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Jim Voisey
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‘To every man his work’
Mark 13. 34 These words and the parable containing them are unique to Mark’s account of our Lord’s Olivet discourse. Each one of us has been given our work until the Lord returns, and we are also to w…
Jim Voisey
2007 Volume 62 Issue 3
Exposition
Anna – Just an Old Woman?
‘She spake of him’, Luke 2. 38. She was faithful despite declineEveryone who visited the temple would have known Anna. ‘She was of a great age’, Luke 2. 36, and ‘a widow of about fourscore and four ye…
Jim Voisey
2006 Volume 61 Issue 4
Exposition
For to me to live is Christ
‘For to me to live is Christ’, Phil. 1. 21 Do not go back Paul resolutely cut himself off from his past life when he became the Lord’s. He explains to the Philippians those things in which once he had…
Jim Voisey
2011 Volume 66 Issue 3
Devotional
Going Away?
There are a lot of partings and separations in the Bible, many of them sad and some of them very sad. We will consider three of these involving Lot, Samuel and Demas: 1 Lot - ‘Then Lot chose him all t…
Jim Voisey
2009 Volume 64 Issue 3
Exposition
Hannah
A Mother’s Influence ‘HER CHILDREN ARISE UP, AND CALL HER BLESSED’, Prov. 31. 28. Helen Young writes, ‘There will come a time when there’ll be no more slamming of doors, no more toys to pick up on the…
Jim Voisey
Some Old Testament Mothers
2002 Volume 57 Issue 1
Exposition
Highly Exalted
Head of the Church. God “gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all”, Eph. 1. 22, 23. The Headship of Christ is a fascinating …
Jim Voisey
“Highly Exalted”
1974 Volume 25 Issue 5
Exposition
Highly Exalted
This fragment of a verse from Philippians 2 expresses a truth of profound significance for the Christian and for the world. We do well to remind ourselves that God has His King, and in Psalm 2 is foun…
Jim Voisey
“Highly Exalted”
1974 Volume 25 Issue 4
Exposition
His Hands Full of Incense
Our hands are important parts of our individual personalities. Some people have larger hands than others. If Aaron’s hands were small, whatever he could hold in them would be his sweet incense offerin…
Jim Voisey
2000 Volume 55 Issue 3
Exposition
His Mother and Mine
Many mothers are mentioned in the Bible, ranging from Eve ‘the mother of all living’, Gen. 3. 20, to the two mystical and symbolic mothers of the book of the Revelation chapters 12 and 17. Among the n…
Jim Voisey
1999 Volume 54 Issue 4
Devotional
John Mark, Meet For The Master’s Use
Mark appreciated ‘Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry’, 2 Tim. 4. 11. What praise is this! Mark must have well earned it for Paul’s standards were very high…
Jim Voisey
2004 Volume 59 Issue 1
Exposition
Naomi
Naomi had never thought to hear such words again. They were spoken with good-natured humour by her neighbours because she ‘took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it’. Yet Naom…
Jim Voisey
Some Old Testament Mothers
2003 Volume 58 Issue 3
Exposition
Stop being Defeatist!
‘We are well able’, Num. 13. 30 ‘We are well able’ is the language of faith in God, in His power and in His promises. It is sad when we do not have this faith, but give up easily. The spies had been s…
Jim Voisey
2008 Volume 63 Issue 3
Exposition
The Jews, their land and their future
The Bible has a lot to say about God’s dealings with the Jews and His purposes for them. A special people The Jews are a unique people because of their relationship to God. They are ‘the apple of His …
Jim Voisey
2013 Volume 68 Issue 2
Contemporary Issues
The Lord is Good
Nahum was called to prophesy God’s awful vengeance upon Nineveh and the Assyrian king who had presumed to reproach and blaspheme the Lord. However, his message also contains encouragement for God’s pe…
Jim Voisey
2010 Volume 65 Issue 2
Exposition
The missing passion
When Paul asked the Lord what He would have him to do, he meant it, and thereafter his life was totally committed to Him. The Lord Jesus Christ was his abiding passion. He would say, ‘I am crucified w…
Jim Voisey
2011 Volume 66 Issue 3
Devotional
The Mother of Moses
‘Take this child away, and nurse it for me’, Exod. 2. 9. All the sons of the Israelites were condemned to die by Pharoah’s order. For three months, Moses’ parents had hidden him. ‘They were not afrai…
Jim Voisey
Some Old Testament Mothers
2000 Volume 55 Issue 4
Exposition
The Mother Who Yearned Over Her Son
The Mother who yearned over her son, 1 Kings 3. 16-28. The wisdom of Solomon ‘She is the mother thereof’, are the words of Solomon’s judgement in 1 Kings 3. 27 With this judgement, Solomon established…
Jim Voisey
Some Old Testament Mothers
2004 Volume 59 Issue 3
Devotional
Where are the young Men?
‘And I sought for a man … that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap’, Ezek. 22. 30. The ‘hedge’ to which the prophet refers is a spiritual border of testimony, with which the Lord surrounds …
Jim Voisey
2009 Volume 64 Issue 1
Exposition
Why Me?
Job thought that God was deliberately targeting him in his misfortunes. He had been ‘at ease’, and enjoying his prosperity and the respect of his contemporaries, ‘But now’, he says, things are so diff…
Jim Voisey
2001 Volume 56 Issue 1
Exposition
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