Voices of the Tidings

Tidings October 2023 Issue

Someone asked me how I would describe my ecclesia. I had to think for a moment before I came up with the right word. "Invigorating," I said. It wasn't always like that. In fact, about nine years ago, our ecclesia was anything but invigorating. Problem after problem tumbled around us...

Without a doubt, our relationship with God is the most important one in our lives. And yet, we all know that it waxes and wanes, affected by the vicissitudes of circumstance, health, and mood. As I reflect on my own relationship with the Father, who has saved me from hopelessness, it occurs to me that our relationship with God is not that different from our relationship with other people.

Understanding prayer within God's purpose will have a lot to do with what we believe is happening in God's plan right "Now," today.

There appears to be a discrepancy between the prayer guarantees promised by God in Scripture and our own lived-out prayer experiences. Listen as Darren helps reconcile this difference. Read by Chris Sales.

We would all like to know how to pray better.

To truly appreciate the legacy of Christ, we must build it in connection and contrast to the work of another legacy, that of Adam, right back at the start of Scripture.

By James McCann

A recording by Bro. Chris Sales of David Lloyd's article, Undisciplined Disciplined Prayer. "Disciplined is a word that could sound rigid, or worse, robotic and heartless. That can't be prayer! On the other hand, 'undisciplined' sounds all over the place, and mostly not in a good place. That can't be prayer either!"

Ethel Archard recently completed her book, "Job's Quest," and the Tidings Magazine was pleased to publish it for our community. Listen to this recording of Ethel as she reads the Preface, which lays out the overall content of her book.