture of strong and weak nations. History tells us that the four empires were Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece and Rome. Since the fall of the Roman empire there has been no other great empire. The king’s dream continued, and he saw a stone cut from a mountain without human intervention. This stone destroyed the image and grew and filled the earth. Daniel stated that at the time of the end God would intervene in the affairs of mankind, by destroying the kingdoms of men and establish his own world-encompassing righteous kingdom, inhabited by faithful men and women. Most of this prophecy has been fulfilled. It is therefore both reasonable and logical to presume that the last part of this prophecy will also be fulfilled. To find out more, you are warmly invited to a free Bible talk, every Sunday evening at 5pm, at the Christadelphian Hall, Creswell Road, Clowne, or contact us for a free Bible reading plan and start to read the Bible for yourself.
To find out more, you are warmly invited to a free Bible talk, every Sunday evening at 5pm, Christadelphian Hall,
Creswell Road, Clowne S43 4LS.
See the 'Whats On' page for details.
Contact us to request a free Bible Reading Plan and/or booklet
"The Miracle of the Bible" and these will be posted to you free of charge
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