The Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to soak up the resources for both under developed and developed countries. At the time of posting this blog the global medical community has been unable to inform about a vaccine. The blogmaster read the perspective of a leading Australian virologist recently where she opined that the world will have to live with the virus, in
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Submitted by Dr. GP INTRODUCTORY BACKGROUND The first eight chapters of Romans is said to be DOCTRINAL 1-8 -They tell us what we need to KNOW. The final five chapters are DEVOTIONAL 12-16 – Practical. -They tell us what we need to DO. In the first eight chapters we learned that righteousness is required by our holy God, revealed in
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It is important for followers of Jesus to keep reading the Bible. You can never read enough. I have found that as you read, you may not understand everything. But you will understand what you need to understand at your individual stage of development. This removes the pressure of having to be an expert to read the Bible. If you
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The following blogs attracted the most comments based on the 1000 most recent comments. This simple measure as a barometer to gauge wider interest can be grouped by crime, economy, personality, international. The number 1 issue for the BU family is concern about the high crime rate and specifically the unprecedented number of murders in 2019. The official count as
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Dear All: We who are still in training can benefit from persons who were near the end of their training, and who wrote to encourage us from that perspective. There are several examples from the Old Testament, but only one from the New Testament, namely Simon Peter. Peter knew that he would be killed, having been warned of this by
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Submitted by Dr. GP Psalm 22 describes the sufferings of the Lord Jesus on the cross under three headings Psychological Physiological Pathological These are followed by a Praise section in this Psalm The emotional or Psychological suffering of Jesus is described in the first 16 verse of Psalm 22, and mirrors the reports of Matthew 26:39; Matthew. 27:39-44; Mark 15:29,
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Youth violence has always been with us. According to the Biblical account, Cain (Adam and Eve’s first-born son) killed his younger brother, Abel. Even the intervention of God Himself, who counselled Cain to overcome his anger, did not prevent Cain from killing his brother. Cain was jealous of his younger brother’s success. God explained to him that he would be
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